Islands Of The North Atlantic Definition
Great Britain , Ireland and surrounding smaller islands; the British and Irish Isles .
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see islands , North Atlantic .
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Origin of Islands Of The North Atlantic
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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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