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John McDouall Stuart

1815 - 1866

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John McDouall Stuart (7 September 1815 – 5 June 1866), often referred to as simply "McDouall Stuart", was a Scottish explorer and one of the most accomplished of all Australia's inland explorers. Stuart led the first successful expedition to traverse the Australian mainland from south to north and return, through the centre of the continent. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John McDouall Stuart has received more than 253,400 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). John McDouall Stuart is the 395th most popular explorer (down from 340th in 2019), the 3,471st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,069th in 2019) and the 46th most popular British Explorer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, John McDouall Stuart ranks 395 out of 498. Before him are Étienne Brûlé, Androsthenes of Thasos, Pyotr Anjou, Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard, Vivian Fuchs, and Frederick William Beechey. After him are Frans Blom, Karl Maximovich, Jacques Labillardière, Yakov Sannikov, Finn Ronne, and Christopher Middleton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, John McDouall Stuart ranks 72. Before him are Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie, Ernest Goüin, Marguerite Bays, Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov, Robert Franz, and Paul Rudolf von Bilguer. After him are Warren De la Rue, Adolf Friedrich von Schack, Giovanni Caselli, Constantine Paparrigopoulos, Athanasios Miaoulis, and Otto von Böhtlingk. Among people deceased in 1866, John McDouall Stuart ranks 38. Before him are Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal, Manuel Bulnes, Peter Joseph Lenné, János Scitovszky, Christian Albrecht Bluhme, and William Hopkins. After him are Louis Meijer, Jean-Jacques Willmar, Louis Fraser, Lewis Cass, John Ross, and Theodor Kotschy.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John McDouall Stuart ranks 3,471 out of 8,785. Before him are Jim Sturgess (1978), Peter Maxwell Davies (1934), Simeon Solomon (1840), John Julius Norwich (1929), Mark Lindsay Chapman (1954), and Dennis Taylor (1949). After him are John Wilkinson (1728), Neil Murray (1950), Ken Livingstone (1945), Hereward the Wake (1035), Margaret Mee (1909), and Theo James (1984).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, John McDouall Stuart ranks 46. Before him are Samuel Baker (1821), George Bass (1771), Clements Markham (1830), John Marshall (1748), Vivian Fuchs (1908), and Frederick William Beechey (1796). After him are Christopher Middleton (1690), Tobias Furneaux (1735), Alexander Burnes (1805), Lachlan Macquarie (1762), Boyd Alexander (1873), and Hugh Clapperton (1788).

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