Explorers are listed below with their common names, countries of origin (modern and former), centuries of activity and main areas of exploration.
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[[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 Abreu | 16th | Indonesia | |
Francisco Zeimoto | 16th | Japan | |
Thomas Wyndham | English people | 16th | West Africa |
Sir Richard Guildford | 16th | Mediterranean Sea | |
William Adams | 17th | Japan | |
Diogo Afonso | Portuguese | 15th | Northwest African coast |
Estevanico | 16th | North America | |
Crispin Agnew | Scottish people | 20th | Greenland, Elephant Island, Northern Patagonian Icefield, Himalayas |
Charles Albanel | 17th | Canada (interior) | |
Afonso de Albuquerque | 16th | Asia | |
Buzz Aldrin | 20th | The Moon | |
Pero de Alenquer | 15th/16th | Indian Ocean | |
Jean Alfonse | 15th/16th | Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia, possibly Australia; Brazil, North America | |
Benedict Allen | 20th/21st | various | |
Diego de Almagro | 16th | Peru, Chile | |
László Almásy | 19th/20th | Africa | |
Francisco de Almeida | 16th | India | |
Lourenço de Almeida | 16th | Sri Lanka, India | |
Pedro de Alvarado | 16th | Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras | |
Francisco Álvares | 16th | Ethiopia | |
Gonçalo Álvares | 15th | Gough Island, Namibia | |
Jorge Álvares | 16th | China | |
Roald Amundsen | Norwegians | South Pole, Antarctica, Northwest Passage | |
José Alberto de Oliveira Anchieta | 19th | Gough Island | |
Charles John Andersson | 19th | Southern Africa | |
António de Andrade | 16th/17th | India, Tibet | |
Fernão Pires de Andrade | 16th | Ming Dynasty | |
Salomon August Andrée | 19th | Arctic | |
Roy Chapman Andrews | 20th | China, Mongolia | |
Juan Bautista de Anza | 18th | California | |
Moncacht-Apé | Yazoo people | 17th/18th | North America |
Dominick Arduin | 20th/21st | North Pole | |
Henryk Arctowski | 20th | Antarctic, South America | |
Neil Armstrong | 20th | Moon | |
Ingólfur Arnarson | 9th | Iceland | |
Vladimir Arsenyev | 20th | Far East | |
Michael Asher | 20th | Africa | |
Pero de Ataíde | 16th/17th | Indian Ocean | |
Vasco de Ataíde | 16th/17th | India, Tibet | |
Vladimir Atlasov | 17th | Kamchatka Peninsula | |
François Xavier Aubry | 19th | American Southwest | |
Väinö Auer | 20th | Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia | |
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés | 16th | Florida | |
Juan de Ayala | 18th | California | |
Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón | Spaniards | 16th | South Carolina |
Diogo de Azambuja | 15th | coast | |
George Back | 19th | Canada (Arctic) | |
William Baffin | 17th | Northwest Passage, Canada (Arctic) | |
Ralph Bagnold | British | 20th | Libyan Desert |
Abu Bakr II | 14th | Atlantic Ocean, New World (allegedly) | |
Samuel Baker | 19th | Africa | |
Vasco Núñez de Balboa | 16th | Panama, 'discovered' the Pacific Ocean | |
Robert Ballard | 20th | deep sea wrecks, Titanic | |
Ann Bancroft | 20th/21st | Arctic, Antarctic | |
Joseph Banks | 18th | Newfoundland and Labrador, Oceania | |
Hong Bao | Chinese people | 15th | South Asia, Southeast Asia, Middle East, coast |
Giosafat Barbaro | 15th | Black Sea, Near East | |
Duarte Barbosa | 15th/16th | Indian Ocean, 1st circumnavigation | |
Pero de Barcelos | 15th/16th | North America | |
Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia | 15th | Western Sahara | |
Jeanne Baré | 18th/19th | Pacific Ocean | |
Willem Barentsz | 16th | Northeast Passage, Novaya Zemlya, Svalbard | |
Heinrich Barth | 19th | Central and northern Africa | |
Robert Bartlett | Newfoundlander | 20th | Arctic |
William Bartram | Americans | 18th | Southern United States |
George Bass | 18th | Australia, Tasmania | |
Henry Walter Bates | 19th | Amazon basin | |
Ibn Battuta Battuta's Travels: Part Three – Persia and Iraq | 14th | Africa, Central Asia, China, Europe, Indian subcontinent, Middle East, Russia, Southeast Asia | |
Nicolas Baudin | 18th | Australia | |
James Beckwourth | 19th | Sierra Nevada | |
William Beebe | 20th | deep sea | |
Pyotr Beketov | 17th | Siberia | |
Gertrude Bell | 19th/20th | the region of Syria Mesopotamia Asia Minor Arabia | |
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen | 19th | Antarctica | |
Joseph René Bellot | 19th | Arctic | |
