Bass Islands (Duff Islands)

	Bass Islands (Duff Islands) The Bass Islands are a subordinate group in the south of the Duff Islands of the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Alternatively they are known as Basses Islands or Ile de Bass. The estimated terrain elevation above sea level is some 15 metres. Geography The group consists of three or four small rock islands (from north to south): Lua (with a very small, unnamed rock island to the north) Kaa Loreva Island All islands are uninhabited. History The Bass Islands were discovered on September 25, 1797. In the 1799 handwritten nautical chart of James Wilson (Captain), James Wilson, captain of the mission ship ''Duff (1794 ship), Duff'' of the London Missionary Society, the Bass Islands are for the first time verifiably mentioned, as Isle de Bass, with the note applicable to the entire Duff archipelago. References External linksThe ''Vaka Taumako'' Project {{authority control Islands of the Solomon Islands Polynesian outliers Archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Duff Islands The Duff Islands are a small island group lying to the northeast of the Santa Cruz Islands in the Solomon Islands province of Temotu. They are also sometimes known as the Wilson Islands. Location and geography The islands are located at 9°51'48" S. lat., 167°4'48" E. long. The Duff Islands consist of: Taumako, the main island, with nearby Tahua, Tohua, and Tatumotu The Bass Islands: Lua, Kaa and Loreva * Treasurer's Islands: Tuleki (Nula), Elingi (Obelisk Island), Te Aku (Te Ako), Lakao and Ulaka Frequently, Hallie Jackson Reef is mentioned in the context of the Duff islands, although it is located 45 km west of that 32 km long island chain, and although it is not an island, at most a submarine reef. In the Sailing Directions of 1969 Hallie Jackson Reef is described as a reef 24 feet deep, at 9°44'S, 166°07'E. The corresponding current (2017) publication no longer has any mention of the reef. Local population The Duff Islands were settled by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Solomon Islands Solomon Islands is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania, to the east of Papua New Guinea and north-west of Vanuatu. It has a land area of , and a population of approx. 700,000. Its capital, Honiara, is located on the largest island, Guadalcanal. The country takes its name from the wider area of the Solomon Islands (archipelago), which is a collection of Melanesian islands that also includes the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (currently a part of Papua New Guinea), but excludes the Santa Cruz Islands. The islands have been settled since at least some time between 30,000 and 28,800 BCE, with later waves of migrants, notably the Lapita people, mixing and producing the modern indigenous Solomon Islanders population. In 1568, the Spanish navigator Álvaro de Mendaña was the first European to visit them. Though not named by Mendaña, it is believed that the islands were called ''"the Solomons"'' by those who later rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	James Wilson (Captain) Captain James Wilson (1760–1814), commanded the British ship ''Duff'', which the London Missionary Society contracted in 1797 to convey a team of missionaries (consisting of thirty men, six women, and three children) to their postings in Tahiti, Tonga, and the Marquesas Islands. Life Wilson was born in 1760. He had been a British soldier during the American war of Independence and then he had worked for the East India Company. He had been an adventurer who was noted for not being religious. Eventually he had enough money to retire and it was during his retirement that he was convert to Christianity. He heard of the formation of a missionary society via the Evangelical Magazine. His track record made him the focus of their efforts. Thomas Haweis who had inspired the creation of missionaries was particularly supportive. The objective was to send missionaries to the South Seas. Wilson had volunteered to lead such a journey and this offer was accepted in September 1795. It was Wilso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Duff (1794 Ship) ''Duff'' was a ship launched on the Thames in 1794. In 1796 the London Missionary Society engaged her to take a party of missionaries to the South Pacific. Once she had landed the missionaries she sailed to China and took a cargo back to England for the British East India Company. On this voyage her captain named a variety of South Pacific islands. On her second voyage to deliver missionaries a French privateer captured her in 1799 off the coast of Brazil on the outward-bound leg of her voyage. First voyage ''Duff'' was originally under the command of P. Gordon, with owner J. Carbine and traded between London and Gibraltar. In 1795 the just formed London Missionary Society decided to send missionaries to the South Pacific. Captain James Wilson volunteered his services and the society was able to afford to purchase ''Duff''. ''Lloyd's Register'' for 1796 shows that Wilson replaced Gordon as master of Duff, and Cox & Co. replaced J. Carbine as owner. Also, her trade changed to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	London Missionary Society The London Missionary Society was an interdenominational evangelical missionary society formed in England in 1795 at the instigation of Welsh Congregationalist minister Edward Williams. It was largely Reformed in outlook, with Congregational missions in Oceania, Africa, and the Americas, although there were also Presbyterians (notable for their work in China), Methodists, Baptists, and various other Protestants involved. It now forms part of the Council for World Mission. Origins In 1793, Edward Williams, then minister at Carr's Lane, Birmingham, wrote a letter to the churches of the Midlands, expressing the need for interdenominational world evangelization and foreign missions.Wadsworth KW, ''Yorkshire United Independent College -Two Hundred Years of Training for Christian Ministry by the Congregational Churches of Yorkshire'' Independent Press, London, 1954 It was effective and Williams began to play an active part in the plans for a missionary society. He left Birmingh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
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