Islands of the North Atlantic

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专有名词
  1. Great Britain, Ireland and surrounding smaller islands; the British and Irish Isles. plural,rare
    — All of us in the islands of the North Atlantic should recognise new alignments are necessary and "we should be prepared to sacrifice for the new shared future".
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see islands, North Atlantic. plural

词源

Suggested in 1980 by MP John Biggs-Davison as the name for what ultimately became the British-Irish Council, subsequently adopted as a replacement for the contested term British Isles. A contrived acronym suggesting Iona, an island with cultural ties to both Britain and Ireland.
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