CBIOTAL PACmC ISIuMffiR DATA 
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Visited: 
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iBsuo: Juiio 18, 1821 
“SA" Boston,Mass. o«tca,:Boslon Athermaua ■»'No,,3papers 
Vol:57-#49 2 Ooluim! 
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Title or Subject: 
Subject Matter: 
Capt. A.llen, of Nsw-Bodford, has discovered an Island in lat* 25.3, 
long. 1S7,40, W. not laid down in any of his charts. 
G.P.I. Ed. Note: The text of this report is one item in a news 
coluiiUi, the rest of which is irrelevant. 
"Gardner Island was discovered by Capt. Allen, of the vdialer 
i, 1820. There is no doubt but that it is the same 
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June 
as the Man-Of-War- Rock, and the Pollard Rock and Pollard Island 
of the Aan^rTcans. According to its discoverer, it is a small 
island, about a mile in circuraferenco, and 900 ft. high having 
at its S.W. point two large rocks, running off to the N.W. Capt. 
Stanikowitch places it in lat. 25^ 3' N., long. 169® !• 30" W. 
Lieut. Brooke, U.S.N. rnslces its centre in lat. 25° O' 40", and 2-| I 
farther East. By his description it is an inaccessible rock, 170 ft. 
hifjli, ’With a base of about 60C ft., and a smaller rock close to its 
S.'W. extremity, from ’which a reef makes out half a mile. A bank, 
•with from 17 to 20 fathoms water, surrounds the rock, extending 
westward about 5 miles, and S.W. more than 8 miles. "(Findlay's 
Directory of the I'JoT’th Pacific Ocean, Third Ed. 1836, p. 1112) 
See Report #JJ52 previously forwarded 
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Mitedby:A. J. MacDonald 
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Copied by: Alice L* Donovan*-Sl : 
Date: April 7, 1941 ! 
Proofreitd by: E, Kajas 
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