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Elisha Kent Kane

1820 - 1857

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Elisha Kent Kane (February 3, 1820 – February 16, 1857) was a United States Navy medical officer and Arctic explorer. He served as assistant surgeon during Caleb Cushing's journey to China to negotiate the Treaty of Wangxia and in the Africa Squadron. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elisha Kent Kane has received more than 66,143 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Elisha Kent Kane is the 420th most popular explorer (down from 385th in 2019), the 8,663rd most popular biography from United States (down from 8,191st in 2019) and the 31st most popular American Explorer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 66k

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  • 43.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Elisha Kent Kane ranks 420 out of 405. Before him are Isaac Israel Hayes, Fyodor Konyukhov, Artur Chilingarov, Vassili Poyarkov, Tom Crean, and John Rae. After him are Johann Ludwig Krapf, Aleksandra Potanina, Grigory Grum-Grshimailo, Louis Hennepin, Edgeworth David, and Charles Sturt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1820, Elisha Kent Kane ranks 71. Before him are Juan Crisóstomo Falcón, Johannes Rebmann, Anton Josef Gruscha, John F. Reynolds, Henry Jarvis Raymond, and Joaquim Manuel de Macedo. After him are George Hearst, Thomas Baines, Earl Van Dorn, George Grove, and Anthony W. Gardiner. Among people deceased in 1857, Elisha Kent Kane ranks 55. Before him are Johann Friedrich Naumann, Karol Kurpiński, Johann Jakob Heckel, Gulab Singh, Louis McLane, and Rufus Wilmot Griswold. After him are William L. Marcy, David Thompson, and Nasir-ud-Daulah.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elisha Kent Kane ranks 8,663 out of 18,182. Before him are Michelle Trachtenberg (1985), Dave Franco (1985), Robert Jay Lifton (1926), Doug Emhoff (1964), Florence Henderson (1934), and John Henry Twachtman (1853). After him are Ed Macauley (1928), Mavis Staples (1939), Christy Walton (1949), Peggy Fleming (1948), Ben Lyon (1901), and Lee Unkrich (1967).

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Among EXPLORERS In United States

Among explorers born in United States, Elisha Kent Kane ranks 31. Before him are John Wesley Powell (1834), Louise Arner Boyd (1887), George Kennan (1845), Frederick Russell Burnham (1861), John Colter (1774), and Isaac Israel Hayes (1832). After him are Wiley Post (1898), Matthew Henson (1866), Adolphus Greely (1844), and Ann Bancroft (1955).

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