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unusual facts about Explorer-class general-purpose vessel


Explorer class

Explorer-class general-purpose vessel, a class of general purpose vessels operated by the Royal Australian Navy


3196 Maklaj

It was named in honor of the explorer and scientist Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay.

380 BC

Pytheas, Greek explorer, who will explore northwestern Europe, including the British Isles (d. c. 310 BC) (approximate date)

Alan Gandar Dower

Gander Dower's brother Eric was also a Conservative MP while another brother Kenneth was a well-known explorer.

Allman Bay

During the period of August 18, 1898 through August 2, 1899, American explorer Robert Peary's ship was ice-bound in Allman Bay.

Anchieta's Barbet

It is named after the Portuguese naturalist and explorer José Alberto de Oliveira Anchieta.

Arthur O. Friel

In 1922, he became a real-life explorer when he took a six-month trip down Venezuela's Orinoco River and its tributary, the Ventuari River.

Bacot

Jacques Bacot (1877–1965), explorer and pioneering French Tibetologist

Bad Wiessee

Bad Wiessee is known for its healing sulfur-fountain, discovered by the Dutch oil explorer Adriaan Stoop.

Baudin Beach, South Australia

It is named after the French explorer Nicolas Baudin who in 1803 anchored in nearby Hog Bay to take on fresh water.

Beica

The Dutch explorer Juan Maria Schuver visited Beica during his first explorations between the White and Blue Niles (August 1881).

Bonneville County, Idaho

Bonneville County was established in 1911, named after Benjamin Bonneville (1796–1878), a French-born officer in the U.S. Army, fur trapper, and explorer in the American West.

Charles Albanel

Charles Albanel (1616 – 11 January 1696), born in Auvergne, was a French missionary explorer in Canada, and aJesuit priest.

Clark Art Institute

"The Clark" was created by entrepreneur, soldier, explorer, and prominent art collector Robert Sterling Clark, and his wife, Francine.

D. W. Sargent

Daniel Wycliffe Sargent (b. July 22, 1850, Birmingham, England. Died October 12, 1902, in Nigeria) was an early explorer of Africa, Agent General of the British Government who signed treaties with many African chiefs which allowed the British to establish the Southern Nigeria Protectorate.

David T. Abercrombie

Abercrombie later came to study at Baltimore City College and became a practicing civil engineer and topographer, including explorer and chief of survey for Norfolk & Western Railroad in the coal and timber lands of West Virginia.

Desert Ridge

The community is home to 4 schools ranging from kindergarten to 12th grade, which include Desert Trails Elementary School, Explorer Middle School, Paradise Valley High School and Pinnacle High School.

École secondaire Cavelier-De LaSalle

The school is named after the area's first seigneur and French explorer Robert René Cavelier de La Salle (born at Rouen, France in 1643, died in Texas in 1687).

Flinders Street, Melbourne

It is named for the explorer Matthew Flinders, who was (erroneously) credited with discovering Port Phillip at the time of its naming.

General Tom Thumb

On his return home from his second tour in 1847 (Black 47 of the Irish Famine), aboard the Cambria, he attracted the attention of the explorer John Palliser who "was not a little surprised, on entering the state-cabin, to hear the most unnatural shrill little pipe exclaiming, “Waiter! bwing me a Welsh wabbit”.

George Barton

George Hunt Barton (1852-1933), American geologist, arctic explorer, and college professor

George Kruck Cherrie

The other eighteen men who were awarded this distinction were: Roy Chapman Andrews, Robert Bartlett, Frederick Russell Burnham, Richard E. Byrd, James L. Clark, Merian C. Cooper, Lincoln Ellsworth, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, George Bird Grinnell, Charles A. Lindbergh, Donald Baxter MacMillan, Clifford H. Pope, George Palmer Putnam, Kermit Roosevelt, Carl Rungius, Stewart Edward White, and Orville Wright.

Getaria, Gipuzkoa

Its most famous sons are Juan Sebastián Elcano, capitain of the Nao Victoria, Admiral Miguel de Oquendo, who commanded the Guipúzcoa Squadron of the Spanish Armada, the explorer Domingo de Bonechea, and the couturier Cristóbal Balenciaga Eizaguirre.

Green Fire

The author of the novel Green Fire, on which the film was based, was Major Peter William Rainier 1890-1946, a South African whose great-great-grand-uncle was the person that Mount Rainier, Washington was named after (by the explorer George Vancouver).

Harry de Windt

Captain Harry Willes Darell de Windt (9 April 1856, Paris - 30 November 1933, Bournemouth) was the aide-de-camp to his brother-in-law Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak (Harry's sister Margaret was Brooke's wife), and is best known as an explorer and travel writer.

