The following is a list of explorers. Their common names, countries of origin (modern and former), centuries when they were active and main areas of exploration are listed below.
Leif Erikson (c.970–c.1020) was a famous Norse explorer who is credited for being the first European to set foot on American soil.Marco Polo (1254–1324) was an Italian explorer who traveled to the Far East and back to his hometown Venice in the matter of 24 years. He is noted for making detailed chronicles of his travels.Zheng He (1371–c.1435) was a Chinese explorer who sailed along the Southeast Asian, South Asian, Western Asian, and East African coasts along with his fleet of large ships and several hundred men.Diogo Cão (c.1452–1486) was the first European to explore the Congo River and the west coast of Africa, south of the equator.Bartolomeu Dias (c.1450–1500) is known as the first European to sail around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, finding the eastern sea route to the Indian Ocean.Christopher Columbus (1451–1506). Famous Italian explorer and arguably the best-known explorer that ever lived. Known for "discovering" America in 1492, although he believed the landmass was a part of Asia.Alonso de Ojeda (c.1466–c.1515) is noted as the discoverer of South America, as commander of the fleet with Juan de la Cosa and Amerigo Vespucci.John Cabot (c.1450–c.1500) was an Italian navigator who was the first European that sailed along to North American coast in 1497 since the Norse 500 years prior.Vasco da Gama (c.1460–1524). Famous Portuguese explorer who sailed to India in 1497–98. He accomplished finding a sea route to Asia which Europeans had been attempting to do for decades prior.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.Pedro Álvares Cabral (c.1467–c.1520) discovered the land in what is now Brazil in 1500 and claimed it for Portugal.Afonso de Albuquerque (c.1453–1515) raided, captured, and conquered many coastal cities in Asia that initiated Portugal's dominance in the Indian Ocean. He is also one of the first Europeans to sail to the East Indies and Spice Islands, along with Francisco Serrão and António de Abreu.Juan Ponce de León (1474–1521) was the first Governor of Puerto Rico and discovered Florida in 1513. He is the first known European to set foot on today's contiguous United States.Vasco Núñez de Balboa (c.1475–1519) is known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, becoming the first European to reach and see the Pacific from the America'sHernán Cortés (1485–1547). Famous Conquistador who led the Spanish expedition to explore and conquer the Aztec Empire (1519–1521).Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521) was a Portuguese explorer who led the successful expedition under Spain to find a western sea route to Asia (1519–1521).Juan Sebastián Elcano (c.1486–1526) took command after Ferdinand's death and completed the voyage, becoming the first person (along with 17 other crewmates) to circumnavigate the Earth.Jacques Cartier (1491–1557) was the first European to travel inland in North America and claimed the lands he explored for France in 1534.Francis Drake (c.1540–1596) was an English privateer who plundered many Spanish towns and ships in the Caribbean and elsewhere. However, he is most notable for completing the second circumnavigation of the world (1577–1580).Samuel de Champlain (1567–1635) is known as "The Father of New France". He founded the first permanent European settlements in Canada, and explored many lakes and rivers in the interior lands from early age to his death.Henry Hudson (c.1565–c.1611) explored what is now New York and northeastern Canada. Today he has both a river and bay named after him.Abel Tasman (1603–1659) was a Dutch seafarer who was the first known European to sight the islands of Tasmania (named after him), New Zealand, and Fiji (1642–43).James Cook (1728–1779). Famous British explorer who led three voyages to the Pacific. He is known for exploring and charting many islands in the ocean such as Polynesia, New Zealand, The Hawaiian Islands, and the eastern coast of Australia.David Livingstone (1813–1873) is a Scottish explorer and missionary who sought to convert the locals to Christianity and expand British colonization, all the while discovering lakes and rivers within Africa's interior.Roald Amundsen (1872–1928) was an explorer of the polar regions. He led the first successful expedition to the South Pole in 1911, and eventually also reached the North Pole by air in 1926.
