Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-10-22
SOME LOST IrLANDS
DOTS IN THE OCEAN THAT HAVE
BEEN MiSLADD.
Some Of Them Would Bring Great
Wealth to Their Fortunate Discov-
erers-long Sought for Breeding
Place for Seals.

Somewhere III the Great Southern
ocean, says an English newspaper, a
few hundred miles south and by west
Of Heard island, is an ics-capped, sea
girt fragment o. land that will some
day be worth a small fortune to its
lucky discoverer-Or, rather, one
would say, to it's e-discoverer''-for
the island in question has already
been found--and lost
Ever since 1855 there has been es-
tablished at Heard island, amid eter-
nal ice and fog and snow tiny col
ony OF hardy men engaged in catch
ing the seals that come there to breed
Capt, Rogers, OF the whaler Corinth-
ian, was the first man to set foot on
the place. and he reaped an unprece-
dentedly rich harvest, securing in a
single day over five hundred barrels
OF Oil. 1t was then supposed that the
animals would quickly be killed Off, as
they have been on the Pribyloff isl
ands and elsewhere; but as the years
passed by and the seals continued as
plentiful as ever. the sealers reasoned
correctly that there must exist, not far
distant, some other place where tho
breed was kept up. To try and locate
this supposititious island many seal
Ing sloOp made long detours amid the
Antarctic drift; and at last one of
them, the Southern Cross, commanded
by Capt. Panton, was successful. But
OF. the way back the vessel was
wrecked, the master was drowned,
and the latitude and longitude of the
little fragment of rock was lost.
Then again there is Nimrod island,
discovered in 1928 by Capt. EiIbeck, OF
the whaler of that name. and since
repeatedly sought for in vain. 1t was
reported by it's discoverer to be COW
cred with guano, the product of the
countless myriads of penguins that re-
sorted there to breed; and it is this
fact doubtless, which has ispired the
many expeditions that have from time
to tine been organized to search for
it.
The Grampus islands, discovered by
Capt. Meares, in April, ITS, lie some
where not very far to the northward
of the Mariana group, in the Western
Pacific; but their exact position no
man knows or is able to determine.
Ganges island. in the China sea, has
been sighted thrice in a century. and
several fine vessels are believed to
have been lost upon it.
Marcus or Weeks. island. is another
mystery of these little known seas.
Finally, the Marshall islands, in the
South Pacific, have been misland, not
once only. but twice. They We're first
discovered in 1929 by one of the old
Spanish navigators, Don Alvaro de
Saavedra by name. and were by him
explored and chartered But when
next wear he again went in search OF
them they were nowhere to be found.
In the year 1883, however. Capt Mar,
shall Of the British ship Scarborough
rediscoyered the islands and rechris-
tened them with his own name lie
made. too, the most careful observa-
tions as to their precise locality. yet
when. a little later, a government sur
yeying ship tried to find them with
view to taking soundings, they had
again disappeared. Since then they
have been sought for in vain, and al
though they appear on the Admiralty
charts. 1t is With the explanatory
footnote. position doubtful, attached
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