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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 1,160,864 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). George Vancouver is the 117th most popular explorer, the 1,038th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,022nd in 2019) and the 17th most popular British Explorer.

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  • 58.80

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  • 50

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  • 4.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, George Vancouver ranks 117 out of 405Before him are Tristão da Cunha, Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Semyon Dezhnev, Pedro de Mendoza, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, and Thomas Cavendish. After him are Andrés de Urdaneta, Afanasy Nikitin, Alvise Cadamosto, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, João da Nova, and Isabella Bird.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1757, George Vancouver ranks 12Before him are Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf, Pierre Augereau, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Ignaz Pleyel, Rigas Feraios, and Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. After him are Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, Erik Acharius, and Michel-Gabriel Paccard. Among people deceased in 1798, George Vancouver ranks 7Before him are Giacomo Casanova, Luigi Galvani, Stanisław August Poniatowski, Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, Rigas Feraios, and Christian Gottlob Neefe. After him are Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Heraclius II of Georgia, Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, Infanta María Amalia of Spain, Edward Waring, and Tarrare.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, George Vancouver ranks 1,038 out of 7,765Before him are Charles Lightoller (1874), James Meade (1907), Alexander II of Scotland (1198), Bob Hope (1903), Samuel Butler (1612), and Roger Daltrey (1944). After him are Lilian, Princess of Réthy (1916), Alan Moore (1953), Thomas Graham (1805), Jack Phillips (1887), Geraldine McEwan (1932), and John Horton Conway (1937).

Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, George Vancouver ranks 17Before him are James Clark Ross (1800), John Davis (1550), William Dampier (1651), Robert FitzRoy (1805), Mary Kingsley (1862), and Thomas Cavendish (1560). After him are Isabella Bird (1831), Martin Frobisher (1535), Alexander Mackenzie (1764), Samuel Wallis (1728), Matthew Flinders (1774), and James Bruce (1730).