Spratly Islands Government - 2023

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Country name

conventional long form: none

conventional short form: Spratly Islands

etymology: named after a British whaling captain Richard SPRATLY, who sighted Spratly Island in 1843; the name of the island eventually passed to the entire archipelago

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