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1768, Aug 24 1790s unknown
an English whaling ship captain, notable as the first European to discover the Pacific island of Nauru, which is now a sovereign republic. He was probably born on 24 August 1768 in Kingston upon Hull. John Fearn discovered Nauru on 8 November 1798, while travelling with his whaling ship Hunter from New Zealand to Calcutta via the China Seas. He named it Pleasant Island due to its attractive environment. Fearn was commemorated on the obverse of a $10 Nauruan coin and on a postage stamp issued in 1974.
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John Fearn [1] 1768, Aug 24 1790
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George Vancouver 1757, Jun 22 1772 1795 1798, May 10 an English officer of the Royal Navy, who explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacif... Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra 1744, May 22 1770 1799 1794, Mar 26 a Spanish naval officer born in Lima, Peru. Assigned to the Pacific coast Spanish Naval Departmen... Francisco Dominguez 1740 ca 1757 1800 1804 ca One of the leaders of the Dominguez-Escalante Expedition, a journey under a commission from the S... Nicolas Baudin 1754, Feb 17 1769 1803 1803, Sep 16 a French explorer, cartographer, naturalist and hydrographer. At the age of 15 he joined the merc... Juan Carrasco unknown 1784 1803 unknown a Spanish naval officer, explorer, and navigator. He is remembered mainly for his work in the Pac... George Bass 1771, Jan 30 1789 1803 unknown a British naval surgeon and explorer of Australia. At the age of 18 he was accepted in London as ... Adam Johann von Krusenstern 1770, Nov 19 1793 1806 1846, Aug 24 a Baltic German admiral and explorer, who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe. Af... Francisco de Eliza 1759 1773 1809 1825, Feb 19 a Spanish naval officer, navigator, and explorer. He is remembered mainly for his work in the Pac... Louis Antoine de Bougainville 1729, Nov 12 1753 1811 1811, Aug 31 a French admiral and explorer. A contemporary of the British explorer James Cook, he took part in... Daniel Boone 1734, Oct 22 1755 1816 1820, Sep 26 an American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman, whose frontier exploits made him one o... Jose de Bustamante y Guerra 1759, Apr 1 1770 1817 1825, Mar 10 a Spanish naval officer, explorer, and politician. With Alessandro Malaspina, they proposed to t... Charles C. Brodhead 1772, Apr 20 1797 1817 1852, Sep 14 The Brodhead clan was one of high repute and station. Charles’ great-great-grandfather was Dan... John Young 1742 ca 1780 1819 1835, Dec 17 a British subject who became an important military advisor to KamehamehaI during the formation of... Joseph Banks 1743, Feb 13 1766 1820 1820, Jun 19 a British naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. Banks made his name on the 176... Manuel Quimper 1757 1770 1829 1844, Apr a Spanish Peruvian explorer, cartographer, naval officer, and colonial official. He participated ... William Clark [2] 1770, Aug 1 1789 1829 1838, Sep 1 an American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor. Along with Meriwether Lewi... Jose Maria Narvaez 1768 1780 1831 1840, Aug 4 a Spanish naval officer, explorer, and navigator notable for his work in the Gulf Islands and Low... Cayetano Valdes y Flores 1767 1782 1833 1835 a commander of the Spanish Navy, explorer, and captain general who served in the French Revolutio... Edmund Fanning [2] 1769, Jul 16 1773 1841 1841, Apr 23 an American explorer and sea captain, known as the "Pathfinder of the Pacific." As master of the ... David Thompson 1770, Apr 30 1784 1843 1857, Feb 10 a British-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and map-maker, known to some native peoples as "Koo-Koo-... Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen 1778, Sep 9 1796 1852 1852, Jan 13 a Baltic-German officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, cartographer and explorer, ultimately rose ... Jean-Frederic Waldeck 1766, Mar 16? 1790 1869 1875, Apr 30 a French antiquarian, cartographer, artist and explorer. Waldeck is remembered primarily for the...
