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    Dionisio Alcalá Galiano (8 October 1760 – 21 October 1805) was a Spanish Navy officer, cartographer, and explorer. He mapped various coastlines in Europe...
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    name from Spanish explorer Dionisio Alcalá Galiano, who explored the area in 1792. Prior to the arrival of Europeans, Galiano Island was long inhabited...
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  • Alcalá-Galiano is a surname shared by several notable people: Paternal usage Vicente Alcalá Galiano [es] (1757–1810), Spanish mathematician, economist...
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    explorer, most notable in the Pacific Northwest, where he and Dionisio Alcalá Galiano conducted the first circumnavigation of Vancouver Island, in partial...
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    born to an influential military family. His father, the explorer Dionisio Alcalá Galiano, was killed at the Battle of Trafalgar and his uncle, Don Juan...
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    mapped by Captain George Vancouver and fully explored days later by Dionisio Alcalá Galiano in June 1792. Indian Arm is a salt-water fjord that extends about...
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    Vancouver, explored the area in 1792 while a Spanish expedition led by Dionisio Alcalá Galiano and Cayetano Valdés y Flores was also exploring. The British and...
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    2022. O'Donnell y Duque de Estrada, Hugo. "Biografía de Dionisio Alcalá-Galiano y Alcalá-Galiano". Real Academia de la Historia. Archived from the original...
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  • Galiano is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Dionisio Alcalá Galiano (1760–1805), Spanish naval officer, cartographer and explorer María...
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    designate some geographical feature. In 1792, the Spanish explorer Dionisio Alcalá Galiano and his crew were the first Europeans to circumnavigate Vancouver...
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    expedition of Dionisio Alcalá Galiano encountered one another near Point Roberts. In the morning of June 13, 1792, the two ships under Galiano sailed into...
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    named Canal de Cardero in 1792 during the Spanish expedition of Dionisio Alcalá Galiano and Cayetano Valdés y Flores, in honor of José Cardero (sometimes...
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    Bay was subsequently named after Alessandro Malaspina. In 1792 Dionisio Alcalá Galiano, on the Sutil, and Cayetano Valdés y Flores, on the Mexicana, sailed...
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    000 to 640,000 cu ft/s). On June 14, 1792, the Spanish explorers Dionisio Alcalá Galiano and Cayetano Valdés entered and anchored in the North Arm of the...
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  • BC Geographical Names. "Tofino Inlet". BC Geographical Names. Dionisio Alcalá Galiano: The Canadian Adventure of a Spanish Naval Hero Archived 2008-06-07...
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    Bodega y Quadra and Francisco Antonio Mourelle as "Isla Suemez". Dionisio Alcalá Galiano called it "Guemes" in his map published in 1802, which may be the...
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    Georgia. To fully explore this new inland sea, an expedition under Dionisio Alcalá Galiano was sent in 1792. He was explicitly ordered to explore all channels...
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    Columbia. Here he unexpectedly met a Spanish expedition led by Dionisio Alcalá Galiano and Cayetano Valdés y Flores. Vancouver was "mortified" (his word)...
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    Earth orbit Martín Galeano Italian (Genoese)-Spanish 16th Colombia Dionisio Alcalá Galiano Spanish 18th Pacific Northwest Juan Galindo Spanish/Irish 19th...
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    the 1792 expedition of Dionisio Alcalá Galiano, which was to determine the exact nature of the Canal de Floridablanca. Galiano spent many days exploring...
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    Spanish exploration expedition in the Pacific Northwest, under Dionisio Alcalá Galiano and Cayentano Valdes aboard the schooners Sutil and Mexicana. They...
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    of Alejandro Malaspina and the related expedition of Dionisio Alcalá Galiano. During the Galiano voyage Cordero Channel was named in his honor. Other...
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    built to the same plans. From 1803 to 1804 she was captained by Dionisio Alcalá Galiano. At Trafalgar she was the flagship of Ignacio María de Álava and...
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    summer of 1792, two expeditions led by Captains George Vancouver, Dionisio Alcalá Galiano and Cayetano Valdés y Flores arrived and cooperated in mapping...
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    Fuca and the Strait of Georgia. These were Sutíl, commanded by Dionisio Alcalá Galiano, and Mexicana, under Cayetano Valdés y Flores. Both were officers...
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    32). Emilio Soler Pascual y Asociación Cultural Dionisio Alcalá-Galiano, Trafalgar y Alcalá Galiano: jornadas internacionales, Cabra, 17 al 23 de octubre...
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    Chatham Islands and The Snares. 1792 – Spanish naval officers Dionisio Alcalá Galiano and Cayetano Valdés y Flores circumnavigate Vancouver Island, proving...
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    eruption was seen in June 1792 during the Spanish expedition of Dionisio Alcalá Galiano and Cayetano Valdés. Their report read, in part: During the night...
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    Cosmao-Kerjulien 755 60 132 192 25% Escaped Bahama 2-decker 74 Commodore Don Dionisio Alcalá Galiano † 690 75 66 141 20% Captured 21 Oct Aigle 2-decker 74 Capt Pierre-Paulin...
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  • Nahwitti. Goletas Channel was named by the Spanish naval officers Dionisio Alcalá Galiano and Cayetano Valdés y Flores during their 1792 voyage around Vancouver...
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