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The following is a list of explorers Their common names countries of origin modern and former centuries when they were active and main areas of exploration are listed below Leif Erikson c 970 c 1020 was a famous Norse explorer who is credited for being the first European to set foot on American soil Marco Polo 1254 1324 was an Italian explorer who traveled to the Far East and back to his hometown Venice in the matter of 24 years He is noted for making detailed chronicles of his travels Zheng He 1371 c 1435 was a Chinese explorer who sailed along the Southeast Asian South Asian Western Asian and East African coasts along with his fleet of large ships and several hundred men Diogo Cao c 1452 1486 was the first European to explore the Congo River and the west coast of Africa south of the equator Bartolomeu Dias c 1450 1500 is known as the first European to sail around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488 finding the eastern sea route to the Indian Ocean Christopher Columbus 1451 1506 Famous Italian explorer and arguably the best known explorer that ever lived Known for discovering America in 1492 although he believed the landmass was a part of Asia Alonso de Ojeda c 1466 c 1515 is noted as the discoverer of South America as commander of the fleet with Juan de la Cosa and Amerigo Vespucci John Cabot c 1450 c 1500 was an Italian navigator who was the first European that sailed along to North American coast in 1497 since the Norse 500 years prior Vasco da Gama c 1460 1524 Famous Portuguese explorer who sailed to India in 1497 98 He accomplished finding a sea route to Asia which Europeans had been attempting to do for decades prior 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 Pedro Alvares Cabral c 1467 c 1520 discovered the land in what is now Brazil in 1500 and claimed it for Portugal Afonso de Albuquerque c 1453 1515 raided captured and conquered many coastal cities in Asia that initiated Portugal s dominance in the Indian Ocean He is also one of the first Europeans to sail to the East Indies and Spice Islands along with Francisco Serrao and Antonio de Abreu Juan Ponce de Leon 1474 1521 was the first Governor of Puerto Rico and discovered Florida in 1513 He is the first known European to set foot on today s contiguous United States Vasco Nunez de Balboa c 1475 1519 is known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513 becoming the first European to reach and see the Pacific from the America s Hernan Cortes 1485 1547 Famous Conquistador who led the Spanish expedition to explore and conquer the Aztec Empire 1519 1521 Ferdinand Magellan 1480 1521 was a Portuguese explorer who led the successful expedition under Spain to find a western sea route to Asia 1519 1521 Juan Sebastian Elcano c 1486 1526 took command after Ferdinand s death and completed the voyage becoming the first person along with 17 other crewmates to circumnavigate the Earth Jacques Cartier 1491 1557 was the first European to travel inland in North America and claimed the lands he explored for France in 1534 Francis Drake c 1540 1596 was an English privateer who plundered many Spanish towns and ships in the Caribbean and elsewhere However he is most notable for completing the second circumnavigation of the world 1577 1580 Samuel de Champlain 1567 1635 is known as The Father of New France He founded the first permanent European settlements in Canada and explored many lakes and rivers in the interior lands from early age to his death Henry Hudson c 1565 c 1611 explored what is now New York and northeastern Canada Today he has both a river and bay named after him Abel Tasman 1603 1659 was a Dutch seafarer who was the first known European to sight the islands of Tasmania named after him New Zealand and Fiji 1642 43 James Cook 1728 1779 Famous British explorer who led three voyages to the Pacific He is known for exploring and charting many islands in the ocean such as Polynesia New Zealand The Hawaiian Islands and the eastern coast of Australia David Livingstone 1813 1873 is a Scottish explorer and missionary who sought to convert the locals to Christianity and expand British colonization all the while discovering