Dudoza
| Dudoza Island | ||
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 7 ° 40 ′ S , 159 ° 35 ′ W | |
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The island of Dudoza , also called Dudosa , appears on maps of the central equatorial Pacific before 1864. It was sighted again by Captain E. Allaire of the French clipper ship Pactole at 7 ° 40 'south latitude and 159 ° 35' west longitude, the exact date (before 1876) is unknown.
Captain Allaire was on the Pactole (probably a cargo ship) in the Pacific and Indian Oceans in the mid-1860s.
Since Captain Allaire's sighting took place shortly after the island of Malden , the position of which is given in the logbook rather correctly, a length shift or incorrect transmission of the position information can be ruled out. It is an optical illusion, evoked z. B. acted by a cloud bank and possibly nourished based on a relevant expectation. The statement that the island of Dudoza has no vegetation suggests this.
The existence of Dudoza Island could not be confirmed by the USS Iroquois , Lieutenant Sumner C. Paine: On February 8, 1891, the Iroquois was below 7 ° 39'36 "south latitude and 159 ° 43'18" west longitude (a half a nautical mile from the supposed Isla Dudosa), but could not see it in good weather.
Undoubtedly Isla Dudosa (Spanish for 'dubious island') is a cartographic remnant of an early Spanish sighting.
According to Henry Evans Maude , 'Civil Servant' and 'Administrator' in British Oceania, later 'Permanent Commissioner' in the former colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands , it was the first discovery on the first voyage of the Alvaro de Mendaña de Neyra from 16. January 1568, a small, low, flat island full of palm trees under 6 °, 6 ° 45 ', 7 ° or 7 ° 30' south latitude (the information varies), which was called Isla de Jésus . According to HE Maude, this position information clearly applies to Nui in today's Tuvalu group. Since at that time it was impossible to determine the longitude even halfway precisely, the island of Dudoza has a far-off position of 160 ° west longitude.
You can still find the island of Dudoza on old Pacific maps, there a 'Dudosa I.' below approx. 7 ° 20 'south; 160 ° 30 'West.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carl Eduard Meinicke : The islands of the Pacific , Vol. 2; Leipzig 1876, p. 260 ( online ); see. Henry Stommel : Lost islands. The story of islands that have vanished from nautical charts. Vancouver BC 1984, ISBN 0-7748-0210-3 , p. 116
- ↑ s. Trove Digitized newspapers of the National Library of Australia, passim
- ↑ Stommel 1984, p. 116
- ↑ Anuario hidrográfico de la Marina de Chile , T. 18; Valparaíso: Taller tip. de la Armada, 1895, p. 92: “El 8 de febrero de 1891, hallándose el Iroquois por 7 ° 39 '36" S i 159 ° 43' 18 "E [ueste], como a 0.5 milla de una islita que algunas cartas apuntan como de posición insegura al este de la isla Dudosa, no ha podido ver senales de su existencia. "; see. on this Stommel 1984, p. 116
- ↑ "... hay una isla dudosa que acaso pudiera ser la que Mendaña llamó Jesús y vió en los 6 ° 45 'de latitud S., á 1,450 leguas de Lima."; quoted according to: Boletín de la Sociedad Geográfica de Madrid , Vol. 15; 1883 (p. 331 f.)
- ^ Henry Evans Maude: Spanish discoveries in the Central Pacific. A study in identification. In: The Journal of the Polynesian Society , Vol. 68, No. 4 (Dec.); Auckland 1959, pp. 284–326, here pp. 299–303, author Gerhard Heinrich Heyen ( online )
- ↑ z. B. on: Pacific Ocean / publ. at the Admiralty; London 1859 ([Last corr.] Nov. [18] 64) (Repr.) 1 ct., 92 × 60 cm, folded (loose supplement to Stommel 1984)