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Robert FitzRoy

1805 - 1865

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Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy (5 July 1805 – 30 April 1865) was an English officer of the Royal Navy, politician and scientist who served as the second governor of New Zealand between 1843 and 1845. He achieved lasting fame as the captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's famous voyage, FitzRoy's second expedition to Tierra del Fuego and the Southern Cone. FitzRoy was a pioneering meteorologist who made accurate daily weather predictions, which he called by a new name of his own invention: "forecasts". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert FitzRoy has received more than 673,942 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Robert FitzRoy is the 93rd most popular explorer, the 789th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 809th in 2019) and the 14th most popular British Explorer.

Robert Fitzroy was an English naval officer and meteorologist who led the first scientific expedition to New Zealand. He is most famous for being the captain of the HMS Beagle on its voyage around the world, which took place from 1831 to 1836.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Robert FitzRoy ranks 93 out of 498. Before him are Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Tristão da Cunha, Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira, Benjamin of Tudela, Charles Marie de La Condamine, and Bjarni Herjólfsson. After him are Ferdinand von Wrangel, Carsten Niebuhr, Martín Alonso Pinzón, Calamity Jane, Ferdinand Columbus, and Gonzalo Pizarro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, Robert FitzRoy ranks 15. Before him are Fanny Mendelssohn, Louis Auguste Blanqui, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Maria Anna of Bavaria, Marie d'Agoult, and Khachatur Abovian. After him are Adalbert Stifter, Ewelina Hańska, Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, Thomas Graham, 9th Dalai Lama, and August Bournonville. Among people deceased in 1865, Robert FitzRoy ranks 13. Before him are William Rowan Hamilton, Anna Pavlovna of Russia, Johann Franz Encke, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia, and Christian Jürgensen Thomsen. After him are Elizabeth Gaskell, Infante Francisco de Paula, Duke of Cádiz, Heinrich Barth, Shoqan Walikhanov, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, and Princess Sophie of Sweden.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert FitzRoy ranks 789 out of 8,785. Before him are James Black (1924), James Joseph Sylvester (1814), P. D. James (1920), Naomi Watts (1968), Stuart Sutcliffe (1940), and Malcolm III of Scotland (1031). After him are Robert Peel (1788), Thomas Malory (1405), Tom Hardy (1977), Leonora Carrington (1917), Tom Conti (1941), and Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Robert FitzRoy ranks 14. Before him are John Smith (1580), Henry Hudson (1570), John Davis (1550), Richard Francis Burton (1821), William Dampier (1651), and James Clark Ross (1800). After him are Mary Kingsley (1862), Thomas Cavendish (1560), George Vancouver (1757), Isabella Bird (1831), Mark Sykes (1879), and Martin Frobisher (1535).

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