query: Asian port state-city Sir Stamford Raffles

positive: Clifford Pier Clifford Pier is a pier located beside Collyer Quay at Marina Bay within the Downtown Core of Central Area, in Singapore's central business district. Built in 1933, Clifford Pier was a landing point for immigrants and other sea passengers. A red oil lamp used to hang from the pier as a guide to seafarers, earning the pier the name Red Lamp Pier (Chinese: 红灯码头).

positive: Downtown Core The Downtown Core is a 266-hectare urban planning area in the south of the city-state of Singapore. The Downtown Core surrounds the mouth of the Singapore River and southeastern portion of its watershed, and is part of the Central Area, Singapore's central business district. It is one of the most dense areas in Singapore, even more than other divisions in the Central Area, to the extent that much of it is filled with skyscrapers.

positive: Raffles' Landing Site The Raffles' Landing Site is the location where tradition holds that Sir Stamford Raffles landed in on 29 January 1819. The site is located at Boat Quay within the Civic District, in the Downtown Core of the Central Area, Singapore's central business district.

positive: Raffles Institution (Junior College) The Year 5-6 section of Raffles Institution (RI) offers the Raffles Programme at pre-university level. RI, the oldest centre of learning in Singapore, is an independent public school founded in 1823 by Sir Stamford Raffles. Its current campus is in Bishan.Formerly Raffles Junior College (RJC), it merged with Raffles Institution on 1 January 2009, with whom it had shared a common Board of Governors since June 2008.

positive: Singapore Singapore (/ˈsɪŋəpɔr/ or /ˈsɪŋɡəpɔr/), officially the Republic of Singapore, and often referred to as the Lion City, the Garden City, and the Red Dot, is a leading global city-state and island country in Southeast Asia. It lies at the southernmost tip of continental Asia, one degree (137 km; 85 mi) north of the equator, and is separated from Peninsular Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to the north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the Singapore Strait to the south.

positive: Singapore in Malaysia Singapore was one of the 14 states of Malaysia from 1963 to 1965. It became part of Malaysia on 16 September 1963, Malaysia being a new political entity formed from the merger of the Federation of Malaya with North Borneo, Sarawak and Singapore.

positive: Stamford House, Singapore Stamford House (Chinese: 史丹福大厦; pinyin: Shǐdānfú dàshà) is a historic building located at the corner of the junction of Stamford Road and Hill Street, in the Downtown Core of Singapore. Originally known as Oranje Building (sometimes spelled Oranjie), it currently houses a shopping mall.

positive: Stamford Raffles Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, FRS (6 July 1781 – 5 July 1826) was a British statesman, Lieutenant-Governor of British Java (1811–1815) and Governor-General of Bencoolen (1817–1822), best known for his founding of Singapore. He was also heavily involved in the conquest of the Indonesian island of Java from Dutch and French military forces during the Napoleonic Wars and contributed to the expansion of the British Empire.

positive: Timeline of Singaporean history This is a timeline of Singaporean history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Singapore and its predecessor states.  To read about the background to these events, see History of Singapore.  See also the list of years in Singapore.

negative: Asia Insurance Building The former Asia Insurance Building (Chinese: 前亚洲保险大厦; pinyin: qián Yàzhōu Bǎoxiǎn dàshà) is a high-rise building formerly for commercial use, located on Finlayson Green near Raffles Place, in Singapore's Downtown Core. The Asia Insurance Building was also known as the A.I. Building, but was renamed to Ascott Raffles Place after the Ascott Group (a division of CapitaLand) completed its redevelopment of the building into a serviced apartment residence in November 2008.

negative: Beach Road, Singapore Beach Road (Chinese: 美芝路; Malay: Jalan Pantai) is a road located within the Kallang Planning Area and Downtown Core in Singapore.The road starts at its junction with Crawford Street in Kallang in the north, runs in a generally southerly direction, enters the Downtown Core at its junction with Ophir Road, and ends at its junction with Stamford Road and Saint Andrew's Road to the south.

negative: Bencoolen Street Bencoolen Street (Chinese: 明古连街; pinyin: Mínggǔlián Jiē, Malay: Lebuh Bengkulu) is a street in Central, Singapore that starts at the junction of Rochor Road and Jalan Besar and ends at the junction of Fort Canning Road, Stamford Road and Orchard Road. The street houses several landmarks including Sim Lim Square, Bencoolen Mosque and Albert Complex.

negative: Boat Quay Boat Quay is a historical quay in Singapore which is situated upstream from the mouth of the Singapore River on its southern bank.It was the busiest part of the old Port of Singapore, handling three quarters of all shipping business during the 1860s.

negative: Bras Basah Road Bras Basah Road (Chinese: 勿拉士巴沙路; Malay: Jalan Bras Basah) is a one-way road in Singapore in the planning areas of Museum and Downtown Core. The road starts at the junction of Orchard Road and Handy Road, at the ERP gantry towards the Central Business District, and ends at the junction of Nicoll Highway and Raffles Boulevard which then becomes Raffles Boulevard.

negative: British Bencoolen British Bencoolen was a British possession in Sumatra based in the area of what is now Bengkulu City. A presence was established in 1685.Originally a Presidency within British India, in 1785 it was downgraded to Bencoolen Residency and placed under the Bengal Presidency.On 15 October 1817, Stamford Raffles was appointed Governor-General of Bencoolen.

negative: Calyptomena The bird genus Calyptomena, first described by Thomas Stamford Raffles in 1822, consists of three species of south-east Asian broadbills with primarily green plumages. All are found in forests, and two of the species are endemic to Borneo.

negative: Chief Secretary, Singapore The Chief Secretary, Singapore, known as the Colonial Secretary, Singapore, from 1946 to 1955, was one of the highest ranking government civil positions in the colonial Singapore.

negative: City-state A city-state is a sovereign state consisting of a city and its dependent territories. Historically this included famous cities like Rome, Athens, Carthage and the Italian city-states during the Renaissance, but today only a handful of sovereign city-states exist, with some disagreement as to which states should and should not be considered as city-states.  However, a great deal of consensus exists that the term properly applies to Singapore, Monaco and Vatican City.

negative: City Hall MRT Station City Hall MRT Station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station in Singapore, that is part of the North South Line and the East West Line in Singapore, and serves as an interchange station between the two lines.It is located in the Civic District in the Downtown Core, which is within the Central Area, the central business district of Singapore. It is situated underground, beneath the junction of Stamford Road and North Bridge Road, and is thus east of the Singapore River.

negative: Crestless fireback The crestless fireback (Lophura erythrophthalma) is a species of bird in the Phasianidae family. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

negative: Dischidia major Dischidia major or Malayan Urn Vine is an unusual plant first encountered in 1772 as a specimen sent from Madras to Nathaniel Wallich, the curator of the Calcutta Botanical Garden. He published a description in the second volume of Plantae Asiaticae Rariores and named it Dischidia rafflesiana in honour of his late friend Sir Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore. The honorific did not survive the test of time, but the peculiar morphology of the plant persists.

negative: FRHI Hotels & Resorts FRHI Hotels & Resorts is a Toronto, Canada based hotel management company owned by Qatar based Katara Hospitality and Saudi Arabia based Kingdom Holding Company.The Company was formed in January 2006, when Kingdom Holdings and Colony Capital entered into a joint venture.  Through that partnership the two groups acquired Fairmont Hotels and Resorts and combined Fairmont's business with Colony Capital owned Raffles Hotels International, the parent for the Raffles and Swissôtel brands.

negative: Fairfield County, Connecticut Fairfield County is the southwestern-most and most populous county of the U.S. state of Connecticut.  As of the 2010 census, the county's population was 916,829, estimated to have increased by 3.1% to 945,438 in 2014.

negative: Fairmont Singapore Fairmont Singapore (Chinese: 费尔蒙特酒店), formerly Raffles The Plaza (Chinese: 莱佛士大厦) is the sister hotel of Swissôtel The Stamford located within the Raffles City complex in Singapore. It has a total of 769 rooms and suites housed within two 26-story towers.

negative: Fort Canning Fort Canning (Chinese: 福康宁; pinyin: Fúkangníng, Malay:Bukit Larangan, Tamil: Pokamutiyatha Arasarin Malai ) is a small hill slightly more than 60 metres high in the southeast portion of the island city-state of Singapore, within the Central Area that forms Singapore's central business district.

negative: Founding of modern Singapore Modern Singapore was founded in 1819 by Sir Stamford Raffles as a British colony. This was distinct from its earlier probable use as a port in ancient times during the dominance of Srivijaya, and later, Melaka in the region.

negative: George Drumgoole Coleman George Drumgoole Coleman (1795 – 1844), also known as George Drumgold Coleman, was an Irish civil architect who played an instrumental role in the design and construction of much of the civil infrastructure in Singapore, after it was founded by Sir Stamford Raffles in 1819.Born in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland, he was the son of James Coleman, a merchant, part of whose business was dealing in building materials.

