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According to Culpepper's Almanac, the Island of Peligos was first mapped by Captain Joseph Broughton of the HMS Saffron, in 1769. Two years later the atoll was claimed by the French and renamed Isle de Pelicos. However as neither the French nor the British actually set foot on the island, its natives remained blissfully unaware of this and all the subsequent alterations to its status.
In many ways Pelicos is the personification of an archetypal Pacific Island, peaceful and lush, its population rarely swells beyond half a thousand souls. Situated some 450 miles east of the Sicmons, it swims in splendid isolation, and although no cultural links exist between the isle and its distant neighbor there are undoubtedly numerous ethnographic similarities between the two.
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