As a second mate aboard one early voyage of the whaler Hume, George Leavitt cruised unsuccessfully in a small whaleboat for two weeks in the broken ice of late spring looking for whales.[5]
In memoirs of his contemporaries, Capt. Leavitt earned high marks for his seamanship and leadership abilities. In his A Whaler & Trader in the Arctic, 1895 to 1944: My Life with the Bowhead, Arthur James Allen described the Captain as "one of the finest and most capable men I have ever had the pleasure of sailing with. He had the welfare of his men at heart, and treated and fed them fine."[6]
Not long after Capt. George Leavitt had left Alaska, his son George Jr. was being referred to by some white observers as "a half-breed named George Leavitt, son of a whaling captain who used these parts in the palmy days."[7]
Records of the Hawaiian Division of Entomology of the state's Department of Forestry show Capt. George B. Leavitt appointed "fruit and plant inspector" for the island of Kauai on January 1, 1917.[8] Two years later, Hawaiian records show Leavitt working as harbor master and pilot for Port Allen on the island of Kauai.[9]
Leavitt Island was initially given by explorer Ernest de Koven Leffingwell to the island known today as Pingok Island. Since Leffingwell's initial designation, the name Leavitt Island has instead been used for a smaller island just west of Pingok Island.[1] Leavitt Island is one of the Jones Islands on the Beaufort Sea coast.GeoNames.Org view of Leavitt Island; [2]
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Leavitt Island was initially given by explorer Ernest de Koven Leffingwell to the island known today as Pingok Island. Since Leffingwell's initial designation, the name Leavitt Island has instead been used for a smaller island just west of Pingok Island.[1] Leavitt Island is one of the Jones Islands on the Beaufort Sea coast.GeoNames.Org view of Leavitt Island; [2]
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Leavitt Island was initially given by explorer Ernest de Koven Leffingwell to the island known today as Pingok Island. Since Leffingwell's initial designation, the name Leavitt Island has instead been used for a smaller island just west of Pingok Island.[1] Leavitt Island is one of the Jones Islands on the Beaufort Sea coast.GeoNames.Org view of Leavitt Island; [2]