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Line Islands

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Line Islands  (ln)
A group of islands in the central Pacific Ocean south of Hawaii and astride the equator. First visited by American sailors in 1798, they were formerly part of the British Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony and are now part of Kiribati.
Line Islands
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(Placename) a group of coral islands in the central Pacific, including Tabuaeran, Teraina, and Kiritimati: part of Kiribati, with Palmyra and Jarvis administered by the US


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It stretches westward from Oakland to approximately the halfway point between Guam and the Philippines and spans the southern tip of Alaska to the Line Islands to the south.
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