Admiralty Islands

name

Etymology

Named by Philip Carteret in 1767, presumably honoring the Admiralty, which commanded the British Royal Navy (and therefore him) at the time.

Definitions

  1. A group of islands in the Bismarck Archipelago, to the north of New Guinea in the south…

    A group of islands in the Bismarck Archipelago, to the north of New Guinea in the south Pacific Ocean, belonging to Papua New Guinea.

The neighborhood

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