miniatura|250px|Mapa das illas Galápagos tal como as describiu Cowley en 1684. miniatura|250px|O mapa de Cowley da circunnavegación do mundo na primeira edición de 1699 da Collection of Original Voyages de William Hack. William Ambrosia Cowley, tamén coñecido como Ambrose Cowley e capitán Cowley, foi un bucaneiro inglés do século XVII que explorou e fixo mapas das illas Galápagos durante a súa circunnavegación do mundo de 1683–1686 mentres servía ás ordes de varios capitáns piratas, como John Eaton, John Cook, e posteriormente Edward Davis. Cowley fixo un esbozo do primeiro mapa das illas en 1684, que se publicou por primeira vez xunto co relato da súa viaxe en 1699. No seu diario informou do descubrimento da illa fantasma Pepys, que se supoñía que estaba situada ao norte das illas Malvinas, o que motivou que varios mariños buscasen en van esa inexistente rocha.
Notas William Ambrosia Cowley. Cowley's Voyage Round the Globe, in Collection of Original Voyages, ed. William Hacke. Londres: James Knapton, 1699. https://web.archive.org/web/20180120160933/http://www.galapagos.to/TEXTS/COWLEY.HTM 1686 “A Short Account of My Voyage Round this Terestiall Globe of the World from Virginia to England and through the Great South Sea.” In Miscellanea Curiosa. Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Historical Society Mss1. T8525a3, Vol IV (letter written by Cowley describing his voyage). https://web.archive.org/web/20181024234711/http://www.galapagos.to/TEXTS/TURNERMS.HTM 1687 “The Voyage of Capt. Cowley. Papist.” In Lambeth Ms. 642: Codex Chartaceus. Londres: Lambeth Palace Library https://web.archive.org/web/20181024234711/http://www.galapagos.to/TEXTS/LAMBETH.HTM 1688 Cowley's Voyage Round the World. Londres: British Library. Sloane MS. 1050. https://web.archive.org/web/20181024234711/http://www.galapagos.to/TEXTS/COWLEY-MS.HTM 1698 “A Journal kept by Capt. Wm. Cowley on board the Ship Nicholas of London Capt. John Eaton Commander. A Voyage from Gorgona Island … to … Holland.” https://web.archive.org/web/20170219001609/http://www.galapagos.to/TEXTS/COWLEY-1.HTM#Morgan and “An abstract of a journal kept by Capt. Cowley from Cape Charles … to … the Island of Gorgona.” In William Hacke, Handwritten Journal of Pirate Bartholomew Sharpe. New York: Morgan Library. Ms. MA 3310. https://web.archive.org/web/20170219001609/http://www.galapagos.to/TEXTS/COWLEY-1.HTM#Morgan William Dampier. A New Voyage Round the World. 1697.
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