James F. Calvert

Skate surfaced at the North Pole on 17 March 1959 to commit the ashes of the famed explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins to the Arctic waste.

José López Portillo

He was the great-great-great grandson of José María Narváez (1768–1840), a Spanish explorer who was the first to enter Strait of Georgia in present-day British Columbia and the first to view the site now occupied by the city of Vancouver.

K. J. V. Steenstrup

Knud Johannes Vogelius Steenstrup (September 7, 1842 in Høstemark Mill in Mou, Northern Jutland – May 6, 1913) was a Danish geologist and explorer of Greenland.

Kon-Tiki Nunatak

It was first seen by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961–62) and named after the raft Kon-Tiki which was sailed across the Pacific Ocean from East to West in 1947 by the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl.

Mameria

Between 1984 and 1989 the American explorer Gregory Deyermenjian made five expeditions to Mameria—for three of which he was accompanied by Peruvian explorer Paulino Mamani H.--conducting anthropological as well as archaeological research concerning the area's Machiguenga inhabitants and ancient archaeological remains.

Mankush

Dutch explorer Juan Maria Schuver visited the town in the 1880s and reported on a visit to the Shinasha people living in the nearby mountains.

Marozi

Two years later, explorer Kenneth Gandar-Dower headed an expedition into the region in an attempt to capture or kill more specimens.

Masindi

As capital of Bunyoro, Masindi was visited by Samuel Baker, a British explorer and anti-slavery campaigner, from 25 April 1872 to 14 June 1873.

Mount Darwin, Zimbabwe

Mount Darwin was named by the hunter and explorer Frederick Courtney Selous after the British naturalist Charles Darwin, author of The Origin of Species

Mount Fentale

The date of these eruptions is fixed by the investigations of the early 19th century explorer William Cornwallis Harris, whom David Buxton states first encountered this volcano and its lava beds in 1842.

Mount Welel

In his book In Search of King Solomon's Mines, Tahir Shah explains how he first learned of this mountain in the memoirs of the explorer Frank Hayter, The Gold of Ethiopia, which was written in 1936.

Nuytsia floribunda

The description was published by George Don using Brown's name Nuytsia, an epithet that commemorates the seventeenth-century Dutch explorer and colonial official Pieter Nuyts.

Oyapock

Early European colonists referred to the river as the Wiapoco, and it was the site of early settlements by Briton Robert Harcourt in 1608 and Dutchman Jan van Ryen in 1627.

Paul Spencer Sochaczewski

His books have exposed the cultural genocide of the Penan peopleof Sarawak, Malaysia, helped to generate a renaissance of appreciation for British naturalist and explorer Alfred Russel Wallaceand identified Eco-Cultural Revolutions which have had major impacts on our relationship with nature.

Prince's Mansion, Copenhagen

Geographer and explorer Carsten Niebuhr, who had returned to Copenhagen as the only surviving member of the Danish Arabia Expedition in 1768, lived there from 1773 until 1778 when he accepted a position in the civil service of Danish Holstein.

Slogen

Later on that year it was climbed by the famous climber and alpine explorer William Cecil Slingsby.

Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts

Among those who gave classes were suffragist Louisa Lawson, explorer Ludwig Leichhardt and poet Henry Kendall, and subjects included art, mathematics, architecture, anatomy and simple surgery.

Terminalia superba

The most famous example of its use in guitars is when it was used by Gibson in producing their now highly sought-after Flying V and Explorer guitars in 1958.

Thanadelthur

At this time, James Knight, a director of the Hudson's Bay Company, was seeking a native interpreter to help convince the Cree to allow other northern Indians to reach bay side trading posts in order to trade furs with his company.

Thomas Hutchinson

Thomas Joseph Hutchinson (1820–1885) Anglo-Irish surgeon, explorer, and writer

Ulrich Jasper Seetzen

Ulrich Jasper Seetzen (January 30, 1767 – September 1811) was a German explorer of Arabia and Palestine from Jever, German Frisia.

Vanessa Collingridge

In 2000 she quit her television presenter's job on Tonight with Trevor McDonald to author two biographies, one of eighteenth century explorer James Cook and one of Celtic warrior queen Boudica.

Vernay

Arthur Stannard Vernay (1877–1960), American antique collector, hunter and explorer

Vilkitsky

Boris Vilkitsky (1885-1961), a Russian Arctic explorer, son of above

Wally Herbert

The British explorer Tom Avery had disputed Herbert's conclusion after repeating Peary's expedition in 2005 and reaching the North Pole with his team.

William Ziegler

The third expedition fitted out by Mr. Ziegler, and which was still in the arctic regions at the time of his death, was sent out in the summer of 1903 under the command of Anthony Fiala and Captain Edward Coffin of Edgartown, Massachusetts.


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