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Nathaniel Palmer

1799 - 1877

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Nathaniel Brown Palmer (August 8, 1799 – June 21, 1877) was an American seal hunter, explorer, sailing captain, ship designer, and a whale hunter. He gave his name to Palmer Land, Antarctica, which he explored in 1820 on his sloop Hero. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nathaniel Palmer has received more than 131,580 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Nathaniel Palmer is the 317th most popular explorer (up from 329th in 2019), the 4,653rd most popular biography from United States (up from 5,398th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Explorer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Nathaniel Palmer ranks 317 out of 498. Before him are Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs, Chris McCandless, Francisco de Ulloa, Ivan Papanin, Pyotr Kozlov, and Roy Chapman Andrews. After him are Hermann Wissmann, Helge Ingstad, Dmitry Laptev, Thorvald Asvaldsson, Pedro Tafur, and William Clark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Nathaniel Palmer ranks 37. Before him are Ferdinand Reich, Petrache Poenaru, Robert von Mohl, Tanaka Hisashige, George Arnott Walker-Arnott, and Alexander Petrov. After him are Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur, Manuel Bulnes, Joachim Barrande, Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau, Heinrich von Kittlitz, and Imre Frivaldszky. Among people deceased in 1877, Nathaniel Palmer ranks 39. Before him are Louise Bertin, Alexander Braun, Charles Wilkes, José de Alencar, Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, and Nikolay Ogarev. After him are Errico Petrella, Wilhelm Hofmeister, Johann von Herbeck, Angelica Singleton Van Buren, Joseph Bienaimé Caventou, and Caroline Unger.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Nathaniel Palmer ranks 4,653 out of 20,380. Before him are Evelyne Hall (1909), Al Jardine (1942), Emmy Rossum (1986), Louis Leon Thurstone (1887), Fats Waller (1904), and Lewis Terman (1877). After him are Ellsworth Kelly (1923), Richard Carpenter (1946), Miriam Hopkins (1902), Carol Kane (1952), Arthur Cronquist (1919), and Chip Taylor (1940).

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Among EXPLORERS In United States

Among explorers born in United States, Nathaniel Palmer ranks 23. Before him are Ada Blackjack (1898), Charles Francis Hall (1821), Meriwether Lewis (1774), Edward S. Curtis (1868), Chris McCandless (1968), and Roy Chapman Andrews (1884). After him are William Clark (1770), Louise Arner Boyd (1887), John C. Frémont (1813), John Wesley Powell (1834), George Kennan (1845), and Benjamin Morrell (1795).

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