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George Vancouver

1757 - 1798

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Captain George Vancouver (; 22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for leading the Vancouver Expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of what became the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Alaska, Washington, Oregon and California. The expedition also explored the Hawaiian Islands and the southwest coast of Australia. Various places named for Vancouver include Vancouver Island; the city of Vancouver in British Columbia; Vancouver River on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia; Vancouver, Washington, in the United States; Mount Vancouver on the Canadian–US border between Yukon and Alaska; and New Zealand's fourth-highest mountain, also Mount Vancouver. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Vancouver is the 125th most popular explorer (down from 113th in 2019), the 1,128th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 900th in 2019) and the 18th most popular British Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, George Vancouver ranks 125 out of 498. Before him are René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Calamity Jane, Lope de Aguirre, Hugh Glass, Michael Rockefeller, and Chris McCandless. After him are Alvise Cadamosto, Pedro de Mendoza, Pánfilo de Narváez, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, Juan de Grijalva, and Sebastián de Belalcázar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1757, George Vancouver ranks 14. Before him are Robert Smith, Jacques Hébert, Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf, Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Rigas Feraios, and Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. After him are Ignaz Pleyel, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, Ercole Consalvi, and Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt. Among people deceased in 1798, George Vancouver ranks 9. Before him are Stanisław August Poniatowski, Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, James Wilson, Tarrare, George Read, and Rigas Feraios. After him are Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Heraclius II of Georgia, Christian Gottlob Neefe, Edward Waring, Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, and Johann Reinhold Forster.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, George Vancouver ranks 1,128 out of 8,785. Before him are John Gray (1948), Dave Mackay (1934), George Gilbert Scott (1811), William Carey (1761), John Tenniel (1820), and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1484). After him are Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk (1893), Philippa of England (1394), Arthur Drewry (1891), Stewart Granger (1913), Lilian, Princess of Réthy (1916), and Michael Nyman (1944).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, George Vancouver ranks 18. Before him are John Smith (1580), Richard Francis Burton (1821), William Parry (1790), Robert FitzRoy (1805), James Clark Ross (1800), and Thomas Cavendish (1560). After him are Mary Kingsley (1862), Ranulph Fiennes (1944), Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet (1764), Samuel Wallis (1728), Isabella Bird (1831), and Martin Frobisher (1535).

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