English Explanatory Dictionary

Ironbottom Sound

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A sound in the southern Solomon Islands.

Word forms

Ironbottom Sound

Etymology

From the numerous ships and aircraft sunk there during the Guadalcanal campaign of World War II.

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