Kurile Islands
[ koor-il ahy-luhnz, koo-reel ]
plural noun
older spelling of Kuril Islands.
Origin of Kurile Islands
1First recorded in 1760–70 as Kuriles
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How to use Kurile Islands in a sentence
In this year the Company took formal possession of all the Kurile Islands.
Along Alaska's Great River | Frederick SchwatkaThe aboriginal population is about six thousand, including a few hundred dwellers on the Kurile Islands.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life | Thomas Wallace KnoxThe original paganism of Japan is probably to be studied in the Kurile Islands.
The Natural History of the Varieties of Man | Robert Gordon LathamAll over Yezo and the Kurile Islands remains of an extinct race of pit-dwellers are to be seen.
Alone with the Hairy Ainu | A. H. Savage LandorAt the same time I gained from them valuable information as regards the neighbouring country and the Kurile Islands.
Alone with the Hairy Ainu | A. H. Savage Landor
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