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Alejandro Malaspina

1754 - 1810

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Alejandro Malaspina (November 5, 1754 – April 9, 1810) was a Tuscan explorer who spent most of his life as a Spanish naval officer. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alejandro Malaspina has received more than 41,367 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Alejandro Malaspina is the 211th most popular explorer (up from 215th in 2019), the 2,291st most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,187th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Italian Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Alejandro Malaspina ranks 211 out of 498. Before him are Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, John Ross, Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, Lincoln Ellsworth, and George W. De Long. After him are Francisco de Bobadilla, Duarte Pacheco Pereira, Julius Klaproth, Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn, Carsten Borchgrevink, and Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1754, Alejandro Malaspina ranks 31. Before him are Jurij Vega, William Murdoch, Vicente Martín y Soler, Andrea Appiani, Nikolay Rumyantsev, and Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey. After him are Louis Claude Richard, Nicolas Baudin, Claude François de Malet, Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, and Franz Anton Hoffmeister. Among people deceased in 1810, Alejandro Malaspina ranks 18. Before him are Andrianampoinimerina, Mir Taqi Mir, Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, Charles August, Crown Prince of Sweden, Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom, and Jacques-François Menou. After him are József Alvinczi, Jacques-André Naigeon, Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper, Antoine-Denis Chaudet, George Prideaux Robert Harris, and Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Alejandro Malaspina ranks 2,291 out of 5,161. Before him are Appius Claudius Crassus (-550), Francesco Erizzo (1566), Giorgio Perlasca (1910), Salvadore Cammarano (1801), Lucia Anguissola (1536), and Bruno Rossi (1905). After him are Luigi Illica (1857), Carlo Ruzzini (1653), Domenico Dragonetti (1763), Eduardo di Capua (1865), Archduke Maximilian of Austria-Este (1782), and Ludovico di Varthema (1470).

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Among EXPLORERS In Italy

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

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