Robert Gray

Robert Gray is also an Australian poet, see Robert Gray (poet)

Robert Gray (1755-1806). Born in America, he was the first American to circumnavigate the globe, in 1790. In 1791 he sailed a ship named "Columbia" to the Northwest coast, he sighted, named, and sailed up the Columbia River in Oregon.

See also: Robert Gray, 1755, 1790, 1791, 1806, American, Biography, Columbia River, List of Australians