lakes and rivers within Africa s interior Roald Amundsen 1872 1928 was an explorer of the polar regions He led the first successful expedition to the South Pole in 1911 and eventually also reached the North Pole by air in 1926 Contents 1 List 2 See also 3 References 4 External linksList editName Modern and former nationality Centuries Main areas explored Antonio de Abreu Portuguese 16th Indonesia Thomas Wyndham English 16th West Africa Sir Richard Guildford English 16th Mediterranean Sea William Adams English 17th Japan Diogo Afonso Portuguese 15th Northwest African coast Estevanico Moroccan 16th North America Crispin Agnew Scottish 20th Greenland Elephant Island Northern Patagonian Icefield Himalayas Charles Albanel French 17th Canada interior Afonso de Albuquerque Portuguese 16th Asia Buzz Aldrin American 20th The Moon Pero de Alenquer Portuguese 15th 16th Indian Ocean Alexander the Great Greek Macedonian 4th BC Indus River Hindu Kush Jean Alfonse Joao Afonso Portuguese French 15th 16th Indian Ocean Southeast Asia possibly Australia Brazil North America Benedict Allen English 20th 21st various Diego de Almagro Spanish 16th Peru Chile Laszlo Almasy Hungarian 19th 20th Africa Francisco de Almeida Portuguese 16th India Lourenco de Almeida Portuguese 16th Sri Lanka India Pedro de Alvarado Spanish 16th Mexico Guatemala Honduras Francisco Alvares Portuguese 16th Ethiopia Goncalo Alvares Portuguese 15th Gough Island Namibia Jorge Alvares Portuguese 16th China Roald Amundsen Norwegian 20th South Pole Antarctica Northwest Passage Jose Alberto de Oliveira Anchieta Portuguese 19th Gough Island Charles John Andersson Swedish 19th Southern Africa Antonio de Andrade Portuguese 16th 17th India Tibet Fernao Pires de Andrade Portuguese 16th Ming China Salomon August Andree Swedish 19th Arctic Roy Chapman Andrews American 20th China Mongolia Juan Bautista de Anza Spanish 18th California Moncacht Ape Yazoo 17th 18th North America Dominick Arduin French 20th 21st North Pole Henryk Arctowski Polish 20th Antarctic South America Neil Armstrong American 20th The Moon Ingolfur Arnarson Norse 9th Iceland Vladimir Arsenyev Russian 20th Far East Michael Asher English 20th Africa Pero de Ataide Portuguese 16th 17th Indian Ocean Vasco de Ataide Portuguese 16th 17th India Tibet Vladimir Atlasov Siberian Cossack 17th Kamchatka Peninsula Francois Xavier Aubry French Canadian 19th American Southwest Vaino Auer Finnish 20th Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia Pedro Menendez de Aviles Spanish 16th Florida Juan de Ayala Spanish 18th California Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon Spanish 16th South Carolina Diogo de Azambuja Portuguese 15th West African coast George Back English 19th Canada Arctic William Baffin English 17th Northwest Passage Canada Arctic Abu Bakr II Mali Empire 14th Atlantic Ocean trans Atlantic allegedly Samuel Baker English 19th Africa Vasco Nunez de Balboa Spanish 16th Panama discovered the Pacific Ocean Robert Ballard American 20th deep sea wrecks Titanic Ann Bancroft American 20th 21st Arctic Antarctic Joseph Banks English 18th Newfoundland and Labrador South Pacific Hong Bao Chinese 15th South Asia Southeast Asia Middle East East African coast Giosafat Barbaro Italian 15th Black Sea Near East Duarte Barbosa Portuguese 15th 16th Indian Ocean 1st circumnavigation Pero de Barcelos Portuguese 15th 16th North America Afonso Goncalves Baldaia Portuguese 15th Western Sahara Jeanne Bare French 18th 19th Pacific Ocean Willem Barentsz Dutch 16th Northeast Passage Novaya Zemlya Svalbard Heinrich Barth German 19th Central and northern Africa Robert Bartlett Newfoundlander 20th Arctic William Bartram American 18th Southern United States George Bass English 18th Australia Tasmania Henry Walter Bates English 19th Amazon basin Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta 1 2 Marinid 14th Africa Central Asia China Europe Indian subcontinent Middle East Russia Southeast Asia Nicolas Baudin French 18th Australia James Beckwourth American 19th Sierra Nevada William Beebe American 20th deep sea Pyotr Beketov Russian 17th Siberia Gertrude Bell English 19th 20th Greater Syria Mesopotamia Asia Minor Arabia Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen Baltic German 19th Antarctica Joseph Rene Bellot French 19th Arctic Moric Benyovszky Hungarian 18th northern Pacific Ocean 3 