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Pleasant Island   /plˈɛzənt ˈaɪlənd/   Listen
Pleasant Island

noun
1.
A small island in the central Pacific Ocean 2,800 miles to the southwest of Hawaii; in Micronesia to the west of the Gilbert Islands.  Synonyms: Nauru, Nauru Island.






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"Pleasant Island" Quotes from Famous Books



... misconduct of the Mataafas, the most of the foreshore was still in the hands of the Tamaseses; and they were thus able to receive from the Eber both the stores and weapons. The weapons had been sold long since to Tarawa, Apaiang, and Pleasant Island; places unheard of by the general reader, where obscure inhabitants paid for these instruments of death in money or in labour, misused them as it was known they would be misused, and had been disarmed by force. The Eber had brought back the guns to a German ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson



Words linked to "Pleasant Island" :   Federated States of Micronesia, Micronesia, Republic of Nauru, TT, island, Nauru Island



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