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nounthe ship's officer in charge of navigation
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nounin earlier times, a person who explored by shiptype of:
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nounthe member of an aircrew who is responsible for the aircraft's coursetype of:
Definition that contains navigator
- cook English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)
- pilot act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance
- gray American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
- davis English navigator who explored the Arctic while searching for the Northwest Passage (1550-1605)
- gilbert English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America (1539-1583)
- hudson English navigator who discovered the Hudson River; in 1610 he attempted to winter in Hudson Bay but his crew mutinied and set him adrift to die (1565-1611)
- gamma Portuguese navigator who led an expedition around the Cape of Good Hope in 1497; he sighted and named Natal on Christmas Day before crossing the Indian Ocean (1469-1524)
- columbus Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)
- vancouver English navigator remembered for his exploration of the Pacific coast of North America (1757-1798)
- navigate act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance