Western Islands

As a dependency of New Spain they constituted the extreme western verge of the Spanish dominions and were commonly known as the Western Islands [2] _ (Las Islas del Poniente).

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55 1493-1529 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century James Alexander Robertson 1906

When he returned he had been seasoned by several years of living on the edge of a jungle and by the violent episode known as the Western Islands Action.

Orchid Jayne Castle 1998

When he returned he had been seasoned by several years of living on the edge of a jungle and by the violent episode known as the Western Islands Action.

Orchid Jayne Castle 1998

The young males of the three city-states had gone wild for what had come to be known as the Western Islands look.

Amaryllis Jayne Castle 1996

The young males of the three city-states had gone wild for what had come to be known as the Western Islands look.

Amaryllis Jayne Castle 1996

The young males of the three city-states had gone wild for what had come to be known as the Western Islands look.

Amaryllis Jayne Castle 1996

It proved to be what is termed the Western Islands, which lay directly ahead of us.

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various

And although in respect to the Indias, which led to the discovery of Filipinas, they are called the Western Islands, yet if sought by the voyage by way of India, they are the most eastern, and the finest that have been discovered in that ocean -- whose dominion belongs to them even by nature and by their relative position among all the islands of that hemisphere.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55 1636-37 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century James Alexander Robertson 1906

He is particularly desirous of seeing some of the Western Islands.

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

Lombock eastward exhibit almost as close a resemblance to Australia and New Guinea as the Western Islands do to Asia.

The Malay Archipelago 2004