Ducie Island "moon that has set"). On the same day, he also sighted two more islands, one that he named "San Juan Bautista" ("St John the Baptist"), and the other "La Encarnación" ("the Incarnation"). It is unclear which one was Henderson island and which one Pitcairn. The confusion was later compounded when a chart produced by Admiral José de Espinosa marked Ducie as "La Encarnación", rather than as "Luna Puesta". The island was rediscovered and named Ducie Island on 16 March 1791 by Captain Edward Edwards, of , who had been despatched from Britain in 1790 to arrest the "Bounty" mutineers. Edwards
Hammond Island, Queensland Northern Peninsula Area of Cape York. These close ties continue to exist today. Captain Edwards of HMS "Pandora" named Hammond Island in August 1791, as he travelled through the Torres Strait with the captured Bounty mutineers. In 1802, the British navigator Matthew Flinders, in charge of HMS "Investigator", sailed past Hammond Island. He noticed camp fires burning on the island but did not make contact with the Kaurareg people. In August 1864, a government settlement was established at Somerset at the tip of Cape York. The police magistrates of Somerset were hostile in their dealings with the Aboriginal people of