Vitus Bering Danish 18th Northern Pacific Ocean Bering Strait Alaska North America Jean de Bethencourt French 15th Canary Islands Hiram Bingham III American 20th Machu Picchu Peru Laura Bingham English 20th 21st South America Isabella Bird English 19th 20th North America Hawaii Japan Korea China Vietnam Singapore Malaysia India Persia Kurdistan Turkey Morocco John Blashford Snell English 20th 21st various Adriaen Block Dutch 17th East Coast of the United States Nellie Bly American 19th 20th trip around the world in 72 days Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra Spanish 18th Pacific Northwest Benjamin Bonneville American 19th Oregon Country Great Basin Daniel Boone American 18th Kentucky Appalachian Mountains Vittorio Bottego Italian 19th Somalia Adam Brand German 17th Russia China Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza Italian French 19th Congo Saint Brendan Irish 6th Atlantic Ocean Iceland Jim Bridger American 19th Western United States James Bruce Scottish 18th Algeria the Middle East Egypt William S Bruce Scottish 20th Antarctica Jorgen Bronlund Greenlandic 20th Greenland Etienne Brule French 17th Canada interior Bungaree Aboriginal Australian 18th 19th Australian coasts Lafayette Bunnell American 19th Yosemite Valley Johann Ludwig Burckhardt Swiss 19th Middle East Sudan Robert O Hara Burke Irish 19th Australia Frederick Russell Burnham American 19th 20th Africa Mexico Richard Francis Burton English 19th East Africa Thomas Button Welsh 17th Northwest Passage Jose de Bustamante y Guerra Spanish 18th Pacific Ocean Richard E Byrd American 20th North Pole Antarctica Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca Spanish 16th Southwestern United States Mexico Argentina John Cabot 4 Italian 15th North American mainland Canada Sebastian Cabot Italian 15th Northwest Passage Canada Rio de la Plata Parana River South America Joao Cabral Portuguese 16th Bhutan amp Nepal Pedro Alvares Cabral Portuguese 15th 16th Brazil Madagascar Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo Portuguese or Spanish 16th California Estevao Cacella Portuguese 16th Himalayas Alvise Cadamosto Italian 15th Cape Verde islands Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac French 18th North America Rene Caillie French 19th North Africa Alvaro Caminha Portuguese 15th Sao Tome and Principe islands Pero Vaz de Caminha Portuguese 15th Brazil Alberto del Canto Portuguese 15th 16th Northwestern Mexico Diogo Cao Portuguese 15th west coast of Africa including the Congo River Hermenegildo de Brito Capelo Portuguese 19th African continent John Carpini Italian 13th Central Asia Mongolia Juan Carrasco Spanish 18th Pacific Northwest Kit Carson American 19th Rocky Mountains California Oregon Great Basin Jan Carstensz Dutch 17th New Guinea coast Gulf of Carpentaria Jacques Cartier French 16th St Lawrence River Joao de Castro Portuguese 15th India Arabian Peninsula amp Red Sea Rene Robert Cavelier de La Salle French 17th Mississippi embayment Bodhidharma Indian Persian 5th 6th China and Southeast Asia semi legendary Thomas Cavendish English 16th Virginia Pacific coast of Central and South America Merieme Chadid Moroccan French 20th 21st Antarctica South America Asia Astronomer Paul Du Chaillu French 19th Africa Harriet Chalmers Adams American 19th 20th South America Asia South Pacific Samuel de Champlain French 16th 17th Quebec Great Lakes Chang Chun Chinese 13th Central Asia Mongolia Jean Chardin French 17th Persia India Semion Chelyuskin Russian 18th Great Northern Expedition Vasily Chichagov Russian 18th Northern Sea Route Aleksei Chirikov Russian 18th Great Northern Expedition Fletcher Christian English 18th Polynesia Boris Chukhnovsky Russian 20th Arctic Hugh Clapperton Scottish 19th west and Central Africa William Clark American 19th Western United States Goncalo Coelho Portuguese 15th 16th South American coast Nicolau Coelho Portuguese 15th Brazil Frank Cole Canadian 20th Sahara Bartholomew Columbus Italian Genoese 15th 16th Hispaniola The Antilles Christopher Columbus 5 Italian Genoese 15th 16th Bahamas Caribbean Central America South America Colombia and Venezuela Diego Columbus Portuguese 16th Hispaniola Mainly Dominican Republic George Comer American 19th 20th Arctic Megasthenes Greek 3rd BCE India Niccolo Da Conti Italian Venetian 15th India Southeast Asia Frederick Cook American 19th 