negative: George Francis Joseph George Francis Joseph (1764 – 1846) was an English portrait painter.

negative: History of Singapore The written history of Singapore dates back to the third century. Later, the Kingdom of Singapura rose in importance during the 14th century under the rule of Srivijayan prince Parameswara and Singapore became an important port, until it was destroyed by Acehnese raiders in 1613. The modern history of Singapore began in 1819 when Englishman Sir Stamford Raffles established a British port on the island.

negative: History of the Jews in Singapore The first Jews to settle in Singapore were of Bagdadi origin, mainly from India, who migrated to Singapore soon after Sir Stamford Raffles established Singapore as a trading post in 1819. A couple of decades after the Sultan of Johor in 1824 sold the 200-square-mile (520 km2) area to  the British, the Jewish community was large enough to build a synagogue seating 40 persons on what is still known as "Synagogue Street."

negative: Jackson Plan The Jackson Plan of 1822, also known as the "Plan of the Town of Singapore", was an urban plan for Singapore drawn up to maintain some order in the urban development of the fledgling but thriving colony founded just three years earlier.

negative: Kingdom of Singapura The Kingdom of Singapura (Malay: Kerajaan Singapura) was a historical Malay kingdom that existed on the island of Singapore from 1299 until its fall in 1398.

negative: Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum The Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (LKCNHM) at the Kent Ridge Campus of the National University of Singapore houses the Raffles Natural History Collection. It officially opened on 18 April 2015.The idea for a natural history collection was first mooted by Sir Stamford Raffles, and the collection of Southeast Asian biodiversity was begun in 1849 at the Raffles Museum (now the National Museum of Singapore).

negative: List of tallest buildings in Singapore The city-state of Singapore has over 4,300 completed high-rises, the majority of which are located in the Downtown Core. In the city, there are 59 skyscrapers that rise higher than 140 metres (459 ft). Three buildings share the title of tallest building in Singapore: United Overseas Bank Plaza One, Republic Plaza and Overseas Union Bank Centre. The three towers, which share the title of 128th-tallest building in the world, are each 280 m (919 ft) tall.

negative: Long Ya Men Long Ya Men (Chinese: 龙牙门; pinyin: lóngyámén) or Dragon's Teeth Gate, is the name given to a craggy granite outcrop that formerly stood at the gateway to Keppel Harbour in Singapore.  The rocky outcrop served as navigational aids to ancient mariners sailing through the swift waters of the narrow channel between them, but was subsequently destroyed by the British in 1848 to widen the channel for larger vessels to sail through.

negative: National Library, Singapore The National Library (Chinese: 国家图书馆, Malay: Perpustakaan Negara, Tamil: தேசிய நூலகம்) in Singapore is located on an 11,304-square metre site between Bugis Junction and the Bras Basah Complex at 100, Victoria Street. The current building, a 16-storey, two-block development situated in the city's Civic District, replaces the old National Library at Stamford Road, which closed on 31 March 2004.

negative: National Library Board The National Library Board (Abbreviation: NLB; Chinese: 国家图书馆管理局; pinyin: Guójiā Túshūguǎn Guǎnlǐjú; Malay: Lembaga Perpustakaan Negara; Tamil: தேசிய நூலக வாரியம்) is a statutory board of the Ministry of Communications and Information, Singapore.

negative: National Museum of Singapore The National Museum of Singapore (Chinese: 新加坡国家博物院) is a national museum in Singapore and the oldest museum in Singapore. Its history dates back to 1849 when it was started as a section of a library at Singapore Institution.

negative: Old National Library Building The Old National Library Building was a historical building at Stamford Road in the Museum Planning Area of Singapore. Originally completed in 1960, it housed the National Library and was a national icon for many Singaporeans. Despite a huge groundswell of public dissent, the library was closed on 31 March 2004, and was demolished to make way for the construction of the Fort Canning Tunnel to ease road traffic to the city.

negative: Olivia Mariamne Devenish Olivia Mariamne Devenish (1771 – 26 November 1814), was the spouse of Thomas Stamford Raffles, vice governor of Java (1811–1816), from 1805 to 1814. A memorial monument was erected to her memory in the botanical garden of Buitenzorg (Bogor).

negative: Polong Polong is Malay for a spirit enslaved by a man (most of the time) for personal use. Like the Hantu Raya and Toyol, it has a master. It is an unseen ghost that can be used by a black magic practitioner to harm someone.

negative: Port Klang Port Klang is a town and the main gateway by sea into Malaysia. Known during colonial times as Port Swettenham but renamed Port Klang in July 1972, it is the largest port in the country. It is located about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) southwest of the town of Klang, and 38 kilometres (24 mi) southwest of Kuala Lumpur. Pulau Indah, Pulau Ketam and the other surrounding island are under Port Klang Authority.Located in the District of Klang, it was the 12th busiest container port (2012) in the world.

negative: Port of Karachi The Port of Karachi (Urdu: کراچی بندرگاہ Bandar gāh Karāchī) is one of South Asia's largest and busiest deep-water seaports, handling about 60% of the nation's cargo (25 million tons per annum) located in Karachi, Pakistan. It is located between the Karachi towns of Kiamari and Saddar, close to the main business district and several industrial areas. The geographic position of the port places it in close proximity to major shipping routes such as the Strait of Hormuz.

negative: Port of Singapore The Port of Singapore refers to the collective facilities and terminals that conduct maritime trade handling functions in harbours and which handle Singapore's shipping. Currently the world's second-busiest port in terms of total shipping tonnage, it also trans-ships a fifth of the world's shipping containers, half of the world's annual supply of crude oil, and is the world's busiest transshipment port.

negative: Postage stamps and postal history of Singapore This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Singapore.Singapore is an island city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, 137km north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia's Riau Islands. Singapore is the smallest nation in Southeast Asia.The island rose in importance during the 14th century and became an important port until it was destroyed by Portuguese raiders in 1613.

negative: Raffles Bay Raffles Bay is a bay on the northern coast of the Cobourg Peninsula of the Top End of the Northern Territory of Australia.  It was named in 1818 by explorer Phillip Parker King after Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles.  It is about 10 km long north to south, 5 km wide at its mouth and 3 km wide at its inland end.  It lies about 210 km north-east of Darwin and opens on to the northern end of Bowen Strait, between the Cobourg Peninsula and Croker Island, and the Arafura Sea.

negative: Raffles City Raffles City is a large complex located in the Civic District within the Downtown Core of the city-state of Singapore. Occupying an entire city block bounded by Stamford Road, Beach Road, Bras Basah Road and North Bridge Road, it houses two hotels and an office tower over a podium which contains a shopping complex and a convention centre.

negative: Raffles Cup The Raffles Cup is a Thoroughbred horse race held annually in the first week of November at Kranji Racecourse in Singapore. Contested on turf over a left-handed course, the domestic Group One race is run over a distance 1800 metres (1.12 miles / 9 furlongs) and is open to horses age three and older.The Raffles Cup was inaugurated in 1991 at the Bukit Timah Race Course and raced there through 1999 when the track was closed to be replaced by the new Kranji Racecourse.

negative: Raffles Holdings Raffles Holdings SGX: R03 was the parent company of Raffles International. It is owned by Temasek Holdings which is the investment arm of the Singapore government.  In 2005, Raffles Holdings' hotel business ranked 17th or 18th in the world in terms of market capitalization and number of rooms, all marketed under the Raffles and Swissôtel brand names.

negative: Raffles Hotel Raffles Hotel is a colonial-style hotel in Singapore. It was established by two Armenian brothers from Persia—Martin and Tigran Sarkies—in 1887. In later years they were joined by younger brothers Aviet and Arshak and kinsman Martyrose Arathoon. They also built hotels in Penang and Rangoon. With their innovative cuisine and extensive modernisations, the firm built the hotel into Singapore's best known icon.

negative: Raffles Institution Raffles Institution (RI), founded in 1823, is the oldest and widely considered to be the most prestigious school in Singapore for pre-tertiary learning. It is an independent school, providing secondary education through a boys-only Year 1-4 section and pre-university education through a coeducational Year 5-6 section.

negative: Raffles Place Raffles Place is a geographical location in Singapore, south of the mouth of the Singapore River. Located in the Downtown Core and the Central Area, it features some of the tallest buildings and landmarks of the country.

negative: Raffles Place MRT Station Raffles Place MRT Station is a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) interchange station on the North South Line and the East West Line in Singapore. It is directly beneath the centre of the financial district of Raffles Place, located in the Downtown Core area, south of the Singapore River. It is one of the more prominent and busier stations within Singapore's transport system, especially being an interchange station located within the Central Area.

