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[[File:Amerigo Vespucci (with turban) - cropped.jpg|thumb|right|150px|

[[Amerigo Vespucci]] (1451–1512). Italian navigator who made several trips to the [[New World]]. He is known for convincing the Europeans that the New World is not Asia, but an entirely new unknown continent. This new continent was soon named after him, ''[[America|Americas]]''.]]
     

António de Abreu16th
Francisco Zeimoto16th
Thomas Wyndham16th
Sir Richard Guildford16thMediterranean Sea
William Adams17th
Portuguese15thNorthwest African coast
16th
20th, , Northern Patagonian Icefield,
17th (interior)
Afonso de Albuquerque16th
20th
Pero de Alenquer15th/16th
15th/16th, , possibly ; ,
20th/21stvarious
Diego de Almagro16th,
László Almásy19th/20th
Francisco de Almeida16th
Lourenço de Almeida16th,
Pedro de Alvarado16th, ,
Francisco Álvares16th
Gonçalo Álvares15th,
Jorge Álvares16th
, , Northwest Passage
José Alberto de Oliveira Anchieta19th
Charles John Andersson19th
António de Andrade16th/17th,
Fernão Pires de Andrade16th
Salomon August Andrée19th
Roy Chapman Andrews20thChina,
Juan Bautista de Anza18th
Moncacht-Apé17th/18th
20th/21st
20th,
20th
Ingólfur Arnarson9th
Vladimir Arsenyev20th
Michael Asher20th
Pero de Ataíde16th/17th
Vasco de Ataíde16th/17th,
17thKamchatka Peninsula
François Xavier Aubry19thAmerican Southwest
Väinö Auer20thTierra del Fuego and
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés16th
Juan de Ayala18th
Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón16th
Diogo de Azambuja15th coast
19thCanada (Arctic)
17thNorthwest Passage, Canada (Arctic)
British20th
Abu Bakr II14th, (allegedly)
19th
Vasco Núñez de Balboa16th, 'discovered' the Pacific Ocean
20thdeep sea wrecks,
20th/21st,
18thNewfoundland and Labrador,
15th, , , coast
15th,
15th/16th, 1st
Pero de Barcelos15th/16th
Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia15th
Jeanne Baré18th/19th
16thNortheast Passage, ,
19thCentral and northern
Robert BartlettNewfoundlander20th
18thSouthern United States
18th,
Henry Walter Bates19th
Battuta's Travels: Part Three – Persia and Iraq 14th, , , , Indian subcontinent, , ,
18th
19th
20thdeep sea
17th
19th/20ththe region of Syria
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen19th
Joseph René Bellot19thArctic
Móric Benyovszky18thnorthern
18thNorthern Pacific Ocean, , (North America)
Jean de Béthencourt15th
Hiram Bingham III20th,
20th/21st
19th/20th, , , , , , , , , , , ,
Stephen Bishop19th
John Blashford-Snell20th/21stvarious
17thEast Coast of the United States
19th/20th in 72 days
Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra18thPacific Northwest
Benjamin Bonneville19th,
18th, Appalachian Mountains
19th
Adam Brand17th,
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza19thCongo
Saint Brendan6th,
19thWestern United States
18th, the ,
William S. Bruce20th
Jørgen Brønlund20th
Étienne Brûlé17thCanada (interior)
18th/19thAustralian coasts
Lafayette Bunnell19th
Johann Ludwig Burckhardt19th,
Robert O'Hara Burke19th
Frederick Russell Burnham19th/20th,
Richard Francis Burton19th
17thNorthwest Passage
José de Bustamante y Guerra18th
Richard E. Byrd20th,
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca16thSouthwestern United States, ,
Giovanni Caboto.15th mainland (Canada)
Sebastian Cabot15thNorthwest Passage (Canada), Río de la Plata, Paraná River (South America)
João Cabral16th &
Pedro Álvares Cabral15th/16th,
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo16th
Estêvão Cacella16th
15th islands
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac18th
René Caillié19th
Álvaro Caminha15thSão Tomé and Príncipe islands
Pero Vaz de Caminha15th
Alberto del Canto15th/16thNorthwestern
Diogo Cão15thwest coast of (including the )
Hermenegildo de Brito Capelo19th
John Carpini13th,
Juan Carrasco18thPacific Northwest
19th, , ,
17th coast, Gulf of Carpentaria
16thSt. Lawrence River
João de Castro15th, Arabian Peninsula &
