George Vancouver

✶June 22, 1750

†May 10, 1798

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About their life

Captain George Vancouver 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.

English naval explorer (1757–1798)

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Biography from the article George Vancouver on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.