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Robert FitzRoy

1805 - 1865

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His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2024). Robert FitzRoy is the 100th most popular explorer (down from 93rd in 2024), the 966th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 789th in 2019) and the 15th 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 100 out of 498Before him are Benjamin of Tudela, Salomon August Andrée, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, Charles Marie de La Condamine, Cosmas Indicopleustes, and Davy Crockett. After him are James Clark Ross, Bjarni Herjólfsson, Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Atlantic voyage of the predecessor of Mansa Musa, Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel, and Frederick de Houtman.

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Among people born in 1805, Robert FitzRoy ranks 16Before him are Fanny Mendelssohn, Louis Auguste Blanqui, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Marie d'Agoult, Khachatur Abovian, and Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin. After him are Adalbert Stifter, Robert Anderson, Thomas Graham, George Müller, Ewelina Hańska, and August Bournonville. Among people deceased in 1865, Robert FitzRoy ranks 14Before him are Anna Pavlovna of Russia, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Johann Franz Encke, William Jackson Hooker, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, and Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia. After him are Heinrich Barth, Infante Francisco de Paula, Duke of Cádiz, Elizabeth Gaskell, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Princess Sophie of Sweden, and John Lindley.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert FitzRoy ranks 966 out of NaNBefore him are Francis Hutcheson (1694), Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891), Edmund Spenser (1552), Jessica Tandy (1909), Brenda Blethyn (1946), and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817). After him are John Ray (1627), Leonora Carrington (1917), James Hadley Chase (1906), Kim Cattrall (1956), John Dryden (1631), and Richard Stone (1913).

Among Explorers In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Robert FitzRoy ranks 15Before him are Henry Hudson (1570), John Ross (1777), William Dampier (1651), John Smith (1580), Richard Francis Burton (1821), and William Parry (1790). After him are James Clark Ross (1800), Thomas Cavendish (1560), George Vancouver (1757), Mary Kingsley (1862), Ranulph Fiennes (1944), and Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet (1764).

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