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O'Higgins

/oˈxiɡins/

proper noun/oˈxiɡins/

O'Higgins (a region of Chile); a province of Chile until 1976.

Named after Bernardo O'Higgins, one of Chile's founding fathers, whose surname comes from an anglicised version of Irish Ó hUiginn (“descendant of a Viking”).