negative: Rafflesia Rafflesia is a genus of parasitic flowering plants. It contains approximately 28 species (including four incompletely characterized species as recognized by Willem Meijer in 1997), all found in southeastern Asia, in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines.Rafflesia was found in the Indonesian rain forest by an Indonesian guide working for Dr. Joseph Arnold in 1818, and named after Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the leader of the expedition.

negative: Sibolga Sibolga (formerly sometimes Siboga) is a city and a port located in the natural harbour of Sibolga Bay on the west coast of North Sumatra province, in Indonesia. It is located on the western side of North Sumatra, facing the Indian Ocean and is a transit harbour to the Nias island which was hard hit during the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake. The City has an area of 10.77 km2 and had a population of 84,444 at the 2010 Census.

negative: Singapore River The Singapore River is a  river in Singapore that flows from the Central Area, which lies in the Central Region in the southern part of Singapore before emptying into the ocean. The immediate upper watershed of the Singapore River is known as the Singapore River Planning Area, although the northernmost part of the watershed becomes River Valley. As the Central Area is treated as a central business district, nearly all land surrounding it is commercial.

negative: Singapore in the Straits Settlements Singapore in the Straits Settlements refers to a period in the history of Singapore from 1826 to 1942, during which Singapore was part of the Straits Settlements together with Penang and Malacca. From 1830 to 1867 the Straits Settlements was a residency, or subdivision, of the Presidency of Bengal, in British India. In 1867, the Straits Settlements became a separate Crown colony, directly overseen by the Colonial Office in London.

negative: Singaporeans Singaporeans or Singaporean people are people who identify with the city-state of Singapore, regardless of ethnicity. Singapore is a multi-racial country, with Chinese, Malays and Indians making up majority of the population. The majority of Singaporeans descend from the people of China, India and the Malay Archipelago. In 1819, the port of Singapore was established by Sir Stamford Raffles, and opened the port to free trade and free immigration on the south coast of the island.

negative: Sri Mariamman Temple, Singapore The Sri Mariamman Temple is Singapore's oldest Hindu temple. It is an agamic temple, built in the Dravidian style. Located at 244 South Bridge Road, in the downtown Chinatown district, the temple serves the majority Hindu Singaporeans, Tamilians, in the city-state. Due to its architectural and historical significance, the temple has been gazetted a National Monument and is a major tourist attraction.

negative: Stamford, Connecticut Stamford is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. According to the 2010 census, the population of the city is 122,643. As of July 1, 2014, according to the Census Bureau, the population of Stamford had risen to 128,278, making it the third largest city in the state and the seventh largest city in New England.

negative: Stamford, Lincolnshire Stamford is a town on the River Welland in Lincolnshire, England, 92 miles (148 km) north of London on the A1. The population at the 2001 census was 21,800 including the adjacent parish of St Martin's Without.The town has 17th and 18th-century stone buildings, older timber-framed buildings and five medieval parish churches. In 2013, Stamford was rated the best place to live by the Sunday Times.

negative: Stamford High School, Lincolnshire Stamford High School is an English girls' Independent School situated in the market town of Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, situated on High Street, St Martin's.

negative: Stamford Raffles-Flint Stamford Raffles-Flint (6 February 1847-15 August 1925) was Archdeacon of Cornwall from 1916 until his death.He was the son of William Charles Raffles Flint and his wife Jenny Rosdew Mudge, daughter of Richard Zachariah Mudge, educated at Eton and University College, Oxford and ordained in 1871. After a curacy at Alverstoke he was Rector of Ladock from 1885 until  1920 when he  became Canon Residentiary and Treasurer of Truro Cathedral.

negative: Stamford Raffles Award Stamford Raffles Award is an award of the Zoological Society of London.  It is "For distinguished contributions to zoology, open to amateur zoologists or, to a professional zoologist in recognition of contributions which are outside the scope of his professional activities and principal specialisation."

negative: Stamford Road Stamford Road (Chinese: 史丹福路) is a one-way road in Singapore within the planning areas of Downtown Core and Museum. The road continues after the traffic light junction of Nicoll Highway, Esplanade Drive and Raffles Avenue towards Orchard Road. It then ends at the junction of Fort Canning Road, Bencoolen Street and Orchard Road, which it continues to be Orchard Road. Stamford Road is home to several landmarks, including Swissôtel The Stamford and the National Museum of Singapore.

negative: Stamford Senior Youth Theatre Stamford Senior Youth Theatre "(SSYT)" is a theatre company based in Stamford.The company devises and produces a new original performance annually, usually written by the company's artistic director. The company operates on a yearly timeline which runs from September to July. The devised performances are debuted in the resident theatre and then toured throughout local schools and theatres.

negative: Swan and Maclaren Swan and Maclaren Architects is the oldest architectural firm in Singapore. Formerly known as Swan and Maclaren, it was the most prominent architectural firm in Singapore when Singapore was a British colony in the early 20th century.

negative: Swissôtel The Stamford Swissôtel The Stamford (Chinese: 史丹福瑞士酒店), is a luxury hotel in Singapore managed by Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts, and is the sister hotel of the Fairmont Singapore. Both hotels are currently managed by Fairmont Raffles Hotels International The 5-star hotel offers 1,261 luxurious rooms and suites, 15 restaurants and bars, access to the Raffles City Convention Centre, and one of Asia's largest Spas.

negative: The History of Java (1817 book) History of Java is a book written by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, and published in 1817. It describes the history of the island of Java from ancient times.It was reprinted from a digital Mmaster by the Cambridge University Press in 2010.


query: san antonio

positive: 2014–15 San Antonio Rampage season The 2014–15 San Antonio Rampage season is the American Hockey League franchise's 13th season in the city of San Antonio, Texas.

positive: Alamo Mission in San Antonio The Alamo Mission in San Antonio, commonly called the Alamo, and originally known as the Mission San Antonio de Valero, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in San Antonio, Texas.  Founded in the eighteenth century as a Roman Catholic mission and fortress compound, it was the site of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836.

positive: Downtown San Antonio Downtown San Antonio is the central business district of San Antonio, Texas, United States. It also serves as the urban core of Greater San Antonio, a metropolitan area with over two million people.In addition to being encircled by Loops 1604 and 410, Downtown San Antonio is encircled by three Interstate freeways: I-35, I-37, and I-10. Together, the three highways create a rectangular route around the city's urban core: I-35 to the north and west, I-37 to the east, and I-10 to the south.

positive: Greater San Antonio San Antonio–New Braunfels is an eight-county metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Texas defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).  Colloquially referred to as Greater San Antonio, the metropolitan area is situated in the American Southwest, in South-Central Texas, and on the southwestern corner of the Texas Triangle. The official 2011 U.S.

positive: Gregg Popovich Gregg Charles Popovich (born January 28, 1949) is an American basketball coach who is currently the head coach of the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Taking over as coach of the Spurs in 1996, Popovich is the longest tenured active coach in both the NBA and all US major sports leagues. He is often referred to as "Coach Pop" or simply "Pop".

positive: HemisFair Arena HemisFair Arena was an indoor arena located in San Antonio, Texas. It was also known as the Convention Center Arena.It was home to the ABA / NBA's San Antonio Spurs, from 1973 to 1993 and the San Antonio Force, of the AFL, during the 1992 season, their only year of existence.The Houston Rockets also played home games at the arena during the 1972-73 NBA season.

positive: Lake San Antonio Lake San Antonio is a lake located primarily in southern Monterey County, California, and partially in northern San Luis Obispo County, California. The lake is formed by San Antonio Dam on the San Antonio River. The dam is 202 feet (62 m) tall and was completed in 1965 under Monterey County District Engineer Loran Bunte Jr . The lake and dam are owned by the Monterey County Water Authority.

positive: League Park (San Antonio) League Park was a stadium in San Antonio, Texas.  It was primarily used for baseball and was the home of San Antonio Bears. The ballpark hosted its first night game on July 24, 1930 with 3,400 in attendance. The ballpark had a capacity of 7,500 people and opened in 1925.  It burned down on June 18, 1932 after a fire started in the field.

positive: List of baseball parks in San Antonio This is a selected list of venues used for professional baseball in San Antonio, Texas, USA.

positive: List of education facilities in San Antonio Education in the U.S. city of San Antonio, Texas hosts over 100,000 students across its 31 higher-education facilities which include the University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas A&M University-San Antonio, and the Alamo Community College District's five colleges. Other schools include St. Mary's University, the University of the Incarnate Word, Trinity University, and Wayland Baptist University.

positive: List of mayors of San Antonio The following is a list of mayors of San Antonio, Texas, USA.

positive: Mt. San Antonio College Mt. San Antonio College (commonly called Mt. SAC) is a community college located in the Los Angeles suburb of Walnut, California, 2.12 miles west of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona). It is amongst the largest community colleges in California with 52,954 students.

positive: Neighborhoods and districts of San Antonio The city of San Antonio in the U.S. state of Texas is composed of a number of neighborhoods and districts, spreading out surrounding the central Downtown Area.

