Thomas Gilbert
Thomas Gilbert was an eighteenth-century Royal Navy captain . In 1788 he carried out one of the convict transports that took place between Botany Bay ( Australia ) and Canton in China in the Pacific with his ship Charlotte, which belongs to the First Fleet, and with Captain John Marshall and his ship Scarborough .
On June 17, 1788 he sighted the atolls Aranuka , Kuria , Abaiang and on June 20, 1788 Tarawa from the Gilbert Islands . They were given this name in his honor around 1820 from Admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern and from Captain Louis Isidore Duperrey , although Gilbert had neither discovered nor explored the islands. Today they form the island nation of Kiribati .
Works
- Voyage from New South Wales to Canton in the year 1788. With views of the islands discovered. Israel u. a., Amsterdam 1968. Reprint of the edition: London 1789. ( Bibliotheca Australiana. 44, Thomas Gilbert).
- Gilbert's diary of his trip from New South Wales to Canton. In: Arthur Philipp's latest voyage to Botany Bay, Port Jackson and the Norfolk Island in 1787 and 1788 ... as e. Continued d. Cookic trips around the world. Weigel and Schneider, Leipzig 1791.
literature
- Barrie Macdonald: Cinderellas of the Empire. Towards a history of Kiribati and Tuvalu. Institute of Pacific Studies, Suva, Fiji 2001, ISBN 982-02-0335-X . Reprint of the 1982 edition (limited preview on google, accessed March 30, 2010)
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| SURNAME | Gilbert, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Royal Navy captain |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1788 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1788 |