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Trobriand Islands
[ troh-bree-ahnd, -and, -uhnd ]
plural noun
- a group of islands north of the eastern end of New Guinea: part of Papua New Guinea. 170 sq. mi. (440 sq. km).
Trobriand Islands
plural noun
- a group of coral islands in the Solomon Sea, north of the E part of New Guinea: part of Papua New Guinea. Area: about 440 sq km (170 sq miles)
Example Sentences
There is indeed something contrived about it – these people might look pretty much the same to you if you were from, say, the Trobriand Islands, but I found myself wondering how they might have met up in the first place, had the author not put them all round the table together himself.
The curl-crested manucode is endemic to the D’Entrecasteaux and the Trobriand Islands and we found them in both places.
Wednesday, Nov. 2 We just spent an amazing week in three of the Trobriand Islands: Kitava, Nurata and Vakuta.
Daily they bring us beautiful ebony carvings for trade, evidence that we are getting closer to the famous Trobriand Islands.
A carving from the Trobriand Islands.
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