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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, and ship designer. 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 122,626 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Nathaniel Palmer is the 330th most popular explorer (down from 309th in 2019), the 5,410th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,760th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Explorer.

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  • 48.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Nathaniel Palmer ranks 330 out of 405. Before him are Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, Stepan Krasheninnikov, Charles Francis Hall, Francisco de Ulloa, and John Biscoe. After him are Pascual de Andagoya, William Smith, Frederick William Beechey, Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard, Édouard-Alfred Martel, and Philip Carteret.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Nathaniel Palmer ranks 40. Before him are Amos Bronson Alcott, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur, Frederick Catherwood, Manuel Bulnes, Joachim Barrande, and Ferdinand Reich. After him are Fyodor Bruni, Edward Belcher, Jean Baptiste Boisduval, Heinrich von Kittlitz, James Prinsep, and Heinrich von Gagern. Among people deceased in 1877, Nathaniel Palmer ranks 45. Before him are Angelica Singleton Van Buren, Nikolay Ogarev, Fernán Caballero, Charles Wilkes, Georg Adolf Erman, and Janko Matúška. After him are Julius Rietz, Jung Bahadur Rana, Johann Carl Fuhlrott, Robert Swinhoe, Edward Belcher, and Ramón Cabrera, 1st Duke of Maestrazgo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Nathaniel Palmer ranks 5,410 out of 18,182. Before him are Dixie Carter (1939), Tad Williams (1957), Johnny Hodges (1906), Hal Needham (1931), Edward Cook (1888), and Darren Young (1983). After him are Ramsey Clark (1927), Sandra Faber (1944), Ellen Corby (1911), Buster Douglas (1960), Adam Brody (1979), and Anna Lee Fisher (1949).

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Among EXPLORERS In United States

Among explorers born in United States, Nathaniel Palmer ranks 23. Before him are William Clark (1770), Edward S. Curtis (1868), Meriwether Lewis (1774), John C. Frémont (1813), Charles Wilkes (1798), and Charles Francis Hall (1821). After him are Benjamin Morrell (1795), John Wesley Powell (1834), Louise Arner Boyd (1887), George Kennan (1845), Frederick Russell Burnham (1861), and John Colter (1774).

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