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Francis Crozier

1796 - 1848

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Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier (; 17 October 1796 – disappeared 26 April 1848) was an Irish officer of the Royal Navy and polar explorer who participated in six expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francis Crozier has received more than 1,110,574 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Francis Crozier is the 274th most popular explorer (down from 236th in 2019), the 2,338th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,973rd in 2019) and the 33rd most popular British Explorer.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Francis Crozier ranks 274 out of 405. Before him are Juan Fernández, Grigory Shelikhov, Helge Ingstad, Dmitry Laptev, Tristão Vaz Teixeira, and Ivan Papanin. After him are Semyon Chelyuskin, Alexander Dalrymple, Eduard von Toll, Francis Younghusband, Adolf Lüderitz, and Wilfred Thesiger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1796, Francis Crozier ranks 36. Before him are Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Abdullah Abdul Kadir, Manto Mavrogenous, Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao, Johann Christian Poggendorff, and Walter Hunt. After him are William H. Prescott, George Catlin, Leopold II, Prince of Lippe, Fernán Caballero, Anton Pann, and Horace Mann. Among people deceased in 1848, Francis Crozier ranks 42. Before him are Felix Lichnowsky, Jean-Baptiste Debret, Ludwig Leichhardt, Yevhen Hrebinka, Takizawa Bakin, and Branwell Brontë. After him are Joseph Görres, Sarah Fuller Flower Adams, Petrobey Mavromichalis, Mastoureh Ardalan, Jacob Sturm, and Martinus Rørbye.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Francis Crozier ranks 2,338 out of 7,765. Before him are Lytton Strachey (1880), Dennis Viollet (1933), Roger Fry (1866), Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Norway (1261), Richard Armitage (1971), and Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1870). After him are Peter Atkins (1940), William Gregor (1761), Tony Cragg (1949), Arthur Holmes (1890), Snowy White (1948), and Ian Hill (1952).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Francis Crozier ranks 33. Before him are Douglas Mawson (1882), John Byron (1723), Samuel Baker (1821), William Parry (1790), Anthony Jenkinson (1529), and Richard Chancellor (1521). After him are Alexander Dalrymple (1737), Alexander Gordon Laing (1794), Humphrey Gilbert (1539), Edward John Eyre (1815), Alexander Burnes (1805), and John Biscoe (1794).

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