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Australian Travellers in the South Seas

Note

I refer to authors by their published names, with their initials expanded if known. I also refer to islands as they were named at the respective time. The following names listed in Table 1 were used by an Australian shipping company in its 1903 route map (see Figure 1) published in All about Burns, Philp & Company, Limited.¹

Table 1: Route Map Names

Island (s)	Present Name
Caroline Islands	Federated States of Micronesia
Ellice Group	Tuvalu
Fiji Group	Fiji
Gambier Group, Marquesas Group, Paumotu or Tuamotu Group or Low Archipelago, Society Group, Tubuai or Austral Group	French Polynesia
Gilbert or Kingsmill Group, Phoenix Group	Kiribati
Hawai‘i, Sandwich Islands	Hawai‘i
Hervey or Cook Group, Manahiki Group	Cook Islands
Marshall Islands	Marshall Islands
New Caledonia and Loyalty Group	New Caledonia
New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago	Papua New Guinea
New Hebrides	Vanuatu
Niue or Savage Island	Niue
Ocean Island	Banaba
Pleasant Island	Nauru
Samoa or Navigator Group	Samoa and American Samoa
Solomon Islands, Santa Cruz Group	Solomon Islands
Tokelau or Union Group	Tokelau
Tonga or Friendly Group	Tonga

Source: Table created by the author, based on information from Burns, Philp & Company, All about Burns, Philp & Company, Limited.

Figure 1: Routes Map Torres Straits—Tahiti.

Source: Burns, Philp & Co., All about Burns, Philp & Company, Limited.

1 Burns, Philp & Company, All about Burns, Philp & Company, Limited (Sydney: John Andrew & Co., 1903).

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