Mount Dampier
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Mount Dampier is New Zealand's third highest mountain, rising to 3,440 metres. It is located in the Southern Alps, between Mount Hicks and Aoraki / Mount Cook. It is often traversed by climbers en rou
Aoraki (middle) and Mount Dampier (right)
William Dampier
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William Dampier was an English explorer, pirate, privateer and naturalist who became the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumnavigate the world
Mount Dampier
…roa (transl. 'long'). The English name was originally Mount Hector, after James Hector, but in Fitzgerald's map of 1896 the peak had been renamed after William Dampier. List of mountains of New Zealand by height…
Portrait by Thomas Murray, c. 1697–1698
Giolo (Jeoly) of Miangas, who became a slave in Mindanao, and bought by William Dampier together with Jeoly's mother, who died at sea. Jeoly was exhibited in London in 1691 to large crowds as a sideshow, until he died of smallpox three months later.
Australian plant life from Dampier's A Voyage to New Holland, published in 1703
Engraving of Dampier's encounter with the storm off Aceh, in modern-day Indonesia, by Caspar Luyken