Caroline Islands, a stretch of lagoon islands, 2000 m. from E. to W., belonging to Spain, N. of New Guinea and E. of the Philippine Islands; once divided into eastern, western, and central; the soil of the western is fertile, and there is plenty of fish and turtle in the lagoons.
Population (circa 1900) given as 36,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Carolina, South * Caroline of Brunswick