positive: Presidio San Antonio de Bexar Presidio San Antonio de Béxar was a Spanish fort built near the San Antonio River, located in what is now San Antonio, Texas, USA. It was designed for protection of the mission system and civil settlement in central Texas. It also served to secure Spain's claim to the region from French, English and American aggression.

positive: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio The Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio (Roman Rite) encompasses 27,841 square miles (72,110 km2) in the US state of Texas.The archdiocese includes the city of San Antonio and the following counties: Val Verde, Edwards, Kerr, Gillespie, Kendall, Comal, Guadalupe, Gonzales, Uvalde, Kinney, Medina, Bexar, Wilson, Karnes, Frio, Atascosa, and the portion of McMullen north of the Nueces River.On August 28, 1874, the Catholic Diocese of Galveston was divided and the northern territory was canonically erected by the Holy See as the diocese of San Antonio.

positive: San Antonio, Chile San Antonio is a Chilean city, commune and the capital of the San Antonio Province in the Valparaíso Region. It is the hub of the fishing area that spans the Chilean coast from Rocas de Santo Domingo to Cartagena. Its port is the largest in terms of freight handled and the busiest in the western coast of South America.

positive: San Antonio, Copán San Antonio is a municipality in the Honduran department of Copán.

positive: San Antonio, Florida San Antonio, or unofficially San Ann as the locals call it, is a city in Pasco County, Florida, United States. It is a suburban city included in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.  It lies within Florida's 5th congressional district. The population was 1,138 at the 2010 census. It was established as a Catholic colony by Judge Edmund F. Dunne, and Saint Leo University is located nearby.

positive: San Antonio, Intibucá San Antonio is a municipality in the Honduran department of Intibucá.

positive: San Antonio, Jujuy San Antonio is a town and municipality in Jujuy Province in Argentina.

positive: San Antonio, Northern Samar San Antonio is a municipality in the province of Northern Samar, Philippines. Its territory is contiguous with Dalupiri Island, just off the western coast of Samar Island at the south end of the San Bernardino Strait. The island's white beaches are considered an "undisturbed paradise" and future "premier tourist destination" in the Eastern Visayas region.

positive: San Antonio, Paraguay San Antonio  is a city in Paraguay located in the Central Department. It has been significant since colonial times, as it was located beside the Royal Way, a road which leads to the city of Villeta. Today, it is experiencing great industrial growth.

positive: San Antonio, Quezon San Antonio is a third-class municipality in the province of Quezon, Philippines. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 31,681 people.San Antonio is one of the municipalities in the Province Quezon that traverses Quezon and Batangas.

positive: San Antonio, San Miguel San Antonio is a municipality in the San Miguel department of El Salvador.

positive: San Antonio, San Pedro, Laguna San Antonio, officially known as Barangay San Antonio, is the largest barangay in the city of San Pedro, Laguna, Philippines. With a land area of 780 hectares, San Antonio is Laguna's gateway to Metro Manila. As of the 2010 Census, the population of the barangay is 47,825. It is adjacent to the city proper located at the northern portion of San Pedro. San Antonio is known as the location of large factories in the city. It is also one of the richest barangays of San Pedro.

positive: San Antonio, Santo Tomas, Batangas San Antonio is a barangay (district) of Santo Tomas, Batangas, Philippines.

positive: San Antonio San Antonio (/ˌsænænˈtoʊni.oʊ/ Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is the seventh most populated city in the United States of America and the second most populated city in the state of Texas, with a population of 1,409,019. It was the fastest growing of the top 10 largest cities in the United States from 2000 to 2010, and the second from 1990 to 2000.

positive: San Antonio Bay San Antonio Bay is a bay on the Texas Gulf coast situated between Matagorda and Aransas Bay.  It consists mainly of the combined waters of the San Antonio and Guadalupe rivers, and is located at the mouth of the Guadalupe River, about 55 miles (89 km) northeast of Corpus Christi and 130 miles (209 km) southeast of San Antonio.  It is protected from the Gulf of Mexico by Matagorda Island, leaving only relatively small and distant outlets to the Gulf for little mixing of bay and Gulf waters.

positive: San Antonio Bears The San Antonio Bears were a minor league baseball team located in San Antonio, Texas.  The team played in the Texas League.  Their home stadium was League Park.

positive: San Antonio Botanical Garden The San Antonio Botanical Garden is a 33-acre (130,000 m2), non-profit botanical garden in San Antonio, Texas, USA..

positive: San Antonio Creek (San Bernardino County) San Antonio Creek is a major stream in Los Angeles County and San Bernardino County, California, draining southwards from Mount San Antonio in the San Gabriel Mountains into Chino Creek, a tributary of the Santa Ana River. The creek is 20.7 miles (33.3 km) long and has a drainage basin of about 37 square miles (96 km2).

positive: San Antonio International San Antonio International was an American soccer club based in San Antonio, Texas that was a member of the Lone Star Soccer Alliance.The club was known as the San Antonio Alamo in their final season.

positive: San Antonio International Airport San Antonio International Airport (IATA: SAT, ICAO: KSAT, FAA LID: SAT) is an international airport located in San Antonio, Texas, US and serving the Greater San Antonio metropolitan area. The airport is located in Uptown San Antonio, about 8 miles north of Downtown San Antonio. The airport has three runways and covers 2,600 acres (1,100 ha). Its elevation is 809 feet (247 m) above sea level. SAT is a Class C airport.

positive: San Antonio Lake (Bolivia) San Antonio Lake is a lake in the Beni Department, Bolivia. At an elevation of 205 m, its surface area is 26 km².

positive: San Antonio Marriott Riverwalk The San Antonio Marriott Riverwalk is a 30 story, 350 foot tall hotel along the riverwalk in Downtown San Antonio, TX, USA constructed in 1979. It is the 8th tallest building in the city.

positive: San Antonio Mastersingers The San Antonio Mastersingers is the official chorus of the San Antonio Symphony.  In addition to performing with the symphony, they also perform several other concerts annually in San Antonio, Texas, and surrounding communities.  The 2007–2008 season will culminate with a performance at Carnegie Hall in New York.

positive: San Antonio Missions The San Antonio Missions are a minor league baseball team based in San Antonio, Texas. The team, which plays in the Texas League, is the Double-A affiliate of the San Diego Padres major-league club. They are currently the 2013 Texas League Champions. The Missions play in Nelson W. Wolff Municipal Stadium, located in San Antonio.

positive: San Antonio Missions National Historical Park San Antonio Missions National Historical Park is a National Historical Park and World Heritage Site preserving four of the five Spanish frontier missions in San Antonio, Texas, USA. These outposts were established by Catholic religious orders to spread Christianity among the local natives.

positive: San Antonio River The San Antonio River is a major waterway that originates in central Texas in a cluster of springs in Midtown San Antonio, approximately four miles north of Downtown, and follows a roughly southeastern path through the state.  It eventually feeds into the Guadalupe River about ten miles from San Antonio Bay on the Gulf of Mexico.  The river is 240 miles long and crosses five counties:  Bexar, Goliad, Karnes, Refugio, and Wilson.

positive: San Antonio River (California) The San Antonio River is a 58.8-mile-long (94.6 km) river in southern Monterey County, California.

positive: San Antonio River (Peru) The San Antonio River is a river in Peru. It is the principal source that supplies the hydroelectric company of the Rodríguez de Mendoza Province.

positive: San Antonio Springs San Antonio Springs (also known as the Blue Hole) is a cluster of springs in Bexar County, Texas.  These springs provide a large portion of the water for the San Antonio River, which flows from San Antonio to the Gulf of Mexico. The San Pedro Springs also feed into the San Antonio River.

positive: San Antonio Stars The San Antonio Stars are a professional basketball team based in San Antonio, Texas, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The team was founded in Salt Lake City, Utah before the league's inaugural 1997 season began; the team moved to San Antonio before the 2003 season.

positive: San Antonio Station San Antonio Station serves as the Amtrak railroad station located on the eastern portion of Downtown San Antonio, in San Antonio, Texas.

positive: San Antonio Suchitepéquez San Antonio Suchitepéquez (Spanish pronunciation: [san anˈtonjo sutʃiteˈpekes]) is a municipality in the Suchitepéquez department of Guatemala. It has an elevation of 300m to 500m above sea level. It contains 37,857 people. It covers a terrain of 64 km².

positive: San Antonio Zoo and Aquarium The San Antonio Zoological Gardens and Aquarium is an Association of Zoos and Aquariums-accredited zoo in Midtown San Antonio, Texas, United States. The 35-acre (14 ha) zoo has a collection of over 3,500 animals representing 750 species. The zoo's annual attendance exceeds 1,000,000.  It also runs non-animal attractions, such as the 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge San Antonio Zoo Eagle train ride, which first opened in 1956 and utilizes three Chance Rides C.P.

