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BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A group of islands in the southwestern Pacific to the northeast of New Guinea; part of Papua New Guinea
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)
Meronyms (parts of "Bismarck Archipelago"):
Admiralty Islands (a group of islands in the Bismarck Archipelago)
New Britain (the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago; part of Papua New Guinea)
New Ireland (an island in the Bismarck Archipelago; part of Papua New Guinea)
Holonyms ("Bismarck Archipelago" is a part of...):
Melanesia (the islands in the southwestern part of Oceania)
Independent State of Papua New Guinea; Papua New Guinea (a parliamentary democracy on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea; in 1975 it became an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations)
