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    William Dampier (baptised 5 September 1651; died March 1715) was an English explorer, pirate, privateer, navigator, and naturalist who became the first...
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    location on Dampier Island 3 km off the Pilbara Coast and part of the Dampier Archipelago, both named after the English navigator William Dampier. In 1963...
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    Ports, captained by Thomas Stradling, under the overall command of William Dampier. Stradling's ship stopped to resupply at the uninhabited Juan Fernández...
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  • A New Voyage Round The World is a 1697 autobiographical book by William Dampier, telling of his journeys around the world, the most celebrated in England...
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  • Look up Dampier in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dampier may refer to: Dampier County, one of the 141 cadastral divisions of New South Wales in Australia...
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    a fifth-rate warship in the Royal Navy which, under the command of William Dampier, carried the first British scientific expedition to Australia in 1699...
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    1691, William Dampier brought to London a Filipino man named Jeoly or Giolo from the island of Mindanao (Philippines) who had a tattooed body. Dampier exhibited...
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    family shipping business. In 1707, Rogers was approached by Captain William Dampier, who sought support for a privateering voyage against the Spanish,...
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    supposedly sighted it in 1687. Never found again, it was also believed by William Dampier to possibly be the coast of Terra Australis Incognita. It was sighted...
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    William Walker (May 8, 1824 – September 12, 1860) was an American physician, lawyer, journalist, and mercenary. In the era of the expansion of the United...
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  • drives his truck into Dampier, Western Australia late one night, having transported a previously ordered statue of William Dampier to the town. Upon entering...
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  • and educator William Dampier (1651–1715), English explorer, the first person to circumnavigate the Earth three times William Cecil Dampier (1867–1952)...
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    of Tasmania (called by him Van Diemen's Land). The English Captain William Dampier used the name in his account of his two voyages there: the first arriving...
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  • William Turner Jr. is a fictional character in the Pirates of the Caribbean films. He appears in The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Dead Man's Chest...
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  • Sir William Cecil Dampier FRS (born William Cecil Dampier Whetham) (27 December 1867 – 11 December 1952) was a British scientist, agriculturist, and science...
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    William Kidd (c. 1654 – 23 May 1701) also known as Captain William Kidd or simply Captain Kidd, was a Scottish privateer. Conflicting accounts exist regarding...
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    a noun was in 1697 by the English buccaneer William Dampier. In his New Voyage Round the World, Dampier wrote, "and lay there all night, upon our Borbecu's...
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  • Short History of Australia: Chap.XV, Melbourne Wilkinson, Clennell William Dampier, John Lane at the Bodley Head, 1929. Pope, Dudley. The Buccaneer King:...
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  • two buccaneering expeditions to the South Pacific—the first led by William Dampier in 1703, and the second under his own command in 1719. He used Clipperton...
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    islands of Waigeo and Batanta. It is named after British navigator William Dampier. The Dampier Strait passes through the Indonesian archipelago of Raja Ampat...
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    the Dampier Strait separates it from Waigeo Island. Dampier Strait is named after the English explorer William Dampier. In 1759 Captain William Wilson...
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  • leads 331 buccaneers, including Bartholomew Sharp, William Dampier, Lionel Wafer, Basil Ringrose, William Dick and John Cox, divided into five groups consisting...
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    Sir Frederick William Dampier Deakin DSO (3 July 1913 – 22 January 2005) also known as F. W. Deakin, was a British historian, World War II veteran, literary...
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    and Welsh privateers (for example Henry Morgan, Daniel Montbars and William Dampier) during the early 17th century. Some African people arrived at the...
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  • created in 1913 and abolished in 1922. It was named for the navigator William Dampier, the first Englishman to see Australia, and was located in rural Western...
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  • Dampier was granted command of the two-ship expedition which departed England on 30 April 1703 for the port of Kinsale in Ireland. William Dampier's original...
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    of Charleston outfitted two sloops to hunt Vane, under the command of William Rhett. Rhett failed to find Vane, but his ships located and captured the...
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  • Cavendish Thomas Tew Veborg Victual Brothers Vincenzo Gambi Wang Zhi William Dampier William Kidd Zheng Jing Zheng Qi Zheng Yi Zheng Zhilong Zheng Yi Sao Pirate...
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  • Cavendish Thomas Tew Veborg Victual Brothers Vincenzo Gambi Wang Zhi William Dampier William Kidd Zheng Jing Zheng Qi Zheng Yi Zheng Zhilong Zheng Yi Sao Pirate...
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    Life of a Colossus (2013 ed.). Orion. ISBN 978-0297864004. Gray, Eric William. "Pompey the Great". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved 16 March 2023...
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