20th Arctic James Cook English 18th Australasia Oceania Francisco Vasquez de Coronado Spanish 16th New Mexico Mahinda Indian 3rd BCE Sri Lanka Diogo Alvares Correia Portuguese 16th Brazil Gaspar Corte Real Portuguese 16th Newfoundland Greenland Joao Corte Real Portuguese 15th Azores Newfoundland Possible exploration of North America in 1473 Miguel Corte Real Portuguese 16th Greenland Newfoundland Massachusetts Hernan Cortes Spanish 16th Mexico Juan de la Cosa Spanish 15th 16th Caribbean South America Thomas Coulter Irish 19th Mexico Alta California Jean Cousin French 15th Possibly the Americas around 1488 Possibly mouth of the Amazon River Jacques Yves Cousteau French 20th the deep sea Pero da Covilha Portuguese 15th 16th India Ethiopia Tom Crean Irish 20th Antarctica Andrew Croft English 20th Arctic Tristao da Cunha Portuguese 16th Tristan da Cunha islands Jeremy Curl English Irish 20th African continent William Healey Dall American 19th Alaska Yukon William Dampier English 17th 18th Australia Panama many other locations Alexandra David Neel French Belgian 20th Tibet Traveled to Lhasa Isaac Davis Welsh 18th Hawaii Faxian Chinese 5th India Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia John Davis English 16th East Indies Falkland Islands Wang Dayuan Chinese 14th Southeast Asia Singapore Semyon Dezhnev Russian 17th Siberia Bering Strait 80 years before Vitus Bering Bartolomeu Dias Portuguese 15th Africa Dinis Dias Portuguese 15th Northwest African coast Diogo Dias Portuguese 16th Madagascar Somalia Pero Dias Portuguese 15th African coast Dicuil Irish 8th England Scotland Karl von Ditmar Baltic German 19th Kamchatka Raphael Domjan Swiss 21st various Francis Drake English 16th Caribbean Pacific Coast of North America Gil Eanes Portuguese 15th Northwest African coast Juan Sebastian Elcano Spanish 16th completed Ferdinand Magellan s circumnavigation Francisco de Eliza Spanish 18th Strait of Juan de Fuca and Strait of Georgia Lincoln Ellsworth American 20th Arctic and Antarctica Franz Engel German 19th South America Kaundinya Indian 1st Southeast Asia Leif Eriksson Norse Viking 11th Vinland Newfoundland and North American mainland Canada Erik the Red Norse Viking 10th Greenland Pedro Escobar Portuguese 15th Sao Tome and Principe islands St Vincent Whitshed Erskine British South African 19th Gazaland amp Limpopo River Eudoxus of Cyzicus Greek 2nd BC Indian Ocean attempted circumnavigation of Africa Euthymenes Greek 6th BC Northwest African coast George Everest Welsh 19th India Evliya Celebi Turkish 17th Turkey Egypt Africa Europe Ahmad ibn Fadlan Abbasid Caliphate 10th Eastern Europe Middle East Russia Joao Alvares Fagundes Portuguese 16th Newfoundland and Nova Scotia Edmund Fanning American 18th 19th Oceania Percy Harrison Fawcett English 20th Amazon Rainforest Alvaro Fernandes Portuguese 15th West African coast Baltasar Fernandes Portuguese 17th Brazil Duarte Fernandes Portuguese 16th Thailand Juan Fernandez Spanish 16th Juan Fernandez Islands Pacific Ocean Salvador Fidalgo Spanish 18th Pacific Northwest Peter Fidler English 18th Western Canada Sir Ranulph Fiennes English 20th 21st Arctic Antarctica Matthew Flinders English 18th 19th Australia Tasmania Alexander Forbes Scottish 19th California Peter Forsskal Finnish 18th Arabian Peninsula John Franklin English 19th Northwest Passage Simon Fraser Scottish 18th 19th British Columbia Lancarote de Freitas Portuguese 15th Northwest African coast John C Fremont American 19th Oregon Trail Sierra Nevada Marc Joseph Marion du Fresne French 18th Oceania Louis de Freycinet French 19th Western Australia Oceania Martin Frobisher English 16th Northwest Passage Canada Afanasy Nikitin Russian 15th Ottoman Empire Persia and India Xu Fu Chinese 3rd BC Japan Juan de Fuca Greek Spanish 16th Strait of Juan de Fuca Canada United States border Vivian Fuchs English 20th Antarctica Alfons Gabriel Austrian 20th Iran Yuri Gagarin Soviet 20th Earth orbit Martin Galeano Italian Genoese Spanish 16th Colombia Dionisio Alcala Galiano Spanish 18th Pacific Northwest Juan Galindo Spanish Irish 19th Mesoamerica Mayan remains Estevao da Gama Portuguese 16th Trindade and Martim Vaz islands Indian Ocean Joao da Gama Portuguese 16th Hokkaido Kuril islands North Pacific North America Paulo da Gama Portuguese 15th sea route from Europe to India Vasco da Gama Portuguese 15th 16th sea route