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George Vancouver
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 southwe…
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culture · Royal Navy officer and explorer (1757–1798) · explorer · military officer · writer · also George Vancouver, Vancouver
Born 22 June 1757 · Died 10 May 1798 · Q205485
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John Robson, a librarian at the University of Waikato, conducted his own research into George Vancouver's ancestry, which he published in an article in the British Columbia History journal
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2003· 1 entry
It was denamed on transfer to Arriva CrossCountry in 2007
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Died 1798-05-10.
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1757· 1 entry
Born 1757-06-22.
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