Record Data Place Unit Type Region Events Date Type 02/21/1864 Australian ship sinks in a storm in the Pacific, survivors reached land three weeks later barely alive Crime/Disasters 06/28/1865 In the far north Pacific, the last Confederate raider decimates the American whaling fleet in a single day Battles/Soldiers 06/22/1865 Still fighting, the C.S.S. Shenandoah begins its campaign to destroy the American whaling fleet Battles/Soldiers People Places Name Type Fiji Islands, Oceania State or Province Sandwich Islands Region Documents Date Title 08/27/1857 Washington (DC) National Era, "Slavery in Oregon," August 27, 1857 02/21/1859 New York Times, “Boundaries of Oregon,” February 21, 1859 02/24/1859 Charleston (SC) Mercury, “The Gold Regions of the West,” February 24, 1859 03/20/1859 New Orleans (LA) Picayune, “Russia and America,” March 20, 1859 Images Oceania, 1857, zoomable map