LOST ISLANDS
Written by Henry Stommel
Published by University of British Columbia
in 1984
ISBN: 0774802103
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- TRANSPORT
- MARITIME
- MAPS
- HISTORY
- HISTORY GENERAL
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Front cover
Contents
- List of Maps
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword by Rear-Admiral G.S. Ritchie R.N. (Ret.)
- Preface
- 1 Islands of Gold and Silver
- 2 Celestial Navigation Comes of Age
- 3 The Garden Islands - Los Jardines
- 4 The Fake Island of Captain Benjamin Morrell
- 5 Captain Morrell Unmasked
- 6 Two Dangers off California
- 7 Wilkes and Whalers in the Equatorial Pacific
- 8 Discovery by Premonition: Kingman Reef and Fanning Island
- 9 American Polynesia
- 10 Captain John DeGreave's Lost Island
- 11 Tuanahe, the Inhabited Island That Sank
- 12 The Islomane Who Met a Grisly End
- 13 Real Islands That Go Up and Down
- 14 Icy Islands of the Southern Pacific
- 15 The Well-Explored North Atlantic
- 16 Who Owns the Auroras?
- 17 Three to One: Bouvet Island
- 18 We Discover Our Own Lost Island (1980)
- 19 Do Satellites Settle the Hash?
- 20 The 1875 Revision of teh Admiralty Pacific Chart
- 21 The 1808 Admiralty Chart of the South Atlantic
- 22 The 1817 Admiralty Chart of the Indian Ocean
- Appendix 1. Jeremiah Reynolds's 1828 List
- Appendix 2. Bibliography
- Index