Talk:Gough Island

message: What is the connection here, and why is this name attached to it? --MacRusgail 17:50, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That name is a historical one (origins explained in the 'History' section), no longer used, and as such probably not worth mentioning in the Introduction. Apcbg 20:43, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Diego Alvarez

message: The only name found for Gough Island in original maps from the 15 through 18 hundreds is Gonçalo Álvares (occasionaly hispanicized to Gonzalo Alvarez). Diego Álvarez is an obviously wrong denomination that only appeared, in a very few maps, after the island had already been rechristened Gough Island, and there is no reason reference or use it as historical name. While it would be interesting, as a curiosity, to trace the origin of this mistake, the sources for its true historical name, which honors its unquestionable discoverer, are abundant. To name but a few:
Ortelius, Abraham. Typus Orbis Terrarum. Antwerp, 1570. []
Mercator, R.  Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio.  Amsterdam, 1587.
Vrient, Joanem Baptistam. Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio Ex peritissimorum totius orbis Gaeographorum operibus desumta. Antverpiae, 1596.
Speed,  John. A New and Accurate Map of the World. London, 1626.
Visscher, Nicolaes  Orbis Terrarum Nova Et Accuratissima Tabula. 1658.
Blaeu, Wilhelm. Africae nova descriptio. Amsterdam 1663.
Blaeu, Joan. Nova et accuratissima totius terrarum orbis tabula. Amsterdam, 1664?
Pitt, Moses Orbis Terrarum Nova Et Accuratissima Tabula. London , 1680.
Matthaus, Merian. Nova descriptio Africae, Antwerp, 1683 
Rossacio, G. - Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio - Venice, 1713. 
Zarcoen (talk) 02:01, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Gonçalo Álvares

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thread_title: File:Orthographic projection over Gough Island.png Nominated for Deletion

message: I have some concerns about this set of edits. While I see no reason to disbelieve the IP only editor, some cited material has been removed. This is not my subject, so needs attention  from a content expert. So I am flagging it here for further thought. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 18:52, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent specific edits 

message: Pronounced "Guff", no? Or is it "Goff"? There are several English pronunciations of -ough.--Wetman (talk) 16:38, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The IPA pronunciation in the lead states that it's pronounced "goff" like "cough". That's unreferenced, but "goff" is certainly how I've heard it said. - htonl (talk) 17:20, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronounced 

message: You guys should be improving this article during those long stormy nights. Some of you are scientists after all! But also it would be quite nice to know a bit more about the geography of the place - you guys get to know it so intimately. I'm only jealous! ;-) Pingu7931 (talk) 19:20, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: To the Gough Overwintering Teams

message: Please not that I modified the Gough and Inaccessible Islands page which was a redirect to Gough Island as a page for UNESCO WHS stuff - the term "Gough and Inaccessible Islands" ONLY relates to the UNESCO WHS. 
I copied the infobox you had on ‎the old Gough Island to that page and changed the Gough Island and Inaccessible Island infoboxes to island template infoboxes which makes much more sense. It will also make the pages much more maintainable for you guys. I've included references from each island page to the WHS page. Pingu7931 (talk) 19:26, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: To WikiProject World Heritage Sites

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The relief map has a scale given as 1cm = 65,000m (65km)
The island is roughly 16km long which at that scale would make it appear as only 0.25cm on the map at that scale.
My guess is that the author meant that the map has a 1/65000 scale (1cm=650m) which would make more sense.
Dave Davies 16:50, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map scale for relief map