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Anthony de la Roché

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Anthony de la Roché (spelled also Antoine de la Roché, Antonio de la Roché or Antonio de la Roca in some sources) was a 17th-century English maritime explorer and merchant, born in London to a French Huguenot father and an English mother, who took part in a joint venture established by English and Dutch shipowners in the Spanish port city of Cádiz in order to engage in the lucrative New World trade. During a commercial voyage between Europe and South America he was blown off course in Drake Passage, visited the island of South Georgia and sighted Clerke Rocks in 1675, thereby making the first discovery of land in the Antarctic. In doing so he crossed the Antarctic Convergence, a natural boundary of the Antarctic region that would be described two and a half centuries later by the British Discovery Investigations and the German Meteor Expedition. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anthony de la Roché is the 430th most popular explorer (up from 465th in 2019), the 4,270th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,868th in 2019) and the 59th most popular British Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Anthony de la Roché ranks 430 out of 498. Before him are Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, Androsthenes of Thasos, György Almásy, Finn Ronne, Ivan Moskvitin, and François Levaillant. After him are Sverre Hassel, Frederick Russell Burnham, Tim Severin, Alfred Maudslay, Johann Ludwig Krapf, and Carl Koldewey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1700, Anthony de la Roché ranks 37. Before him are Khariton Laptev, Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Nathaniel Bliss, Mary Delany, and Abdul Aziz Hotak.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anthony de la Roché ranks 4,271 out of 8,785. Before him are Michael Frayn (1933), Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea (1810), Daisy Edgar-Jones (1998), Thomas Pennant (1726), Roger of Wendover (1200), and Ramsey Campbell (1946). After him are Aneirin (525), Catherine McCormack (1972), David Gregory (1659), Tommy Green (1894), Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon (1866), and Russell Brand (1975).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Anthony de la Roché ranks 59. Before him are Edward John Eyre (1815), Ernest Henry Wilson (1876), Clements Markham (1830), Luke Foxe (1586), Francis Crozier (1796), and Christopher Middleton (1690). After him are Alfred Maudslay (1850), Tobias Furneaux (1735), Boyd Alexander (1873), John Gardner Wilkinson (1797), Herbert Ponting (1870), and George Back (1796).

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