. Scottish geographical magazine. theprevious information dealing with Gough Island1 contained, as mightbe expected, few facts sufficiently definite to be of scientific importance,but some of the observations as to anchorages, etc., will no doubt proveof value to future explorers of this interesting island. The original discoverers of the island were apparently the Portuguese—probably in the sixteenth century, which was the era of Portuguesevoyagers—and they named it Diego Alvarez. In 1731 Captain Gough,in the ship Richmond, sighted an island in the South Atlantic which 1 The Colonial Office i
. Scottish geographical magazine. theprevious information dealing with Gough Island1 contained, as mightbe expected, few facts sufficiently definite to be of scientific importance,but some of the observations as to anchorages, etc., will no doubt proveof value to future explorers of this interesting island. The original discoverers of the island were apparently the Portuguese—probably in the sixteenth century, which was the era of Portuguesevoyagers—and they named it Diego Alvarez. In 1731 Captain Gough,in the ship Richmond, sighted an island in the South Atlantic which 1 The Colonial Office inform me that Gough Island is officially recognised as British,but can give no account of the origin of this claim or the grounds on which it is sustained. SOME RESULTS OF SCOTTISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. 431 received his name, but in charts and atlases published during the nexthalf centuryl both islands appear; and in all Gough Island is placedconsiderably to the east of Diego Alvarez Island, which itself is rather S*. & 4 JJ f y p Hf-»
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