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Originally Posted by Little.Egret

It's also the name of the highest mountain in Australia, Main Range of the Snowy Mountains in Kosciuszko National Park

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Kosciuszko

It was named by the Polish explorer Pawel Edmund Strzelecki in 1840

And when Elizabeth Moon needed a name for a huge spaceship

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_a_Hero_(novel)

She selected Koskiusko

I read about that mountain and the park, a couple of years ago. I remember, again vaguely, that the mountain is named Kosciusko (or Kosciuszko), but I sure wouldn't have been able to tell you the name if you had asked. I'm glad that someone wrote a book about the general Kosciusko, it seems like he deserves more press lately than he has gotten.

The name is so unusual (to those of us in the 'States, at least) that I feel sure that if we ever see something named Koscius(z)ko, we'll have a pretty good idea of where the name came from.