Sentence examples for british navigator from inspiring English sources
The British navigator Lieut.
The peak was sighted (1770) by the British navigator Capt.
They were first sighted in 1767 by the British navigator Philip Carteret.
About 30 years later, Matthew Flinders, a British navigator, saw the reef in a different light.
The island was visited in 1767 by a British navigator, Philip Carteret, who named it Winchelsea.
The islands were visited in 1767 by the British navigator Capt.
Discovered independently in 1791 (on the same day) by the British navigators George Vancouver and William Broughton, the group is without human habitation.
In 1798 to 1799, two British navigators, George Bass and Matthew Flinders, circumnavigated Tasmania, and in 1801 03 Flinders charted the coast of the Great Australian Bight and circumnavigated the continent, thereby proving that there was no strait from the bight to the Gulf of Carpentaria.
THE notebooks of the Portuguese and British navigators of the early 16th and 17th centuries who pushed into the Indian Ocean off the coast of East Africa are crammed with descriptions of the Seychelles, a scattered group of 115 lofty granite and low coral islands uninhabited until the late 1700's.
While Rogers' book enjoyed financial success, it had a practical purpose to aid British navigators and possible colonists.
The German commander of Ostend had been better prepared than his counterpart at Zeebrugge and had recognised that without the navigation buoy no night attack on Ostend could be successful without a strong familiarity with the port, which none of the British navigators possessed.
