Populating the landscape with absent friends: the use of personal names in Palmerston Island toponyms
This paper describes and contextualizes placenames on Palmerston Island, a small Pacific island populated by around 50 descendants of a mixed-origin group of settlers in the 1860s. The inhabitants today are monolingual speakers of a dialect that has been described variously as an English dialect or...
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University of Prince Edward Island
2016-11-01
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| Series: | Island Studies Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://www.islandstudies.ca/sites/islandstudies.ca/files/ISJ-11-2-MS352-Hendery.pdf |