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George Vancouver was an English naval explorer in the late 1700s who led expeditions to map the Pacific Northwest coast of North America and other regions. His detailed charts and discoveries were important for establishing British claims to territories in the region and advancing geographical knowledge of the time.
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- 1757
- Died
- 1798
- Works
- 26
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Captain George Vancouver 22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for leading the Vancouver Expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of what became the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Alaska, Washington, Oregon and California. The expedition also explored the Hawaiian Islands and the southwest coast of Australia.
Various places named for Vancouver include Vancouver Island, the city of Vancouver in British Columbia, Vancouver River on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Vancouver, Washington, in the United States, Mount Vancouver on the Canadian–US border between Yukon and Alaska, and New Zealand's fourth-highest mountain, also Mount Vancouver.
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1757 births1798 deaths18th-century English explorers18th-century Royal Navy personnelBurials at St Peter's, PetershamCommons link from WikidataEnglish explorers of North AmericaEnglish explorers of the PacificEnglish hydrographersEnglish people of Dutch descentExplorers of AlaskaExplorers of British Columbia