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desolation islands

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.02 in modern English

Syllables
des-o-la-tion is-lands
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Synonym of Kerguelen Islands.

Etymology

Coined by British explorer James Cook in 1776, after the description of the islands left by Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec, who discovered the islands in 1772. Cook preferred the alternate name Kerguelen Islands instead of Desolation Islands.

Inflected Forms

the Desolation Islands (canonical, plural)

Synonyms

Kerguelen Islands

Questions

What does desolation islands mean?
Synonym of Kerguelen Islands.
Where does desolation islands come from?
Coined by British explorer James Cook in 1776, after the description of the islands left by Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec, who discovered the islands in 1772. Cook preferred the alternate name Kerguelen Islands instead of Desolation Islands.

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