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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island and volcanic island group of the southern Atlantic Ocean between southern Africa and southern South America. Discovered by the Portuguese in 1506, the islands were annexed by Great Britain in 1816 and are now administered as a dependency of St. Helena.
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- proper noun A
remote group ofislands in the South Atlantic; adependency of theBritish overseas territory ofSaint Helena
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Examples
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Thus it would pay to have St Helena as a back-up, as in 1961 a volcano believed to be extinct started erupting on Tristan da Cunha 2,333 km SW of St Helena.
Don't renege on your broken Sure Start pledge, Mr Cameron | Letters 2011
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He returns for this party alongside Basics regular Tristan da Cunha and German duo Tiefschwarz.
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The penguins were trapped in oil released by the freighter MV Oliva when it ran aground and broke up last month off Nightingale island, 20 miles from the main island of Tristan da Cunha.
Tristan da Cunha islanders rescue rockhopper penguins threatened by oil slick 2011
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The northern rockhopper penguin, Eudyptes moseleyi, is found on only a few islands in the Atlantic, with 99% of its population making homes on the British overseas territory of Tristan da Cunha, a lonely, volcanic archipelago considered to be the world's most remote inhabited group of islands.
Tristan da Cunha islanders rescue rockhopper penguins threatened by oil slick 2011
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Thus it would pay to have St Helena as a back-up, as in 1961 a volcano believed to be extinct started erupting on Tristan da Cunha 2,333 km SW of St Helena.
Don't renege on your broken Sure Start pledge, Mr Cameron | Letters 2011
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Mrs Lorraine Jennifer Repetto, government treasurer, for serv the community of Tristan da Cunha.
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He has the Hydra and the archeologist taken to a lab he set up on Tristan da Cunha, an island in the South Atlantic.
Pulse-Jeremy Robinson « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009
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The Azores, Ascension, St. Helena, and Tristan da Cunha all arise from this great Atlantic range.
Atlantic Ocean 2008
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The Azores, Ascension, St. Helena, and Tristan da Cunha all arise from this great Atlantic range.
Atlantic Ocean 2008
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Natural hazards: active volcanism on Tristan da Cunha, last eruption in 1961
Saint Helena 2008
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