Talk:Île Amsterdam

message: I mistakenly edited the Antipodes statement, since the geographic coordinates of Kerguelen Island seem to show that its antipode is in Canada. However, the northenmost peninsulas of Kerguelen are antipodes to an area just over the US border in Montana, so I reverted the edit. Stereoroid 23:50, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Antipodes

message: This article was automatically  assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 08:30, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: Pigafetta (the only account of Magellan and Elcano's navigation) does not mention this island at all. From Timor he jumps directly to Cape of Good Hope. --Sugaar (talk) 23:09, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elcano's discovery? 

message: It seems, that the scale on the map is not correct.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.140.253.8 (talk) 13:23, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map scale 

message: The article doesn't tell about the number of unhabitants of this island.Perhaps, just about one hundred.Even so, the article has this big defect:it has nothing about the number of unhabitants.Agre22 (talk) 14:58, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Please present a reliable source on this issue. 霎起林野间 (talk) 02:47, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Population?

message: An unsourced edit made on September 1 2007 by Mohonu made reference to the marooning of François Péron on this island for three years, between 1792 and 1795, which contradicts his biographical page. It remained unchanged until today; I have removed the paragraph. 
I did a little bit of research and found this: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Amsterdam_(Island)
Can anyone verify this source? Either the François Péron article is incorrect and he actually was marooned for three years (which is very unlikely... what are the chances of ONE person alone surviving a wreck which must have had many other people on board?), or I smell somebody playing silly buggers with one or some of these articles.  jamie (talk) 16:24, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Further from this, I have learned that the pertinent biographical information on the François Péron page was written by Edward Duyker, who co-incidentally enough is a school chum of mine's father I have met many times and who is an absolutely trustworthy historian. This would lend me to further conclude that all of Mohonu's article edits may be suspect. jamie (talk) 16:35, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Never mind, further research has just shown this to be a case of simple mistaken identity. Pierre François Péron and not François Péron was the man marooned on the island. Apologies to Mohonu for the accusation. I have updated the article to the old version with this correction and added three references, including the e-book of his memoirs itself (though it is written in French of course).jamie (talk) 17:14, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Supposed marooning of François Péron

message: It says that the settlement attempt made by Heurtin in 1871 failed as their plan of raising animals was not fruitful. However, after they abandoned their livestocks on the island, the cattle population increased to 2,000 by the later half of 20th century - really fruitful isn't it? Is it somehow contraditing itself here. 霎起林野间 (talk) 02:47, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  An interesting question that may or may not relate to the article