Latin American and Caribbean Place Names -- Discussion

[Michael]

You get to join Corwin, Thetis, Unalga and others!
Possibly Bear Bay, but with a name like that it's hard to know.
And, there's an Eastwind Harbor in Greenland, Jeannette Island, Cape Manning, Panay Island in the Philippines. However, maybe the ship is named after the island instead of vice versa.
Also Rodgers Harbor, Rush Point, Storis Passage.

[Randi]

Nope, this was in 1866, so they get to join us

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Yes, three vessels of the United States Navy have been named USS Panay, after the Visayan island Panay in the Philippines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Panay

[Michael]

[Randi]

https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 06-033.JPG

Iceberg Sound
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id= ... q1=iceberg
I'm not sure, but I suspect it is Seno Iceberg
https://www.geonames.org/3870024/seno-iceberg.html

Lion Bay (in Aysén rather than Magallanes)
https://www.geonames.org/3883122/bahia-lion.html

[Matteo]

Its definitely Seno Iceberg: https://www.bibliotecanacionaldigital.g ... BND:330145

All added to database, thanks Randi!

[Randi]

Great map!

[Randi]

Waterfall Bay is Bahía Cascada
https://www.geonames.org/3896322/bahia-cascada.html

Island Harbor is Puerto Island
https://www.geonames.org/3887066/puerto-island.html

Miller Island is Isla Millar
https://www.geonames.org/3879873/isla-millar.html

[Randi]

Quintero Rocks are Farallones de Quintero
https://www.geonames.org/3873980/farall ... ntero.html
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id= ... 1=quintero

[Matteo]

All added to database, thanks Randi!

[studentforever]

I've started transcribing Northland and she has just exited the Panama Canal and refers to Bona Island Lighthouse. The lighthouse is not indexed in Geonames but is cited in Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_l ... _in_Panama and this government document of 1915
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOV ... cbfbe1.pdf

Later on she also refers to a lighthouse on Cape Mala, this is not on Geonames either but is referenced in the 2 links above.

[Matteo]

Both lights are still in existence and present on the lighthouse directory. I've added both to geonames and ofc to our database.

Thanks Ros!