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Edgar Evans

1876 - 1912

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Petty Officer Edgar Evans (7 March 1876 – 17 February 1912) was a Welsh Royal Navy petty officer and member of the "Polar Party" in Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole in 1911–1912. This group of five men, personally selected for the final expedition push, attained the Pole on 17 January 1912. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edgar Evans has received more than 225,011 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Edgar Evans is the 453rd most popular explorer (down from 361st in 2019), the 4,429th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,256th in 2019) and the 64th most popular British Explorer.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.01

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  • 2.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Edgar Evans ranks 453 out of 498. Before him are Gombojab Tsybikov, Johann Ludwig Krapf, John Moresby, Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz, Charles Sturt, and Robert O'Hara Burke. After him are Jacques Bernard Hombron, Grigory Grum-Grshimailo, John Rae, Vassili Poyarkov, Georgy Ushakov, and Isaac Israel Hayes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Edgar Evans ranks 181. Before him are William Carr, Henri Hérouin, Georg Hilmar, Ernest Henry Wilson, Zitkala-Sa, and Ernest Esclangon. After him are Cécile Tormay, Edith Abbott, Clara Blandick, Mariam Thresia Chiramel, Thomas Mofolo, and Pietro Speciale. Among people deceased in 1912, Edgar Evans ranks 124. Before him are Juan Gualberto González, Thomas Pollock Anshutz, Luis Cordero Crespo, Octavia Hill, Harriet Quimby, and Edward Wilmot Blyden. After him are Henry Sweet, Sophia Jex-Blake, Emil Stang, Máximo Tajes, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and Henry Robertson Bowers.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edgar Evans ranks 4,429 out of 8,785. Before him are Richard Sinclair (1948), Randolph Caldecott (1846), Susan Haack (1945), Thomas Sully (1783), Leander Starr Jameson (1853), and Polly Walker (1966). After him are Keir Hardie (1856), L. S. Lowry (1887), Ann Bishop (1899), Piers Sellers (1955), Peter Morgan (1963), and Thomas Lewis (1881).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Edgar Evans ranks 64. Before him are Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet (1764), John Gardner Wilkinson (1797), Herbert Ponting (1870), Ernest Henry Wilson (1876), Frank Wild (1873), and John Moresby (1830). After him are John Rae (1813), Ed Stafford (1975), Edgeworth David (1858), Henry Seebohm (1832), Thomas Button (1575), and Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886).

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