René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle17thMississippi embayment
/5th/6th and (semi-legendary)
16th, Pacific coast of and
20th/21st, , ,
Paul Du Chaillu19th
Harriet Chalmers Adams19th/20th, , South Pacific
Samuel de Champlain16th/17th,
13th,
17th,
Semion Chelyuskin18thGreat Northern Expedition
18thNorthern Sea Route
18thGreat Northern Expedition
Fletcher Christian18th
Boris Chukhnovsky20th
19th and
William Clark19thWestern United States
Gonçalo Coelho15th/16thSouth American coast
15th
Frank Cole20th
Bartholomew ColumbusGenoese15th/16th,
Christopher ColumbusCristoforo Colombo.15th/16th , , , ( and )
Portuguese16th (Mainly Dominican Republic)
19th/20th
3rd BCE
Niccolò Da Conti15th ,
19th/20th
18th,
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado16th
Mahinda3rd BCE
16th
Gaspar Côrte-Real16thNewfoundland,
João Côrte-Real15th, Newfoundland (Possible exploration of North America in 1473)
Miguel Côrte-Real16th, Newfoundland,
Hernán Cortés16th
Juan de la Cosa15th/16th,
19th,
Jean Cousin15thPossibly the Americas around 1488. Possibly mouth of the
Jacques-Yves Cousteau20ththe
Pero da Covilhã15th/16th,
Tom Crean20th
20th
Tristão da Cunha16thTristan da Cunha islands
William Healey Dall19th,
17th/18th, , many other locations
Alexandra David-Néel-20th (Traveled to )
Isaac Davis18th
5th, , and
John Davis16th,
14th,
17th, (80 years before Vitus Bering)
15th
Portuguese15th coast
16th,
Portuguese15th coast
8thEngland,
Karl von Ditmar19th
Raphaël Domjan21stvarious
16th, Pacific Coast of North America
15th coast
Juan Sebastián Elcano16thcompleted Ferdinand Magellan's
Francisco de Eliza18thStrait of Juan de Fuca and Strait of Georgia
Lincoln Ellsworth20th and
19th
1st
11th (Newfoundland) and mainland (Canada)
Erik the Red10th
15thSão Tomé and Príncipe islands
St Vincent Whitshed Erskine19th &
Eudoxus of Cyzicus2nd BC, attempted of
6th BC coast
19th
Evliya Çelebi17th, , ,
Edward John Eyre19th
Ahmad ibn Fadlan10th, ,
João Álvares FagundesPortuguese16thNewfoundland and
18th/19th
Percy Harrison Fawcett20thAmazon Rainforest
Álvaro Fernandes15th coast
Baltasar Fernandes17th
16th
Juan Fernández16thJuan Fernández Islands,
18thPacific Northwest
18th
20th/21st,
18th/19th,
Alexander Forbes19th
Peter Forsskål18thArabian Peninsula
19thNorthwest Passage
Simon Fraser18th/19th
Lançarote de FreitasPortuguese15th coast
John C. Frémont19th,
Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne18th
Louis de Freycinet19thWestern Australia,
16thNorthwest Passage, Canada
15th, and
3rd BC
Juan de Fuca16thStrait of Juan de Fuca, Canada–United States border
20th
20th
20th
Martín Galeano (Genoese)-16th
Dionisio Alcalá Galiano18thPacific Northwest
19th (Mayan remains)
Estevão da Gama16thTrindade and Martim Vaz islands,
João da Gama16th, , ,
Paulo da Gama15thsea route from to
Vasco da Gama15th/16thsea route from to
Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa16th
19th/20thMesoamerica (Mayan remains)
Francisco Garcés18thSouthwestern United States, northwestern Mexico
16th, and
Francisco García Jofre de Loaísa16th
19th
Adrien de Gerlache19th/20th,
19ththe ,
16th
19thCentral Australia
Portuguese15th coast
André Gonçalves15th/16th
Antão Gonçalves15th coast
Lopes Gonçalves15th
Binot Paulmier de Gonneville15th/16th (Santa Catarina)
James Augustus Grant19th
João Grego15thAfrican coast
Juan de Grijalva16th,
Grigory Grum-Grshimailo19th/20th, ,
16thYucatán Peninsula
18thFirst Kamchatka Expedition, Great Northern Expedition
19th/20th
Niels Peter Høeg Hagen20th
Hanno the Navigator6th BC coast
21st/20th BC
Gonzalo López de Haro18thPacific Northwest
20th
17thWestern Australian coast
20th and the
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden19th and the Western United States
15th, , , coast
18th,
Bruno de Heceta18thPacific Northwest
19th/20th
Matthew Alexander Henson20th
17th interior
Pedro de Heredia16thNorthern
Bjarni Herjulfsson10th
William Lewis Herndon19th
5th BC, ,
20th ocean voyages
Sir Edmund Hillary20th,
Himilco the Navigator6th BCNorthwestern coast of