positive: San Antonio de Flores San Antonio de Flores is a municipality in the Honduran department of Choluteca.

positive: San Antonio del Táchira San Antonio del Táchira is a city in the Venezuelan Andean state of Táchira.  The busy highway linking the cities of Cúcuta, Colombia, and San Cristóbal, Venezuela, passes through San Antonio del Táchira, making it an important gateway between the two nations.  This city is the shire town of the Municipio Bolívar de Táchira and, according to the 2001 Venezuelan census, the municipality has a population of 48,171.

positive: SeaWorld San Antonio SeaWorld San Antonio (formerly Sea World of Texas) is a 250-acre (100 ha) marine mammal park, oceanarium, and animal theme park, located in the Westover Hills District of San Antonio, Texas.  It is the largest of the three parks in the SeaWorld chain owned by SeaWorld Entertainment, a division of Blackstone Group, and the world's largest marine-life theme park.  The other two SeaWorld parks are located in San Diego, California and Orlando, Florida.

positive: South San Antonio Independent School District South San Antonio Independent School District is a public school district based in San Antonio, Texas (USA). The district serves southern and southwestern portions of the city.In 2009, the school district was rated "academically acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency.

positive: Sports in San Antonio Sports in San Antonio includes a number of professional major and minor league sports teams. San Antonio, Texas also has college, high school, and other amateur or semi-pro sports teams.The city's only top-level professional sports team, and consequently the team most San Antonians follow, is the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association. The Spurs have been playing in San Antonio since 1973 and have won five NBA Championships (1999, 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2014).

positive: Timeline of San Antonio The following is a timeline of the history of the city of San Antonio, Texas, United States.

positive: University of San Antonio The University of San Antonio was a Methodist institution of higher education located in San Antonio, Texas, USA.  It was founded as San Antonio Female College in 1894.  The name was changed to Westmoorland College in 1918 and to the University of San Antonio in 1937.  In 1942, the campus was taken over by Trinity University, which adopted the alumni of the University of San Antonio.

positive: University of Texas at San Antonio The University of Texas at San Antonio (officially "UTSA") is a state research university in San Antonio, Texas, United States. With over 28,000 students, it is the largest university in San Antonio and the fifth-largest (2014) in the state of Texas. Its three campuses span over 747 acres of land, with its main campus being the largest in the University of Texas System. UTSA offers a wide array of academic studies, with 133 undergraduate, 51 graduate and 24 doctoral programs.

negative: AT&T Center The AT&T Center is a multi-purpose indoor arena on the east side of San Antonio, Texas, USA.

negative: Cape San Antonio, Argentina Cape San Antonio, or in Spanish Cabo San Antonio, is a cape extending into the Atlantic Ocean on the eastern coast of Buenos Aires Province in eastern Argentina.  It lies south of Samborombón Bay.

negative: Cerro San Antonio Cerro San Antonio is a town and municipality of the Colombian Department of Magdalena. Founded on June 13, 1750 by Fernando de Mier y Guerra near the Magdalena River. The Libertador Simon Bolivar visited this town on May 23, 1813 during the War of Independence of Colombia from Spain.

negative: Muth's Park Muth's Park was a baseball park located in San Antonio, Texas, United States. It was the home of the Texas League San Antonio Missionaries in 1888.

negative: New San Antonio Rose "San Antonio Rose"/"New San Antonio Rose" was the signature song of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. "San Antonio Rose" was an instrumental song written by Bob Wills, who first recorded it with the Playboys in 1938. Band members added lyrics and it was retitled "New San Antonio Rose". The song opens with the refrain:Deep within my heart lies a melody,A song of old San Antone.The song is written in the first person with the Rose of San Antone being the gentleman's lost love.

negative: Peter Holt Peter M. Holt (born July 26, 1948 in Peoria, Illinois) is an American businessman. He is the CEO of HoltCat, the largest Caterpillar dealership in the United States and chairman, CEO, and owner of Spurs Sports & Entertainment, which owns the NBA's San Antonio Spurs, the WNBA's San Antonio Stars, the AHL's San Antonio Rampage, and the NBA Development League's Austin Spurs.

negative: Rancho San Antonio (Peralta) Rancho San Antonio, also known as the Peralta Grant, was a 44,800-acre (181 km2) land grant by Governor Pablo Vicente de Solá, the last Spanish governor of California, to Don Luís María Peralta, a sergeant in the Spanish Army and later, commissioner of the Pueblo of San José, in recognition of his forty years of service. The grant, issued on August 3, 1820, embraced the sites of the cities of San Leandro, Oakland, Alameda, Emeryville, Piedmont, Berkeley, and Albany.

negative: San Antonio Aguas Calientes San Antonio Aguas Calientes (Spanish pronunciation: [san anˈtonjo ˈaɣwas kaˈljentes]) is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Sacatepéquez.This town is known for its weavers. Mayan women in the area use a backstrap loom to weave traditional patterns. There is a two story market on the square that sells weavings and other crafts. Several of the women have their looms set up and will demonstrate their skills. There are a couple other stores outside of town that also sell weavings.

negative: San Antonio Department, Jujuy San Antonio Department is a department located in the Jujuy Province of Argentina.

negative: San Antonio Independent School District San Antonio Independent School District is a school district based in Downtown San Antonio, Texas, USA.San Antonio ISD is one of 15 school districts serving San Antonio. San Antonio ISD serves the Downtown, Midtown, and inner city areas of San Antonio. San Antonio ISD also serves a small portion of the city of Balcones Heights.

negative: San Antonio Pajonal San Antonio Pajonal is a municipality in the Santa Ana department of El Salvador.

negative: San Antonio Police Department The San Antonio Police Department (SAPD) is the municipal law enforcement agency of the city of San Antonio in the U.S. state of Texas. It is headquartered in Downtown San Antonio at 315 South Santa Rosa Street.Municipal law enforcement (the position of Alguacil) was established with the Villa of San Fernando (which would become the City of San Antonio) under the Empire of Spain, on 1 August 1731.

negative: San Antonio Province San Antonio Province (Spanish: Provincia de San Antonio) is one of eight provinces of the central Chilean region of Valparaíso (V). Its capital is the port city of San Antonio (pop. 87,205).

negative: San Antonio River Walk The San Antonio River Walk (also known as Paseo del Río) is a network of walkways along the banks of the San Antonio River, one story beneath the streets of Downtown San Antonio, Texas, USA. Lined by bars, shops and restaurants, the River Walk is an important part of the city's urban fabric and a tourist attraction in its own right.Today, the River Walk is an enormously successful special-case pedestrian street, one level down from the automobile street.

negative: San Antonio Spurs The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional basketball team based in San Antonio, Texas. They are part of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA).The Spurs are one of four former American Basketball Association teams to remain intact in the NBA after the 1976 ABA–NBA merger and the only former ABA team to have won an NBA championship.

negative: San Antonio de Cortés San Antonio de Cortés is a municipality in the Honduran department of Cortés.

negative: San Pedro Springs San Pedro Springs is the name of a cluster of springs in Bexar County, Texas, U.S.A.  These springs provide water for San Pedro Creek, which flows into the San Antonio River. The San Antonio Springs also feed into the San Antonio River.

negative: Texas A&M University–San Antonio Texas A&M University–San Antonio is a state university located in San Antonio, Texas, United States, that was established on May 23, 2009, and held its first classes as a stand-alone university on August 20, 2009. It currently enrolls approximately 5,000 students and offers undergraduate and graduate-level classes, as well as a graduate alternative teacher certification program. Texas A&M - San Antonio has 161 full and part-time faculty.

negative: USS San Antonio (LPD-17) USS San Antonio (LPD-17), the lead ship of her class of amphibious transport dock or landing platform dock, is the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the city of San Antonio, Texas. The ship is designed to deliver up to 800 Marines ashore by landing craft and helicopters.

negative: UTSA Roadrunners The UTSA Roadrunners is a collegiate athletic program that represents the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). The UTSA Roadrunners are also commonly referred to as "UTSA", "Roadrunners", or simply "Runners"  (chanted at football games).  The Roadrunners compete in the NCAA Division I Conference USA in 17 varsity sports. UTSA is San Antonio's only institution that competes in Division I FBS. UTSA joined the Western Athletic Conference on July 1, 2012.

negative: University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is an institute of health science education and research located in the South Texas Medical Center, the medical district of the U.S. city of San Antonio, Texas. It is  a component of the University of Texas System.The UT Health Science Center is the largest health sciences university in South Texas. The Health Science Center serves San Antonio and all of the 50,000 square miles (130,000 km2) area of Central and South Texas.

