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John Rae

1813 - 1893

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John Rae (Inuktitut: ᐊᒡᓘᑲ, [aɡluːka]; 30 September 1813 – 22 July 1893) was a Scottish surgeon who explored parts of northern Canada. He was a pioneer explorer of the Northwest Passage. Rae explored the Gulf of Boothia, northwest of the Hudson Bay, from 1846 to 1847, and the Arctic coast near Victoria Island from 1848 to 1851. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Rae has received more than 15,873 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). John Rae is the 456th most popular explorer (down from 418th in 2019), the 4,581st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,262nd in 2019) and the 65th most popular British Explorer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 3.09

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, John Rae ranks 456 out of 498. Before him are Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz, Charles Sturt, Robert O'Hara Burke, Edgar Evans, Jacques Bernard Hombron, and Grigory Grum-Grshimailo. After him are Vassili Poyarkov, Georgy Ushakov, Isaac Israel Hayes, Ed Stafford, Edgeworth David, and Henry Seebohm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, John Rae ranks 78. Before him are Timofey Granovsky, Isaac Pitman, Stephen Mallory, Radhanath Sikdar, Henry Ward Beecher, and Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg. After him are John Sedgwick, George Alexander Macfarren, David Dixon Porter, George Peter Alexander Healy, John Cassin, and Lot M. Morrill. Among people deceased in 1893, John Rae ranks 82. Before him are Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Aleksey Pleshcheyev, Benjamin Butler, Ion Emanuel Florescu, Edmund Kirby Smith, and Hamilton Fish. After him are Richard Spruce, John Addington Symonds, William Fox, Fanny Kemble, John Ballance, and Francis Parkman.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Rae ranks 4,581 out of 8,785. Before him are Allan Warren (1948), Arthur Surridge Hunt (1871), Ron Greenwood (1921), J. J. C. Smart (1920), Irene Steer (1889), and Thomas Linacre (1460). After him are Geoffrey Crossley (1921), Richard Thomas Lowe (1802), Sean Dyche (1971), Timothy West (1934), Thomas Campbell (1777), and Michael Caton-Jones (1957).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, John Rae ranks 65. Before him are John Gardner Wilkinson (1797), Herbert Ponting (1870), Ernest Henry Wilson (1876), Frank Wild (1873), John Moresby (1830), and Edgar Evans (1876). After him are Ed Stafford (1975), Edgeworth David (1858), Henry Seebohm (1832), Thomas Button (1575), Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886), and Anthony de la Roché (1700).

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