George Vancouver
1757–98
Naval officer and hydrographer. Took part in James Cook’s second and third voyages to the Pacific. Appointed commander of the Discovery, 1790, surveying Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, the north-west coast of America (where he was the first European to establish the insularity of Vancouver Island), returning to England in 1795.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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