About this design
Extremely underrated, William Dampier (c.1651–1715) was an English buccaneer and navigator. He was the first person to circumnavigate the world 3 times! Also the first Englishman to set foot in Australia and he discovered the island of New Britain. Dampier Strait and the Dampier Archipelago are named for him. A New Voyage Around the World (1697), a lively account of his exploits, provided background material used by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels. Dampier's discourse on winds, tides, and currents, contained in his Voyages and Discoveries (1699), was a pioneer work on meteorology and hydrography. His charts and navigational data were used by English sea captains for a century.








