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Howland Family
This group is for anyone researching the Howland Surname, or connections to it.
Howland Island
Can someone please tell me the name of the Howland sailor for whom Howland Island was named? Connie Howland Kanetzky
Judy Brooks Truchon
Sightings by whalers
Captain George B. Worth of the Nantucket whaler Oeno sighted Howland around 1822 and called it "Worth Island".[8] Daniel MacKenzie of the American whaler Minerva Smith was unaware of Worth's sighting when he charted the island in 1828 and named it after his ship's owners[9] on 1 December 1828. Howland Island was at last named after a lookout who sighted it from the whaleship Isabella of New Bedford on 9 September 1842.
Feb 23, 2010