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George Bass

1771 - 1803

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George Bass (; 30 January 1771 – after 5 February 1803) was a British naval surgeon and explorer of Australia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Bass has received more than 286,203 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). George Bass is the 361st most popular explorer (up from 363rd in 2019), the 3,090th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,300th in 2019) and the 41st most popular British Explorer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 290k

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  • 49.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, George Bass ranks 361 out of 498. Before him are Miguel Corte-Real, John Wesley Powell, Samuel Baker, Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón, Georgy Sedov, and Stepan Krasheninnikov. After him are György Almásy, Khariton Laptev, Jean Louis Marie Poiret, Juan de Fuca, Fyodor Konyukhov, and George Kennan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1771, George Bass ranks 42. Before him are Jacob Sturm, Jean Broc, Jean Reynier, Joseph Diez Gergonne, Karl Rudolphi, and Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch. After him are Charles Brockden Brown, Hans Nielsen Hauge, Thomas Wedgwood, Pierre-François Bouchard, Charles Athanase Walckenaer, and Heinrich Zschokke. Among people deceased in 1803, George Bass ranks 33. Before him are Maria Fortunata d'Este, Pōmare I, Prince Frederick Adolf, Duke of Östergötland, Jean François de Saint-Lambert, Christoph Bartholomäus Anton Migazzi, and Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. After him are Peter Woulfe, Georges-Louis Le Sage, François Marie Daudin, Lemuel Francis Abbott, Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, and Nikolay Lvov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, George Bass ranks 3,090 out of 8,785. Before him are Frederick Grace (1884), John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough (1822), Charles P. Dixon (1873), Henry Peach Robinson (1830), Chris Farlowe (1940), and Albert Hill (1889). After him are Thomas Moran (1837), James Robertson Justice (1907), Siouxsie Sioux (1957), Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk (1472), Winston Graham (1908), and Johann von Lamont (1805).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, George Bass ranks 41. Before him are Alexander Gordon Laing (1794), Alexander Dalrymple (1737), Francis Crozier (1796), John Biscoe (1794), John Byron (1723), and Samuel Baker (1821). After him are Clements Markham (1830), John Marshall (1748), Vivian Fuchs (1908), Frederick William Beechey (1796), John McDouall Stuart (1815), and Christopher Middleton (1690).

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