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Line Islands
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English
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Proper noun
line island s
A chain of eleven atolls and low coral islands in the central Pacific Ocean, stretching for almost 2,500 km; eight of the islands form part of Kiribati, while the remaining three are US territories grouped with the United States Minor Outlying Islands.
en 1892 w:Robert Louis Stevenson w:The Beach of Falesá It seems she was born in one of the Line Islands; had been only two or three years in these parts
en 2015 POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS https://web.archive.org/web/20190819052204/https://www.mfed.gov.ki/sites/default/files/2015%20Population%20Census%20Report%20Volume%201(final%20211016).pdf 2016-09-01 25 National Statistics Office Ministry of Finance Carrying out a population census in the Line islands has always been a formidable task for the population management team as well as to the national statistics office because of the distance and the problem of communication.
Synonyms
en Teraina Islands, en Equatorial Islands
en Atolls