1st BC
Clement Hodgkinson19thNew South Wales (Australia)
19th/20th
19th
20th
Cornelis de Houtman16thsea route from Europe to
Frederick de Houtman16th/17thWestern Australian coast
19thSouthern New South Wales
8th, , coast
17thNorthwest Passage,  and 
Alexander von Humboldt19th,
19thAustralian interior
James S. Hutchinson20th
8th, and
João Infante15th coast
20thNewfoundland, ,
20th
17th, Russian Far East, discoverer of
19th
Cristóvão Jacques16thParaná River, , ,
James of Ireland14th,
17th ()
Anthony Jenkinson16thRussia,
17thMississippi River
Jørgen Jørgensen18th/19th
13th
Conrad Carel Käyser20th
Thorfinn Karlsefni11th
Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel19thKamchatka
George Kennan19th/20thKamchatka, , .
19th interior
19th, , and Northern Canada
17thSecond Russian to explore the region
Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad9th (possibly mythical)
19th, , , and other South West African regions
17th/18th, and
20thOne of the founders of
20th
John Knight17th,
Johan Peter Koch20th
Alexander Kolchak20th
Ferdinand Konščak17thBaja California Peninsula
20th/21st, Explorers Grand Slam, pole of inaccessibility
Otto von Kotzebue19th
20th,
Johann Ludwig Krapf19th,
18th, , Kamchatka Peninsula
Adam Johann von Krusenstern19thFirst Russian circumnavigation
Francisco de LacerdaPortuguese18th
16th
Ernest Doudard de Lagrée19th, and
Alexander Gordon Laing19th ( and )
Pierre Martin de La Martinière17th, Lapland, northern , , and
Richard Lemon Lander19th ( and )
Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff19th
Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse18th
18thGreat Northern Expedition
Anthony de la Roché17th
Gadifer de la Salle15th
João Fernandes Lavrador15th/16th
Joseph N. LeConte20th
Albert von Le Coq19th/20th
18th, ,
Miguel López de Legazpi16th
Ludwig Leichhardt19th interior
Jacob Le Maire17th (, , Wallis and Futuna)
Gaspar de Lemos15th
19th/20thCongo
18th, , Kamchatka Peninsula
18th/19thWestern United States
Sir Martin Lindsay, 1st Baronet20thEast
João de Lisboa15th/16th, , and
St. George Littledale19th and
David Livingstone19th and
Louis-Philippe Loncke21st, the and
20th
Alexander Mackenzie18th/19thCanada
Ferdinand Magellan15th/16th1st , , Strait of Malacca,
-16th islands
Alessandro Malaspina18th
19th (Mayan remains)
20th
Lancelotto Malocello13th/14th ()
Albert Hastings Markham19th
Lourenço Marques16th
Jacques Marquette17thMississippi River
Álvaro Martins15thNewfoundland, Cape of Good Hope
Pedro Mascarenhas16th,
John Minor Maury19thDarién Gap
20th
19th
Robert McCormick19th and
Álvaro de Mendaña16th
António Lopes MendesPortuguese19th,
Cristóvão de Mendonça16th,
Pedro de Mendoza16th
Jorge de Menezes16thPapua New Guinea
Archibald Menzies18th/19th,
Alexander von Middendorff19th, , Lapland,
20th
Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay19th
Thomas Mitchell19th interior
19th/20thCongo Free State
Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons16th/17th
George Fletcher Moore19th
19thNew Guinea coast
17thFirst European to reach the Sea of Okhotsk
António MotaPortuguese16th
19thSouth East Asia
Francisco Antonio Mourelle18thPacific Northwest and
20th
Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen20th
19th
9th
Nain Singh Rawat (Pundit Brothers)19th, and
19th/20th
José María Narváez18thPacific Northwest
4th BC,
15th BCLand of Punt
Arthur Henry Neumann19th
Gennady Nevelskoy19th
17thNorthwest Territory (United States)
19thMississippi and
António Noli15th islands
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld19thArctic
20th
Fernão de Noronha15th/16th
João da Nova16th and
Paulo Dias de Novais16th
20th
Vanessa O'Brien20th/21st and in
Sebastián de Ocampo16th, Gulf of Mexico
Addison O'Dea21st
Odoric of Pordenone14th, and
Peter Skene Ogden19th country, Western United States
Alonso de Ojeda15th/16th (north),
Juan de Oñate16thAmerican Southwest
Francisco de Orellana16th,
21st,
Íñigo Órtiz de Retes16thPapua New Guinea
16th,
19thNew South Wales, southeastern .
