Francisco Antonio Mourelle de la Rúa was a Spanish Galician naval officer and explorer serving the Spanish crown. He was born in 1750 at San Adrián de Corme, near A Coruña, Galicia.

Brigadier Alejandro Malaspina was a Spanish Navy officer and explorer. Under a Spanish royal commission, he undertook a voyage around the world from 1786 to 1788, then, from 1789 to 1794, a scientific