English Explanatory Dictionary

Kingman Reef

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. One of the US-administered Line Islands.

Word forms

Kingman Reef

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

Danger Reef Caldew Reef Maria Shoal Crane Shoal
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