<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dampier" id="mwaQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="William Dampier">William Dampier</a> is the first European to circumnavigate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Britain" id="mwag" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="New Britain">New Britain</a>, discovering it is an island (which he names Nova Britannia) rather than part of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Guinea" id="mwaw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="New Guinea">New Guinea</a>.<sup about="#mwt46" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"}}' id="cite_ref-7" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_26#cite_note-7" id="mwbA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 7;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwbQ">[7]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"><cite about="#mwt43" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFJohnstone1831">Johnstone, Christine Isobel (1831). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=JtkDAAAAQAAJ" id="mwB54" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB58">Lives and Voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier: Including an Introductory View of the Earlier Discoveries in the South Sea, and the History of the Buccaneers</i></a>. Edinburgh: Oliver &amp; Boyd. pp.<span id="mwB6A" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>444–445. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./OCLC_(identifier)" id="mwB6E" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a><span id="mwB6I" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1259930" id="mwB6M" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">1259930</a>.</cite><span about="#mwt43" class="Z3988" id="mwB6Q" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Lives+and+Voyages+of+Drake%2C+Cavendish%2C+and+Dampier%3A+Including+an+Introductory+View+of+the+Earlier+Discoveries+in+the+South+Sea%2C+and+the+History+of+the+Buccaneers&amp;rft.place=Edinburgh&amp;rft.pages=444-445&amp;rft.pub=Oliver+%26+Boyd&amp;rft.date=1831&amp;rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F1259930&amp;rft.aulast=Johnstone&amp;rft.aufirst=Christine+Isobel&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DJtkDAAAAQAAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarch+26"></span></span>