David WHIPPYS’s Levuka dynasty; five Fijian partners and 12 known children with Adi TULIA, Yunus, Dorcas DELAU, and Tosaka LEVUKA

The photo shows Nantucket sailor and trader, David Whippy, a bold and commercially-minded adventurer, who created a Fijian dynasty; myriads of Whippys descended from this Levuka gene-source. He was recorded as married in Fiji 1827. This first David Whippy of Levuka was in Fiji by the age of 25, and died in [...]

10 March 1788: French exploration vessels, Astrolabe, Boussole, Commander Jean-Francois Galaup, Comte de la Perouse wrecked on Tucopia Island

French exploration vessel. Commander Jean-Francois Galaup, Comte de la Perouse, sailed from Botany Bay, NSW, on 10 March 1788, on the Astrolabe, in company with the vessel Boussole, with the intention of heading north, but disappeared.
Lost on Vanikoro Island in the Solomon Islands: Their fate was finally discovered thirty-nine years later when Captain Peter [...]

1844: John Williams, missionary barque 296 tons, Capt Morgan, Cape of Good Hope, 31st Aug, and Hobart Town 22nd Oct.

In 1844 The Missionary barque John Williams “with missionary stores (and) Passengers for Sydney—Mrs Allen, Mr Want and Mr Udny. For the Society Islands—Miss Barff, and Miss Credland. For Harvey’s Islands—Mr George Gill and Mrs Gill. For the Samoan Islands—Rev Thomas Heath, Rev J P Sunderland, Mrs Sunderland, Rev T [...]

1827: Dumont d’Urville brought the Austrolabe through the passage between Ogea and Vatoa

In 1827 the French commander Dumont d’Urville brought the Austrolabe through the passage between Ogea and Vatoa, and sailed on the deep water of the Koro Sea until he was abreast of Laucala and Taveuni.
Anchored off Nukulau Island, at the mouth of the Rewa: Here, like Tasman and Wilson before him, he found the [...]