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Joseph Whidbey
Joseph Whidbey
(1757 – 9 October 1833) was a member of the
Royal Navy
who served on the
Vancouver Expedition
1791–95, and later achieved renown as a naval engineer. He is notable for having been the first
European
to discover and chart
Admiralty Island
in the
Alexander Archipelago
in 1794.
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