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Vancouver, George
Vancouver, George( 1758?–98),English naval explorer who came to the Northwest coast of America in 1792 via Australia and the Hawaiian Islands. The record of his extended explorations during the next three years was published in his Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World (3 vols., 1798).
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