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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 35,972 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Alejandro Malaspina is the 216th most popular explorer (down from 207th in 2019), the 2,192nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,145th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Italian Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Alejandro Malaspina ranks 216 out of 405. Before him are Julius Klaproth, Diego de Almagro II, Wilhelm Filchner, Bento de Góis, Jan Czerski, and Cristoforo Buondelmonti. After him are René Caillié, Jean-Baptiste Charcot, Ruy López de Villalobos, Wulfstan of Hedeby, Lady Hester Stanhope, and Julius Popper.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1754, Alejandro Malaspina ranks 28. Before him are Vicente Martín y Soler, Joseph Joubert, Pavel Tsitsianov, Salomon Maimon, William Murdoch, and Jurij Vega. After him are Andrea Appiani, Franz Anton Hoffmeister, Nicolas Baudin, Claude François de Malet, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, and Nikolay Rumyantsev. Among people deceased in 1810, Alejandro Malaspina ranks 17. Before him are Andrianampoinimerina, Andreas Hofer, Charles August, Crown Prince of Sweden, Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, Jacques-François Menou, and Mir Taqi Mir. After him are József Alvinczi, Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom, Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper, Antoine-Denis Chaudet, George Prideaux Robert Harris, and William Martin.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Alejandro Malaspina ranks 2,192 out of 4,668. Before him are Tomaso Antonio Vitali (1663), Carlo Matteucci (1811), Bruno Conti (1955), Enrico Mattei (1906), Cristoforo Buondelmonti (1385), and Antonio da Sangallo the Elder (1455). After him are Luigi Pulci (1432), Princess Yolanda of Savoy (1901), Nedo Nadi (1894), Giovanni Pascoli (1855), Pietro Lando (1462), and Taddea Visconti (1351).

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Among EXPLORERS In Italy

Among explorers born in Italy, Alejandro Malaspina ranks 14. Before him are Sebastian Cabot (1484), Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (1852), Bartholomew Columbus (1460), Alvise Cadamosto (1432), Lancelotto Malocello (1270), and Cristoforo Buondelmonti (1385). After him are Niccolò de' Conti (1395), Eusebio Kino (1645), Ippolito Rosellini (1800), and Teoberto Maler (1842).

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