# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-colnett
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:31:26.061Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-colnett"
name: "James Colnett"
slug: "james-colnett"
description: "Captain James Colnett was a Royal Navy officer, explorer and a fur trader. He served under James Cook during Cook's second voyage of exploration. Later he led two private trading expeditions that involved collecting sea otter pelts in the Pacific Northwest of North America and selling them in Canton, China, where the East India Company maintained a trading post. Wintering in the recently discovered Hawaiian Islands was a key component of the new trade system."
tagline: "British Royal Navy officer, an explorer, and maritime fur trader"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/The_Spanish_insult_to_the_British_flag_at_Nootka_Sound_LCCN2003665189_%28cropped%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-The_Spanish_insult_to_the_British_flag_at_Nootka_Sound_LCCN2003665189_%28cropped%29_%28cropped%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1753"
deathDate: "1806-09-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.01
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.741217333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "جيمس كولنيت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Colnett"
    title: "James Colnett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Colnett"
    title: "James Colnett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Colnett"
    title: "James Colnett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6131591"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump