British Royal Navy Rear Admiral and Explorer. His military service ran from 1747 until 1794. During that time, he participated in two of the Royal Navy's circumnavigation expeditions in 1764 to 1766 and 1766 to 1769. In 1766 he became a a commander and given the command of the Swallow to circumnavigate the world, as consort to the Dolphin under the command of Samuel Wallis. The two ships were parted shortly after sailing through the Strait of Magellan, with Carteret discovering Pitcairn Island and the Carteret Islands, which were subsequently named after him. In 1767, he also discovered a new archipelago inside Saint George's Channel between New Ireland and New Britain Islands (now Papua New Guinea) and named it Duke of York Islands, as well as rediscovering the Solomon Islands first sighted by the Spaniard Álvaro de Mendana in 1568 and the Juan Fernandez Islands first discovered by Juan Fernández in 1574. His health was ruined by his voyage of exploration, and he received little reward from the Admiralty. In 1773 his journals of the voyage were published as part of "An Account of the Voyages undertaken by Byron, Wallis, Carteret and Cook". In August 1779 he was given a new ship, HMS Endymion, and despite problems in the Channel, off Senegal and off the Leeward Islands, he arrived in the West Indies as instructed. After returning to England, he suffered a stroke in 1792 and retired at the rank of rear admiral two years later. He died at the age of 63. Originally interred at the All Saints Catacombs and Burial Ground in Southampton, Hampshire, England, in 1944 his remains were moved to the Hollybrook Cemetery in Southampton after the church was destroyed by German bombing during World War II.