Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1861-01-19
Ghe polpnesian,
Table Of The Names and Positions Of the L..
lands Of Micronesia.
BY J.. Ii. GULICK.

The following table is an abridgement of a fnller
one, the result of eight years research and which
has been compiled with the greatest care from all
accessible reports of vOyagers, and from natives
either themselves resident of the various islands or
who have visited all but very few of them.
The native names have, for the first time been
given to every island throughout Micronesia. The
spelling has been conformed TO the system of Le-
Plus, which has cen adopted by the Micronesian
Mission, though diacritical marks are omitted
l have not attempted to give all the foreign syn
onyms OF the islands, nor even those having the
highest claims from priority, but only those by
which the several islands are best known.
The estimates of population are not, in the great
majority of cases, given as the result of accurate
enumerations, but are the shrewdest approxima-
tiOns our present knowledge allows us TO make
The positions of the Ladrone Islands are not Civ
en- because so well known and so ethnologically
unimportant.
1t is in the northern part of the Ralik Chain and
in the Caroline Islands between Ponapi and Truk
that the most important corrections of previous re-
porters will be found.
THE GILBERT ISLANDS.
Arorai or Hope Island the Elizabeth, 1910
South Pt. lat. 40 s., long. III OIL E.; NJ. Du-
taillis pop, 1900.
Tanana or Rotchers Is; Capt. Clerk; lat.
2 35 s., long. l76 Is E.; Capt. Varanus Smith
pop, 1900.
Onoatoa or Clerks Island, (Clark's Island);
Capt. Clerk; lat. so S., long. l75 80 E.; Capt.
V. Smith; pop. 1000
Nukunau or ByrOn's Island; Com. Byron, 1865;
lat. % S., long. l76 As E.; Capt. V. Smith; Ion
I7G 35 E., Capt. Handy pop. 5000.
Peru or Francis Island Capt. Clerk lat 25
S., Ion. l7G Is E.; Capt. V. Smith lat Is s.,
lon 176 O6 E.; Capt. Handy; pop. l,500.
Tapiteouwea or Drummond's Island; Capt
Bishop, 1899; S. E. PIT. lat. l % S., lon. IT'S l3
f.; n. w. PIT, lat. l 0S N, lon. LA so; Wilkes
Chart; pop. 1000.
Nonouti or Sydenham's Island Capt. Bishop,
1893; S. E. PIT. lat. 45 S., lon. 174 80 E.; North
PIT. lat 80 s., Ion. ia 20 E.. Wilkes; pop. 6 900
Aranuka or Henderville's Island; Capts. Mar
shall and Gilbert, 1888; centre lat. II N, Ion.
173 40 E.; Wilkes Chart; pop. 1000.
Kuria or Woodle's Island Capts. Marshall and
Gilbert, 1888 centre lat. IA N, lon. I73 81 E.;
Wilkes Chart; pop. 800.
Apamama or Simpsons Island; Capts. Marshall
and Gilbert, 1888; S. E. Pt., lat. 26 N. Ion. l73
81 E.; n. W. PIT lat. 80 ~, Ion. 173 81 E.;
Wilkes Chart; pop. 5000.
Maana or Halls Island; Capts. Marshall and
Gilbert, 1888; South PIT. lat. 81 N, lon 173 O3
E. North PIT. OF N, Ion l73 OF; Wilkes Chart;
pop. 1000.
Tarawa or Knoy's Island improperly Knox Is
land); Capts. Marshall and Gilbert, 1885; S. E.
PIT. lat. % N, Ion. 173 u E.; S. w. PIT. lat
Zz N, ION. 10 w H.; N. Pt lat. 81 N, lon
l73 E.; Wilkes Chart pop. $500.
Apaiang or Charlotte Island Capt Marshall,
1883; S. Pt. lat. l Al N, long l73 OF E.; n PIT.
lat. So N, Ion. I72 50 E.; Capt. Wilkes Chart
Marakei or Mathews Island Capts. Marshall
and Gilbert lat. 2 N, lon. 172 25 E.; Wilkes :;
pop. 1900.
Butaritari or Touching Island; s. Point, lat.
3 l N, Ion. l72 45 E., N. E. Pt. lat. 3 10 n.
Ion. 172 Sc E.; N. w. PIT. lat. l3 N, Ion. 172
| 40 E.; Wilkes Chart pop. 500.
Maxim. or Pitts Island n. w. Pt lat. 3 20 N,
Ion. l72 81 E Wilkes Chart pop. 500
Banaba or Ocean Island; ship Ocean, 1904 /;
lat. so s., Ion. 100 As E.; Capt V. Smith lat.
As S., Ion. 1G9 40 E.. Capt. Cheyne.
Nawodo (OnaverO) or Pleasant Island Capt.
Fearn, 1898 lat. 25 S., Ion. l67 O5 E.; Capt.
Cheyne Ion. l67 10 E.; Capt. Fearn Ion. 167
20 E.. Capt. V. Smith.
THE MARSHALL ISLANDS