Desolation Island: Book 5 (Aubrey-Maturin)

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Meanwhile, Maturin’s manipulation of Mrs Wogan and Herapath has them thinking that they’re escaping on the whaler, but are instead carrying planted intelligence from Maturin that will surely prove useful for the Royal Navy in the future when fighting against the USA or France. The incident between HMS “Leopard” and USS “Chesapeake” that sparked the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair. Drawn by Fred S. Cozzens, Public domain | Wikimedia Commons

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Saint-Lanne Gramont, is to the west of Île Foch in the Golfe Choiseul. It has an area of 45.8km 2 ( 17 + 11⁄ 16sqmi). Its highest point reaches 480m (1,570ft).

The island's midpoint is located at 62°27′27.9″S 60°20′48.3″W / 62.457750°S 60.346750°W / -62.457750; -60.346750, with the island lying 6.9km (4.3mi) northwest of Kotis Point, 8.7km (5.4mi) west of Williams Point and 9.7km (6.0mi) north-northeast of Siddins Point. British mapping in 1820 and 1968, Chilean in 1971, Argentine in 1980, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009. Among those in the vanguard of asserting the importance of Chile in Darwin’s thinking is Alvaro Fischer, director of the Foundation for Science and Evolution in Santiago. For Fischer, it has become something of a mission to restate the significance of Darwin’s time in Chile. “Since Darwin is best known for his theory of evolution by means of natural selection, and apparently – and I stress ‘apparently’ – there is no direct link between what he did and recorded while in Chile with the theory he later developed, that part of his trip has been greatly ignored. La Montjoie is a scientific camp on the south shore of Baie Rocheuse, along the northwestern coast of the archipelago.

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From the book Desolation Island is geographically close to the Kerguelen Islands. However, in a later book, The Thirteen Gun Salute, O'Brian writes some dialogue between Richardson and Aubrey that explicitly states that Kerguelen Island is not Desolation Island: Kerguelen is what some people call Desolation Island, is it not, sir? asked Richardson. So they do. But it is not our Desolation Island, which is smaller, farther south and east. Despite the dialogue in The Thirteen Gun Salute, the description of the harbor where the Leopard sought shelter is taken exactly from Captain Cook's description of Christmas Harbor, in the far NW corner of Kerguelen which he mapped with the assistance of his sailing master, William Bligh, on his last voyage. [4] [5] George Byron, one of the Midshipmen of HMS Leopard, promoted to acting fourth lieutenant after the epidemic. We were kayaking around during the day just to take in the views and they came up to us to tell us we couldn’t camp in a bay when we were just watching the seals while bobbing about on the water.

Saint-Lanne Gramont, is to the west of Île Foch in the Golfe Choiseul. It has an area of 45.8 km² (17.68 mi²). Its highest point reaches 480 m (1,575 ft.), 48°55'S 69°12'E.

The real-life Leopard's earlier involvement in the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair is described in the novel. The appearance of the American whaler reveals the tension between the English and the Americans on the eve of the War of 1812. O'Brian based the account of the near sinking of the Leopard (after striking an iceberg) on an actual event involving HMS Guardian and her commander Edward Riou in 1789.