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William Smith

1790 - 1847

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William Smith (c. 1790–1847) was an English captain born in Blyth, Northumberland, who discovered the South Shetland Islands, an archipelago off the Graham Land in Antarctica. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Smith has received more than 173,595 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). William Smith is the 256th most popular explorer (up from 331st in 2019), the 2,097th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,985th in 2019) and the 29th most popular British Explorer.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, William Smith ranks 256 out of 498. Before him are Ingvar the Far-Travelled, Thorvald Eiriksson, Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, Snorri Thorfinnsson, Carl Anton Larsen, and Hjalmar Johansen. After him are Pierre Poivre, Jens Munk, Carl Peters, Oscar Wisting, Francis Garnier, and Jim Bridger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1790, William Smith ranks 24. Before him are José Antonio Páez, William Parry, Leopold, Prince of Salerno, Keisai Eisen, John Cockerill, and Karol Lipiński. After him are Manuel Blanco Encalada, Johann Jakob Heckel, James Pradier, Claude Pouillet, Nassau William Senior, and Ferenc Kölcsey. Among people deceased in 1847, William Smith ranks 27. Before him are Josef Jungmann, Afonso, Prince Imperial of Brazil, Alexandre Deschapelles, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, Karl Friedrich Burdach, and Marie Antoinette Murat. After him are Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Tyagaraja, Daniel O'Connell, Alexey Venetsianov, Erik Gustaf Geijer, and Robert Liston.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Smith ranks 2,097 out of 8,785. Before him are John Foxe (1516), Andrew Ridgeley (1963), Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset (1499), Mary Anne MacLeod Trump (1912), John Baskerville (1706), and Joseph Delaney (1945). After him are James Edward Smith (1759), Hubert Cecil Booth (1871), Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet (1816), Glenn Hoddle (1957), Frank Dicksee (1853), and Irvine Welsh (1957).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, William Smith ranks 29. Before him are William Parry (1790), Alexander Mackenzie (1764), Matthew Flinders (1774), Samuel Wallis (1728), John Ross (1777), and Lady Hester Stanhope (1776). After him are Anthony Jenkinson (1529), Humphrey Gilbert (1539), Richard Chancellor (1521), Douglas Mawson (1882), Edward Wilson (1872), and Alexander Gordon Laing (1794).

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