Kingman Reef

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Dry strip of land on Kingman Reef with a coconut palm seedling

Etymology

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Named according to captain W. E. Kingman who described it in 1853. The reef had been earlier discovered by the American Captain Edmund Fanning in 1798.

Proper noun

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Kingman Reef

  1. one of the US-administered Line Islands

Synonyms

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  • (pre-1900s names) Danger Reef, Caldew Reef, Maria Shoal, Crane Shoal

Translations

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