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Peter Wallace was a Scottish explorer and founder of a settlement by the Belize River. The country of Belize may derive its name from his surname.

According to Bancroft's History of Central America, Wallace led eighty settlers in founding a town at the mouth of the Belize River. The English-speaking settlers called the town and the river by his name, and in Spanish this became Walis, Balis, or Walix. This may have further changed over time into Belice or Belize.