Philip Carteret | British navigator | Britannica (original) (raw)

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exploration of Pacific Islands

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  In New Britain
  …who named the island, and Philip Carteret, who found St. George’s Channel (east) in 1767. As Neu-Pommern (New Pomerania), the island became part of a German protectorate in 1884. It was mandated to Australia following World War I, taken by the Japanese in 1942, and reoccupied in 1945. It subsequently…
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  In Pacific Islands: The 18th century
  In 1767 Samuel Wallis and Philip Carteret followed, but their ships were separated as they entered the Pacific. Wallis reached Tahiti, more of the Tuamotus, and the Society Islands, while Carteret found Pitcairn Island and revisited the Solomons that Mendaña had visited, although he did not so identify them. This…
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Pitcairn Island

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  In Pitcairn Island
  …in 1767, and its captain, Philip Carteret, named it Pitcairn for the sailor who first sighted it. Its population is descended from the mutineers of the British ship HMS Bounty and their Tahitian Polynesian consorts. In 1789, on a voyage from Tahiti to the West Indies with a cargo of…
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sighting of Duke of York Group

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  In Duke of York Group
  …1767 by the British navigator Philip Carteret. In the 1870s a trading station was opened at Port Hunter (now Balanawang Harbour), and the area’s first Methodist mission was established in 1880. European settlement on the islands expanded and eventually spread to New Britain.
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