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John Moresby

1830 - 1922

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Rear Admiral John Moresby (15 March 1830 – 12 July 1922) was a British naval officer who explored the coast of New Guinea and was the first European to discover the site of Port Moresby. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Moresby has received more than 58,314 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. John Moresby is the 449th most popular explorer (down from 401st in 2019), the 4,322nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,765th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular British Explorer.

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  • 58k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, John Moresby ranks 449 out of 498. Before him are Artur Chilingarov, Matthew Henson, Ernest Henry Wilson, Frank Wild, Gombojab Tsybikov, and Johann Ludwig Krapf. After him are Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz, Charles Sturt, Robert O'Hara Burke, Edgar Evans, Jacques Bernard Hombron, and Grigory Grum-Grshimailo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1830, John Moresby ranks 68. Before him are Jaroslav Čermák, Viktor Madarász, Daniel Oliver, Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen, Lina Morgenstern, and Henry Bird. After him are Emily Davies, Manuel Ezequiel Bruzual, Abraham Jacobi, Oliver Otis Howard, Nain Singh, and Harriet Hosmer. Among people deceased in 1922, John Moresby ranks 117. Before him are Gaston Bonnier, Lev Chugaev, Vilma Hugonnai, Jørgen Løvland, Cathal Brugha, and Serapio Calderón. After him are A. V. Dicey, John Wanamaker, August Palm, Alfred Capus, Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, and William Desmond Taylor.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Moresby ranks 4,322 out of 8,785. Before him are Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (1902), Orlando Figes (1959), Henry Bird (1830), Alan Sugar (1947), Thomas Weelkes (1576), and Peter Taylor (1928). After him are Richard Haydn (1905), Alan Rees (1938), Dukinfield Henry Scott (1854), John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville (1690), Lloyd Hildebrand (1870), and Frank Swift (1913).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, John Moresby ranks 63. Before him are George Back (1796), Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet (1764), John Gardner Wilkinson (1797), Herbert Ponting (1870), Ernest Henry Wilson (1876), and Frank Wild (1873). After him are Edgar Evans (1876), John Rae (1813), Ed Stafford (1975), Edgeworth David (1858), Henry Seebohm (1832), and Thomas Button (1575).

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