Providence Island Company Providence Island Company The Providence Company or Providence Island Company was an English chartered company founded in 1629 by a group of Puritans including Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick in order to establish the Providence Island colony on Providence Island and Mosquito Coast of what became Nicaragua. Providence Island was discovered during 1629 by Daniel Elfrith. Elfrith passed its location to Philip Bell who was governor of the Somers Islands; Bell mentioned it to Nathaniel Rich. Rich then involved the Earl of Warwick, his family connection, who called a meeting for 10 November 1629, at Brooke House in Holborn,
Ptichy Island (Shantar Islands) Ptichy Island (Shantar Islands) Ptichy Island (, "Ostrov Ptichy", meaning "Bird Island") is a small island in the Sea of Okhotsk. Ptichy Island is one of the Shantar Islands. It lies between the southwest point of Bolshoy Shantar and Cape Bol'shoy Dugandzha on the mainland. It is a little over 1.6 km (1 mi) in length and rises to a height of 290 m (951 ft). Between 1857 and 1885, American whaleships cruised for bowhead whales off Ptichiy. They called it Stinker Island, "on account of the dead whales drifting along there from the ice". In the summer there is