Editing Pohnpei (section)

===19th-century visitors===
There is good documentation about Australian sailor John Henry Rowe, who arrived in his barque ''John Bull'' on 10 September 1825, though he did not land as his vessel was chased off by native canoes. The first lengthy description of the island and its inhabitants is presented by the Russian explorer [[Fyodor Litke]], whose ship ''Senyavin'' gave the island group of Pohnpei, Ant and Pakin its name. From 14 to 19 January 1828, his boats attempted to land but could not due to the hostility shown by the islanders, but natives then came aboard his ship, "some trading occurred, a short vocabulary was compiled, and a map made."<ref name=Native/> F.H. von Kittlitz, a member of the Litke expedition made a further descriptive account, including the offshore ruins of [[Nan Madol]], and the two reports together provided the first real knowledge of Pohnpei.<ref name=Native/> It is not clear who the next visitors were; however, when Capt. J.H. Eagleston of the barque ''Peru'' sighted the island on 3 January 1832, it was already on his charts as "Ascension Island." Riesenberg writes that it is uncertain who first called it Ascension Island, but the name became established until the Spanish period.<ref name=Native/>