George Vancouver

Vancouver, George 

Born June 22, 1758; died May 10, 1798, near London. English navigator.

Vancouver took part in J. Cook’s second and third voyages (1772-79). In 1790-95 he circumnavigated the globe, with stops in the Gulf of Alaska, including Cook Inlet. He explored the Hawaiian Islands, which had been discovered by Cook, and the Pacific coast of North America between the Kenai and California peninsulas. He and J. Bodega y Quadra (leader of the Spanish expedition) discovered and explored an island later named after Vancouver and other adjacent islands and the straits separating them. Vancouver continued the exploration of the Queen Charlotte Islands, the Alexander Archipelago, and other islands in the Gulf of Alaska.

WORKS

A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World … in the Years 1790-1795 , 2nd ed., vols. 1-6. London, 1801. (With atlas.)