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Britannia Beach, British Columbia

About 1859 Royal Navy hydrographer Captain Richards of HMS Plumper named the range of mountains for HMS Britannia, the third of a series of vessels to bear that name.

Dave McCoy

In 1936, McCoy took a job as a hydrographer for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, which involved skiing up to 50 miles per day.

Dunsterville

Edward Dunsterville (1796–1873), British naval officer and hydrographer

Flinders County

Flinders County was named in honour of the navigator, hydrographer, and scientist Matthew Flinders (1774-1814).

Fort William, Ontario

This post appears on 18th century French maps by Royal hydrographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin as "Fort Caministogoyan".

Francisco Vidal

Francisco Vidal Gormaz (1837-1907), Chilean navy officer and hydrographer

Giovanni Roncagli

Roncagli was the hydrographer for the Italian expedition to explore Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego of 1881–1882, led by Giacomo Bove.

Rimsky

Voin Rimsky-Korsakov (1822–1871), Russian navigator, hydrographer, and geographer

Rotz Glacier

Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Jean Rotz, 16th century French chartmaker and writer on the principles of navigation, who designed an elaborate magnetic compass and became hydrographer to King Henry VIII in 1542.

Thomas Seton

In April 2008, the British Culture Minister, Margaret Hodge, placed a temporary export bar on ‘a rare likeness of Alexander Dalrymple', by John Thomas Seton. Dalrymple was the first Hydrographer to the Admiralty, who ‘through his pioneering work on nautical charts, is a pivotal figure in the development of the global maritime industry as well as of the British Empire’.


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