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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is an autobiographical account by William Dampier of his journeys around the world, first published in 1697. Dampier is believed to have written the account...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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highlight the problems faced by coastal towns" (Tweet) – via Twitter. Russell, William Clark (1883). Sailors' Language. Dictionary of 19th-century sailors' language...
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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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artist Thomas Dampier (1748–1812), English cleric Thomas Dampier (priest) (ca. 1700–1777), English cleric and educator William Dampier (1651–1715), English...
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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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Admiral Benbow Inn in Treasure Island and Daniel Defoe supposedly met William Dampier and Alexander Selkirk there, his inspiration for Robinson Crusoe. The...
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Dampier Archipelago The Dampier Archipelago is a group of 42 islands near the town of Dampier in Pilbara, Western Australia. The archipelago is also made...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Bartholomew Sharp turned to piracy. The natural scientist and Buccaneer William Dampier suggested his first major raid was on the Central American town of...
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a "Mister Moody", who passed Jeoly on to the English explorer William Dampier. Dampier described Jeoly's intricate tattoos in his journals: He was painted...
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"Mony" or "Moni", the meaning of which is unclear. English navigator William Dampier, aboard the privateer Charles Swan's ship Cygnet, made the earliest...
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them.[page needed] Pierre le Grand (pirate) Piracy in the Caribbean William Dampier Tampa Bay Buccaneers Pyle, Howard (1921). Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates:...
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at least 1612, and had been Anglicized to "lagune" by 1673. In 1697 William Dampier referred to a "Lagune or Lake of Salt water" on the coast of Mexico...
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venture under the leadership of Captain Bartholomew Sharp, where he met William Dampier at Cartagena. After being injured by a flash-ignition of gunpowder...
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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...
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