Móric Benyovszky | 18th | northern Pacific Ocean | |
Vitus Bering | 18th | Northern Pacific Ocean, Bering Strait, Alaska (North America) | |
Jean de Béthencourt | 15th | Canary Islands | |
Hiram Bingham III | 20th | Machu Picchu, Peru | |
Laura Bingham | 20th/21st | South America | |
Isabella Bird | 19th/20th | North America, Hawaii, Japan, Korea, China, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Persia, Kurdistan, Turkey, Morocco | |
Stephen Bishop | 19th | Mammoth Cave | |
John Blashford-Snell | 20th/21st | various | |
Adriaen Block | 17th | East Coast of the United States | |
Nellie Bly | 19th/20th | circumnavigation in 72 days | |
Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra | 18th | Pacific Northwest | |
Benjamin Bonneville | 19th | Oregon Country, Great Basin | |
Daniel Boone | 18th | Kentucky, Appalachian Mountains | |
Vittorio Bottego | 19th | Somalia | |
Adam Brand | 17th | Russia, China | |
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza | 19th | Congo | |
Saint Brendan | 6th | Atlantic Ocean, Iceland | |
Jim Bridger | 19th | Western United States | |
James Bruce | 18th | Algeria, the Middle East, Egypt | |
William S. Bruce | 20th | Antarctica | |
Jørgen Brønlund | 20th | Greenland | |
Étienne Brûlé | 17th | Canada (interior) | |
Bungaree | 18th/19th | Australian coasts | |
Lafayette Bunnell | 19th | Yosemite Valley | |
Johann Ludwig Burckhardt | 19th | Middle East, Sudan | |
Robert O'Hara Burke | 19th | Australia | |
Frederick Russell Burnham | 19th/20th | Africa, Mexico | |
Richard Francis Burton | 19th | East Africa | |
Thomas Button | Welsh people | 17th | Northwest Passage |
José de Bustamante y Guerra | 18th | Pacific Ocean | |
Richard E. Byrd | 20th | North Pole, Antarctica | |
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca | 16th | Southwestern United States, Mexico, Argentina | |
John CabotGiovanni Caboto. | 15th | mainland (Canada) | |
Sebastian Cabot | 15th | Northwest Passage (Canada), Río de la Plata, Paraná River (South America) | |
João Cabral | 16th | Bhutan & Nepal | |
Pedro Álvares Cabral | 15th/16th | Brazil, Madagascar | |
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo | 16th | California | |
Estêvão Cacella | 16th | Himalayas | |
Alvise Cadamosto | 15th | Cape Verde islands | |
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac | 18th | North America | |
René Caillié | 19th | North Africa | |
Álvaro Caminha | 15th | São Tomé and Príncipe islands | |
Pero Vaz de Caminha | 15th | Brazil | |
Alberto del Canto | 15th/16th | Northwestern Mexico | |
Diogo Cão | 15th | west coast of Africa (including the Congo River) | |
Hermenegildo de Brito Capelo | 19th | Africa | |
John Carpini | 13th | Central Asia, Mongolia | |
Juan Carrasco | 18th | Pacific Northwest | |
Kit Carson | 19th | Rocky Mountains, California, Oregon, Great Basin | |
Jan Carstenszoon | 17th | New Guinea coast, Gulf of Carpentaria | |
Jacques Cartier | 16th | St. Lawrence River | |
João de Castro | 15th | India, Arabian Peninsula & Red Sea | |
René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle | 17th | Mississippi embayment | |
Bodhidharma | Indian people/Persians | 5th/6th | China and Southeast Asia (semi-legendary) |
Thomas Cavendish | 16th | Virginia, Pacific coast of Central America and South America | |
Merieme Chadid | 20th/21st | Antarctica, South America, Asia, Astronomer | |
Paul Du Chaillu | 19th | Africa | |
Harriet Chalmers Adams | 19th/20th | South America, Asia, South Pacific | |
Samuel de Champlain | 16th/17th | Quebec, Great Lakes | |
Qiu Chuji | 13th | Central Asia, Mongolia | |
Jean Chardin | 17th | Safavid Empire, India | |
Semion Chelyuskin | 18th | Great Northern Expedition | |
Vasily Chichagov | 18th | Northern Sea Route | |
Aleksei Chirikov | 18th | Great Northern Expedition | |
Fletcher Christian | 18th | Polynesia | |
Boris Chukhnovsky | 20th | Arctic | |
Hugh Clapperton | 19th | West Africa and Central Africa | |
William Clark | 19th | Western United States | |
Gonçalo Coelho | 15th/16th | South American coast | |
Nicolau Coelho | 15th | Brazil | |
Frank Cole | 20th | Sahara | |
Bartholomew Columbus | Genoese | 15th/16th | Hispaniola, The Antilles |
Christopher ColumbusCristoforo Colombo. | 15th/16th Bahamas, Caribbean, Central America, South America (Colombia and Venezuela) | ||
Diego Columbus | Portuguese | 16th | Hispaniola (Mainly Dominican Republic) |
