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    Captain Tobias Furneaux (21 August 1735 – 18 September 1781) was a British navigator and Royal Navy officer, who accompanied James Cook on his second...
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    Tasmania, Australia. The islands were named after British navigator Tobias Furneaux, who sighted the eastern side of these islands after leaving Adventure...
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    Ghost) Tobias Fornell (character on the TV series "NCIS") Tobias Forsberg (hockey winger) Tobias Frere-Jones (type designer) Tobias Furneaux (Royal Navy...
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    to Eddystone Point. The bay was given its name in 1773 by Captain Tobias Furneaux in Adventure, who saw the fires of Aboriginal people on the beaches...
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    Cape Barren Island (category Furneaux Group)
    Island. The south-eastern point of the island was named Cape Barren by Tobias Furneaux in HMS Adventure in March 1773. The island was gazetted as a locality...
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    embarked from Huahine on the British ship HMS Adventure, commanded by Tobias Furneaux, which had previously touched at Tahiti as part of Cook's second voyage...
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  • Robin Furneaux or Frederick Smith (1936–1985), 3rd Earl of Birkenhead Thomas Furneaux Lennon or Thomas Lennon (filmmaker), documentary filmmaker Tobias Furneaux...
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    of the south-eastern islands of the Furneaux Group were first recorded in 1773 by British navigator Tobias Furneaux, commander of HMS Adventure, the support...
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    landed at (nearby but different) Blackmans Bay, and the following year Tobias Furneaux became the first Englishman to land in Tasmania when he arrived at...
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  • Fields John Franklin Peter Freuchen Martin Frobisher Vivian Fuchs Tobias Furneaux Yakov Gakkel Matvei Gedenschtrom Adrien de Gerlache Johann Georg Gmelin...
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