# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-ambrosia-cowley
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:39:08.445Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-ambrosia-cowley"
name: "William Ambrosia Cowley"
slug: "william-ambrosia-cowley"
description: "William Ambrosia Cowley, also known as Ambrose Cowley and Captain Cowley, was a 17th-century English buccaneer who surveyed the Galápagos Islands during his 1683–1686 circumnavigation of the world while serving under several captains such as John Eaton, John Cook, and later Edward Davis. Cowley drafted the first chart of the islands in 1684, first published with the account of his voyage in 1699. In his diary he reported the discovery of the phantom Pepys Island, allegedly situated north of the Falkland Islands, prompting a number of mariners to look in vain for the nonexistent rock."
tagline: "English pirate, explorer, and circumnavigator of the world, the first to map the Galapagos Islands in any detail"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Gallapagos_Islands_1684.jpg/330px-Gallapagos_Islands_1684.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1700"
deathDate: "1686"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.56
  momentum:             0.04291845493562232
  historical:           6.341757333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cowley"
    title: "William Cowley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cowley"
    title: "William Cowley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Cowley"
    title: "Ambrose Cowley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ambrose_Cowley"
    title: "William Ambrose Cowley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Cowley"
    title: "Ambrose Cowley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Cowley"
    title: "Ambrose Cowley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Cowley"
    title: "Ambrose Cowley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q200424"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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