Pedro Páez16th/17th
Juan Pardo16thSoutheastern United States
Mungo Park18th/19th ()
William Parry19th
James Ohio Pattie19thWestern United States
21st, ,
19thEthiopia
19th/20thArctic
19th/20th
Diogo Fernandes Pereira15th/16th, (Réunion, , and )
Duarte Pacheco Pereira15th,
Bartolomeu Perestrelo15th
Juan Pérez18thPacific Northwest
17th, first Russian to reach
17thFirst Russian to reach
20thEarth's atmosphere, the
20ththe deep sea
Antonio Pigafetta16thSurvived the 1st circumnavigation of the world
19thLouisiana Purchase (United States)
Alonso Alvarez de Pineda16thGulf Coast
Fernão Mendes Pinto16th, ,
Serpa Pinto19th
Martin Alonzo Pinzón15th
Vicente Yáñez Pinzón15th/16thCaribbean,
Luís Pires15thabortive voyage to Brazil
Francisco Pizarro16th, ,
Fernão do Pó15th coast
13th/14th, ,
Juan Ponce de León15th/16th
18th/19thCanada interior
Fedot Popov17thThe first European expedition through the
António da Silva PortoPortuguese19th interior
Gaspar de Portolà18th and
1st BC
20th/21st
Panayotis Potagos19th
19th
John Wesley Powell19thWestern United States
17thFirst Russian explorer of the region
21stHimalayas
18th
Vasili Pronchishchev18thGreat Northern Expedition
Maria Pronchishcheva18thThe first female explorer
Nathaniel Hale Pryor19thwestern United States
Nikolai Przhevalsky19th
19th
4th BC
2nd BC
Pedro Fernandes de Queirós16th/17th
Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada16thFrom Santa Marta to the Bogotá savanna; quest for
Hernán Pérez de Quesada16thCaquetá, Colombia; quest for El Dorado
18thPacific Northwest
Emil Racoviță19th/20th
John Rae19thNorthwest Passage, Canada (Arctic)
16th/17th,
20th
15th/16thMediterranean Sea
16th
21st
19thHorn of Africa ()
Luigi Robecchi19th
Anthony de la Roché17th (South Georgia)
16thMascarene Islands
20th,
18th ()
Cândido Rondon19th/20th interior ()
James Clark Ross19th,
Sir John Ross19th
John Ross19thNorthern Territory
William of Rubruck13th
Nikolay Rudanovsky19th
Henry Russell19th
Ahmad ibn Rustah10th, , Arabia
João de SáPortuguese15th/16th, coast
Álvaro de Saavedra16thPapua New Guinea, ,
19th
18th/19thWestern United States
Anatoly Sagalevich20th/21stExplorer of the , seabed at the
20th/21stPapua New Guinea, ,
Alonso de Salazar16th,
Agustín Lizárraga20th
Gadiel Sánchez Rivera21st,
Sándor Kőrösi Csoma19th
19thNew Siberian Islands
João de Santarém15thSão Tomé and Príncipe islands
18th/19thSea of Okhotsk, ,
Martin Sauer18th,
Rabban Bar Sauma13th,
Johann Schiltberger15th
Adolf Schlagintweit19th
Eduard Schlagintweit19th
Emil Schlagintweit19th
Hermann Schlagintweit19th
Robert Schlagintweit19th
16thRío de la Plata
17th (, , Wallis and Futuna)
Georg August Schweinfurth19thEast and Central Africa
Robert Falcon Scott19th/20th ()
Scylax of Caryanda6th BC, ,
20th
Mirko and Stjepan Seljan20th,
Frederick Courtney Selous19thAfrica
14th,
Gomes de Sequeira16th,
João Serrão15th/16th1st (also later its co-captain general); commanded the ship Santiago in the Atlantic and the Concepcion across the Pacific, Strait of Malacca,
Francisco Serrão15th/16th
Ernest Shackleton20th
Robert Barkley Shaw19th
20th, southern
Tanaka Shōsuke17th
15th
James Simpson20thNorth
Pero de Sintra15th coast,
Pierre-Jean De Smet19th
19thWestern United States,
John Smith17th
