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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island group of eastern Indonesia in the southern Pacific Ocean off the northern coast of New Guinea.
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Early one morning five large canoes appeared in the offing -- evidently having come from the Schouten Islands group, about ten miles to the eastward.
The Call Of The South 1908 Louis Becke 1884
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Schouten Islands situated upon the Coast of Guinea but much farther to the west, and finally the Cape Goede-Hoep, which appears to be
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World Jules Verne 1866
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The Schouten Islands, the Creek of the Attack (the place where D'Urville had to withstand an onset of savages), Humboldt Bay,
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Jules Verne 1866
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The chief groups on the north and east are the Schouten Islands (at the entrance to Geelvink Bay), the Admiralty Islands, and Bismarck Archipelago (of which New
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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