negative: WOAI (AM) WOAI (1200 AM) is a San Antonio, Texas, news/talk formatted radio station operating with 50,000 Watts non-directional day and night from a transmitter site near Marion, Texas. It is owned and operated by San Antonio-based Clear Channel Communications, known as iHeartMedia, Inc. since September 2014, which acquired the station in 1975. WOAI-AM is the flagship station for iHeartMedia.

negative: San Antonio, San Luis Potosí San Antonio, San Luis Potosí is a town and municipality in San Luis Potosí in central Mexico.

negative: Pórticos de San Antonio Pórticos de San Antonio, or San Antonio Heights, is a city in Baja California in Tijuana Municipality. The city had a population of 34,234 as of 2010.

negative: Holy Cross of San Antonio Holy Cross of San Antonio, is a Catholic, Coeducational,  college preparatory middle and high school located on the west side of San Antonio, Texas, in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio.

negative: Cape San Antonio, Spain Cape San Antonio, or in Spanish Cabo San Antonio, is a cape on the north coast of Alicante province in southeastern Spain.

negative: San Antonio District, Puno San Antonio District or San Antonio de Esquilache District is one of fifteen districts of the province Puno in Peru.

negative: San Antonio XLR8 The San Antonio XLR8 was an American soccer club based in San Antonio, Texas that was a member of the Lone Star Soccer Alliance.

negative: San Antonio Water System The San Antonio Water System (SAWS) is the largest drinking water and sewage utility in Bexar County, Texas, USA. Based in the Midtown Brackenridge district of San Antonio, SAWS draws water from the Edwards Aquifer to service its customers in all 8 counties of the Greater San Antonio metropolitan area. It is owned by the City of San Antonio.

negative: University of Texas School of Medicine at San Antonio The University of Texas School of Medicine at San Antonio is one of nine medical schools in the state of Texas. It is located on the main campus of University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in San Antonio, Texas.

negative: San Antonio Pumas The San Antonio Pumas were an American soccer team founded in 1988 as the San Antonio Heat in the original indoor SISL league.  They became the San Antonio Generals before the 1989/90 indoor season and then the San Antonio Pumas before the 1993 outdoor season. They folded after the 1998 season.

negative: San Antonio Wings The San Antonio Wings were an American football team who played in the World Football League in 1974 and 1975. The team started as the Florida Blazers in 1974, then moved to San Antonio in 1975 and became the San Antonio Wings.


query: Pacific navigators Australia explorers

positive: Abel Tasman Abel Janszoon Tasman (Dutch: [ˈɑbəl ˈjɑnsoːn ˈtɑsmɑn]; 1603 – 10 October 1659) was a Dutch seafarer, explorer, and merchant, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). He was the first known European explorer to reach the islands of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) and New Zealand, and to sight the Fiji islands.

positive: Alessandro Malaspina Alessandro Malaspina (November 5, 1754 – April 9, 1810) was an Italian nobleman who spent most of his life as a Spanish naval officer and explorer.

positive: Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux Antoine Raymond Joseph de Bruni d'Entrecasteaux (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan ʁɛmɔ̃ ʒɔzɛf də bʁyni dɑ̃tʁəkasto]) (8 November 1737 – 21 July 1793) was a French naval officer, explorer and colonial governor.  He is perhaps best known for his exploration of the Australian coast in 1792, while searching for the La Pérouse expedition.

positive: Cristóvão de Mendonça Cristóvão de Mendonça (Mourão?, 1475 – Ormus, 1532) was a Portuguese noble and explorer who was active in South East Asia in the 16th century.Son of  D. Diogo Furtado de Mendonça, Alcaide-mor (lord mayor) of  Mourão, captain of crossbowmen, and his wife, Brites Soares de Albergaria. Another daughter of the marrieage, D. Joana, was married to D. Jaime, 4th duke of Bragança. Cristóvão de Mendonça married D. Maria de Vilhena, daughter of Sancho de Tovar, but there was no issue of this marriage.

positive: Dirk Hartog Dirk Hartog (Dutch pronunciation: [dɪrk ˈɦɑrtɔx]; baptized 30 October 1580, Amsterdam – buried 11 October 1621, Amsterdam) was a 17th-century Dutch sailor and explorer. Dirk Hartog's expedition was the second European group to land in Australia and the first to  leave behind an artifact to record his visit, the Hartog plate. His name is sometimes alternatively spelled Dirck Hartog or Dierick Hartochsz.

positive: Ernest Giles William Ernest Powell Giles (20 July 1835 – 13 November 1897), best known as Ernest Giles, was an Australian explorer who led five major expeditions in central Australia.

positive: Francis Joseph Bayldon Francis Joseph Bayldon MBE (1872–1948) was an Australian master mariner and nautical instructor.  Born in England, he was apprenticed to Devitt & Moore, and was an officer on their passenger ships, on a route that circled the globe, around the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn.  He was later with the Canadian-Australian Line, sailing between Vancouver and Sydney, Australia.  He was on the Burns Philp ship the Moresby in 1901–1902. He helped correct nautical charts for Pacific navigation.

positive: George Vancouver Captain George Vancouver (22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798) was an English officer of the Royal Navy, best known for his 1791–95 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of contemporary Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon.

positive: Herman Spöring, Jr. Herman Diedrich Spöring, Jr. (or Spoering) (1733–1771) was a Finnish explorer, draughtsman, botanist and a naturalist.

positive: James Cook Captain James Cook, FRS, RN (7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.

positive: James Grant (navigator) James Grant (1772 – 11 November 1833) was a British Royal Navy officer and navigator in the early nineteenth century. He made several voyages to Australia and Tasmania, and was the first to map parts of the south coast of Australia.

positive: Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (French: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa də ɡalop kɔ̃t də lapeʁuːz]; variant spelling of his name comte "de La Pérouse"; 23 August 1741 – 1788?) was a French Naval officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania.

positive: John Gore (Royal Navy captain) Captain John Gore (died 10 August 1790) was a British American sailor who circumnavigated the globe four times with the Royal Navy in the 18th century and accompanied Captain James Cook in his discoveries in the Pacific Ocean.

positive: Joseph Banks Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, PRS (24 February [O.S. 13 February] 1743 – 19 June 1820) was an English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences.Banks made his name on the 1766 natural history expedition to Newfoundland and Labrador. He took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage (1768–1771), visiting Brazil, Tahiti, and, after 6 months in New Zealand, Australia, returning to immediate fame. He held the position of President of the Royal Society for over 41 years.

positive: José de Bustamante y Guerra José de Bustamante y Guerra (Corvera de Toranzo, Cantabria 1 April 1759 – Madrid 10 March 1825), sometimes referred to simply as Bustamante, was a Spanish naval officer, explorer, and politician. He was a native of Corvera de Toranzo in Cantabria, Spain.

positive: Juan Carrasco (explorer) Juan Carrasco was a Spanish naval officer, explorer, and navigator. He is remembered mainly for his work in the Pacific Northwest during the late 18th century. He was second in command of the 1791 voyage of José María Narváez, the first European exploration of the Strait of Georgia.Many details about Carrasco's life are unknown. He was educated at the Academy of San Telmo in Spain, sometime between 1775 and 1780.

positive: Jules Dumont d'Urville Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (23 May 1790 – 8 May 1842) was a French explorer, naval officer and rear admiral, who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica. As a botanist and cartographer he left his mark, giving his name to several seaweeds, plants and shrubs, and places such as D'Urville Island.

positive: List of explorers The following is a list of explorers.

positive: Luís Vaz de Torres Luís Vaz de Torres (Galician and Portuguese), or Luis Váez de Torres in the Spanish spelling (born c. 1565; fl. 1607) was a 16th- and 17th-century maritime explorer of a Spanish expedition noted for the first recorded European navigation of the strait which separates the continent of Australia from the island of New Guinea, and which now bears his name (Torres Strait).

positive: Major explorations after the Age of Discovery Major explorations continued after the Age of Discovery. By the early seventeenth century, vessels were sufficiently well built and their navigators competent enough to travel to virtually anywhere on the planet by sea. In the 17th century Dutch explorers such as Willem Jansz and Abel Tasman explored the coasts of Australia. Spanish expeditions from Peru explored the South Pacific and discovered archipelagos such as Vanuatu and the Pitcairn Islands.

positive: Matthew Flinders Captain Matthew Flinders RN (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was a distinguished English navigator and cartographer, who was the first to circumnavigate Australia and identify it as a continent.Flinders made three voyages to the southern ocean (August 1791 – August 1793, February 1795 – August 1800 and July 1801 – October 1810).  In the second voyage, George Bass and Flinders confirmed that Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) was an island.

positive: Nicolas Baudin Nicolas-Thomas Baudin (17 February 1754 – 16 September 1803) was a French explorer, cartographer, naturalist and hydrographer.

positive: Pedro Fernandes de Queirós Pedro Fernandes de Queirós (Spanish: Pedro Fernández de Quirós), (1565–1614) was a Portuguese navigator best known for his involvement with Spanish voyages of discovery in the Pacific Ocean, in particular the 1595-1596 voyage of Alvaro de Mendaña de Neira, and for leading a 1605-1606 expedition which crossed the Pacific in search of Terra Australis.

