History
Clarión Island was discovered in late 1542 by the Spanish navigator Ruy López de Villalobos. But with the exception of a possible re-sighting of the Revillagigedos by Juan Fernández de Ladrillero prior to 1574 and a short-lived residence by the adventurer Martín Yáñez de Armida on that island he later renamed Socorro (1606), the archipelago was neglected by the Spaniards and Joris van Spilbergen's sighting of the whole group in December 1615 seems not to have been noted in Spain or its American colonies.
Clarion was sighted again by the English privateer George Shelvocke on the Speedwell, August 21, 1721. The name of the island goes back to the American brig Clarion, Capt. Henry Gyzelaar, who was engaged in the North Pacific trade around 1820.
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