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    Anthony de la Roché (spelled also Antoine de la Roché, Antonio de la Roché or Antonio de la Roca in some sources) was a 17th-century English maritime...
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    South Georgia was probably discovered in 1675 by Anthony de la Roché, a London merchant, and was named Roche Island on a number of early maps. It was sighted...
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    Antarctic fur seals also breed here. The islands, possibly seen first by Anthony de la Roché in April 1675, were discovered in 1775 by a British expedition under...
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    was the island of South Georgia, visited by the English merchant Anthony de la Roché in 1675. Although such myths and speculation about a Terra Australis...
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    Bird (2000). Roché was born in Paris to a Scottish mother, Gail (née Stewart), and a French father, Philippe Roché. From age 12 to 18, Roché lived on a...
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    northern polar region. The Antarctic Convergence was first crossed by Anthony de la Roché in 1675 and Edmond Halley in 1700, and first described by the British...
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    December 2009. Anthony de la Roché may have sighted Beauchene Island as early as April 1675. However this is by no means certain: de la Roché had rounded...
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    Englishman merchant Anthony de la Roché discovered South Georgia in 1675. Bird Island, South Georgia Anthony de la Roché Roché Glacier  This article incorporates...
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    territory to be discovered. It was first visited in 1675 by Antoine de la Roché, an English merchant born in London to a French father. He left Hamburg...
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    2008 at the Wayback Machine "Memoirs and Travels of Mauritius Augustus Count de Benyowsky: Consisting of His Military Operations in Poland, His Exile into...
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  • – The Antarctic Convergence is first crossed by English merchant Anthony de la Roché, who lands on South Georgia. October 29 – German polymath Gottfried...
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    of South Georgia, which had been explored by the English merchant Anthony de la Roché in 1675. Cook also discovered and named Clerke Rocks and the South...
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  • Chaplin Jan Cheek Gerry Clark D.J. Coleman James Cook Finn Dahlberg Anthony de la Roché S. Duse Viktor Esbensen Wilhelm Filchner A.I. Fleuret Georg Forster...
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    Harrison Matthews, Drygalski Fjord might have been the place where Anthony de la Roché spent two weeks during his stay in the island in April 1675. Nattriss...
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    without permission. The summit of the island, Roché Peak, is named after the Englishman Anthony de la Roché who discovered South Georgia in 1675. Farewell...
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    of South Georgia was first sighted and visited in April 1675 by Anthony de la Roché, a London merchant and (despite his French name) an Englishman, who...
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    Antarctica Anthony de la Roché who discovered the first land in the Antarctic region (Roché Island, present South Georgia) in 1675. Roché Glacier is centred...
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    James Cook in January 1775, having been previously discovered by Anthony de la Roché. However, the British did little to enforce this claim until 1843...
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    any continuous southern continent. The visit to South Georgia by Anthony de la Roché in 1675 was the first-ever discovery of land south of the Antarctic...
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  • 1620: Mayflower 1638: Nuestra Señora de la Concepción 1654: Jewish arrival in New Amsterdam 1675: Anthony de la Roché 1707: Scilly naval disaster 1770: First...
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    de los Estados disproving earlier beliefs that it was part of Terra Australis. The visit to South Georgia by the English merchant Anthony de la Roché...
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    Andrew Christian LaRoche (born September 13, 1983) is an American former professional baseball third baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB)...
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    Missouri River. 1675 – During a commercial voyage, English merchant Anthony de la Roché accidentally discovers South Georgia Island, the first ever discovery...
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    Trịnh Tạc upon the death of Lê Gia Tông. April – English merchant Anthony de la Roché, blown off course after rounding Cape Horn eastabout, makes the first...
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    commentator for the international television feed at the Tour de France alongside Anthony McCrossan. Roche, who was born in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, in suburban...
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    Gough Island (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Diego Alvarez. According to some historians, the British merchant Anthony de la Roché was the first to land on the island, in the austral autumn of 1675...
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    List of Antarctic expeditions (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    expedition disproves beliefs that Isla de los Estados was part of Terra Australis. 1675 – Anthony de la Roché discovers South Georgia (54°15′00″S 36°45′00″W...
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    country agreed to refrain from trading in the other's territory. 1675: Anthony de la Roché (England) discovers South Georgia. 1684: William Dampier: 34  and...
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    merchant voyager Anthony de la Roché visited South Georgia (the first Antarctic land discovered); in 1739 the Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Bouvet de Lozier discovered...
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  • India Company enters the Atlantic slave trade. 1675 English merchant Anthony de la Roché is blown off course and seeks refuge in a bay of the South Atlantic...
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