William Smith19thSouth Shetland Islands
20th
J. Dewey Soper20th
Hernando de Soto16th, Southern United States
Martim Afonso de Sousa16th interior
John Hanning Speke19th
16th
21st
William Grant Stairs19th
Henry Morton Stanley19thEast Africa
Vilhjalmur Stefansson20th
Marc Aurel Stein19th/20th
John Lloyd Stephens19th, (Mayan remains)
Paweł StrzeleckiSir Paul de Strzelecki.19ththe , ()
John McDouall Stuart19thAustralian Interior
19thAustralian Interior
Gardar Svavarsson9th
20th
19th/20th
Ignacije Szentmartony18th
17th, including
António Raposo Tavares17th, part of the , Grande River, Mamoré River, , (, , ) Union of La Plata Basin to the Amazon River – circumnavigation of Brazil.
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier17th,
19th, ,
17th
Tristão Vaz Teixeira15th
20th,
David Thompson18th/19thWestern Canada, Pacific Northwest
Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir11th
Harold William Tilman20th,
Yermak Timofeyevich16th
17thSouth East Asia,
19th
Luis Váez de Torres16th/17thAustralasia
Nuno Tristão15th coast,
Petrus Johannes Truter19th
Hasekura Tsunenaga17th,
Benjamin of Tudela12thMediterranean Sea, Arabian Peninsula, ,
Andrés de Urdaneta16th, route
Jules Dumont d'Urville19th
Cayetano Valdés y Flores18thPacific Northwest
18thPacific coast of North AmericaU.S. Pacific Coast, Pacific Northwest.
Ludovico di Varthema15th/16thArabian Peninsula, Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia
Gonçalo Velho15th
François de La Vérendrye18th
Louis-Joseph Gaultier de La Vérendrye18th
Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye18th
Giovanni da Verrazzano16thEast Coast of the United States
15th/16thEastern coast,
Flóki Vilgerðarson 9th
Ruy López de Villalobos16th,
Vandino and Ugolino Vivaldi13thAfrica, in a failed attempt to reach India
Sebastián Vizcaíno16thNorthwest Pacific, California Coast
Willem de Vlamingh17thSouthwest Australian coast
Maarten Gerritsz Vries17thNorthwest Pacific (, )
17thMalay Archipelago, Isthmus of Panama
Jean-Frédéric Waldeck19th (Mayan remains)
Thomas Walker18thEastern United StatesAllegheny Mountains, Cumberland Plateau.
18thFirst recorded visit to
20thEast & Labrador
20ththe
20th
John White16th
20th,
Frederick Whymper19th, ,
19th
Edward Adrian Wilson19th/20th
Ernest Henry Wilson19th/20th, , and , ,
James Wilson18th
Thomas Braidwood WilsonScottish Australian19th
Harry de Windt19th/20th
Fanny Bullock Workman19th/20thHimalaya
Ferdinand von Wrangel19thNorthern
7thIndian subcontinent,
John Young18th
Sir Francis Younghusband19th/20th
Topa Inca Yupanqui15th
João Gonçalves Zarco15th
Gonzalo García Zorro16th
20th, , ,


See also
  • Age of Discovery
  • /Cosmonaut/Taikonaut
    • International Space Station
    • List of people who have walked on the Moon
  • Chronology of European exploration of Asia
  • List of explorations
  • List of lost expeditions
  • List of female explorers and travelers
  • List of maritime explorers
  • List of Russian explorers
  • List of travelers
  • Maritime timeline
  • Portuguese discoveries
  • The Exploration Museum
  • Timeline of maritime migration and exploration
  • Trans-Saharan trade
  • Travel literature


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