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Alejandro Malaspina

1754 - 1810

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Brigadier Alejandro Malaspina (November 5, 1754 – April 9, 1810) was a Spanish Navy officer and explorer. Under a Spanish royal commission, he undertook a voyage around the world from 1786 to 1788, then, from 1789 to 1794, a scientific expedition (the Malaspina Expedition) throughout the Pacific Ocean, exploring and mapping much of the west coast of the Americas from Cape Horn to the Gulf of Alaska, crossing to Guam and the Philippines, and stopping in New Zealand, Australia, and Tonga. Malaspina was christened Alessandro, the Italian form of Alexander. He signed his letters in Spanish Alexandro, which is usually modernized to Alejandro by scholars. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alejandro Malaspina is the 219th most popular explorer (down from 211th in 2019), the 2,256th most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,291st in 2019) and the 13th most popular Italian Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Alejandro Malaspina ranks 219 out of 498. Before him are Jorge Álvares, Gerónimo de Aguilar, Wilhelm Filchner, Bartolomeu Perestrello, Ohthere of Hålogaland, and Pedro Cieza de León. After him are Jacob van Heemskerck, Hendrik Brouwer, Joshua Slocum, Pero Escobar, Mark Sykes, and Juan de Garay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1754, Alejandro Malaspina ranks 31. Before him are Pavel Tsitsianov, Vicente Martín y Soler, Andrea Appiani, Joseph Joubert, Wilhelm, Duke of Oldenburg, and William Murdoch. After him are Louis Claude Richard, Karl Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Claude François de Malet, Nikolay Rumyantsev, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, and Nicolas Baudin. Among people deceased in 1810, Alejandro Malaspina ranks 17. Before him are Johan Zoffany, Andreas Hofer, Andrianampoinimerina, Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom, Charles August, Crown Prince of Sweden, and Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova. After him are Mir Taqi Mir, Jacques-François Menou, Daniel Gottlob Türk, Jacques-André Naigeon, Antoine-Denis Chaudet, and József Alvinczi.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Alejandro Malaspina ranks 2,256 out of 5,161. Before him are Emma Bonino (1948), Marco Minghetti (1818), Lanfranc (1005), Mauro Tassotti (1960), Franco Trappoli (1947), and Vittorio Gregotti (1927). After him are Archduke Karl of Austria-Este (1785), Barbara Longhi (1552), Angelica Catalani (1780), Prospero Colonna (1452), Ludovico Scarfiotti (1933), and Matteo Salvini (1973).

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Among EXPLORERS In Italy

Among explorers born in Italy, Alejandro Malaspina ranks 13. Before him are Sebastian Cabot (1484), Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (1852), Bartholomew Columbus (1460), Alvise Cadamosto (1432), Lancelotto Malocello (1270), and Niccolò de' Conti (1395). After him are Cristoforo Buondelmonti (1385), Eusebio Kino (1645), Ippolito Rosellini (1800), and Teoberto Maler (1842).

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