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[edit] Removed Line

I removed the line "Puget Sound was named after Vancouvers good friend peter Puget." by user:66.235.43.27. I'm sort of dubious, and thinking this is nonsense. Zhatt 17:49, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

if you glance at the wiki's for peter puget, and the puget sound they both say exactly that.
  That it was named after peter puget. Vancouver named everything else around here, why would 
  the second most dominant water feature in the state be any different? I dont want to edit 
  the page, but someone should put that line back in I think.
I found plenty of documentation that the sound was indeed named after Puget; see books by Wing & Nash. Curiously, it was only the southern part of the Sound that Vancouver intended, but the name grew to include Admiralty Inlet et cetera. Whether it is proper to call Vancouver & Puget "friends" is hard to say, since they were Captain and Lieutenant, but they seemed to be on good terms and remained so after their five-year mission together ended; when Vancouver died untimely, Puget helped his brother complete his journal. rewinn 07:09, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Related Books, Articles and Links

  • Book: Voyage Of Discovery To The North Pacific Ocean, And Round The World In The Years 1790-95, by George Vancouver (ISBN: 0781251001)

[edit] This is your chance to say

People can edit Wikipedia, please just add importent info because you can mess someone's work up BAD

[edit] Origins of name

I reverted some comments about the orgins of Vancouver's name. They repeated a link to a web site that is already listed under external links. The tone of the commentary was far from NPOV. Nesbit 03:41, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Not sure what the source of uncertainty is about the origin of Vancouver's name: he himself clearly regarded it as meaning "from Coevorden", as he finished up his survey by naming the island at the head of the Lynn Canal "Couverden Island" after what he described as the "seat of my ancestors". Since this is in his published expedition journal (1798) I don't see how this idea can be represented as having been first proposed in the 1970s. It's the standard and very well established explanation. Jonathan Dore, 16 October 2006.

If you drop in the quote and reference it we can remove the mention of the alternative theory. Nesbit 05:33, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

  • The section got very muddied again. I copy-edited as best I could to remove duplicated information and to footnote the references rather than have them cited in mid-sentence. It still seems like it's given far too much weight in this article. Canuckle 06:11, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Australian exploration?

When did he explore part of Australia? I can't find any other references to this. If he did explore Australia, it would be good to expand on this in the article with details. Can anyone add to this? MrsPlum 08:37, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

If someone would like to tackle this, here is a biography link relating the Australian portion of his career. I am tagging this article for other Australian editors to work on also. Cheers.
George Vancouver bio page

SauliH 03:52, 15 December 2006 (UTC)George Vancouver was a Royal Navy Officer who accompanied James Cook on his second expadition to the Pacific Ocean.

[edit] Probable Portrait

Image of George Vancouver in the National Portrait Gallery in London only states "Probably George Vancouver by unknown artist".

Issue has been widely reported in newsmedia.

NevilleDNZ 22:36, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

    • Did someone delete the portrait? It adds value to the article even if it is flagged as uncertain if it's him. At least the absence of any confirmed portrait should be mentioned in the article....Canuckle 06:15, 12 June 2007 (UTC)