CEI.TRAL PACIFIC- ISlMm DATA 
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Islands . . ^ ^ 
Visited: GARDNER (?) 
Location of Lsi't# 25^ 03* (?) 
Islands: Lon.167° 40* V/. 
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inforaatioa tBo ston Commercial Gazette 
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Issue: Juno 18, 1821. 
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Town: Boston,Mass. Custody:BQgtou Athenasum 
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Published: BO S t On ^ II aS S • 
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j_Vi8it: 1233^ (7) 
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Vol:57-#49 Page: 2 
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Capt. Allen, of Nevv-Bedford, has discovered an Island in lat. 25.3, 
long. 157,40, W. not laid down in any of his charts. 
O.P.I. Ed. Note: The text of this report is one item in a news 
coluion, the rest of which is irrelevant. 
"Gardner Island was discovered by Capt. Allen, of the viflialer 
Marc , Jvaie 2, 1820. There is no doubt but that it is the same 
as the Man~of-War~ Rock , and the Pollard Rock and Pollard Island 
of the Anericans. According to its discoverer, it is a small 
island, about a mile in circumference, and 900 ft. hi^ having 
at its S.W. point two large rocks, running off to the N.W. Capt. 
Stanikowitch places it in lat. 25° 3’ K., long. 169° 1' 30" W. 
Lieut. Brooke, U.S.N. makes its centre in lat. 25° 0* 40", and 
farther East. By his description it is an inaccessible rock, 170 ft. 
high, with a base of about 600 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, extendiing 
westv/ard about 5 miles, and S.W. more than 8 miles. "(Pindlay's 
Directory of the Jlohth Pacific Ocean, Third 2d. 1886, p. 1112) 
See Report #13.52 previously forwarded. 
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