George Comer | 19th/20th | Arctic | |
Megasthenes | Greeks | 3rd BCE | India |
Niccolò Da Conti | 15th India, Southeast Asia | ||
Frederick Cook | 19th/20th | Arctic | |
James Cook | 18th | Australasia, Oceania | |
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado | 16th | New Mexico | |
Mahinda | Indian people | 3rd BCE | Sri Lanka |
Caramuru | 16th | Brazil | |
Gaspar Côrte-Real | 16th | Newfoundland, Greenland | |
João Côrte-Real | 15th | Azores, Newfoundland (Possible exploration of North America in 1473) | |
Miguel Côrte-Real | 16th | Greenland, Newfoundland, Massachusetts | |
Hernán Cortés | 16th | Mexico | |
Juan de la Cosa | 15th/16th | Caribbean, South America | |
Thomas Coulter | 19th | Mexico, Alta California | |
Jean Cousin | 15th | Possibly the Americas around 1488. Possibly mouth of the Amazon River | |
Jacques-Yves Cousteau | 20th | the deep sea | |
Pero da Covilhã | 15th/16th | India, Ethiopia | |
Tom Crean | 20th | Antarctica | |
Andrew Croft | 20th | Arctic | |
Tristão da Cunha | 16th | Tristan da Cunha islands | |
William Healey Dall | 19th | Alaska, Yukon | |
William Dampier | 17th/18th | Australia, Panama, many other locations | |
Alexandra David-Néel | French people-Belgians | 20th | Tibet (Traveled to Lhasa) |
Isaac Davis | 18th | Hawaii | |
Faxian | Chinese people | 5th | India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia |
John Davis | 16th | East Indies, Falkland Islands | |
Wang Dayuan | Chinese people | 14th | Southeast Asia, Singapore |
Semyon Dezhnev | 17th | Siberia, Bering Strait (80 years before Vitus Bering) | |
Bartolomeu Dias | 15th | Africa | |
Dinis Dias | Portuguese | 15th | coast |
Diogo Dias | 16th | Madagascar, Somalia | |
Pero Dias | Portuguese | 15th | coast |
Dicuil | 8th | England, Scotland | |
Karl von Ditmar | 19th | Kamchatka | |
Raphaël Domjan | 21st | various | |
Francis Drake | 16th | Caribbean, Pacific Coast of North America | |
Gil Eanes | 15th | coast | |
Juan Sebastián Elcano | 16th | completed Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation | |
Francisco de Eliza | 18th | Strait of Juan de Fuca and Strait of Georgia | |
Lincoln Ellsworth | 20th | Arctic and Antarctica | |
Franz Engel | 19th | South America | |
Kaundinya I | Indian people | 1st | Southeast Asia |
Leif Eriksson | 11th | Vinland (Newfoundland) and mainland (Canada) | |
Erik the Red | 10th | Greenland | |
Pedro Escobar | 15th | São Tomé and Príncipe islands | |
St Vincent Whitshed Erskine | 19th | Gazaland & Limpopo River | |
Eudoxus of Cyzicus | 2nd BC | Indian Ocean, attempted circumnavigation of Africa | |
Euthymenes | 6th BC | coast | |
George Everest | 19th | India | |
Evliya Çelebi | 17th | Turkey, Egypt, Africa, Europe | |
Edward John Eyre | 19th | Australia | |
Ahmad ibn Fadlan | 10th | Eastern Europe, Middle East, Russia | |
João Álvares Fagundes | Portuguese | 16th | Newfoundland and Nova Scotia |
Edmund Fanning | 18th/19th | Oceania | |
Percy Harrison Fawcett | 20th | Amazon Rainforest | |
Álvaro Fernandes | 15th | coast | |
Baltasar Fernandes | 17th | Brazil | |
Duarte Fernandes | 16th | Thailand | |
Juan Fernández | 16th | Juan Fernández Islands, Pacific Ocean | |
Salvador Fidalgo | 18th | Pacific Northwest | |
Peter Fidler | 18th | Western Canada | |
Ranulph Fiennes | 20th/21st | Arctic, Antarctica | |
Matthew Flinders | 18th/19th | Australia, Tasmania | |
Alexander Forbes | 19th | California | |
Peter Forsskål | 18th | Arabian Peninsula | |
John Franklin | 19th | Northwest Passage | |
Simon Fraser | 18th/19th | British Columbia | |
Lançarote de Freitas | Portuguese | 15th | coast |
John C. Frémont | 19th | Oregon Trail, Sierra Nevada | |
Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne | 18th | Oceania | |
Louis de Freycinet | 19th | Western Australia, Oceania | |
Martin Frobisher | 16th | Northwest Passage, Canada | |
Afanasy Nikitin | Russians | 15th | Ottoman Empire, Iran and India |
Xu Fu | 3rd BC | Japan | |
Juan de Fuca | 16th | Strait of Juan de Fuca, Canada–United States border | |
Vivian Fuchs | 20th | Antarctica | |
Alfons Gabriel | 20th | Iran | |
Yuri Gagarin | 20th | Geocentric orbit | |
Martín Galeano | Italians (Genoese)-Spaniards | 16th | Colombia |
Dionisio Alcalá Galiano | 18th | Pacific Northwest | |
Juan Galindo | 19th | Mesoamerica (Mayan remains) | |
Estevão da Gama | 16th | Trindade and Martim Vaz islands, Indian Ocean | |
