Archipelago components

Usage examples of islands.

Tahiti and the islands of the archipelago of the Pomoutous, more than eighteen hundred miles from New Zealand, and more than four thousand five hundred miles from the American coast!

They are frequently met with in Chile, in the Falkland Islands, and in all parts of America traversed by the thirtieth and fortieth parallels.

To my mind, it is quite possible that all these islands, emerging from this vast ocean, are but the summits of a continent, now submerged, but which was above the waters at a prehistoric period.

Clermont-Tonnerre, and numerous other coral islands in the Pacific Ocean.

Columbus will go to discover the islands of Chimborazo, of the Himalayas, or of Mont Blanc, remains of a submerged America, Asia, and Europe.

Island does not resemble the other islands of the Pacific, and a fact of which Captain Nemo has made me cognizant must sooner or later bring about the subversion of its foundation.

When her mission on Tahiti had been accomplished and she was westward bound, among the islands of the Tongan Group, Fletcher Christian, second-in-command of the vessel, raised the men in revolt against Captain William Bligh, whose conduct he considered cruel and insupportable.

Indian canoe and sail to Eimeo or one of them islands to leeward, a good hundred miles from Tahiti.

Young loved the sound of them, which expressed to him the very spirit of rustic domesticity, of the dreamy happiness of the islands, of morning in the dewy bush.

Pia maohi, or wild arrowroot, indigenous to all the volcanic islands of the Pacific, was here, valuable for making the native puddings of which the white men soon grew fond.

Indian women, whilst on the Bounty, on islands scattered all over this ocean, but none to match Moetua for strength and beauty.

And we know so little about your Islands that our actual knowledge is almost nothing at all.

And these further affirm that the islands, as affording the only harbours left available to us in those seas, are necessary to an effective American Navy and Merchant Marine.

Here it will be shown that the Philippine Islands, properly developed, would give us among other tropical products such as sugar, tobacco and hemp, all the rubber we shall ever need, thus delivering the people of the United States from the hands of foreign rubber monopolies.

Usury is the curse of the Islands, and very few are the Filipino fortunes that do not stand upon that base.