Chincha Islands, three bare, rocky islets, with a joint area of 6½ miles, rising 200 feet out of the sea off the coast of Peru, opposite the Bay of Pisco. From 1841 till 1874 they yielded millions of tons of Guano (q.v.); but the beds, originally some 100 feet thick, became exhausted.
Chincha Islands
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 196
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