João da Gama | 16th | Hokkaido, Kuril islands, North Pacific, North America | |
Paulo da Gama | 15th | sea route from Europe to India | |
Vasco da Gama | 15th/16th | sea route from Europe to India | |
Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa | 16th | Solomon Islands | |
Thomas Gann | 19th/20th | Mesoamerica (Mayan remains) | |
Francisco Garcés | 18th | Southwestern United States, northwestern Mexico | |
Aleixo Garcia | 16th | Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia | |
Francisco García Jofre de Loaísa | 16th | Pacific Ocean | |
Francis Garnier | 19th | Mekong River | |
Adrien de Gerlache | 19th/20th | Antarctica, Arctic | |
Romolo Gessi | 19th | the Nile, Sudan | |
Humphrey Gilbert | 16th | North America | |
Ernest Giles | 19th | Central Australia | |
Diogo Gomes | Portuguese | 15th | coast |
André Gonçalves | 15th/16th | Brazil | |
Antão Gonçalves | 15th | coast | |
Lopes Gonçalves | 15th | Atlantic Ocean | |
Binot Paulmier de Gonneville | 15th/16th | Brazil (Santa Catarina) | |
James Augustus Grant | 19th | East Africa | |
João Grego | 15th | African coast | |
Juan de Grijalva | 16th | Mexico, Nicaragua | |
Grigory Grum-Grshimailo | 19th/20th | Central Asia, Tuva, Far East | |
Gonzalo Guerrero | 16th | Yucatán Peninsula | |
Mikhail Gvozdev | 18th | First Kamchatka Expedition, Great Northern Expedition | |
Charles Gwynn | 19th/20th | Sudan | |
Niels Peter Høeg Hagen | 20th | Greenland | |
Hanno the Navigator | 6th BC | coast | |
Hannu | 21st/20th BC | East Africa | |
Gonzalo López de Haro | 18th | Pacific Northwest | |
Alfred Harrison | 20th | Arctic | |
Dirk Hartog | 17th | Western Australian coast | |
Ahmed Hassanein | 20th | Jebel Uweinat and the Sahara | |
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden | 19th | Rocky Mountains and the Western United States | |
Zheng He | Chinese people | 15th | South Asia, Southeast Asia, Middle East, coast |
Samuel Hearne | 18th | North Canada, Arctic | |
Bruno de Heceta | 18th | Pacific Northwest | |
Sven Hedin | 19th/20th | Central Asia | |
Matthew Alexander Henson | 20th | Arctic | |
Louis Hennepin | 17th | interior | |
Pedro de Heredia | 16th | Northern Colombia | |
Bjarni Herjulfsson | 10th | North America | |
William Lewis Herndon | 19th | Amazon basin | |
Herodotus | 5th BC | Near East, Middle East, North Africa | |
Thor Heyerdahl | 20th | Anthropology ocean voyages | |
Sir Edmund Hillary | 20th | Mount Everest, Antarctica | |
Himilco the Navigator | 6th BC | Northwestern coast of Europe | |
Hippalus | 1st BC | Indian Ocean | |
Clement Hodgkinson | 19th | New South Wales (Australia) | |
Pelham Aldrich | English people | 19th/20th | Arctic |
Emil Holub | 19th | Africa | |
Robert Hottot | 20th | Congo River | |
Cornelis de Houtman | 16th | sea route from Europe to Indonesia | |
Frederick de Houtman | 16th/17th | Western Australian coast | |
William Hovell | 19th | Southern New South Wales | |
Du Huan | Chinese people | 8th | Central Asia, Middle East, coast |
Henry Hudson | 17th | Northwest Passage, Hudson River and Hudson Bay | |
Alexander von Humboldt | 19th | Latin America, Siberia | |
Hamilton Hume | 19th | Australian interior | |
James S. Hutchinson | 20th | Sierra Nevada | |
Hyecho | 8th | India, Greater Iran and Central Asia | |
João Infante | 15th | coast | |
Helge Ingstad | 20th | Newfoundland, Greenland, Alaska | |
James Irwin | Americans | 20th | The Moon |
Kurbat Ivanov | 17th | Siberia, Russian Far East, discoverer of Lake Baikal | |
Roberto Ivens | 19th | Africa | |
Cristóvão Jacques | 16th | Paraná River, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina | |
James of Ireland | 14th | Sumatra, China | |
Willem Janszoon | 17th | Australia (Queensland) | |
Anthony Jenkinson | 16th | Russia, Iran | |
Louis Jolliet | 17th | Mississippi River | |
Jørgen Jørgensen | 18th/19th | Tasmania | |
Friar Julian | 13th | Volga Bulgaria | |
Conrad Carel Käyser | 20th | Suriname | |
Thorfinn Karlsefni | 11th | Vinland | |
Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel | 19th | Kamchatka | |
George Kennan | 19th/20th | RussiaKamchatka, Caucasus, Siberia. | |
Edmund Kennedy | 19th | interior | |
Robert Kennicott | 19th | Alaska, Siberia, Yukon and Northern Canada | |
Yerofey Khabarov | 17th | Second Russian to explore the Amur River region | |
Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad | 9th | Atlantic Ocean (possibly mythical) | |
