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George Vancouver

1757 - 1798

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Captain George Vancouver (22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798) was a British Royal Navy officer best known for his 1791–1795 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of what are now the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Vancouver has received more than 1,234,905 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). George Vancouver is the 113th most popular explorer (up from 116th in 2019), the 899th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,035th in 2019) and the 17th most popular British Explorer.

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  • 60.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, George Vancouver ranks 113 out of 498. Before him are João Gonçalves Zarco, Adam Johann von Krusenstern, Semyon Dezhnev, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Fernão Mendes Pinto, and Sacagawea. After him are Cosmas Indicopleustes, Pánfilo de Narváez, Heinrich Barth, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, and Himilco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1757, George Vancouver ranks 11. Before him are Jacques Hébert, Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf, Pierre Augereau, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Rigas Feraios. After him are Erik Acharius, Ignaz Pleyel, Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, and Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt. Among people deceased in 1798, George Vancouver ranks 7. Before him are Giacomo Casanova, Luigi Galvani, Stanisław August Poniatowski, Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, Heraclius II of Georgia, and Rigas Feraios. After him are Christian Gottlob Neefe, Tarrare, Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Johann Reinhold Forster, Edward Waring, and Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, George Vancouver ranks 899 out of 8,785. Before him are Elizabeth Gaskell (1810), Æthelberht, King of Wessex (836), Mike Newell (1942), Herbert C. Brown (1912), Petula Clark (1932), and Eadgyth (910). After him are Robert III of Scotland (1330), Gary Lineker (1960), Edward Burne-Jones (1833), Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (1671), Danny Boyle (1956), and Duncan I of Scotland (1001).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, George Vancouver ranks 17. Before him are Richard Francis Burton (1821), William Dampier (1651), James Clark Ross (1800), Robert FitzRoy (1805), Mary Kingsley (1862), and Thomas Cavendish (1560). After him are Isabella Bird (1831), Mark Sykes (1879), Martin Frobisher (1535), James Bruce (1730), John Rolfe (1585), and William Parry (1790).

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