The barque John Bull (John Henry Rowe) touches at Pohnpei but is chased off by canoes and does not land.

What happened

The English bark John Bull, sailing from Australia, was chased away by five canoes and never landed; its crew named the island “John Bull’s Island.” Early captains gave Pohnpei several European names before the Russian navigator Lütke recorded its own name, “Pouynipète,” in 1828.