Carteret, PHILIP

Carteret, PHILIP, navigator, sailed as lieutenant in Byron's voyage, and commanded the second vessel in Wallis's expedition to the southern hemisphere (22d August 1766). Separated from Wallis in the following April, while clearing the Strait of Magellan, he proceeded alone, discovering Pitcairn's and a number of other small islands, one of which, in the Solomon Archipelago, bears his name, and returned round the Cape of Good Hope to England, 20th March 1769. His long voyage, in a ship ill-found and unseaworthy, added much to the geographical knowledge of his time. He retired from active service in 1794 with the rank of rear-admiral, and died at Southampton, 21st July 1796.