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See also: English navigator, was See also: born in 1758
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He entered the See also: navy at the age of thirteen, and accompanied See also: 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 West Indies, both under 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), 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. 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 character of Juan de Fuca Strait
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Vancouver, accompanied by See also: Lieutenant Broughton, See also: left See also: Falmouth on the 1st of April 1791, and proceeded by way of the Cape of See also: Good Hope to See also: Australia, where he carefully surveyed See also: part of the See also: south-west coast, especially See also: King
See also: George's See also: Sound, whose value as a harbour he pointed out
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He next made for Dusky See also: Bay, New 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 (California, then known as New Albion) in 39° 27' N
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He examined the coast up to 52° 18' N. with 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 (February–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 (January–March 1794) Vancouver accepted their submission to Great Britain, but his annexation seems never to have been officially ratified
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Quitting the See also: group again in See also: March 1994, Vancouver sailed, by
See also: Chernigov Island and Kodiak Island, to Cook's Inlet, which was now proved to be no river
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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
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On the way he made a careful examination of Cape St Lucas, the See also: southern point of See also: Lower California, the Galapagos Islands and some other points
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He reached the mouth of the Shannon on the 13th ofSee 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 Peters-See also: ham in Surrey on the loth of May 1798, before he had completed his task
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His See also: brother See also: John, assisted by Captain
See also: Puget, published the See also: complete record in r 798
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See A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and round the See also: World
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. . in 1790-5
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. under Captain George Vancouver, 3 vols
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(1798), with an See also: atlas of maps and plates
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