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2 days ago · In 1792, Captain George Vancouver of the Royal Navy took an expedition that charted the northwestern Pacific Coast regions of North America. He saw Mount Rainier in the distance and named the mountain in honor of his friend, Rear Admiral Peter Rainier (how’s that for nepotism!).
1 day ago · Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo and Bartolomé Ferrer in 1542, Sir Francis Drake in 1579, George Vancouver in 1792, Jedediah Smith on an overland expedition in 1822, and Alexander Roderick McLeod for the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1826.
5 days ago · In 1853 the Reverend John F. DeVore founded the first Protestant church north of the Columbia River, and in 1854 Steilacoom became the first incorporated town recognized by the legislature in Washington Territory. The town of Steilacoom continued to grow thanks to Canadian gold rushes, and in 1858 built Washington’s first jail and first ...
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21 hours ago · The Discovery expedition (1901–4) played a key role in the history of polar exploration. It was led by the Royal Navy commander Robert Falcon Scott, a pioneering polar explorer who died in 1912 after attempting to reach the south pole. The expedition’s third lieutenant was Ernest Shackleton, who led three further journeys to the continent.
5 days ago · Vancouver was originally a small sawmilling settlement, called Granville in the 1870s. It was incorporated as a city in April 1886 (just before it became the western terminus of the first trans-Canada railway, the Canadian Pacific) and was renamed to honour the English navigator George Vancouver, of the Royal Navy, who had explored and surveyed the coast in 1792.
1 day ago · In the late 18th century, during a four year voyage Captain George Vancouver made detailed maps of the western coastline of North America. In the 19th century, Charles Darwin made further contributions to science during the second voyage of HMS Beagle. The Ross expedition to the Antarctic made several important discoveries in biology and zoology.
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2 days ago · George Mallory (born June 18, 1886, Mobberley, Cheshire, England—died June 8, 1924, North Face of Mount Everest, Tibet [now in China]) was a British explorer and mountaineer who was a leading member of early expeditions to Mount Everest. His disappearance on that mountain in 1924 became one of the most celebrated mysteries of the 20th century.
