See also:GEORGE See also:VANCOUVER (c. 1758-1798)
, See also:English navigator, was See also:born in 1758
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He entered the See also:navy at the See also:age of thirteen, and accompanied See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Cook in his second (1772–74) and third (1776–8o) voyages of See also:discovery
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After serving for several years in the See also:West Indies, both under See also:Rodney (his See also:commander in the See also:action of the 12th of See also:April 1782) and under Alan See also:Gardner (1786–89), See also:Vancouver, on Gardner's recommendation, was appointed to command an expedition to the See also:north-west See also:coast of See also:America, to take over from the Spaniards the territory they had seized (and, subsequently relinquished) in that region, to explore the coast from 30° N. See also:round to Cook's See also:River (or Inlet), to See also:search for an eastward passage to the See also:great lakes, and to ascertain the true See also:character of Juan de Fuca Strait
.
Vancouver, accompanied by See also:Lieutenant See also:Broughton, See also:left See also:Falmouth on the 1st of April 1791, and proceeded by way of the Cape of See also:Good See also:Hope to See also:Australia, where he carefully surveyed See also:part of the See also:south-west coast, especially See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:George's See also:Sound, whose value as a See also:harbour he pointed out
.
He next made for Dusky See also:Bay, New See also:Zealand (which he was the first properly to explore), and thence sailing north-See also:east, discovered Oparo Islet (27° 36' S.; 144° 12' W.), and on the 3oth of See also:December reached See also:Tahiti, where he was again joined by Broughton, who mean-while had discovered See also:Chatham See also:Island
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After staying about three See also:weeks at Tahiti and several weeks at the Hawaiian Islands, Vancouver on the 18th of April 1792 sighted the west coast of North America (See also:California, then known as New See also:Albion) in 39° 27' N
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He examined the coast up to 52° 18' N. with See also:minute care, See also:surveying all inlets, discovering the Gulf of See also:Georgia, and circumnavigating Vancouver Island (named after him)
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After another visit (See also:February–See also:March 1793) to the Hawaiian Islands, in whose races and affairs he took great See also:interest, Vancouver resumed his exploration of the See also:American coast in April, surveying north to 56° N., and south (past the See also:Spanish Californian settlements) to 35° N
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During a fresh stay at the Hawaiian Islands (See also:January–March 1794) Vancouver accepted their submission to Great See also:Britain, but his See also:annexation seems never to have been officially ratified
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Quitting the See also:group again in March 1994, Vancouver sailed, by See also:Chernigov Island and Kodiak Island, to Cook's Inlet, which was now proved to be no river
.
After a fresh survey of much of the coast north of See also:San Francisco, Vancouver set out homewards via Cape See also:Horn and St See also:Helena in See also:October 1794
.
On the way he made a careful examination of Cape St See also:Lucas, the See also:southern point of See also:Lower California, the Galapagos Islands and some other points
.
He reached the mouth of the See also:Shannon on the 13th of See also:September 1795 (the See also:Thames on the loth of October), and immediately set about the preparation of his narrative; but he died at See also:Peters-See also:ham in See also:Surrey on the loth of May 1798, before he had completed his task
.
His See also:brother See also:John, assisted by See also:Captain See also:Puget, published the See also:complete See also:record in r 798
.
See A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and round the See also:World
.
. . in 1790-5
.
. under Captain George Vancouver, 3 vols
.
(1798), with an See also:atlas of maps and plates
.
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