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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 and a scientist. 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 637,031 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Robert FitzRoy is the 94th most popular explorer (up from 95th in 2019), the 809th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 818th 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 94 out of 405. Before him are Sebastian Cabot, Adam Johann von Krusenstern, Jean de Béthencourt, Diogo Dias, Heinrich Barth, and Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza. After him are Gonzalo Pizarro, Fernão Mendes Pinto, Willem Schouten, Ferdinand Columbus, Mary Kingsley, and Cosmas Indicopleustes.

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Contemporaries

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

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert FitzRoy ranks 809 out of 7,765. Before him are Francis Hutcheson (1694), David McCallum (1933), Oliver Smithies (1925), Prince John of the United Kingdom (1905), Rodney Robert Porter (1917), and Edward Burne-Jones (1833). After him are William Bateson (1861), George Porter (1920), James Hadley Chase (1906), Peter Benenson (1921), Brian Epstein (1934), and Louise of Great Britain (1724).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Robert FitzRoy ranks 14. Before him are William Adams (1564), Henry Hudson (1570), John Smith (1580), James Clark Ross (1800), John Davis (1550), and William Dampier (1651). After him are Mary Kingsley (1862), Thomas Cavendish (1560), George Vancouver (1757), Isabella Bird (1831), Martin Frobisher (1535), and Alexander Mackenzie (1764).

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