Samuel Wallis (23 April 1728 – 21 January 1795 in London) was a British naval officer and explorer of the Pacific Ocean who made the first recorded visit...
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Wallis and Futuna, officially the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands (/ˈwɒlɪs ... fuːˈtuːnə/), is a French island collectivity in the South Pacific...
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authorities of Wallis Island requested protection by France with a protectorate treaty signed in April 1887. After a referendum in 1959, Wallis became a French...
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Frederick Samuel Wallis (22 November 1857 – 13 November 1939) was a trade unionist and politician in the state of South Australia. Wallis was born at...
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Purea (section Wallis expedition)
tribe area in 1767–1768, when she was encountered by the expedition of Samuel Wallis. Purea's mother was the high chieftainess of the Ahurai marae in Fa'a'ā...
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command of Samuel Wallis. Her master's mate, John Gore, was among a number of the crew from Byron's circumnavigation who crewed with Wallis. The master...
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Matavai Bay (section Samuel Wallis)
Samuel Wallis was able to establish cordial relations with the female chieftain Oberea (Purea) and remained on the island until 27 July 1767. Wallis named...
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1798. Wallis' heirs were unable to collect Wilson's debt. Wallis himself left a large debt behind. The heirs were forced to sell Samuel Wallis' land for...
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may refer to: Alfred Wallis (1855–1942), Cornish fisherman and artist. Annabelle Wallis (born 1984), British actress Barnes Wallis (1887–1979), British...
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from 1920 to 1921 Frederick Samuel Wallis (1857–1939), trade unionist and politician in South Australia Frederick H. Wallis, architect This disambiguation...
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An Account of the Voyages (redirect from An Account of the Voyages undertaken by Byron, Wallis, Carteret and Cook)
1764–1766 and 1766–1768 voyages of HMS Dolphin under John Byron and Samuel Wallis, the voyage of HMS Swallow under Philip Carteret (1766–1769), as well...
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19th-century". T. W. Wallis was born into an impoverished family in Hull in Yorkshire in 1821, the eighth child of Ann Emerson Wallis (1783-1878) and the...
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the first European visit to Tahiti, was under the command of Captain Samuel Wallis. While circumnavigating the globe in HMS Dolphin, they sighted the island...
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Britain and John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich Virgin Islands Saint Ursula and her 11,000 virgins Wake Island William Wake Wallis and Futuna Samuel Wallis...
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Borabora. Narrowly escaping death there, he escaped to Huahine. Mai met Samuel Wallis in 1767 and Captain James Cook in 1769 in Tahiti. In August 1773 he...
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heritage site on Ra’iātea. In 1767, HMS Dolphin, sailing under Captain Samuel Wallis, landed on Tahiti. The captain and crew were quite sick with scurvy...
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often recognised as being HMS Dolphin captained by British Captain Samuel Wallis on 18 June 1767. He met a welcoming party of Tahitians who traded with...
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Tallboy and Grand Slam bombs. Barnes Wallis was born in Ripley, Derbyshire, to general practitioner Charles George Wallis (1859–1945) and his wife Edith Eyre...
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of a previous MP for St Ives, Samuel Stephens. On 29 November 1796 he married Betty Wallis, the daughter of Samuel Wallis and daughter of John Hearle of...
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century. The first Europeans to arrive on the island were the Englishmen Samuel Wallis and James Cook. Captain James Cook first landed on Tahiti, where he...
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Englishman Samuel Wallis was the first recorded European to visit Pinaki Atoll on June 6, 1767, while searching for the "Southern Continent". Wallis named...
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related to E. A. Wallis Budge at Wikimedia Commons Texts Works by or about E. A. Wallis Budge at Wikisource Works by Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge at Project...
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advisor and high priest, and eventually Purea's lover. Tupaia befriended Samuel Wallis during his observation of a solar eclipse, and then Joseph Banks during...
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by the voyages of the previously mentioned John Byron (1764–1765), Samuel Wallis (1766, in the same HMS Dolphin which Byron had earlier sailed in) and...
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to be delivered with the response. These letters were delivered by Samuel Wallis, another Philadelphia businessman who spied for the British, rather...
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The Well-Travelled Goat was a goat that accompanied both Samuel Wallis on the Dolphin and James Cook on his first voyage on the Endeavour around the world...
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Mesoamerica (Mayan remains) Thomas Walker American 18th Eastern United States Samuel Wallis British 18th First recorded visit to Tahiti Gino Watkins English 20th...
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in the Society Islands, one of which was Bora Bora. British explorer Samuel Wallis became the first European navigator to visit Tahiti in 1767. French...
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by Samuel Wallis, of HMS Dolphin, of a rich island, inhabited by Jews. In fact, this was Tahiti, but the French conflated the discovery of "Wallis's Land"...
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Wallis, but co-writer Herman J. Mankiewicz did incorporate a related experience into the script. In June 1925, after a 26-year absence, Gladys Wallis...
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