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    William Ambrosia Cowley, also known as Ambrose Cowley and Captain Cowley, was a 17th-century English buccaneer who surveyed the Galápagos Islands during...
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    first voyage. The islands were mapped by the English buccaneer William Ambrosia Cowley in 1684 and by the British captain James Colnett in 1793. The names...
    112 KB (12,511 words) - 19:50, 25 June 2024
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    in the West Indies. The name was bestowed by the English pirate William Ambrosia Cowley in 1684 and preserved for centuries thereafter. Ferdandina is the...
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    the quadricentennial of Columbus's voyage. The English pirate William Ambrosia Cowley named the island King Charles's Island in 1684 in honor of the...
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    Catholicism as the patron saint of sailors. The English pirate William Ambrosia Cowley named it Dassigney's Island in 1684, later shortened to Dassigney...
    12 KB (865 words) - 13:00, 21 December 2023
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    sometimes known as Chavez Island (Isla Chávez). The English pirate William Ambrosia Cowley named the island the Duke of Norfolk's Island in 1684, later shortened...
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    Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper. The name was bestowed by the pirate William Ambrosia Cowley in 1684 and continued in use for centuries thereafter. The group...
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    similarly remembers another one of his ships. The English pirate William Ambrosia Cowley did not apparently chart or name this island in his 17th-century...
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  • Pinta Island is named after the ship itself. The English pirate William Ambrosia Cowley charted the island as Dean's Island in honor of Samuel Pepys's...
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  • Martín Alonso Pinzón. The island was charted by the English pirate William Ambrosia Cowley as Earl of Abingdon's Island in 1684 in honor of James Bertie,...
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    was named Lord Culpepper's Island in his honour by the pirate William Ambrosia Cowley in 1684 and the name Culpepper Island was maintained for centuries...
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    Narborough Island in his honour by the 17th-century buccaneer William Ambrosia Cowley. Narborough's memorial is a marble plaque inside the church "Biography:...
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    originally bestowed by the pirate William Ambrosia Cowley in 1684 and altered in 1685 after James's coronation. Cowley had similarly named Floreana Island...
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  • in the Galapagos Archipelago was charted by the English pirate William Ambrosia Cowley as "Bindlos's Island" in his honor in 1684, a name it bore for...
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    Quita Sueño, Spanish for "Nightmare Island". The English pirate William Ambrosia Cowley charted it as Eures's Island in 1684, which later became Eure or...
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    3rd Viscount Wenman. The name was bestowed by the English pirate William Ambrosia Cowley in 1684 and used for centuries thereafter. The group formed by...
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    pdf); Relevant fragment.) William Ambrosia Cowley, Cowley's Voyage Round the Globe, in Collection of Original Voyages, ed. William Hacke, James Knapton, London...
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  • honor of the Spanish monk Antonio de Marchena. The English pirate William Ambrosia Cowley charted the island as Bindlos's Island in 1684, naming it in honor...
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    six volumes (1835–1838). William Ambrosia Cowley. Cowley's Voyage Round the Globe, in Collection of Original Voyages, ed. William Hacke. London: James Knapton...
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  • Turbo Rae Bridgman – The MiddleGate Books: The Serpent's Spell, Amber Ambrosia, Fish & Sphinx Katharine Mary Briggs (1898–1980) – Hobberdy Dick, Kate...
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