Joseph Christmas Ives is remembered for reaching places that the written record had not yet described.
The record lists Joseph Christmas Ives as American explorer and botanist (1828-1868).
Joseph Christmas Ives was born at New York City in 1828. 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, botanist and photographer.
What an expedition is remembered for is rarely what it set out to do.
Joseph Christmas Ives died in 1868, aged 40. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as explorer, botanist and photographer
