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The archipelago is first mentioned in the 1580s, when Francis Drake explored the Pacific shore of Latin America and California. After having visited the San Francisco Bay Area, Drake went westward. In his diary a small and green-looking archipelago is mentioned: "the islands [...] are greene & some of them are remarkably hilly. [The islands] are not on any of my maps though." It is generally believed Drake was referring to the Lovia Archipelago. Although Drake did not mention whether he or his crew went on land, some historians believe they did. If so, Kings Island's east coast is believed to be the most plausible location.

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  • The archipelago is first mentioned in the 1580s, when Francis Drake explored the Pacific shore of Latin America and California. After having visited the San Francisco Bay Area, Drake went westward. In his diary a small and green-looking archipelago is mentioned: "the islands [...] are greene & some of them are remarkably hilly. [The islands] are not on any of my maps though." It is generally believed Drake was referring to the Lovia Archipelago. Although Drake did not mention whether he or his crew went on land, some historians believe they did. If so, Kings Island's east coast is believed to be the most plausible location.
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  • The archipelago is first mentioned in the 1580s, when Francis Drake explored the Pacific shore of Latin America and California. After having visited the San Francisco Bay Area, Drake went westward. In his diary a small and green-looking archipelago is mentioned: "the islands [...] are greene & some of them are remarkably hilly. [The islands] are not on any of my maps though." It is generally believed Drake was referring to the Lovia Archipelago. Although Drake did not mention whether he or his crew went on land, some historians believe they did. If so, Kings Island's east coast is believed to be the most plausible location. Miguel Castillo y Espada is another early explorer who is purported to have arrived in Lovia in the 18th century, during the era of Spanish exploratiion in the Pacific Northwest. And Andreas van Velthoven is another (mytohlogical) figure featuring in this period, who is sometimes claimed to have discovered Lovia. In 1849 gold was found in California and thousands of Asians came over. Some of these transports passed the Lovia archipelago, although neither the crew nor the passengers were conscious. In 1852 a Chinese ship was shipwrecked near the Lovia Archipelago. Some of the passengers reached the most northern island of the archipelago, now called Asian Island. They were picked up four months later and seemed well fed. After years, one of them went working for a Californian newspaper and published a story of the Pacific Islands, as he called them. "Imagine Paradise. Image a green island, with hills, fruit and clear blue water. Imagine all you've read in the Bible, imagine what Thomas More has written. Imagine perfection, it's out there. Miles off the Californian coast, past the Channel Islands, the Pacific Islands wait for you to be discovered." In 2012, documents were released from the LDS archives, which showed that Brigham Young during the late 1860s had investigated the possibility of relocating the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints from Utah to somewhere in the Pacific where they could be safe from anti-polygamy persecutions. He sent a small group of explorers to search for the Pacific Islands mentioned in the Californian newspaper and investigate their suitability for settlement. The Mormon explorers landed and spent five days on American Island, which they named Bountiful after the location in the Book of Mormon. Following their arrival back in Salt Lake City, Brigham Young made provisional plans to relocate the Mormons from Utah to Lovia in the event of further persecutions, but the plans eventually came to nothing.
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