Mary Kingsley | English people | 19th | Cameroon, Gabon, Congo Basin, and other South West African regions |
Eusebio Kino | 17th/18th | , Sonora and Arizona | |
Maria Klenova | 20th | One of the founders of marine geology | |
Amyr Klink | 20th | Antarctica | |
John Knight | 17th | Greenland, Labrador | |
Johan Peter Koch | 20th | Greenland | |
Alexander Kolchak | 20th | Russian Arctic | |
Ferdinand Konščak | 17th | Baja California Peninsula | |
Fyodor Konyukhov | 20th/21st | circumnavigation, Explorers Grand Slam, pole of inaccessibility | |
Otto von Kotzebue | 19th | Pacific Ocean | |
Pyotr Kozlov | 20th | Mongolia, Tibet | |
Johann Ludwig Krapf | 19th | Ethiopia, Kenya | |
Pyotr Krenitsyn | 18th | Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Kamchatka Peninsula | |
Adam Johann von Krusenstern | 19th | First Russian circumnavigation | |
Francisco de Lacerda | Portuguese | 18th | Zambia |
Juan Ladrillero | Spaniards | 16th | Chile |
Ernest Doudard de Lagrée | French people | 19th | Indochina, Mekong and Yunnan |
Alexander Gordon Laing | 19th | West Africa (Niger River and Timbuktu) | |
Pierre Martin de La Martinière | 17th | Norway, Lapland, northern Russia, Novaya Zemlya, Greenland and Iceland | |
Richard Lemon Lander | 19th | West Africa (Niger River and ) | |
Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff | 19th | Brazil | |
Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse | 18th | Pacific Rim | |
Khariton Laptev | 18th | Great Northern Expedition | |
Anthony de la Roché | 17th | Antarctica | |
Gadifer de la Salle | 15th | Canary Islands | |
João Fernandes Lavrador | 15th/16th | Labrador | |
Joseph N. LeConte | 20th | Sierra Nevada | |
Albert von Le Coq | 19th/20th | Central Asia | |
John Ledyard | 18th | Australasia, Oceania, Russia | |
Miguel López de Legazpi | 16th | Philippines | |
Ludwig Leichhardt | 19th | interior | |
Jacob Le Maire | 17th | Oceania (Cape Horn, Tonga Islands, Wallis and Futuna) | |
Gaspar de Lemos | 15th | Brazil | |
Dragutin Lerman | 19th/20th | Congo | |
Mikhail Levashev | 18th | Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Kamchatka Peninsula | |
Meriwether Lewis | 18th/19th | Western United States | |
Sir Martin Lindsay, 1st Baronet | 20th | East Greenland | |
João de Lisboa | 15th/16th | Indian Ocean, Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina | |
St. George Littledale | 19th | Central Asia and North America | |
David Livingstone | 19th | Southern Africa and East Africa | |
Louis-Philippe Loncke | 21st | Australia, the Andes and Iceland | |
Jim Lovell | 20th | Outer Space | |
Alexander Mackenzie | 18th/19th | Canada | |
Ferdinand Magellan | 15th/16th | 1st circumnavigation, Philippines, Strait of Malacca, Indian Ocean | |
Jacques Mahu | French people-Dutch people | 16th | Cape Verde islands |
Alessandro Malaspina | 18th | Pacific Ocean | |
Teoberto Maler | 19th | Mesoamerica (Mayan remains) | |
George Mallory | 20th | Mount Everest | |
Lancelotto Malocello | 13th/14th | Lanzarote (Canary Islands) | |
Albert Hastings Markham | 19th | Arctic | |
Lourenço Marques | 16th | Mozambique | |
Jacques Marquette | 17th | Mississippi River | |
Álvaro Martins | 15th | Newfoundland, Cape of Good Hope | |
Pedro Mascarenhas | 16th | Indian Ocean, Diego Garcia | |
John Minor Maury | 19th | Darién Gap | |
Douglas Mawson | 20th | Antarctica | |
Robert McClure | 19th | Arctic | |
Robert McCormick | British people | 19th | Arctic Ocean and |
Álvaro de Mendaña | 16th | Pacific Ocean | |
António Lopes Mendes | Portuguese | 19th | Brazil, India |
Cristóvão de Mendonça | 16th | East Asia, Australasia | |
Pedro de Mendoza | Spaniards | 16th | South America |
Jorge de Menezes | 16th | Papua New Guinea | |
Archibald Menzies | 18th/19th | Pacific Ocean, circumnavigation | |
Alexander von Middendorff | 19th | Siberia, Far East, Lapland, Fergana Valley | |
Ejnar Mikkelsen | 20th | Greenland | |
Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay | 19th | New Guinea | |
Thomas Mitchell | 19th | interior | |
Richard Mohun | 19th/20th | Congo Free State | |
Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons | 16th/17th | North America | |
George Fletcher Moore | 19th | Australia | |
John Moresby | 19th | New Guinea coast | |
Ivan Moskvitin | 17th | First European to reach the Sea of Okhotsk | |
