Chichijima

Chichijima, once called Peel Island by British visitors, is a high island in the Ogasawara or Bonin group south of Japan. Japanese seafarers reached the islands in the seventeenth century, and a shogunate expedition visited them in 1675. In 1827 Frederick Beechey surveyed and claimed Peel Island for Britain. In 1830 settlers from Hawaii and other places established a community there.