biography
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| lived:
| (1757–98)
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| biography:
| Navigator and explorer, born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, E England, UK. He sailed with James Cook on his second and third voyages, was promoted captain (1794), and did survey work in Australia and New Zealand. He is best known for the extent and precision of his survey of the Pacific coast of North America, from San Francisco to S Alaska (1791–4). |
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