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Samuel Wallis (23 April 1728 – London
London

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 21 January 1795) was a Cornish
Cornwall

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 navigator
Navigator

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 who circumnavigated the world.

Wallis was born near Camelford
Camelford

Camelford is a town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.The town lies on the River Camel, and a few miles north-west of the highest part of Bodmin Moor....
, Cornwall
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
. In 1766 he was given the command of HMS Dolphin
HMS Dolphin (1751)

HMS Dolphin was a 24-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Launched in 1751, she was used as a survey ship from 1764 and made two circumnavigations of the world under the successive commands of John Byron and Samuel Wallis....
 to circumnavigate the world, accompanied by the Swallow under the command of Philip Carteret
Philip Carteret

Philip Carteret, Seigneur of Trinity, Jersey was a United Kingdom naval officer and List of explorers who participated in the Royal Navy's circumnavigation expedition of 1766....
. The two ships were parted shortly after sailing through the Strait of Magellan
Strait of Magellan

The Strait of Magellan comprises a navigable sea route immediately south of mainland Chile and north of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego. The waterway is the most important natural passage between the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans, but it is considered a difficult route to navigate because of the inhospitable climate and the narrowness o...
, Wallis continuing to Tahiti
Tahiti

O Tahiti is the largest island in the Windward Islands group of French Polynesia, located in the archipelago of Society Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean....
, which he named "King George the Third's Island" in honour of the King (June 1767).






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Samuel Wallis (23 April 1728 – London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 21 January 1795) was a Cornish
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
 navigator
Navigator

A navigator is the person onboard a ship or aircraft responsible for its navigation. The navigator's primary responsibility is to be aware of ship or aircraft position at all times....
 who circumnavigated the world.

Wallis was born near Camelford
Camelford

Camelford is a town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.The town lies on the River Camel, and a few miles north-west of the highest part of Bodmin Moor....
, Cornwall
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
. In 1766 he was given the command of HMS Dolphin
HMS Dolphin (1751)

HMS Dolphin was a 24-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Launched in 1751, she was used as a survey ship from 1764 and made two circumnavigations of the world under the successive commands of John Byron and Samuel Wallis....
 to circumnavigate the world, accompanied by the Swallow under the command of Philip Carteret
Philip Carteret

Philip Carteret, Seigneur of Trinity, Jersey was a United Kingdom naval officer and List of explorers who participated in the Royal Navy's circumnavigation expedition of 1766....
. The two ships were parted shortly after sailing through the Strait of Magellan
Strait of Magellan

The Strait of Magellan comprises a navigable sea route immediately south of mainland Chile and north of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego. The waterway is the most important natural passage between the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans, but it is considered a difficult route to navigate because of the inhospitable climate and the narrowness o...
, Wallis continuing to Tahiti
Tahiti

O Tahiti is the largest island in the Windward Islands group of French Polynesia, located in the archipelago of Society Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean....
, which he named "King George the Third's Island" in honour of the King (June 1767). He continued to Batavia
Jakarta

Jakarta is the Capital and largest city of Indonesia. It also has a List of urban areas by population than any other city in Southeast Asia. It was formerly known as Sunda Kelapa , Jayakarta , Batavia, Dutch East Indies , and Djakarta ....
, where many of the crew died from dysentery
Dysentery

Dysentery is a disorder of the digestive system that results in severe diarrhea containing mucus and/or blood in the feces. If untreated, Dysentery can be fatal....
, then via the Cape of Good Hope
Cape of Good Hope

The Cape of Good Hope is a rocky headlands and bays on the Atlantic Ocean coast of South Africa. There is a very common misconception that the Cape of Good Hope is the southern tip of Africa and the dividing point between the Atlantic Ocean and Indian Oceans, but in fact the southernmost point is Cape Agulhas, about 150 kilometres t...
 to England, arriving in May 1768. He was able to pass on useful information to James Cook
James Cook

Captain James Cook Royal Society Royal Navy was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer, ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy....
 who was due to depart shortly for the Pacific, and some of the crew from the Dolphin sailed with Cook.

In 1780 Wallis was appointed Commissioner of the Admiralty
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.

The Polynesia
Polynesia

Polynesia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising a large grouping of over 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean....
n archipelago of Wallis and Futuna
Wallis and Futuna

Wallis and Futuna, officially the Territory of Wallis and Futuna Islands , is a Polynesian French island territory in the Oceania between Fiji and Samoa....
 (now a French
France

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 overseas collectivity) is named in his honour.