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Which royal commission was Alejandro Malaspina under during his expedition?
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The Spanish Royal Commission, led by Alejandro Malaspina, was a grand scientific expedition of exploration and scientific inquiry to the Pacific Ocean, lasting from 1789 to 1794. The ambitious project aimed to increase scientific knowledge about the natural history, cartography, ethnography, and other aspects of the vast and poorly understood regions within Spanish colonial control in the Pacific, as well as the broader oceans.
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