. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Donald W. Buden 138 2006 126(2) Remarks on place names A confusing array of alternative place names for the Mortlock Islands, some obsolete, contributes to the difficulty in determining precise locations for some of the earlier records. The Mortlock Islands now refers to five atolls and one low coralline island south-east of Chunk (=Truk) Lagoon (Fig. 1), but at the time of Kubary's visit, in 1877, it referred only to the three southernmost atollsâEttal, Lukunor and Satawan ( Rosser 1870, US Navy Hydrographic Office 1920). The name
. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Donald W. Buden 138 2006 126(2) Remarks on place names A confusing array of alternative place names for the Mortlock Islands, some obsolete, contributes to the difficulty in determining precise locations for some of the earlier records. The Mortlock Islands now refers to five atolls and one low coralline island south-east of Chunk (=Truk) Lagoon (Fig. 1), but at the time of Kubary's visit, in 1877, it referred only to the three southernmost atollsâEttal, Lukunor and Satawan ( Rosser 1870, US Navy Hydrographic Office 1920). The name Lukunor is used for one of the islands on the atoll of the same name, and Satawan is the name of one of those within Satawan Atoll. Augmenting the confusion, Schmeltz & Krause (1881) reported Kubary's records under the heading 'Die Lukunorgruupe (Mortlock-Inseln)' referring, in this case, to all three closely juxtaposed southernmost atolls, and not solely to Lukunor Atoll. Baker (1951), however, reported these records as being from Lukunor or Mortlock. But the only ...... Chuuk ". Lagoon , ' "j^ : Islands MORTLOCK ISLANDS NAMA ISLAND I ATOLL Chuuk Lagoon A « / 'y 1 ^ ^^ Mortlock^ Po .0^. .10" ^^ v-v ^v 14tff\Australia 160^ NAMOLUK ATOLL ETTAL ATOLL 50 km â â â¢-^::: '^V* SATAWAN J ATOLL LUKUNOR ATOLL Figure 1. Location map for the Mortlock Islands. Inset: G = Guam, K = Kosrae, NG = New Guinea, Pa = Palau, Po = Pohnpei, Y = Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Ornithologists' Club. London : British Ornithologists' Club
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