In the history of exploration, Edmund March Blunt is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Edmund March Blunt as American navigator and publisher.
Edmund March Blunt was born at Portsmouth in 1770. His recorded nationality is United States.
Enlightenment expeditions carried naturalists and instruments; the Pacific was charted with chronometers and the intention of measuring, not merely claiming.
He is recorded as explorer, publisher and hydrographer.
Distance was the hardest problem of the pre-modern world, and it was solved by people willing to risk it.
Edmund March Blunt died in 1862, aged 92. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as explorer, publisher and hydrographer
