Editing Jarvis Island (section)

===Discovery===
The island's first known sighting by the British on August 21, 1821, by the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British]] ship ''[[Eliza Francis]]'' (or ''Eliza Frances'') owned by Edward, Thomas and William Jarvis<ref>{{cite web |url=http://jarvisisland.info/north_pacific_pilot.html#282 |title=North Pacific Pilot page 282 |access-date=January 26, 2007 |format=png |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080211192130/http://jarvisisland.info/north_pacific_pilot.html#282 |archive-date=February 11, 2008 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.mq.edu.au/scnsw/Cases1833-34/html/r_v_higgins_and_others__1833.htm |title=R. v. Higgins, Fuller, Anderson, Thomas, Belford and Walsh |access-date=January 25, 2007 |work=legal proceeding |archive-date=October 15, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015233302/http://www.law.mq.edu.au/scnsw/Cases1833-34/html/r_v_higgins_and_others__1833.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> and commanded by Captain Brown. The island was visited by whaling vessels until the 1870s.

The [[U.S. Exploring Expedition]] surveyed the island in 1841.<ref name="Stanton">{{cite book|last1=Stanton|first1=William|title=The Great United States Exploring Expedition|date=1975|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley|isbn=978-0520025578|pages=[https://archive.org/details/greatunitedstate00will/page/232 232]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/greatunitedstate00will/page/232}}</ref>  In March 1857 the island was claimed for the United States under the [[Guano Islands Act]] and formally annexed on February 27, 1858.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Orent |first1=Beatrice |last2=Reinsch |first2=Pauline |date=1941 |title=Sovereignty over Islands in the Pacific |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0002930000136759/type/journal_article |journal=American Journal of International Law |language=en |volume=35 |issue=3 |pages=443–461 |doi=10.2307/2192452 |jstor=2192452 |issn=0002-9300}}</ref>