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Tom Crean

1877 - 1938

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Thomas Crean (Irish: Tomás Ó Cuirín; c. 16 February 1877 – 27 July 1938) was an Irish seaman and Antarctic explorer who was awarded the Albert Medal for Lifesaving (AM). Crean was a member of three major expeditions to Antarctica during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, including Robert Falcon Scott's 1911–1913 Terra Nova Expedition. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tom Crean has received more than 43,771 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Tom Crean is the 418th most popular explorer (down from 382nd in 2019), the 257th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 247th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Irish Explorer.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Tom Crean ranks 418 out of 405. Before him are Georgy Ushakov, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Isaac Israel Hayes, Fyodor Konyukhov, Artur Chilingarov, and Vassili Poyarkov. After him are John Rae, Elisha Kent Kane, Johann Ludwig Krapf, Aleksandra Potanina, Grigory Grum-Grshimailo, and Louis Hennepin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Tom Crean ranks 152. Before him are Marsden Hartley, Šatrijos Ragana, Jón Þorláksson, Rudolph Dirks, Léon Sée, and Karel Absolon. After him are Aleksandr Arbuzov, Katherine Sophie Dreier, Victor Willems, Gian Giorgio Trissino, Louisa Bolus, and Oscar Grégoire. Among people deceased in 1938, Tom Crean ranks 174. Before him are James Scott, Warner Oland, John Jacob Abel, Ricardo Samper, Nikolai Vladimirovich Nekrasov, and Herbert Jamison. After him are John Exley, Jacob Wackernagel, Andreas Michalakopoulos, Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, Alma Gluck, and Jean-Guy Gautier.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Tom Crean ranks 257 out of 501. Before him are Liam Cosgrave (1920), Tim Ahearne (1885), Billy Whelan (1935), Diarmait Mac Murchada (1110), Stephen Roche (1959), and Patrick O'Connell (1887). After him are Geraldine Somerville (1967), Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough (1779), Aidan Turner (1983), W. T. Cosgrave (1880), Garret FitzGerald (1926), and Terence MacSwiney (1879).

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Among EXPLORERS In Ireland

Among explorers born in Ireland, Tom Crean ranks 7. Before him are Ernest Shackleton (1874), Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie (1810), Edward Bransfield (1785), Henry Kellett (1806), Robert McClure (1807), and Robert O'Hara Burke (1821).

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