from Europe to India Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa Spanish 16th Solomon Islands Thomas Gann Irish 19th 20th Mesoamerica Mayan remains Francisco Garces Spanish 18th Southwestern United States northwestern Mexico Aleixo Garcia Portuguese 16th Brazil Paraguay and Bolivia Francisco Garcia Jofre de Loaisa Spanish 16th Pacific Ocean Francis Garnier French 19th Mekong River Adrien de Gerlache Belgian 19th 20th Antarctica Arctic Romolo Gessi Italian 19th the Nile Sudan Humphrey Gilbert English 16th North America Ernest Giles Australian 19th Central Australia Diogo Gomes Portuguese 15th West African coast Andre Goncalves Portuguese 15th 16th Brazil Antao Goncalves Portuguese 15th West African coast Lopes Goncalves Portuguese 15th Atlantic Ocean Binot Paulmier de Gonneville French 15th 16th Brazil Santa Catarina Sascha Grabow German 20th 21st DRC Congo James Augustus Grant Scottish 19th East Africa Joao Grego Portuguese 15th African coast Juan de Grijalva Spanish 16th Mexico Nicaragua Grigory Grum Grshimailo Russian 19th 20th Central Asia Tuva Far East Gonzalo Guerrero Spanish 16th Yucatan Peninsula Mikhail Gvozdev Russian 18th First Kamchatka Expedition Great Northern Expedition Charles Gwynn Irish 19th 20th Sudan Niels Peter Hoeg Hagen Danish 20th Greenland Hanno the Navigator Carthaginian 6th BC West African coast Hannu Egyptian 21st 20th BC East Africa Gonzalo Lopez de Haro Spanish 18th Pacific Northwest Alfred Harrison English 20th Arctic Dirk Hartog Dutch 17th Western Australian coast Ahmed Pasha Hassanein 6 Egyptian 20th Oweinat and the Sahara Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden American 19th Rocky Mountains and the Western United States Zheng He Chinese 15th South Asia Southeast Asia Middle East East African coast Samuel Hearne English 18th North Canada Arctic Bruno de Heceta Spanish 18th Pacific Northwest Sven Hedin Swedish 19th 20th Central Asia Matthew Alexander Henson American 20th Arctic Louis Hennepin Belgian French 17th North American interior Pedro de Heredia Spanish 16th Northern Colombia Bjarni Herjulfsson Norse Viking 10th North America William Lewis Herndon American 19th Amazon basin Herodotus Greek 5th BC Near East Middle East North Africa Thor Heyerdahl Norwegian 20th anthropological ocean voyages Sir Edmund Hillary New Zealander 20th Mount Everest Antarctica Himilco the Navigator Carthaginian 6th BC Northwestern coast of Europe Hippalus Greek 1st BC Indian Ocean Clement Hodgkinson English 19th New South Wales Australia Pelham Aldrich English 19th 20th Arctic Emil Holub Czech 19th Africa Robert Hottot French 20th Congo River Cornelis de Houtman Dutch 16th sea route from Europe to Indonesia Frederick de Houtman Dutch 16th 17th Western Australian coast William Hovell English 19th Southern New South Wales Du Huan Chinese 8th Central Asia Middle East East African coast Henry Hudson English 17th Northwest Passage Hudson River and Hudson Bay Alexander von Humboldt German 19th Latin America Siberia Hamilton Hume Australian 19th Australian interior James S Hutchinson American 20th Sierra Nevada Hyecho Korean 8th India Persia and Central Asia Joao Infante Portuguese 15th African coast Helge Ingstad Norwegian 20th Newfoundland Greenland Alaska James Irwin American 20th The Moon Kurbat Ivanov Siberian Cossack 17th Siberia Russian Far East discoverer of Lake Baikal Roberto Ivens Portuguese 19th African continent Cristovao Jacques Portuguese 16th Parana River Brazil Uruguay Argentina James of Ireland Irish 14th Sumatra China Willem Janszoon Dutch 17th Australia Queensland Anthony Jenkinson English 16th Russia Persia Louis Jolliet French Canadian 17th Mississippi River Jorgen Jorgensen Danish 18th 19th Tasmania Friar Julian Hungarian 13th Volga Bulgaria Conrad Carel Kayser Dutch 20th Suriname Thorfinn Karlsefni Icelandic 11th Vinland Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel German 19th Kamchatka George Kennan American 19th 20th Russia 7 Edmund Kennedy British Australian 19th Australian interior Robert Kennicott American 19th Alaska Siberia Yukon and Northern Canada Yerofey Khabarov Russian 17th Second Russian to explore the Amur region Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad Andalusian 9th Atlantic Ocean possibly mythical Mary Kingsley English 19th Cameroon Gabon Congo and other South West African regions Eusebio Kino Italian 17th 