Guadalcanal Definition

gwŏdl-kə-năl
pronoun

A volcanic island in the Pacific, part of the Solomon Islands.

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A battle in World War II in which American forces recaptured it from the Japanese.

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Origin of Guadalcanal

  • Named in 1568 by Álvaro de Mendaña, after his hometown of Guadalcanal, Spain. From Arabic وادي الخانات (wādi al-xānāt, “Valley of the Stalls”).

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Guadalcanal Sentence Examples

  • As travelling companies never visited Guadalcanal, and as ladies took no part in the representations, these three plays were written for men only.

  • They are cannibals, infanticide is common, and head Guadalcanal of the Spanish discoverers.

  • The expedition surveyed the southern portion of the group, and named the three large islands San Cristoval, Guadalcanal and Ysabel.

  • In 1893 the islands Malaita, Marovo, Guadalcanal ' He called Gower, Inattendue; Ulava, Contrariete; and named Port Praslin, the harbour at the north-west of Ysabel.

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Words Starting With

GGUGUA

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