Royal Company Islands

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Royal Company Islands (Indian Ocean)
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assumed position of the Royal Company Islands

The Royal Company Islands are said to be at 49 ° 40 'S by 1776; 143 ° E by the Spanish ship Rafaelo of the "Royal Spanish Compagnie of the Philippines" ( Spanish Real Compañia de Filipinas ) were sighted and named.

Another position given in November 1840 is from whalers and is 50 ° 40 'S; 142 ° 36 'E.

The Rafaelo was on a voyage from the Cape of Good Hope to the Philippines . In reality, this sighting must have taken place a few years later, because the Compañia was only founded in 1785. It operated direct trade between Spain and Asia, and Spanish ships actually sailed the marine area south of the Tasman Sea in the late 18th and early 19th centuries . As early as March 1, 1840, the United States Exploring Expedition determined the nonexistence of the Royal Company Islands and after the Antarctic 1893–1895 under Henrik Johan Bull searched in vain for the archipelago, it was erased in 1908 from the British Admiralty Map of the Pacific.

There is no land on the 143rd longitude east; However, if one assumes a transcription error in the transmission of the data (instead of 143 ° E 173 ° E), one would come within acceptable proximity to the Antipodes Islands (49 ° 42 'S; 178 ° 50' E) or the Auckland Islands (50 ° 50 'S; 166 ° 00' E). But it is also quite possible that the Rafaelo - as in the case of the Nimrod Group - thought icebergs or specially shaped cloud formations were land at the point in question.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bayldon, Francis J .: The Royal Company Islands; in: Australian Geographer Vol. 2, Iss. 7; Abingdon 1935 (pp. 27-30), p. 27; see. Wilkes, Charles: Hydrography; Philadelphia 1861 (United States Exploring Expedition; 23), p. 252 and Kosack, Hans-Peter : Die Antarktis: ein Länderkunde; Heidelberg 1955 (Geographical Handbooks; 6), p. 158
  2. ↑ For example, Campbell Island south of New Zealand was sighted in 1813 by the Spanish captain Tirado , who named it Ramonsita after his ship . (Meinicke, Carl Eduard: The islands of the Pacific: a geographical monograph, Vol. 1: Melanesia and New Zealand; Leipzig 1875, p. 351)
  3. ↑ Wilkes, Charles: Narrative of the United States exploring expedition, Vol. 2; Philadelphia 1844, p. 361; see. Stommel, Henry Melson: Lost islands: the story of islands that have vanished from nautical charts; Vancouver, BC 1984, p. 73