Kingman Reef
Dry strip of land on Kingman Reef with a coconut palm seedling
Meaning
Proper Noun
- one of the US-administered Line Islands
Related
Similar words
- Danger Reef, Caldew Reef, Maria Shoal, Crane Shoal
Origin
- 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.
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