Domestic Geographic Name Report, Yap District
Domestic Geographic Name Report, Yap District (Report). Saipan, Mariana Islands: Department of Resources and Development, Land and Survey, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. 1981.
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Abstract: The document excerpts come from the Bernice P. Bishop Museum’s Domestic Geographic Name Report for the Yap District and include references to historical navigation reports identifying a high, well-wooded island about six miles in circumference reported at approximately 9°16’ N, 146°43’ E, with a later sighting in 1866 at approximately 9°15’ N, 145°31’. The descriptions are stated as consistent with each other and distinct from another source, later announced under a variant island name, and noted as not included in a list compiled by a named researcher.
The text presents ichthyological observations stating that the quantity of fish caught was not large, most species were previously known to the observers, and that among the new records was a species of Amphiprion described as black with orange-yellow and light-blue markings and compared to Rüppell’s Amphiprion from the Red Sea.
The document includes ornithological notes reporting many shorebirds of already known species, with mentions of Tringa minuta among the specimens obtained, and a black Lamprothornis recorded from Lugunor and Mlei, noted as being frequent on coconut palms.
Bibliographic references cite Mertens highlighting an island named Feys, described as without reef and lagoon, more than twelve fathoms high, with little breadfruit and many bananas, and additional citations to Observations sur les habitans des îles Carolines naming Ouleai and Feiss, and to Des Moeurs et usages that incorporates accounts attributed to Floyd, with specific volume and page references indicated.
