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David Scott Cowper
David Scott Cowper at Stromness, South Georgia in 2003
Photo: David Scott Cowper
Born1942
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
OccupationChartered Building Surveyor
Known forYachtsman, circumnavigator

David Scott Cowper is a British yachtsman, and was the first man to sail solo round the world in both directions and was also the first to successfully sail around the world via the Northwest Passage single-handed.

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List of Arctic expeditions

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party reach the north pole by dog sled without resupply 1986–1989: David Scott Cowper became the first person to have completed the Northwest Passage single-handed...

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Fury and Hecla Strait

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the strait from west to east in 1956. In August 2016, David Scott Cowper and son, Freddy Cowper, aboard M/V Polar Bound became the first vessel to transit...

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List of circumnavigations

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Bulgarian to circumnavigate the globe; traveled in a self-made yacht. David Scott Cowper; 1985; first single-handed circumnavigation by motor boat. Peter Freeman;...

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Newcastle upon Tyne

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Shearer were also born in Newcastle. Multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Nobel Prize winning physicist Peter Higgs, who researched the mass of subatomic...

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Northwest Passage

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had the benefit of doing so over a couple of summers. In July 1986, David Scott Cowper set out from England in a 12.8-metre (42 ft) lifeboat named Mabel...

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List of people from Newcastle upon Tyne

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second-in-command at Trafalgar Jack Common – writer and friend of George Orwell David Scott Cowper – yachtsman and multiple circumnavigator by sailing boat and powerboat...

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List of Freemen of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne

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Thomas Watson Collins: January 1980. Daisy Dorothy Clarke: June 1982. David Scott Cowper: June 1982. Nelson Mandela: April 1986. Andrei Sakharov: April 1986...

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Lord David Cecil

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Deer or The Life of Cowper (1929) [on the poet William Cowper; this won the 1929 James Tait Black Memorial Prize] Sir Walter Scott: The Raven Miscellany...

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John Cowper Powys

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John Cowper Powys (/ˈkuːpər ˈpoʊɪs/ KOO-pər POH-iss; 8 October 1872 – 17 June 1963) was an English novelist, philosopher, lecturer, critic and poet born...

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Blue Water Medal

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and Vicky Jackson (2015) Skip Novak (2014) Jeanne Socrates (2013) David Scott Cowper (2012) Thies Matzen and Kicki Ericson (2011) on Wanderer III "for...

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Berrimilla II

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Circumnavigate the world via both Cape Horn and the North West Passage. David Scott Cowper did it first, but in different boats. In the disastrous 1998 Sydney...

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Robert Falcon Scott

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Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868 – c. 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic...

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Walter Scott

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John Cowper Powys's Owen Glendower, pp. 20–21 Mitchell, Jerome (1977) Walter Scott Operas. University, Alabama. Mitchell, Jerome (1996) More Scott Operas...

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Terra Nova Expedition

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was also a talented illustrator. Wilson's scientific team—which Scott's biographer David Crane considered "as impressive a group of scientists as had ever...

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List of people from St Albans

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1976), author and academic, attended St Albans School William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper (c. 1665–1723), Lord Chancellor of England. Dark Stares, rock band...

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Atticus Ross

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Atticus Matthew Cowper Ross (born 16 January 1968) is an English musician, record producer, composer, and audio engineer. Along with Trent Reznor, he won...

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List of modernist writers

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T. S. Eliot, Anna Akhmatova, William Faulkner, Dorothy Richardson, John Cowper Powys, and Ezra Pound. Basil Bunting, born in 1901, published his most important...

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Bridgerton

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recurring: season 1–2) as Lady Araminta Cowper, Cressida's mother Dominic Coleman (season 3; recurring: season 2) as Lord Cowper, Cressida's father Ruby Stokes...

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1990 Alaska gubernatorial election

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the open seat of Governor of Alaska. In 1989, incumbent Governor Steve Cowper, a Democrat, had announced that he would not seek re-election for a second...

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Wuthering Heights

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its huge stature among other novels. Similarly, Woolf's contemporary John Cowper Powys referred in 1916 to Emily Brontë's "tremendous vision". In 1926 Charles...

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The Overlook Press

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Raymond Loewy David Mamet Charles McCarry Joseph McElroy Walter Moers Bárbara Mujica Jim Nisbet Mervyn Peake Charles Portis John Cowper Powys Peter Quinn...

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Ernest Shackleton

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ABC-CLIO. Crane, David (2005). Scott of the Antarctic. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-715068-7. Fiennes, Ranulph (2003). Captain Scott. Hodder & Stoughton...

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