거문도

Etymology
. Until the late nineteenth century, the islands were simply called. At least on the level of the central government, the name change appears to have been influenced by the new name being used by during the 1885—1887.

According to local oral history, the current name was during a conversation with a certain local village leader, who impressed him with his knowledge of  despite living in such a desolate area.

However, in an 1885 letter to the Korean court, refers to the islands both as  and as the semantically meaningless, which suggests that the oral history is simply a folk etymology and the name is actually a transcription of a Korean word. This is probably, as there are a group of rocks called not far from Geomundo.

Proper noun

 * 1)  (a small group of islands in the  off the southern coast of the Korean Peninsula)
 * 2) the largest island in this group, more often called