Manihiki Islands, a group of low, wooded atolls, scattered over the central Pacific, between the Marquesas and Union groups; total area, 55 sq. m.; pop. 1600. Most of them (Caroline, Malden, Starbuck, Penrhyn, &c.) belong to Britain.
Manihiki Islands
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 21
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