Episode 2 of 3
Charting the Marshall Islands
- When
- 1788
- Where
- Marshall Islands, Micronesia
The captains charted islands in the region later named for John Marshall, after earlier Spanish sighting in 1526.
The British sea captains John Marshall and Thomas Gilbert visited the Marshall Islands in 1788 while en route to Guangzhou. European maps and charts subsequently named the group for Captain Marshall, who explored the region that year. The first European sighting of the islands had been by the Spanish expedition of Alonso de Salazar in 1526.
Sources
- Marshall Islands Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-29
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