The Yamato Surveys: Jamphel Yeshe

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In the latter centuries of the First Age, the Yamato people had begun to survey much of the Ocean Belt, discovering a plethora of islands and settling many of them.
The island of Jamphel Yeshe was discovered by them after they had been blown off course by a typhoon during a survey of the Ainan Island Group. They dropped their anchors and made camp on the newfound land, following their standing orders, performing a coastal survey over the course of several months.
When the first maps were drawn up, the shape reminded the discoverer, Masao Tachibana, of the head of a whale, so he called it Kujiratô, Whale Island.