18th Californias Sonora and Arizona Maria Klenova Russian 20th One of the founders of marine geology Amyr Klink Brazilian 20th Antarctica John Knight English 17th Greenland Labrador Johan Peter Koch Danish 20th Greenland Alexander Kolchak Russian 20th Russian Arctic Ferdinand Konscak Croatian 17th Baja California Peninsula Fyodor Konyukhov Russian 20th 21st circumnavigation Explorers Grand Slam pole of inaccessibility Otto von Kotzebue Baltic German 19th Pacific Ocean Pyotr Kozlov Russian 20th Mongolia Tibet Johann Ludwig Krapf German 19th Ethiopia Kenya Pyotr Krenitsyn Russian 18th Alaska Aleutian Islands Kamchatka Peninsula Adam Johann von Krusenstern Baltic German 19th First Russian circumnavigation Francisco de Lacerda Portuguese 18th Zambia Juan Ladrillero Spanish 16th Chile Ernest Doudard de Lagree French 19th Indochina Mekong and Yunnan Alexander Gordon Laing Scottish 19th West Africa Niger River and Timbuktu Pierre Martin de La Martiniere French 17th Norway Lapland northern Russia Novaya Zemlya Greenland and Iceland Richard Lemon Lander English 19th West Africa Niger and Benue Rivers Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff Russian German 19th Brazil Jean Francois de Galaup comte de La Perouse French 18th Pacific Rim Khariton Laptev Russian 18th Great Northern Expedition Anthony de la Roche English 17th Antarctica Gadifer de la Salle French 15th Canary Islands Joao Fernandes Lavrador Portuguese 15th 16th Labrador Joseph N LeConte American 20th Sierra Nevada Albert von Le Coq German 19th 20th Central Asia John Ledyard American 18th Australasia Oceania Russia Miguel Lopez de Legazpi Spanish 16th Philippines Ludwig Leichhardt German 19th Australian interior Jacob Le Maire Dutch 17th South Pacific Cape Horn Tonga Islands Wallis and Futuna Gaspar de Lemos Portuguese 15th Brazil Dragutin Lerman Croatian 19th 20th Congo Mikhail Levashev Russian 18th Alaska Aleutian Islands Kamchatka Peninsula Meriwether Lewis American 18th 19th Western United States Sir Martin Lindsay 1st Baronet Scottish 20th East Greenland Joao de Lisboa Portuguese 15th 16th Indian Ocean Brazil Uruguay and Argentina St George Littledale English 19th Central Asia and North America David Livingstone Scottish 19th Southern and East Africa Louis Philippe Loncke Belgian 21st Australia the Andes and Iceland Jim Lovell American 20th Outer Space Alexander Mackenzie Scottish Canadian 18th 19th Canada Ferdinand Magellan Portuguese 15th 16th 1st circumnavigation Philippines Strait of Malacca Indian Ocean Jacques Mahu French Dutch 16th Cape Verde islands Alessandro Malaspina Italian Spanish 18th Pacific Ocean Teoberto Maler German Italian 19th Mesoamerica Mayan remains George Mallory English 20th Mount Everest Lancelotto Malocello Italian 13th 14th Lanzarote Canary Islands Albert Hastings Markham British 19th Arctic Lourenco Marques Portuguese 16th Mozambique Jacques Marquette French 17th Mississippi River Alvaro Martins Portuguese 15th Newfoundland Cape of Good Hope Pedro Mascarenhas Portuguese 16th Indian Ocean Diego Garcia John Minor Maury American 19th Darien Gap Douglas Mawson Australian 20th Antarctica Robert McClure Irish 19th Arctic Robert McCormick British 19th Arctic and Antarctic Oceans Alvaro de Mendana Spanish 16th Pacific Ocean Antonio Lopes Mendes Portuguese 19th Brazil India Cristovao de Mendonca Portuguese 16th East Asia Australasia Pedro de Mendoza Spanish 16th South America Jorge de Menezes Portuguese 16th Papua New Guinea Archibald Menzies Scottish 18th 19th Pacific Ocean circumnavigation Alexander von Middendorff Russian Baltic German 19th Siberia Far East Lapland Fergana Valley Ejnar Mikkelsen Danish 20th Greenland Nicholas Miklouho Maclay Russian 19th New Guinea Thomas Mitchell Scottish 19th Australian interior Richard Mohun American 19th 20th Congo Free State Pierre Dugua Sieur de Mons French 16th 17th North America George Fletcher Moore Irish 19th Australia John Moresby English 19th New Guinea coast Ivan Moskvitin Russian 17th First European to reach the Sea of Okhotsk Antonio Mota Portuguese 16th Japan Henri Mouhot French 19th South East Asia Francisco Antonio Mourelle Spanish 18th Pacific Northwest and Pacific Ocean Bimal Mukherjee Indian 20th circumnavigation Ludvig Mylius Erichsen Danish 20th Greenland Gustav Nachtigal German 19th Africa 8 Naddoddur Norse Viking 9th Iceland Nain Singh Rawat Pundit Brothers