Islands 
Visited: 
Location of 
Islands: 
GARDNER 
CEinKAL PACIFIC ISLAinX PATA 
(•Form Ko. I-A 3 
•Vessel: M^O • 
JDate of 
! Visit: 
1820 
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Source of 
Inf omation: 
Date of 
Issue: 
City or 
Town: 
Lat. 25"^03* H. 
Lon. 167 40* W. Ship 
Mew Bodford Mercury 
June 8» 1821_ 
Hew Bedfoi*^ custof^s 
Hailing 
Fort: Tons: 
Pushed: Hew Bedford,ltes8 . 
Vol: XIV 
Public Library 
Page; 3 Column; 2 
Library 
Call lio: Files 
Author: Capfc. Joseph Allen 
Title or Subject; From fiantubket, June 4» 
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“Letters v/ere received yesterday from the ship Maro® Capt* 
Joseph Allen; one of which, to the owners, infoms, that 
after recruiting his ship in May, 1820, at the ^andv/lch 
Islands, he proceeded for the coast of Japan; and in 
lat* 36 N* and long* 160 to 170 E* he in 3 months took 1100 
bbls* oil. Capt* Allen states, that in lat* 25 3, H. and 
long* 167 40 W* he made an Island; and in lat* 25 28, 
Ion* 170 20, he discovered a very dangerous Reef, neither 
of which are laid dovm in any of his charts* He gave the 
name of Gardner to the Island, and the Reef he called - 
Maro;- after the ovmer and ship*s names." 
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C.P.I. Ed. Hot©; The text of this report is on© item in a 
news column, the rest of which is irrele-jant. 
"Gardner Island was discovered by Capt, Allen, of the whaler 
Maro June 2, 1820. There is no doubt but that it is the • 
the Man - of War - Rook ,and the Pollard Rock and Pon- 
ard Island of the -^ericans. According to its discoverer, it 
is a small island, about a mile in ciroumferanoe, and 900 ft, high 
having at its S.W. point two large rooks, ruiyiing off to the 
M.l'^^.Capt. Stanikowitch places it in lat. 25 3* M.v long. 
169^ 1* 30" W, Ideut. Brooke, U.S.M., makes its centre in lat. 
25® 0* 40'1 and 2^ farther East. By his description it is an 
inaccessible rock, 170 ft. high, with a base of about 600 ft.,and 
smaller rock-close to its S.W, extremity, from which a reef 
makes out half a mile, A bank, with from 17 to 20 fathons water, 
surrounds the rock, extending westward about 5 miles, and 
S.W. more than 8 miles. "(Findlay*s Directory of the north > 
Pacific Ocean, Third Ed. 1886, p. 1112) 
See Report 1153 
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P,D. Brown 
A*J* Macdonald 
C.J.M. 
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Date: June 19,1940 Report No: * 
Proofread by: Edv/ard Dougherty 
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