Editing George Vancouver (section)

===Namesakes===

====Ship and cadet units====
* [[HMCS Vancouver (FFH 331)|HMCS ''Vancouver'']] Halifax-class frigate of the [[Royal Canadian Navy]] (Named for the city, which is named for the man.)  
*TS Vancouver, [[Australian Navy Cadets]]
* 47 RCSCC CAPTAIN VANCOUVER, [[Royal Canadian Sea Cadets]] [http://www.47rcscc.com/home/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121219182037/http://www.47rcscc.com/home/ |date=19 December 2012 }}

====Places====
Many places around the world have been named after George Vancouver, including:

=====Australia=====
* [[Vancouver Peninsula, Western Australia|Vancouver Peninsula]], Cape Vancouver and Vancouver Breakers in [[King George Sound]], Western Australia

=====Canada=====
* [[Mount Vancouver]], in Yukon and neighbouring Alaska, eighth highest mountain in Canada
* [[Vancouver]], British Columbia, a major city on the mainland in southwestern British Columbia, the province's largest city
** [[Vancouver Maritime Museum]]
* [[Vancouver Bay, British Columbia]], in Jervis Inlet, East of Powell River, named after Vancouver when Capt. [[George Henry Richards|George H. Richards]] resurveyed the area in 1860.
* [[Vancouver Island]], in British Columbia off the southwest coast of the mainland. North America's largest Pacific Island and location of the provincial capital at [[Victoria, British Columbia|Victoria]] on its southern tip.
*[[Vancouver River]], a river flowing into the [[Jervis Inlet]] on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia.

=====New Zealand=====
* [[Mount Vancouver (New Zealand)|Mount Vancouver]], the sixth highest mountain in New Zealand.
* Vancouver Arm of [[Breaksea Sound]], Fiordland, South Island

=====United Kingdom=====
* Vancouver Road in [[Ham, London]], near Petersham, his place of burial

=====United States=====
* [[Vancouver, Washington]], a city in southwest Washington across the Columbia River from Portland, Oregon
** [[Fort Vancouver]], a Hudson's Bay Company trading post established in 1825

====Memorials====
[[File:George Vancouver Statue Kings Lynn.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Statue of George Vancouver in [[King's Lynn]], his birthplace in England]]
* Statues of Vancouver are located in his birthplace of [[King's Lynn]], in front of [[Vancouver City Hall]], and on top of the dome of the [[British Columbia Parliament Buildings]].
* The Vancouver Quarter Shopping Centre bears his name in King's Lynn.
* [[Canada Post]] issued a pair of 14-cent stamps to mark the 200th anniversary of Captain Cook's arrival at Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island on 26 April 1978. George Vancouver was a crewman on this voyage.
* ''[[Gate to the Northwest Passage]]'', a commemorative statue by Vancouver artist Alan Chung Hung was commissioned by [[Parks Canada]] and installed at the mouth of [[False Creek]] in [[Vanier Park]] near the [[Vancouver Maritime Museum]] in 1980.
* [[Canada Post]] issued a 37-cent stamp inscribed ''Vancouver Explores the Coast'' on 17 March 1988. It was one of a set of four stamps issued to honour ''Exploration of Canada – Recognizers''.
* The ''George Vancouver [[Rose]]'', named in his honour and hybridised by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
* [[First Capital Connect]] named [[British Rail Class 365|Class 365]] unit 365514 ''Captain George Vancouver'', operating on the route between [[King's Lynn railway station|King's Lynn]] and [[London King's Cross railway station|London]].
* [[Virgin CrossCountry]] named [[British Rail Class 221|Class 221]] unit 221129 ''George Vancouver'' in 2003, it was denamed on transfer to [[Arriva CrossCountry]] in 2007.
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* A [[Captain Vancouver Landing Site on Maui|commemorative monument]] is located on the beach in North Kihei, Maui, Hawaii, commemorating George Vancouver's contribution of coffee and root vegetables to the islands of Hawaii, inscribed by Pierre Elliot Trudeau 2 December 1967.
* [[Statue of George Vancouver (Vancouver, Washington)|Statue of George Vancouver]] (2000), Vancouver, Washington

Many collections were made on the voyage: one was donated by [[Archibald Menzies]] to the [[British Museum]] 1796; another made by surgeon George Goodman Hewett (1765–1834) was donated by [[Augustus Wollaston Franks]] to the British Museum in 1891. An account of these has been published.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = King | first1 = J. C. H. | year = 1994 | title = Vancouver's Ethnography: A Preliminary Description of Five Inventories from the Voyage of 1791–95 | journal =  J Hist Collections  | volume = 6 | issue = 1 | pages = 35–38 | doi = 10.1093/jhc/6.1.35 }}</ref>