António Mota | Portuguese | 16th | Japan |
Henri Mouhot | 19th | South East Asia | |
Francisco Antonio Mourelle | 18th | Pacific Northwest and Pacific Ocean | |
Bimal Mukherjee | 20th | circumnavigation | |
Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen | 20th | Greenland | |
Gustav Nachtigal | 19th | Africa | |
Naddoddur | 9th | Iceland | |
Nain Singh Rawat (Pundit Brothers) | 19th | Tibet, Himalayas and Central Asia | |
Fridtjof Nansen | 19th/20th | Arctic | |
José María Narváez | 18th | Pacific Northwest | |
Nearchus | 4th BC | Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf | |
Nehsi | 15th BC | Land of Punt | |
Arthur Henry Neumann | 19th | Africa | |
Gennady Nevelskoy | 19th | Sakhalin | |
Jean Nicolet | 17th | Northwest Territory (United States) | |
Joseph Nicollet | 19th | Mississippi and | |
António Noli | 15th | Cape Verde islands | |
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld | 19th | Arctic | |
Tenzing Norgay | 20th | Mount Everest | |
Fernão de Noronha | 15th/16th | Atlantic Ocean | |
João da Nova | 16th | Atlantic Ocean and | |
Paulo Dias de Novais | 16th | Angola | |
Kazimierz Nowak | 20th | Africa | |
Vanessa O'Brien | 20th/21st | Mountaineering and Challenger Deep in Marianas Trench | |
Sebastián de Ocampo | 16th | Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico | |
Addison O'Dea | 21st | Sahara | |
Odoric of Pordenone | 14th | Persia, India and China | |
Peter Skene Ogden | 19th | Snake River country, Western United States | |
Alonso de Ojeda | Spaniards | 15th/16th | South America (north), Caribbean |
Juan de Oñate | 16th | American Southwest | |
Francisco de Orellana | 16th | South America, Amazon River | |
Simone Orlandini | 21st | Arctic, Tibet | |
Íñigo Órtiz de Retes | 16th | Papua New Guinea | |
John Oxenham | 16th | Panama, Pacific Ocean | |
John Oxley | 19th | AustraliaNew South Wales, southeastern Queensland. | |
Pedro Páez | 16th/17th | Ethiopia | |
Juan Pardo | Spaniards | 16th | Southeastern United States |
Mungo Park | 18th/19th | West Africa (Niger River) | |
William Parry | 19th | Arctic | |
James Ohio Pattie | 19th | Western United States | |
Fiann Paul | Icelandic people | 21st | Arctic, Antarctic, |
Nathaniel Pearce | 19th | Ethiopia | |
Robert Peary | 19th/20th | Arctic | |
Paul Pelliot | 19th/20th | central Asia | |
Diogo Fernandes Pereira | 15th/16th | Madagascar, Mascarenes (Réunion, Mauritius, and Rodrigues) | |
Duarte Pacheco Pereira | 15th | Atlantic Ocean, Brazil | |
Bartolomeu Perestrelo | 15th | Madeira Islands | |
Juan Pérez | 18th | Pacific Northwest | |
Maksim Perfilyev | 17th | Eastern Siberia, first Russian to reach Transbaikalia | |
Ivan Petlin | 17th | First Russian to reach China | |
Auguste Piccard | 20th | Earth's atmosphere, the deep sea | |
Jacques Piccard | 20th | the deep sea | |
Antonio Pigafetta | 16th | Survived the 1st circumnavigation of the world | |
Zebulon Pike | 19th | Louisiana Purchase (United States) | |
Alonso Alvarez de Pineda | 16th | Gulf Coast | |
Fernão Mendes Pinto | 16th | India, Far East, Japan | |
Serpa Pinto | 19th | Southern Africa | |
Martin Alonzo Pinzón | 15th | Caribbean | |
Vicente Yáñez Pinzón | 15th/16th | Caribbean, Brazil | |
Luís Pires | 15th | abortive voyage to Brazil | |
Francisco Pizarro | 16th | Hispaniola, Panama, Peru | |
Fernão do Pó | 15th | coast | |
Marco Polo | 13th/14th | China, Mongol Empire, India | |
Juan Ponce de León | 15th/16th | Florida | |
Peter Pond | 18th/19th | Canada interior | |
Fedot Popov | 17th | The first European expedition through the Bering Strait | |
António da Silva Porto | Portuguese | 19th | Angola interior |
Gaspar de Portolà | 18th | Alta California and Baja California | |
Posidonius | 1st BC | Gaul | |
Sydney Possuelo | 20th/21st | Amazon Basin | |
Panayotis Potagos | 19th | Africa | |
Grigory Potanin | 19th | Inner Asia | |
John Wesley Powell | 19th | Western United States | |
Vassili Poyarkov | 17th | First Russian explorer of the Amur River region | |
Mandil Pradhan | Nepalis | 21st | Himalayas |
Gavriil Pribylov | 18th | Pribilof Islands | |
Vasili Pronchishchev | 18th | Great Northern Expedition | |
Maria Pronchishcheva | 18th | The first female Arctic explorer | |
Nathaniel Hale Pryor | 19th | western United States | |
Nikolai Przhevalsky | 19th | Central Asia | |
Peter Puget | 19th | Puget Sound | |
Pytheas | 4th BC | Northern Europe | |
