(chess) A group of pawns of the same color side by side, without any pawn of the same color diagonally adjacent to them.

(geology) An island of coral origin.

(geology) An island of volcanic origin.

Synonym of Penglai, a mythical island.

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

Synonym of Moluccas

Synonym of Moluccas

The Moluccas or Maluku Islands, an archipelago in Indonesia comprising the provinces of Maluku and North Maluku. / The Zanzibar Archipelago, in the Zanzibar semi-autonomous region of Tanzania.

Synonym of Moluccas

A widely scattered archipelago of tiny islands in the western Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea, politically divided between the Federated States of Micronesia and Palau.