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List of explorers

Redirected from Explorer Some great explorers (in alphabetic order by surname):

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Roald Amundsen, (1872-1928), Norwegian, first at the South Pole, first to navigate the Northwest Passage in a single ship
Roy Chapman Andrews, (1884-1960), US explorer

Vasco Nunez de Balboa, (c. 1475-1519), (- Spanish, first to sight the Pacific Ocean, founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the Western Hemisphere
William Baffin, (1584-1622), explorer
Willem Barents, (1550?-1597), Dutch, died on Nova Zembla seeking the Northeast Passage[?]
Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta, (1304?-1377?), Moroccan Muslim, visited Mecca several times, travelled to Central Asia, East Africa, China, Tombouctou and other places
Nicholas Baudin[?] - 18th century French explorer, mapped the West Australian coastline.
Saint Brendan[?] - Irish abbot who sailed the Atlantic Ocean
Richard Francis Burton, (1821-1890), looking for the source of the Nile, discovered Lake Tanganyika
Richard E. Byrd, (1888-1957), explorer

John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) - Italian navigator in English service, crossed the Atlantic Ocean to North America
Pedro Alvares Cabral, (c. 1467-c. 1520), discovered Brazil and Madagascar
Juan Sebastian del Cano[?] - completed the first circumnavigation, started by Magellan
Diego Cao, (died c. 1486), explored the African west coast
Jacques Cartier, (1491-1557), discovered the St. Lawrence River and sailed up it to Montreal; failed in an attempt to set up a colony
Thomas Cavendish, (died 1592), English sailor and explorer.
Samuel de Champlain, (c. 1567-1635), established the French colony in Canada; discovered the Great Lakes
William Clark, (1770-1838), with Meriwether Lewis led the first American expedition to reach the west coast.
Christopher Columbus, (1451-1506), reached America looking for a searoute to the Indies; discovered various lands and islands and established a colony on Hispaniola
James Cook, (1728-1779), explored the Pacific, discovering or mapping many lands and islands
Hernan Fernando Cortes, conquered the Aztec empire in Mexico; sent out expeditions to Baja California

Jacques-Yves Cousteau, (died 1997), French marine biologist and explorer
Alexandra David-Néel, (1868-1969), French explorer, visited Lhasa, Tibet in 1924
Cavalier de la Salle[?], explorer
Hernando de Soto, (died 1542), explorer
Bartolomeu Dias, (1450-1500), Portuguese explorer who first rounded the Cape of Good Hope.
Sir Francis Drake, (c. 1540-1596), pirate, leader of the second circumnavigation
Jules Dumont d'Urville, (1790-1842), explorer of the Pacific and Antarctica

Matthew Flinders, (1774-1814), first to circumnavigate Australia and Tasmania, extensively charted the coastline and named such features as the Great Barrier Reef and the Great Australian Bight.

Hannu[?] - ancient Egyptian who travelled along the Red Sea to a land called Punt
Sven Hedin[?], (1865-1952), explorer
Bjarni Herjulfsson[?] - Viking discoverer of North America
Thor Heyerdahl, (1914-2002), Norwegian explorer
Henry Hudson, (died 1570), discovered the Hudson River and sailed up it to Albany, discovered Hudson Bay
Alexander von Humboldt, (1769-1859), explored Central and South America, visited Siberia

Jean François La Pérouse, (1741-1788), French explorer of the Pacific
Meriwether Lewis, (1774-1809), leader of the first American expedition to cross the continent
David Livingstone, (1813-1873), explored south and east Africa, determined the course of the Zambesi, discovered Lake Nyasa

Fridtjof Nansen, (1861-1930), arctic explorer, scientist and international statesman

William Parry[?], (born 1790), Arctic explorer
Robert Edwin Peary, (1856-1920), first man to reach the North Pole
Auguste Piccard, (1884-1962), physicist and explorer
Jacques Piccard[?], (born 1922), undersea explorer
Francisco Pizarro, (1471-1541), conqueror of the Inca Empire
Marco Polo, (1254-1323), travelled to China in the 13th century.
John Wesley Powell, (1834-1902), explorer, environmentalist
Nathaniel Pryor[?], (c 1785-1850), US explorer
Pytheas, (died 1984), Greek explorer who visited Britain and other north and northwest European countries

Robert Falcon Scott, (1868-1912), reached the South Pole less than one month after Amundsen, but died on the return voyage
Scylax of Caryanda[?] - a Greek explorer sent by the king of Persia to sail down the Indus River and around Arabia to Egypt
Ernest Shackleton, (1874-1922), attempted to reach the South Pole and came further south than anyone before him
John Hanning Speke, (1827-1864), discovered Lake Victoria
Henry Morton Stanley, (1841-1904), found back Livingstone; later explored Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika and the Congo River
William Stairs, (1863-1892), Victorian explorer, discovered one source of the Nile River, first non-African to ever climb

Giovanni da Verrazano, (died 1528), sea explorer
Amerigo Vespucci, (1454-1512), discovered other parts of America and gave his name to the new continent

Zhang Qian[?] - spent 12 years starting in 138 BC exploring much of Central Asia for Emperor Han Wu Di[?]
Zheng He, (1371-1435), Chinese admiral who travelled widely over the Indian Ocean and other seas, reaching Africa and Arabia and many other countries

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