Zhang Qian | Chinese people | 2nd BC | Central Asia |
Pedro Fernandes de Queirós | 16th/17th | Oceania | |
Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada | 16th | From Santa Marta to the Bogotá savanna; quest for El Dorado | |
Hernán Pérez de Quesada | 16th | Caquetá, Colombia; quest for El Dorado | |
Manuel Quimper | 18th | Pacific Northwest | |
Emil Racoviță | 19th/20th | Antarctica | |
John Rae | 19th | Northwest Passage, Canada (Arctic) | |
Walter Raleigh | 16th/17th | Virginia, Orinoco River | |
Knud Rasmussen | 20th | Arctic | |
Piri Reis | 15th/16th | Mediterranean Sea | |
Matteo Ricci | 16th | China | |
Mario Rigby | 21st | Africa | |
Arthur Rimbaud | 19th | Horn of Africa (Ethiopian Empire) | |
Luigi Robecchi | 19th | Africa | |
Anthony de la Roché | 17th | Antarctic (South Georgia) | |
Diogo Rodrigues | 16th | Mascarene Islands | |
Nicholas Roerich | 20th | Central Asia, Northeast Asia | |
Jacob Roggeveen | 18th | Oceania (Easter Island) | |
Cândido Rondon | 19th/20th | interior (Amazon Basin) | |
James Clark Ross | 19th | Arctic, Antarctic | |
Sir John Ross | 19th | Arctic | |
John Ross | 19th | Northern Territory | |
William of Rubruck | 13th | Central Asia | |
Nikolay Rudanovsky | 19th | Sakhalin | |
Henry Russell | 19th | Pyrenees | |
Ahmad ibn Rustah | 10th | Russia, Scandinavia, Arabia | |
João de Sá | Portuguese | 15th/16th | India, coast |
Álvaro de Saavedra | 16th | Papua New Guinea, Caroline Islands, Marshall Islands | |
Edward Sabine | 19th | Arctic | |
Sacagawea | 18th/19th | Western United States | |
Anatoly Sagalevich | 20th/21st | Explorer of the World Ocean, seabed at the North Pole | |
Kira Salak | 20th/21st | Papua New Guinea, Mali, Bhutan | |
Alonso de Salazar | 16th | Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean | |
Agustín Lizárraga | 20th | Machu Picchu | |
Gadiel Sánchez Rivera | 21st | Amazon River, Lake Titicaca | |
Sándor Kőrösi Csoma | 19th | Tibet | |
Yakov Sannikov | 19th | New Siberian Islands | |
João de Santarém | 15th | São Tomé and Príncipe islands | |
Gavril Sarychev | 18th/19th | Sea of Okhotsk, Baltic Sea, Aleutian Islands | |
Martin Sauer | 18th | Siberia, Alaska | |
Rabban Bar Sauma | 13th | Europe, Middle East | |
Johann Schiltberger | 15th | Central Asia | |
Adolf Schlagintweit | 19th | Central Asia | |
Eduard Schlagintweit | 19th | Central Asia | |
Emil Schlagintweit | 19th | Central Asia | |
Hermann Schlagintweit | 19th | Central Asia | |
Robert Schlagintweit | 19th | Central Asia | |
Ulrich Schmidl | Germans | 16th | Río de la Plata |
Willem Schouten | 17th | Oceania (Cape Horn, Tonga Islands, Wallis and Futuna) | |
Georg August Schweinfurth | 19th | East and Central Africa | |
Robert Falcon Scott | 19th/20th | Antarctica (South Pole) | |
Scylax of Caryanda | 6th BC | Indus River, Indian Ocean, Red Sea | |
Tibor Sekelj | 20th | Argentina | |
Mirko and Stjepan Seljan | 20th | Ethiopia, South America | |
Frederick Courtney Selous | 19th | Africa | |
Symon Semeonis | 14th | Jerusalem, Albania | |
Gomes de Sequeira | 16th | Caroline Islands, Pacific Ocean | |
João Serrão | 15th/16th | 1st Circumnavigation (also later its co-captain general); commanded the ship Santiago in the Atlantic and the Concepcion across the Pacific, Strait of Malacca, Indian Ocean | |
Francisco Serrão | 15th/16th | Indonesia | |
Ernest Shackleton | 20th | Antarctica | |
Robert Barkley Shaw | 19th | Central Asia | |
Eric Shipton | 20th | Mount Everest, southern Patagonia | |
Tanaka Shōsuke | 17th | Mexico | |
Diogo Silves | 15th | Azores | |
James Simpson | 20th | North Greenland | |
Pero de Sintra | 15th | coast, Sierra Leone | |
Pierre-Jean De Smet | 19th | North America | |
Jedediah Smith | Americans | 19th | Western United States, Rocky Mountains |
John Smith | English people | 17th | North America |
William Smith | 19th | South Shetland Islands | |
Eugene Smurgis | Russian people | 20th | Arctic Ocean |
J. Dewey Soper | 20th | Canadian Arctic | |
Hernando de Soto | 16th | Central America, Southern United States | |
Martim Afonso de Sousa | 16th | interior | |
John Hanning Speke | 19th | East Africa | |
Hans Staden | 16th | Brazil | |
Ed Stafford | 21st | Amazon Basin | |
William Grant Stairs | 19th | Central Africa | |
Henry Morton Stanley | 19th | East Africa | |
Vilhjalmur Stefansson | 20th | Canadian Arctic | |
Marc Aurel Stein | 19th/20th | Central Asia | |
