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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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