George Dixon (Royal Navy officer)

George Dixon (* 1755; ? † 1800 ) was a British sailor, officer and explorer.

Dixon served under Captain Cook in his third expedition, where he met the commercial opportunities on the northwest coast of America. After the end of Cook's expedition Dixon was a captain in the Royal Navy.

From autumn 1785 to 1788, he led, together with Nathaniel Portlock in command of the ships HMS HMS King George and Queen Charlotte in the service of society King George's Sound Company of London. In the summers of 1786 and 1787, he explored the coasts of present-day British Columbia (Canada), where he was about to open up a fur trade. He spent a winter on the Hawaiian Islands, where he was the first European to visit the island of Molokai. His main findings were the Queen Charlotte Islands, Queen Charlotte Sound, Port Mulgrave, Norfolk Bay, and the Dixon Entrance.

After he was in China, where he sold his cargo furs, he returned in 1788 to England and published Voyage of Meares (1790), The Navigator 's Assistant ( 1791) and 1799, the book A Voyage Round the World, but More particlarly to the North West Coast of America.

There was a controversy between Dixon and John Meares, another navigator who is said to have issued a book with Dixons discoveries as his own. The dispute ended with the fact that Dixon and Meares publicly denounced in pamphlets. In retrospect, had Dixon with his view of law.

N.B.

There was a George Dixon, navigation in Gosport ( UK) and taught a treatise entitled The Navigator 's Assistant in 1791 wrote. It is not clear whether this is the same person.