George Dixon (Royal Navy officer)
George Dixon was an English sea captain, explorer, and maritime fur trader. George Dixon was "born in Leath Ward, a native of Kirkoswald". The son of Thomas Dixon, he was baptised in Kirkoswald on 8 July 1748.
Illustration of Oahu, from the French translation of Dixon's book A Voyage Round the World
The maritime fur trade, a ship-based fur trade system, focused largely on acquiring furs of sea otters and other animals from the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast and natives of Alaska. Entrepreneurs also exploited fur-bearing skins from the wider Pacific and from the Southern Ocean.
The settlement of Grigory Shelikhov on Kodiak Island
Captain James Cook
The launch of the North-West America at Nootka Sound, 1788
Old Sitka