Talk:Coffin (whaling family)

Coffin, Gardner, Starbuck

Of course, both Coffin and Starbuck appear in Moby Dick. By the way, Nikumaroro, in the Phoenix Islands, was formerly known as Gardner Island. I'm not certain that the Wikipedia article has assigned the correct Gardner to this island, but I would bet it is named after someone in Nantucket.Pustelnik 00:05, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm working on the Gardner Island thing...I've got sources for both Coffin and Joshua Gardner discovering it...best to present alternatives. If it's Coffin, then he named it (apparently) after his father-in-law, so probably a Nantucket man. When I get a chance I'll finish presenting the info. Perhaps it's another case like Starbuck Island...discovered by two whalers the same year and given the same name by them both.Gwinva 02:42, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Various sources

I've been sitting in these for a while but haven't had time. Anyone interested in expanding this page should check out the following. Gwinva (talk) 02:15, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

• Bonin islands: http://books.google.com/books?id=LToAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA237&lpg=PA237&dq=transit+whaler&source=web&ots=eEvTd-Pm--&sig=ZOBTQ8SgNluS7V9DJC6oAThCI7U not brilliant better available?

• calls him James at the Bonins

http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1968/2/1968_2_58.shtml

• Johus coffin, Gangesdiscovering Maniki http://www.janeresture.com/manihiki/index.htm
• Joshua again, discovering Gardner: http://www.tighar.org/TTracks/12_2/yr1.html#1

• Isaac Coffin...cousin to Nantucket coffins...Thisbe...Magdalen Islands...admiral see http://www.islandregister.com/rcoffin/pg26_50.html
• what happened to the Thule : http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/australia/au1844d.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gwinva (talk • contribs) 02:15, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

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