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Marshall Islands

noun

A republic (under United States protection) on the Marshall Islands. Synonym: Republic of the Marshall Islands.

A group of coral islands in eastern Micronesia.

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... to 1914 affords in fact an excellent illustration of the influence of naval strength in peace as well as in war. Under Bismarck Germany had pushed vigorously though tardily into the colonial field, securing vast areas of rather doubtful value in East and West Africa, and the Bismarck Archipelago, Marshall Islands, and part of New Guinea in the Pacific. With the accession of William II in 1888 and the dropping of the pilot, Bismarck, two years later, she embarked definitely upon her quest for world power. The young Kaiser read eagerly Mahan's Influence of Sea Power ...

— A History of Sea Power • William Oliver Stevens and Allan Westcott

... was sent with a wrecking party of native seamen to take possession of a Swedish barque which had gone ashore on the reef of one of the Marshall Islands, in the North Pacific. My employers, who had bought the vessel for L100, were in hopes that she might possibly be floated, patched up, and brought to Sydney. However, on arriving at the island I found that she was hopelessly bilged, so we at once set to work to strip her of everything ...

— John Corwell, Sailor And Miner; and, Poisonous Fish - 1901 • Louis Becke

Words linked to "Marshall Islands" : state, United States, archipelago, Eniwetok, country, Micronesia, U.S.A., TT, Kwajalein, bikini, the States, U.S., Federated States of Micronesia, US, America, USA, land, United States of America