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James Weddell

1787 - 1834

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James Weddell (24 August 1787 – 9 September 1834) was a British sailor, navigator and seal hunter who in February 1823 sailed to latitude of 74° 15′ S—a record 7.69 degrees or 532 statute miles south of the Antarctic Circle—and into a region of the Southern Ocean that later became known as the Weddell Sea. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Weddell has received more than 107,007 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. James Weddell is the 175th most popular explorer (down from 159th in 2019), the 252nd most popular biography from Belgium (down from 228th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Belgian Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, James Weddell ranks 175 out of 405Before him are Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Luís Vaz de Torres, Cornelis de Houtman, Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg, Lincoln Ellsworth, and Gustav Nachtigal. After him are Nikolai Rezanov, Carsten Borchgrevink, Masabumi Hosono, Joshua Slocum, Olivier van Noort, and Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, James Weddell ranks 17Before him are Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, Otto von Kotzebue, Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, Guillaume Henri Dufour, Edmund Kean, and Delphine LaLaurie. After him are Ludwig Uhland, Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi, Prince William of Hesse-Kassel, Christian Ludwig Brehm, Pellegrino Rossi, and Mathieu Orfila. Among people deceased in 1834, James Weddell ranks 17Before him are Karl Ludwig Harding, Husein Gradaščević, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Jacques Balmat, Infanta Maria Francisca of Braganza, and Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg. After him are Giovanni Aldini, Louis Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium, Aleksey Arakcheyev, Robert Morrison, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, and Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, James Weddell ranks 252 out of 1,019Before him are Emile Vandervelde (1866), Leo Tindemans (1922), John II, Duke of Brabant (1275), Michiel Coxie (1499), Herbert Wimmer (1944), and George Washington (1871). After him are Princess Anne, Duchess of Calabria (1938), Prince Alexandre of Belgium (1942), Stromae (1985), Princess Joséphine Caroline of Belgium (1872), Pierre Deligne (1944), and Jacques Feyder (1885).

Among EXPLORERS In Belgium

Among explorers born in Belgium, James Weddell ranks 2Before him are Adrien de Gerlache (1866). After him are Louis Hennepin (1626).