positive: Peter Warburton Colonel Peter Egerton-Warburton CMG (born 16 August 1813, Cheshire, England – died 5 November 1889, Adelaide, South Australia) was a British explorer who sealed  his legacy by a particularly daring expedition from Adelaide crossing the centre of Australia to the coast of Western Australia via Alice Springs in 1872.A younger brother of Rowland Egerton-Warburton, Peter was educated at home in Cheshire and by tutors in France before being commissioned in the Royal Navy at the age of 12, serving as a Midshipman in HMS Windsor Castle.Egerton-Warburton was seconded to the Indian Army and served in India from 1831 until 1853, before retiring as Deputy Adjutant-General with the rank of Major.Egerton-Warburton married on 8 October 1838 Alicia (who died 1892), daughter of Henry Mant, a solicitor, however by the time of his arrival in Australia, he had apparently adopted the pseudonym of Peter Warburton.

positive: Samuel Wallis Samuel Wallis (23 April 1728 – 21 January 1795 in London) was an English navigator who circumnavigated the world.Wallis was born near Camelford, Cornwall. In 1766 he was given the command of HMS Dolphin to circumnavigate the world, accompanied by the Swallow under the command of Philip Carteret. The two ships were parted shortly after sailing through the Strait of Magellan, Wallis continuing to Tahiti, which he named "King George the Third's Island" in honour of the King (June 1767).

positive: Tommy Windich Tommy Windich (c. 1840 – c. 20 February 1876) was an Indigenous Australian member of a number of exploring expeditions in Western Australia in the 1860s and 1870s.Tommy Windich (or Windiitj) was born around 1840 near Mount Stirling in Western Australia.

positive: Tupaia (navigator) Tupaia (also known as Tupaea) (c. 1725 – December, 26 1770) was a Polynesian navigator and  arioi (a kind of priest), originally from the island of Ra'iatea in the Pacific Islands group known to Europeans as the Society Islands. His remarkable navigational skills and Pacific geographical knowledge were to be utilised by Lt. James Cook, R.N. when he took him aboard HMS Endeavour as guide on its voyage of exploration to Terra Australis Incognita.

positive: William Dampier William Dampier (baptised 5 September 1651 – March 1715) was the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumnavigate the world three times.

positive: William Grant Milne William Grant Milne (?-1866), was a Scottish botanist.A gardener at the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, Milne joined  the HMS Herald expedition to the southwestern Pacific (1852-1856) as a botanist. The expedition visited, inter alia, Lord Howe Island, New South Wales and Western Australia.

positive: Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira Álvaro de Mendaña y Neira (or Neyra) (October 1, 1542 – October 18, 1595) was a Spanish navigator. Born in Congosto, in León, he was the nephew of Lope García de Castro, viceroy of Peru. He is best known for the two voyages of discovery he led into the Pacific in 1567 and 1595 in search of Terra Australis.

negative: Aleksei Chirikov Aleksei Ilyich Chirikov (Russian: Алексей Ильич Чириков) (1703 – November 1748) was a Russian navigator and captain who along with Bering was the first Russian to reach North-West coast of North America. He discovered and charted some of the Aleutian Islands while he was deputy to Vitus Bering during the Great Northern Expedition.

negative: Anagumang Anagumang was a (probably legendary) Yapese navigator who led an expedition in rafts and canoes five or six hundred years ago. On this expedition he discovered the islands of Palau, where he and his men first saw limestone. Limestone did not exist on Yap. The Palauan natives let the Yapese quarry this limestone in return for coconut meat, beads and copra; as well as performing services.

negative: Andrés Niño Andrés Niño (born in Moguer in 1475; died about 1530) was a Spanish navigator.

negative: Binot Paulmier de Gonneville Binot Paulmier, sieur de Gonneville, French navigator of the early 16th century, was widely believed in 17th and 18th century France to have been the true discoverer of the Terra Australis (which does not refer to Australia). This claim is not now accepted by historians.In 1503 de Gonneville, challenging the Portuguese policy of mare clausum, sailed from Honfleur in Normandy with his crew and the help of two Portuguese pilots, heading for the East Indies.

negative: Charles Robbins (Royal Navy officer) Charles Robbins (1782-1805) was a British Royal Navy officer and navigator in the early nineteenth century.

negative: Christopher Middleton (navigator) Christopher Middleton (late 17th century – 12 February 1770) was an English naval officer and navigator. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 7 April 1737.Middleton was appointed on 5 March 1741 to the command of the Royal Navy's bomb vessel, HMS Furnace, which was refitted at Deptford Dockyard and re-rigged as a three-masted ship.

negative: Cyrille Pierre Théodore Laplace Cyrille Pierre Théodore Laplace (7 November 1793 – 24 January 1875) was a French navigator famous for his circumnavigation of the globe on board La Favorite.  He was pivotal in the opening of French trade in the Pacific and was instrumental in the establishment of the Hawaiian Catholic Church.  He achieved the rank of captain.

negative: Daniel Solander Daniel Carlsson Solander or Daniel Charles Solander (19 February 1733 – 13 May 1782) was a Swedish naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Solander was the first university educated scientist to set foot on Australian soil.

negative: David Melgueiro David Melgueiro (Porto, ? – Porto, 1673?) is supposed to be a Portuguese navigator and explorer. Several sources state that he sailed across the Northeast Passage in 1660, travelling from Japan to Portugal through the Arctic Ocean. This issue aroused strong polemics along the time.

negative: Diogo Cão Diogo Cão (Portuguese pronunciation: [diˈoɣu ˈkɐ̃w̃]), in Old Portuguese Diogo Cam and also known as Diego Cam, was a Portuguese explorer and one of the most notable navigators of the Age of Discovery. He made two voyages sailing along the west coast of Africa in the 1480s, exploring the Congo River and the coasts of the present-day Angola and Namibia.

negative: Diogo Soares Diogo Soares de Albergaria, also known as Diego Soares de Melo and the "Gallego" was a 16th-century Portuguese navigator and explorer.

negative: Drake in California In 1579, Francis Drake sailed out in the Pacific, then turned east seeking the Strait of Anián (a water passage from the Pacific tothe Atlantic, known in the reverse direction as the Northwest Passage), or for a place to repair his ships.After reaching land in Oregon, at the Oregon Dunes, nearCoos Bay, Drake headed south, seeking a safeharbor.

negative: European exploration of Australia The European exploration of Australia encompasses several waves of seafarers and land explorers. The first documented encounter was that of Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon, in 1606.

negative: Francisco de Eliza Francisco de Eliza y Reventa (1759 – February 19, 1825) was a Spanish naval officer, navigator, and explorer. He is remembered mainly for his work in the Pacific Northwest. He was the commandant of the Spanish post in Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island, and led or dispatched several exploration voyages in the region, including the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Strait of Georgia.

negative: Fyodor Litke Count Fyodor Petrovich Litke (Russian: Граф Фёдор Петро́вич Ли́тке, born Friedrich Benjamin Lütke; 28 September [O.S. 17 September] 1797 – 20 August [O.S. 8 August] 1882) was a Russian navigator, geographer, and Arctic explorer. He became a count in 1866, and an admiral in 1855. He was a Corresponding Member (1829), Honorable Member (1855), and President (1864) of the Russian Academy of Science in St.Petersburg.

negative: Gavriil Pribylov Gavriil Loginovich Pribylov (Russian: Прибылов, Гавриил Логинович; first name also spelled Gavriel, Gerasim or Gerassim, last name also spelled Pribilof) (died 1796) was a Russian navigator who discovered the Bering Sea islands of St. George Island and  St. Paul Island in 1786 and 1787.  The islands, and surrounding small islets, now bear his name, being known as the Pribilof Islands.Pribylov was commander of the ship St. George (Sv.

negative: Gerasim Izmailov Gerasim Grigoryevich Izmaylov (Russian: Герасим Григорьевич Измайлов; circa 1745 - after 1795) was a Russian navigator involved in the Russian colonization of the Americas and in the establishment of the colonies of Russian America in Alaska. He was responsible for the first detailed maps of the Aleutian Islands.A native of Yakutsk, Izmaylov attended a navigation school in Okhotsk with Dmitry Bocharov, who became his lifelong business companion.

negative: Guillaume Le Testu Guillaume Le Testu, sometimes referred to as  Guillaume Le Têtu (c. 1509–12 — April 29, 1573) was a French privateer, explorer and navigator. He was one of the foremost cartographers of his time and an author of the Dieppe maps. His maps were distinguished by their sophistication and detail; they influenced generations of cartographers, navigators and explorers.Le Testu was successful as a privateer during the early years of the French Wars of Religion.

