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Kai Islands or Kei Islands , island group (c.550 sq mi/ 1,420 sq km), E Indonesia, SE of Seram, in the Banda Sea, in the Moluccas . It is densely forested with valuable timber; the people are skilled boat builders. The chief island is Great Kai. The group is sometimes called the Key Islands.

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Key Islands

Key Islands see Kai Islands , Indonesia.

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Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | | Â© Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names 2005, originally published by Oxford University Press 2005. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Kai Islands (Kepulauan Kai), Indonesia ‘Thousand Islands’ although there are less than 300. Kai is the Portuguese for ‘stone’.

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	A lulu of a luau Ft. Lauderdale's Mai-Kai: the biggest Polynesian party this side of Hawaii Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 3/25/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...gentleman's club. No man is an island, for sure, but the Mai-Kai...orchids and 75 palm trees. Mai-Kai waiter Gus Valverde is a member...hybrid, which he calls the Mai-Kai orchid. In the mid-1970s the Mai-Kai tiki collection was appraised...Bob Thornton traveled to the islands and ...
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