Fais Island
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Fais Island is the closest land to Challenger Deep. It is one of the outer islands of the State of Yap, part of the Federated States of Micronesia.
French naval captain Louis Tromelin is sometimes credited for the discovery of Fais Island, during a journey through the Pacific 1828-29, although that honour might also belong to Francisco de Castro, whose sixteenth century journey to the Philippines took him through the Caroline Islands, where he was forced to make a landing when wind blew him off course.[1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Dunmore, pp 52 & 250
[edit] References
- Dunmore, John (1992); Who's Who in Pacific Navigation, Australia:Melbourne University Press, ISBN 052284488X
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