admiralty islands in English

noun
1
a group of about 40 islands in the western Pacific, part of Papua New Guinea. In 1884 the islands became a German protectorate, but after 1920 they were administered as an Australian mandate.

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1. On 24 January, Tone's floatplanes attacked the Admiralty Islands.

2. On 18 April 1945, Admiralty Islands suffered her first operational casualty near Okinawa.

3. Late on 30 October she sailed for the Admiralty Islands, arriving at Manus on 4 November.

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5. Admiralty Islands, islands in Papua New Guinea, southwestern Pacific Ocean, an extension of the Bismarck Archipelago comprising about 40 islands