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The discovery of the Pacific Islands

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Clarendon Press, 1960 - Discoveries in geography - 259 pages

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Contents

Introduction I
1
The Expedition of Ferdinand Magellan
4
Toribio Alonso de Salazar
11
Copyright

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Admiralty Islands American whaling Anaa appeared April atoll August Bellingshausen Bligh Bougainville Bougainville's British vessel Byron canoes Captain Caroline Islands Carteret chart command Cook Cook's course degrees south discovery distance Duperrey east encountered Espiritu Santo estimated expedition exploration February Fiji firm record four islands gave the name Gilbert given being latitude Guam Guinea Hawaiian Islands high island inhabited island island called islands seen Isles islets January July June Krusenstern lagoon land was seen large island later latitude latitude 80 latitude given leagues longitude low island Marianas Marshall Marutea Maug Islands Maurelle miles Moluccas north-east north-west northern number of islands Pacific Islands Pacific Islands Pilot passed Philippines Portuguese position given Pukapuka Quiros reef Roggeveen round sailing San Juan Santa sector ships sight small island Society Islands south-east south-west southern Spanish Strait Tahiti Takapoto Tasman three islands Tonga Torres Tuamotu Archipelago Ulithi Villalobos Villalobos's western Carolines Zealand

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JSTOR: The Discovery of the Pacific Islands
The Discovery of the Pacific Islands. xiv + 259 pp., maps. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960. $7.20. This book is not a sequel to Mr. Sharp's famous and ...
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Gardner (whaling family) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
... ISBN 052284488X; Sharp, Andrew (1960); The Discovery of the Pacific Islands, Oxford:Oxford University Press,; Starbuck, Alexander (1878). ...
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Discoverers Web: Quiros
Sharp, Andrew: The discovery of the Pacific islands (Oxford 1961). Stevens, Henry N. (ed) & Barwick, George F. (trans.): New light on the discovery of ...
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European discovery of the Cook Islands
2 Andrew Sharp credits the discovery of Nassau to George Rule, in 1827; see A. Sharp The Discovery of the Pacific Islands revised ed. ...
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CCSU - jc Beaglehole, more than a biographer of Cook
Review of "The Discovery of the Pacific Islands" by Andrew Sharp. 1962, "The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks". 1963, "The Endeavour Journal of Joseph ...
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Pitcairn Islands Study Center
The Discovery of the Pacific Islands, Andrew Sharp, Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1960. Voyages of Discovery, Lynn, Withey, University of California ...
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America to the rescue: Saavedra
It is just possible that the lost ships reached Japanese waters—A. Sharp, The Discovery of the Pacific Islands (Oxford 1960), 17–18, 22–3 [Discovery]. ...
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... in a major segment of the vast Pacific seascape-Micronesia-now have a sourcebook to stand beside Andrew Sharp's The Discovery of the Pacific Islands. ...
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Sharp, Andrew The Discovery of the Pacific Islands. Oxford 1962. 260pp,. maps, plates, index, as new $60 PAC. Sinclair, James The Outside Man, Jack Hides of ...
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Chicago Journals - Isis
Book Review. The Discovery of the Pacific Islands Andrew Sharp. Isis. Sponsored by the History of Science Society. Search Journal ...
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TitleThe discovery of the Pacific Islands
AuthorAndrew Sharp
PublisherClarendon Press, 1960
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedDec 6, 2006
Length259 pages
SubjectsDiscoveries in geography
Islands of the Pacific
Oceania
  
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