Try to spot a coral island in the south Pacific for today's geo quiz.

This speck of land is about midway between Hawaii and New Zealand.

It's an atoll ..which means it's a coral island that encircles a lagoon.

It's part of a chain of islands called Tokelau.

And it's administered by American Samoa.

That makes this place a territory of the USA.

Things haven't changed much here since a Portuguese navigator sailed this way back in 1606.

He must have been impressed.

He named it the island of the Gente Hermosa.

That's Spanish for "island of the beautiful people."

The captain of an American ship renamed the island two centuries later in honor of a whaling captain.

So what is that name?