Swains Island

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英文释义

专有名词
  1. An atoll in the Tokelau island chain.

词源

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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