Guadalcanal
/ˌɡwɑː.dəl.kəˈnɑːl/ name
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- 1 A town in Andalusia, Spain.
- 2 A volcanic island in the Pacific, part of the Solomon Islands.
- 3 A volcanic island in the Pacific, part of the Solomon Islands.; A battle in World War II in which American forces recaptured it from the Japanese.
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From Spanish Guadalcanal. The Pacific island was named in 1568 by Álvaro de Mendaña, after his hometown of Guadalcanal, Spain. From Arabic وَادِي الْخَانَات (wādī l-ḵānāt, “Valley of the Stalls”).