English Explanatory Dictionary

Swains Island

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. An atoll in the Tokelau island chain.

Word forms

Swains Island

Etymology

Captain William L. Hudson of the USS Peacock saw the island in 1841, and claimed to have learned its location from a certain Captain Swain of Nantucket. The apostrophe in Swain's was later dropped.

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