negative: Henry Hudson Sir Henry Hudson (died 1611) was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century.Hudson made two attempts on behalf of English merchants to find a prospective Northwest Passage to Cathay (today's China) via a route above the Arctic Circle. Hudson explored the region around modern New York metropolitan area while looking for a western route to Asia while in the employment of the Dutch East India Company.

negative: Henry the Navigator This article is about the Portuguese prince. For the Dutch prince sometimes known as "Henry the Navigator", see Prince Henry of the Netherlands.Infante Henrique of Portugal, Duke of Viseu (4 March 1394 – 13 November 1460), better known as Henry the Navigator (Portuguese: Henrique, o Navegador) was an important figure in 15th-century Portuguese politics and in the early days of the Portuguese Empire.

negative: Himilco Himilco (Phoenician  Chimilkât), a Carthaginian navigator and explorer, lived during the height of Carthaginian power, the 5th century BC.Himilco is the first known explorer from the Mediterranean Sea to reach the northwestern shores of Europe.  His lost account of his adventures is quoted by Roman writers. The oldest reference to Himilco's voyage is a brief mention in Natural History (2.169a) by the Roman scholar Pliny the Elder.

negative: Hotu Matu'a Hotu Matu'a was the legendary first settler and ariki mau "\supreme chief" or "king") of Easter Island and ancestor of the Rapa Nui People. Hotu Matu'a and his two canoe (or one double hulled canoe) colonising party were Polynesians from the now unknown land of Hiva (probably the Marquesas).

negative: Ilya Berezhnykh Ilya Avtonomovich Berezhnykh (Russian: Илья́ Автоно́мович Бережны́х; birth date unknown – c. 1830), also known as Berezhnoy (Бережно́й), was a Russian navigator.In 1820, Berezhnykh took part in the northern expedition, led by Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel. He explored the coastline and the islands of the Arctic Ocean, including Kotelny and Lyakhovsky Islands.

negative: Ivan Fyodorov (navigator) Ivan Fyodorov (Ива́н Фёдоров) († 1733), was a Russian navigator and commanding officer of the expedition to northern Alaska in 1732.After the first Kamchatka expedition of Vitus Bering (1725–1730) the Russian exploration efforts were continued by Lieutenant Martin Shpanberg and Navigator I. Fyodorov. In 1732, together with the participants of the 1st Kamchatka expedition, land-surveyor Mikhail Gvozdev and navigator K.

negative: Ivan Vasilyev Ivan Vasilyev was a Russian explorer and navigator of the Imperial Russian Navy. He accompanied Leonty Andrianovich Gagemeister on ship Neva to explore the coasts of Alaska and the North Pacific in 1806.Vasilyev explored the Alexander Archipelago and the many coastal Islands in the area.

negative: Jean-Michel Huon de Kermadec Jean-Michel Huon de Kermadec (Bohars, Finistère, France, 12 September 1748–Balade, New Caledonia, 6 May 1793) was an 18th-century French navigator.In September 1791 he was chosen to command the Espérance on the Bruni d'Entrecasteaux expedition to find the lost expedition of Jean-François de La Pérouse. The expedition explored Australia and the South Pacific.

negative: John Cabot John Cabot (Italian: Giovanni Caboto, Venetian: Zuan Chabotto; c. 1450 – c. 1500) was an Italian navigator and explorer whose 1497 discovery of parts of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England is commonly held to have been the first European exploration of the mainland of North America since the Norse Vikings' visits to Vinland in the eleventh century.

negative: John Davis (English explorer) John Davis or Davys  (c. 1550 – 29 December 1605) was one of the chief English navigators and explorers under Elizabeth I. He led several voyages to discover the Northwest Passage, served as pilot and captain on both Dutch and English voyages to the East Indies. He discovered the Falkland Islands (today a British Overseas Territory) in August 1592.Davis was born in the Parish of Stoke Gabriel circa 1550 and spent his childhood in Sandridge.

negative: John King Davis John King Davis, CBE (19 February 1884 – 8 May 1967) was an English-born Australian explorer and navigator notable for his work captaining exploration ships in Antarctic waters as well as for establishing meteorological stations on Macquarie Island in the subantarctic and on Willis Island in the Coral Sea.

negative: José María Narváez José María Narváez (1768 – August 4, 1840) was a Spanish naval officer, explorer, and navigator notable for his work in the Gulf Islands and Lower Mainland of present-day British Columbia.  In 1791, as commander of the schooner Santa Saturnina, he led the first European exploration of the Strait of Georgia, including a landing on present-day British Columbia's Sunshine Coast.   He also entered Burrard Inlet, the site of present-day Vancouver, British Columbia.

negative: Juan Díaz de Solís Juan Díaz de Solís (1470 – 20 January 1516) was a 16th Century navigator and explorer.

negative: Juan Fernández (explorer) Juan Fernández (c. 1536 – c. 1604) was a Spanish explorer and navigator in the Pacific regions of the Viceroyalty of Peru and Captaincy General of Chile west of colonial South America. He is best known for the discovery of a fast maritime route from Callao (Peru) to Valparaíso (Chile), as well as for the discovery of the Juan Fernández Islands off the coast of Chile.

negative: Louis Aleno de St Aloüarn Louis Francois Marie Aleno de Saint Aloüarn (25 July 1738 – 27 October 1772) was a notable French mariner and explorer.St Aloüarn was the first European to make a formal claim of sovereignty — on behalf of France — over the west coast of Australia, which was known at the time as "New Holland".

negative: Louis de Freycinet Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet (7 August 1779 – 18 August 1841) was a French navigator. He circumnavigated the earth, and in 1811 published the first map to show a full outline of the coastline of Australia.

negative: Marquesas Islands names The Marquesas Islands were the first of the island groups discovered by European explorers in the Pacific.

negative: Naming of Qantas aircraft The naming of Qantas aircraft has followed various themes since 1926.

negative: Portuguese discoveries Portuguese discoveries (Portuguese: Descobrimentos portugueses) are the numerous territories and maritime routes discovered by the Portuguese as a result of their intensive maritime exploration during the 15th and 16th centuries. Portuguese sailors were at the vanguard of European overseas exploration, discovering and mapping the coasts of Africa, Canada, Asia and Brazil, in what became known as the Age of Discovery.

negative: Sataspes Sataspes was a Persian navigator and cavalry commander whose name is derived from Sat (=100 sad) and Asp (= Horse, Asb). He is also credited with originating the term "horse latitudes".Sataspes (who according to Herodotus was Xerxes I's cousin by his mother being Darius I's  sister) had been condemned to death for kidnapping and raping Megabyzus's daughter.

negative: Sebastián de Ocampo Sebastián de Ocampo was a Spanish navigator and explorer. He is believed to have been the first navigator to have circumnavigated the island of Cuba, in 1508, and is also credited with the first European discovery of the Gulf of Mexico.Under the authority of the Governor of Hispaniola, Ocampo sailed along the northern coast of the island through the Old Bahama Channel and around the western point, Cape San Antonio. The voyage took eight months, and was against the Gulf Stream.

negative: Ships of James Cook Captain James Cook, FRS, RN (7 November 1728[NB 1] – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy. Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first recorded European discovey of eastern Australia, Hawaii and undertook the first circumnavigation of New Zealand.During his long career he served on a number of British ships.

negative: Thomas Cavendish Sir Thomas Cavendish (19 September 1560 – May 1592) was an English explorer and a privateer known as "The Navigator" because he was the first who deliberately tried to emulate Sir Francis Drake and raid the Spanish towns and ships in the Pacific and return by circumnavigating the globe. While members of Magellan's, Loaisa's, Drake's, and Loyola's expeditions had preceded Cavendish in circumnavigating the globe, it had not been their intent at the outset.

negative: Tobias Furneaux Captain Tobias Furneaux (21 August 1735 – 18 September 1781) was an English navigator and Royal Navy officer, who accompanied James Cook on his second voyage of exploration. He was the first man to circumnavigate the world in both directions, and later commanded a British vessel during the American Revolutionary War.

negative: Valerian Albanov Valerian Ivanovich Albanov (Russian: Валериа́н Ива́нович Альбанов) (1881 – 1919) was a Russian navigator, best known for being one of only two survivors of the ill-fated Brusilov Expedition of 1912.

negative: Willem Janszoon Willem Janszoon (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋɪləm ˈjɑnsoːn]; c. 1570–1630), sometimes abbreviated to Willem Jansz., was a Dutch navigator and colonial governor. Janszoon served in the Netherlands East Indies in the periods 1603–11 and 1612–16, including as governor of Fort Henricus on the island of Solor. He is the first European known to have seen the coast of Australia during his voyage of 1605–06.

negative: Willem Schouten Willem Cornelisz Schouten (c. 1567–1625) was a Dutch navigator for the Dutch East India Company. He was the first to sail the Cape Horn route to the Pacific Ocean.