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  • proper noun An island of Svalbard.

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Examples

  • "Bhishma said, 'Arrived at the spacious realm called White Island, the illustrious Rishi beheld those same white men possessed of lunar splendour (of whom I have already spoken to thee).

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • I advise them that ‘Dino’ has assumed the role of White Island mascot and protector of our volcano monitoring equipment.

    White Island Could Blow It’s Top 2007

  • Achaeans then bury Antilochus and lay out the body of Achilles, while Thetis, arriving with the Muses and her sisters, bewails her son, whom she afterwards catches away from the pyre and transports to the White Island.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • The acid environment on White Island gives plastic a fairly hard time.

    White Island Could Blow It’s Top 2007

  • Someone seems to have placed a small purple dinosaur by the webcam in the crater of New Zealand's White Island volcano...

    Fiction snippet: The dead Matrioska brain filled the sky sbisson 2004

  • A few gulls were calling and wheeling about the rocks of White Island; I stood for a moment or two looking around the islands and the beaches.

    Marazan Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

  • I lost sight of her in a moment; we watched for her to reappear, but she came creeping along under the shadow of White Island so that we could not distinguish her against the land.

    Marazan Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

  • I have said that I was surprised to see that the eastern half of the straight between White Island and Pendruan had a name.

    Marazan Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

  • I went back and spoke to him on the telephone in his lonely crevice on White Island.

    Marazan Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

  • It would be easily possible to take off from the water hi the Sound itself between White Island and Pendruan; in rough weather the Sound would always be calm enough to enable them to run the amphibian up on to the beach to load the cargo.

    Marazan Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

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