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• Benko von Bionik, Jerolim Freiherr von, “Das Datum auf den Philippinen”, Mittheilungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Geographischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 33 [= Neue Folge, 24] (1890), 560-576 [??? link] – reprinted in: Die Schiffs-Station der k. und k. Kriegs-Marine in Ost-Asien: Reisen S.M. Schiffe “Nautilus” und “Aurora”, 1884-1888 (Vienna: Carl Gerold’s Sohn, 1890), pp. 802-813 [Internet Archive link] – also published as a seperatum.
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• Davidson, George, United States Coast Pilot: Pacific Coast (???: ???, 1899) [not seen] – cited in extenso in Strong (1935), pp. 483-484.
• Smith, Benjamin E., “Where a Day is Lost or Gained”, The Century: Illustrated Monthly Magazine, 58 [= New Series, 36] (1899), 742-745.
• Downing, Arthur Matthew Weld, “Where the Day Changes”, Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 10 (1900), 176-178 [ADS link] – reprinted as: “The Date Line in the Pacific”, The Geographical Journal, 15 (1900), 415-417 [JSTOR link].
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• Honey, Frederic R., “Where the Day Changes”, Popular Astronomy: A Review of Astronomy and Allied Sciences, 28 (1920), 287-289 [ADS link].
• Lamont, Roscoe, “The International Date Line”, Popular Astronomy: A Review of Astronomy and Allied Sciences, 29 (1921), 340-348 [ADS link].
• Temple, R.C., The World Encompassed and Analogous Contemporary Documents concerning Sir Francis Drake’s Circumnavigation of the World (London: The Argonaut Press, 1926) – reprinted in 1971 by N. Israel/Da Capo Press (Amsterdam/New York).
• Cherry, Fannye N., “The Source of Poe’s “Three Sundays in a Week””, American Literature, 2 (1930), 232-235 [JSTOR link].
• Hydrographer to the British Admiralty [= Vice-Admiral Sir Henry P. Douglas], “Notes on the History of the Date or Calendar Line”, The New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology, 11 (1930), 385-388 [= Publications of the Dominion Observatory (Wellington), nr. 78 (1930)] [Internet Archive link].
• Selga, Miguel, “The Philippines in the West and in the East”, Publications of the Manila Observatory, 2 (1931), nr. 1 [ADS link].
• van der Bilt, Jan, “Standaard-Tijd en Datum-Lijn”, Hemel en Dampkring, 30 (1932), 33-37.
• van der Bilt, Jan, De Astronomische Hemelverschijnselen (Zutphen: W.J. Thieme & Cie, 1933), pp. 103-106.
• Ford, James L.C., “International Date-Line”, Journal of Calendar Reform, 5 (1935), 61-67 [ProQuest link].
• Strong, Helen M., “Universal World Time”, Geographical Review, 25 (1935), 479-484 [JSTOR link].
• Brill, Elmer, “Why do we have an International Date Line?: A Simple Analysis of the Concrete Day”, The Journal of Geography, 36 (1937), 148-153 [ProQuest link].
• Martin, Lawrence, “The Geography of the Monroe Doctrine and the Limits of the Western Hemisphere”, Geographical Review, 30 (1940), 525-528 [JSTOR link].
• Leigh-Browne, F.S., “The International Date Line”, The Geographical Magazine, 14 (1942), 302-306 [ProQuest link].
• Dodge, Wendell Phillips, “International Date-Line seen as Forerunner of World Calendar Reform”, Journal of Calendar Reform, 14 (1944), 32-39 [ProQuest link / Internet Archive link].
• Engelbrecht, W.A. & van Herwerden, P.J., De ontdekkingsreis van Jacob le Maire en Willem Cornelisz. Schouten in de jaren 1616-1617 (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1945 [= Werken uitgegeven door de Linschoten-Vereeniging, nr. XLIX]), 2 vols.
• Kramer, Fritz L., “A Teaching Aid for the International Date Line”, The Journal of Geography, 51 (1952), 337-338 [ProQuest link].
• Stokley, James, “International Date Line”, Journal of Calendar Reform, 23 (1953), 135-137.
• McElderry, John H., “The International Date Line”, The Irish Astronomical Journal, 3 (1955), 199-200 [ADS link].
• Moreau, J.J., Honderd veertien Nederlandse brieven van Erycius Puteanus aan de astronoom Michael Florent van Langren (Antwerp: De Sikkel N.V., 1957).
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Web sites

• International Date Line (Wikipedia)
• The International Date Line: on the website of the U.S. Naval Observatory

This web site would not have been possible without the help of Noel Ellis (New Zealand), George Huxtable (United Kingdom), Rolf Sinclair (United States of America) and Garmt de Vries (The Netherlands) who have provided useful material and references.