The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain…

January 1854 CE

The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang on January 4, 1854.

Six weeks earlier, an American sailor, Captain John Heard, on the ship Oriental, had sighted Heard Island on November 25, 1853, en route from Boston to Melbourne.

He reported the discovery one month later and had the island named after him.

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