John Lloyd Stephens | 19th | Middle East, Mesoamerica (Mayan remains) | |
Paweł StrzeleckiSir Paul de Strzelecki. | 19th | the Americas, Australia (Gippsland) | |
John McDouall Stuart | 19th | Australian Interior | |
Charles Sturt | 19th | Australian Interior | |
Gardar Svavarsson | 9th | Iceland | |
Anders Svedlund | Swedish people | 20th | |
Otto Sverdrup | 19th/20th | Arctic | |
Ignacije Szentmartony | 18th | Amazon River | |
Abel Tasman | 17th | Australasia, including Tasmania | |
António Raposo Tavares | 17th | Paraguay River, part of the Andes, Grande River, Mamoré River, Madeira River, Amazon River (Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia) Union of La Plata Basin to the Amazon River – circumnavigation of Brazil. | |
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier | 17th | Safavid dynasty, Mughal Empire | |
Mikhail Tebenkov | 19th | Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Amur River | |
Pedro Teixeira | 17th | Amazon River | |
Tristão Vaz Teixeira | 15th | Madeira Islands | |
Wilfred Thesiger | 20th | Africa, Middle East | |
David Thompson | 18th/19th | Western Canada, Pacific Northwest | |
Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir | 11th | North America | |
Harold William Tilman | 20th | Himalayas, Patagonia | |
Yermak Timofeyevich | 16th | Siberia | |
Tenjiku Tokubei | 17th | South East Asia, India | |
Eduard Toll | 19th | Arctic | |
Luis Váez de Torres | 16th/17th | Australasia | |
Nuno Tristão | 15th | coast, Guinea-Bissau | |
Petrus Johannes Truter | 19th | Bechuanaland | |
Hasekura Tsunenaga | 17th | Mexico, Europe | |
Benjamin of Tudela | 12th | Mediterranean Sea, Arabian Peninsula, Red Sea, Persian Gulf | |
Andrés de Urdaneta | 16th | Pacific Ocean, Manila Galleon route | |
Jules Dumont d'Urville | 19th | Antarctica | |
Cayetano Valdés y Flores | 18th | Pacific Northwest | |
George Vancouver | 18th | Pacific coast of North AmericaU.S. Pacific Coast, Pacific Northwest. | |
Ludovico di Varthema | 15th/16th | Arabian Peninsula, Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia | |
Gonçalo Velho | 15th | Azores | |
François de La Vérendrye | 18th | Western Canada | |
Louis-Joseph Gaultier de La Vérendrye | 18th | Great Plains | |
Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye | 18th | Great Plains | |
Giovanni da Verrazzano | 16th | East Coast of the United States | |
Amerigo Vespucci | 15th/16th | Eastern coast, Caribbean | |
Flóki Vilgerðarson | Norsemen Vikings | 9th | Iceland |
Ruy López de Villalobos | 16th | Pacific Ocean, Philippines | |
Vandino and Ugolino Vivaldi | Italians | 13th | Africa, in a failed attempt to reach India |
Sebastián Vizcaíno | 16th | Northwest Pacific, California Coast | |
Willem de Vlamingh | 17th | Southwest Australian coast | |
Maarten Gerritsz Vries | 17th | Northwest Pacific (Hokkaido, Sakhalin) | |
Lionel Wafer | 17th | Malay Archipelago, Isthmus of Panama | |
Jean-Frédéric Waldeck | 19th | Mesoamerica (Mayan remains) | |
Thomas Walker | 18th | Eastern United StatesAllegheny Mountains, Cumberland Plateau. | |
Samuel Wallis | British Empire | 18th | First recorded visit to Tahiti |
Gino Watkins | 20th | East Greenland & Labrador | |
Langdon Warner | 20th | the Silk Road | |
Alfred Wegener | 20th | Greenland | |
John White | 16th | Roanoke Island | |
Jim Whittaker | 20th | Mount Everest, Antarctica | |
Frederick Whymper | 19th | Alaska, Kamchatka, Yukon | |
Charles Wilkes | 19th | Pacific Ocean | |
Edward Adrian Wilson | 19th/20th | Antarctica | |
Ernest Henry Wilson | English people | 19th/20th | East Asia, East Africa, Central America and South America, Australia, New Zealand |
James Wilson | British people | 18th | Pacific Islands |
Thomas Braidwood Wilson | Scottish Australian | 19th | Australia |
Harry de Windt | 19th/20th | Eurasia | |
Fanny Bullock Workman | Americans | 19th/20th | Himalaya |
Ferdinand von Wrangel | 19th | Northern Russia | |
Xuanzang | 7th | Indian subcontinent, Central Asia | |
John Young | 18th | Hawaii | |
Sir Francis Younghusband | 19th/20th | Central Asia | |
Topa Inca Yupanqui | Inca Empire | 15th | Pacific Ocean |
João Gonçalves Zarco | 15th | Madeira Islands | |
Gonzalo García Zorro | Spaniards | 16th | Colombia |
Karl Helbig | Germans | 20th | Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Central America |
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