William Dampier
✓ Source-basedfallingBritish pirate and explorer (1651-1715)
William Dampier was an English explorer, pirate, privateer and naturalist who became the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumnavigate the world three times.
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The map of Dampier's voyage produced by Herman Moll (1697)
Map from Dampier's 1697 A New Voyage Round the World, with a star marking the "Miskito" coast![Giolo (Jeoly) of Miangas, who became a slave in Mindanao, and bought by William Dampier together with Jeoly's mother, who died at sea. Jeoly was exhibited in London in 1691 to large crowds as a sideshow, until he died of smallpox three months later.[10]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Prince_Giolo%2C_Son_to_the_King_of_Moangis_a1528388.jpg/1280px-Prince_Giolo%2C_Son_to_the_King_of_Moangis_a1528388.jpg)
Giolo (Jeoly) of Miangas, who became a slave in Mindanao, and bought by William Dampier together with Jeoly's mother, who died at sea. Jeoly was exhibited in London in 1691 to large crowds as a sideshow, until he died of smallpox three months later.[10]
Australian plant life from Dampier's A Voyage to New Holland, published in 1703
Voyage of the Roebuck (map in German)
Engraving of Dampier's encounter with the storm off Aceh, in modern-day Indonesia, by Caspar Luyken
The voyages of William Dampier, depicted on a present-day world mapHistorical Figures from United Kingdom 6
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William Dampier was an English explorer, pirate, privateer and naturalist who became the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumnavigate the world three times. He has also been described as Australia's first natural historian, as well as one of the most important British explorers of the period between the 16th-century explorer Sir Francis Drake and the 18th-century explorer James Cook; he "bridged those two eras" with a mix of piratical derring-do of the former and scientific inquiry of the latter.
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