• Edward Bransfield (c. 1785 – 31 October 1852) was a Royal Navy officer who served as a master on several ships, after being impressed into service in...
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  • Bransfield is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Edward Bransfield (c. 1785–1852), Irish sailor and naval officer Kitty Bransfield (1875–1947)...
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    named after the former BAS ship RRS Bransfield, itself named after the Irish sailor and explorer Edward Bransfield. There is a link corridor to the garage...
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    Royal Navy chartered Williams and dispatched with her with Lieutenant Edward Bransfield on board to survey the newly discovered islands and formally claim...
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  • invented by William Reid Clanny. 1820: Trinity Peninsula discovered by Edward Bransfield. Modern meat curing and the Bacon Rasher invented by Henry Denny,...
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    Coast of Tower Island. The island was named on 30 January 1820 by Edward Bransfield, Master, Royal Navy, who described it as a round island. A number...
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  • Berry Edward W. Bingham Olav Bjaaland Alfred Björling Carsten Borchgrevink Jon Bowermaster Henry Robertson Bowers Louise Arner Boyd Edward Bransfield Philip...
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    Bransfield Strait or Fleet Sea (Spanish: Estrecho de Bransfield, Mar de la Flota) is a body of water about 100 kilometres (60 mi) wide extending for 300...
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    sighted for the second time by Irish-born British Royal Navy captain Edward Bransfield in the Williams. July – Botanist Edwin James becomes the first recorded...
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    Island was sighted in January 1820 by a British expedition under Edward Bransfield, and so named by him because penguins occupied the shores of the island...
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