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Apr 30, 1770 Westminster, England, United Kingdom Died on 10 Feb 1857 (aged 86)
British-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and map-maker
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About David Thompson Explorer
- David Thompson (30 April 1770 – 10 February 1857) was a British-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and cartographer, known to some native peoples as Koo-Koo-Sint or "the Stargazer".
- Over Thompson's career, he traveled some 90,000 kilometres (56,000 mi) across North America, mapping 4.9 million square kilometres (1.9 million square miles) of North America along the way.
- For this historic feat, Thompson has been described as the "greatest land geographer who ever lived."
