Gough Island
According to a note by Allan Crawford ( Geographical Journal , xciv, p. 412) H.M.S. Milford called at Gough Island in the Southern Ocean at the end of March 1938. Following instructions from the Colonial Office, the captain landed with a party to hoist the Union Jack and declare this island a depend...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s003224740003953x 2024-03-03T08:48:07+00:00 Gough Island 1940 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003224740003953x https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S003224740003953X en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Polar Record volume 3, issue 19, page 279-279 ISSN 0032-2474 1475-3057 General Earth and Planetary Sciences Ecology Geography, Planning and Development journal-article 1940 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s003224740003953x 2024-02-08T08:36:55Z According to a note by Allan Crawford ( Geographical Journal , xciv, p. 412) H.M.S. Milford called at Gough Island in the Southern Ocean at the end of March 1938. Following instructions from the Colonial Office, the captain landed with a party to hoist the Union Jack and declare this island a dependency of St Helena. Discovered in the sixteenth century by the Portuguese, and named by them Diego Alvarez, it seems to have been lost sight of until, in 1731, Captain Gough, homeward bound in his ship Richmond round the Cape of Good Hope, sighted an island in the South Atlantic, which henceforth went by his name. It was only slowly that geographers came to the conclusion that Diego Alvarez and Gough were one and the same island, and then the former name gradually disappeared from charts. Gough Island has been claimed as British territory since Captain Gough reported it. Article in Journal/Newspaper Polar Record Southern Ocean Cambridge University Press Southern Ocean St. Helena ENVELOPE(8.575,8.575,63.621,63.621) Gough ENVELOPE(159.367,159.367,-81.633,-81.633) Alvarez ENVELOPE(-64.483,-64.483,-65.633,-65.633) Crawford ENVELOPE(-86.467,-86.467,-77.717,-77.717) Polar Record 3 19 279 279 |
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According to a note by Allan Crawford ( Geographical Journal , xciv, p. 412) H.M.S. Milford called at Gough Island in the Southern Ocean at the end of March 1938. Following instructions from the Colonial Office, the captain landed with a party to hoist the Union Jack and declare this island a dependency of St Helena. Discovered in the sixteenth century by the Portuguese, and named by them Diego Alvarez, it seems to have been lost sight of until, in 1731, Captain Gough, homeward bound in his ship Richmond round the Cape of Good Hope, sighted an island in the South Atlantic, which henceforth went by his name. It was only slowly that geographers came to the conclusion that Diego Alvarez and Gough were one and the same island, and then the former name gradually disappeared from charts. Gough Island has been claimed as British territory since Captain Gough reported it. |
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