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Proper noun
- A chain of eleven atolls and low coral islands in the central Pacific Ocean, stretching for almost 2,500 km; eight of the islands form part of Kiribati, while the remaining three are US territories grouped with the United States Minor Outlying Islands.
- 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá:
- It seems she was born in one of the Line Islands; had been only two or three years in these parts […]
- 2016 September 1, “2015 POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS”, in National Statistics Office Ministry of Finance, archived from the original on 19 August 2019, page 25:
- Carrying out a population census in the Line islands has always been a formidable task for the population management team as well as to the national statistics office because of the distance and the problem of communication.
Synonyms
- Teraina Islands, Equatorial Islands
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