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Tobias Furneaux

1735 - 1781

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Captain Tobias Furneaux (21 August 1735 – 18 September 1781) was a British navigator and Royal Navy officer, who accompanied James Cook on his second voyage of exploration. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tobias Furneaux has received more than 95,575 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Tobias Furneaux is the 411th most popular explorer (down from 385th in 2019), the 3,828th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,638th in 2019) and the 48th most popular British Explorer.

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  • 96k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Tobias Furneaux ranks 411 out of 498. Before him are Gennady Nevelskoy, Eudoxus of Cyzicus, Louis-Gustave Binger, François Levaillant, Theodor Kotschy, and Lars Christensen. After him are Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, Man of the Hole, Kristian Prestrud, Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, Richard Maack, and Alexander Burnes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1735, Tobias Furneaux ranks 26. Before him are József Alvinczi, Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Joseph Ducreux, Ivan Kulibin, Paul Kray, and Ulrika Pasch. After him are Domenico Vandelli, Princess Frederica Caroline of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Claudine Picardet, Jesse Ramsden, John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, and John Carroll. Among people deceased in 1781, Tobias Furneaux ranks 18. Before him are John Needham, Johann Anton Güldenstädt, Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Johannes Ewald, Micaela Bastidas, and Bartolina Sisa. After him is Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Tobias Furneaux ranks 3,828 out of 8,785. Before him are Phyllis Johnson (1886), Bernard Bosanquet (1848), Charles Booth (1840), Ben Chaplin (1969), Peter Scott (1909), and David Marshall Lang (1924). After him are Patricia Hayes (1909), Vincent Nichols (1945), Alun Armstrong (1946), Peter Murphy (1957), Anthony D. Smith (1939), and Ivor Novello (1893).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Tobias Furneaux ranks 48. Before him are Clements Markham (1830), John Marshall (1748), Vivian Fuchs (1908), Frederick William Beechey (1796), John McDouall Stuart (1815), and Christopher Middleton (1690). After him are Alexander Burnes (1805), Lachlan Macquarie (1762), Boyd Alexander (1873), Hugh Clapperton (1788), Alfred Maudslay (1850), and George Nares (1831).

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