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    William Scoresby FRS FRSE (5 October 1789 – 21 March 1857) was an English whaler, Arctic explorer, scientist and clergyman. Scoresby was born in the village...
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  • William Scoresby Archipelago is a group of islands which extends northward from the coast just east of William Scoresby Bay, Antarctica. The more important...
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  • Scoresby may refer to: William Scoresby (1789–1857), British Arctic explorer, scientist and clergyman William F. Scoresby (1840–1884), New York politician...
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  • William Scoresby may refer to: William Scoresby (1789–1857), English explorer William Scoresby (1760–1829), English explorer William F. Scoresby (1840–1884)...
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    William Scoresby Routledge, FRGS (1859–1939) was a British ethnographer, anthropologist and adventurer. With his wife, Katherine Routledge, he completed...
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    Scoresby Sound (Danish: Scoresby Sund, Greenlandic: Kangertittivaq) is a large fjord system of the Greenland Sea on the eastern coast of Greenland. It...
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    William Scoresby (3 May 1760 – 1829) was an English arctic navigator. Scoresby was the son of a small farmer at Cropton, twenty miles from Whitby. He was...
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    wine goblet. According to William Scoresby Jr., the crow's nest was invented in the 19th century by his father, William Scoresby Sr., a whaler and also an...
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  • William Scoresby Bay is a coastal embayment at the western side of William Scoresby Archipelago, Antarctica. It is 8 kilometres (5 mi) long and 5.6 kilometres...
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    marksman Lee Scoresby was a reference to Van Cleef, with the character's surname as an homage to the famous Arctic explorer William Scoresby. Van Cleef...
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    the voyage the expedition force switched ships to the Fitzroy and William Scoresby captained by Victor Marchesi. They found no Argentine presence upon...
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    RRS William Scoresby was British Royal Research Ship built for operations in Antarctic waters. Specially built for the Discovery Committee by Cook, Welton...
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    single working women from England to South Africa. In 1906 she married William Scoresby Routledge. The couple went to live among the Kikuyu people of what...
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    Stanley on 26 January. Waiting for them, to replace Bransfield, was HMS William Scoresby. Built for whale marking work by the Discovery Investigations, she...
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    statues of the explorer Captain Cook and the whaler and scientist William Scoresby, as well as the whalebone arch that sits at the top of the West Cliff...
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    called Scoresby, a part of the County of Mornington. The area of Scoresby was surveyed in 1857, and named after the Arctic explorer William Scoresby. Scoresby...
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  • William Frederick Scoresby (January 2, 1840 Fallsburg, Sullivan County, New York – 1884) was an American physician and politician from New York. He was...
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    the novel to be of much more use. Melville did plunder a fifth book, William Scoresby Jr., An Account of the Arctic Regions with a History and Description...
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  • on Jan Mayen Island to honour Whitby whaling Captain, William Scoresby (see, William Scoresby his son). During the voyage he succeeded in evading an...
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    Scoresby is a lunar impact crater that is located in the northern part of the Moon's near side. It is nearly attached to the crater Challis along the north-northwestern...
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    Sir Ronald Ross, discoverer of malaria transmission by mosquitoes William Scoresby Routledge, British ethnographer, anthropologist and adventurer Charles...
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  • the north of the William Scoresby Archipelago. It was discovered and named by Discovery Investigations personnel on the William Scoresby in February 1936...
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    Ittoqqortoormiit (category Scoresby Sound)
    name Scoresbysund derives from the English Arctic explorer and whaler William Scoresby, who was the first European to map the area in 1822. The name "Ittoqqortoormiit"...
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  • and the Scoresby comes from William Scoresby, who was a real Arctic explorer." American actor Sam Elliott plays Lee Scoresby in the film The Golden Compass...
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    ranches in order to buy food. The Mana Expedition led by Katherine and William Scoresby Routledge landed on the island in March 1914, conducting a 17-month...
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    about 67°55′S 44°38′E / 67.917°S 44.633°E / -67.917; 44.633 to William Scoresby Bay at 67°24′S 59°34′E / 67.400°S 59.567°E / -67.400; 59.567, approximately...
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    to the three species of right whales. According to whaling captain William Scoresby Jr., the longest bowhead he measured was 17.7 m (58 ft 1 in) long,...
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    the Kikuyu, 1500-1900. Nairobi: Oxford University Press. Routledge, William Scoresby; Routledge, Katherine Pease (1910). With a Prehistoric People: The...
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  • portion of the coast of Mac. Robertson Land, Antarctica, lying between William Scoresby Bay, at 59°34′E, and Murray Monolith, at 66°54′E. The coast was sighted...
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  • William Routledge may refer to: William Routledge (priest), Scottish Episcopalian priest William Scoresby Routledge, British ethnographer, anthropologist...
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