Indian 19th Tibet Himalayas and Central Asia Fridtjof Nansen Norwegian 19th 20th Arctic Jose Maria Narvaez Spanish 18th Pacific Northwest Nearchus Greek 4th BC Arabian Sea Persian Gulf Nehsi Egyptian 15th BC Land of Punt Arthur Henry Neumann English 19th Africa Gennady Nevelskoy Russian 19th Sakhalin Jean Nicolet French 17th Northwest Territory United States Joseph Nicollet French American 19th Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Antonio Noli Portuguese 15th Cape Verde islands Adolf Erik Nordenskiold Finnish 19th Arctic Tenzing Norgay Nepalese 20th Mount Everest Fernao de Noronha Portuguese 15th 16th Atlantic Ocean Joao da Nova Galician Portuguese 16th Atlantic and Indian Oceans Paulo Dias de Novais Portuguese 16th Angola Kazimierz Nowak Polish 20th Africa Vanessa O Brien American and British 20th 21st Mountaineering and Challenger Deep in Marianas Trench Sebastian de Ocampo Spanish 16th Caribbean Gulf of Mexico Addison O Dea American 21st The Sahara Odoric of Pordenone Italian 14th Persia India and China Peter Skene Ogden Canadian 19th Snake River country Western United States Alonso de Ojeda Spanish 15th 16th South America north Caribbean Juan de Onate Spanish 16th American Southwest Francisco de Orellana Spanish 16th South America Amazon River Simone Orlandini Italian 21st Arctic Tibet Inigo ortiz de Retes Spanish 16th Papua New Guinea John Oxenham English 16th Panama Pacific Ocean John Oxley English 19th Australia 9 Pedro Paez Spanish 16th 17th Ethiopia Juan Pardo Spanish 16th Southeastern United States Mungo Park Scottish 18th 19th West Africa Niger River William Parry English 19th Arctic James Ohio Pattie American 19th Western United States Fiann Paul Icelandic 21st Arctic Antarctic Oceans Nathaniel Pearce English 19th Ethiopia Robert Peary American 19th 20th Arctic Paul Pelliot French 19th 20th central Asia Diogo Fernandes Pereira Portuguese 15th 16th Madagascar Mascarenes Reunion Mauritius and Rodrigues Duarte Pacheco Pereira Portuguese 15th Atlantic Ocean Brazil Bartolomeu Perestrelo Portuguese 15th Madeira Islands Juan Perez Spanish 18th Pacific Northwest Maksim Perfilyev Siberian Cossack 17th Eastern Siberia first Russian to reach Transbaikalia Ivan Petlin Siberian Cossack 17th First Russian to reach China Auguste Piccard Swiss 20th Earth s atmosphere the deep sea Jacques Piccard Swiss 20th the deep sea Antonio Pigafetta Italian Venetian 16th Survived the 1st circumnavigation of the world Zebulon Pike American 19th Louisiana Purchase United States Alonso Alvarez de Pineda Spanish 16th Gulf Coast Fernao Mendes Pinto Portuguese 16th India Far East Japan Serpa Pinto Portuguese 19th Southern Africa Martin Alonzo Pinzon Spanish 15th Caribbean Vicente Yanez Pinzon Spanish 15th 16th Caribbean Brazil Luis Pires Portuguese 15th abortive voyage to Brazil Francisco Pizarro Spanish 16th Hispaniola Panama Peru Fernao do Po Portuguese 15th West African coast Marco Polo Italian Venetian 13th 14th China Mongol Empire India Juan Ponce de Leon Spanish 15th 16th Florida Peter Pond American 18th 19th Canada interior Fedot Popov Russian 17th The first European expedition through the Bering Strait Antonio da Silva Porto Portuguese 19th Angola interior Gaspar de Portola Spanish 18th Alta and Baja California Posidonius Greek 1st BC Gaul Sydney Possuelo Brazilian 20th 21st Amazon Panayotis Potagos Greek 19th Africa Grigory Potanin Russian 19th Inner Asia John Wesley Powell American 19th Western United States Vassili Poyarkov Russian 17th First Russian explorer of the Amur region Mandil Pradhan Nepalese 21st Himalayas Gavriil Pribylov Russian 18th Pribilof Islands Vasili Pronchishchev Russian 18th Great Northern Expedition Maria Pronchishcheva Russian 18th The first female Arctic explorer Nathaniel Hale Pryor American 19th western United States Nikolai Przhevalsky Russian 19th Central Asia Peter Puget English 19th Puget Sound Pytheas Greek 4th BC Northern Europe Zhang Qian Chinese 2nd BC Central Asia Pedro Fernandes de Queiros Portuguese 16th 17th Oceania Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada Spanish 16th From Santa Marta to the Bogota savanna quest for El Dorado Hernan Perez de Quesada Spanish 16th Caqueta Colombia quest for El Dorado Manuel Quimper Spanish 18th Pacific Northwest Emil Racoviță Romanian 19th 20th Antarctica John Rae Scottish Canadian 19th Northwest Passage Canada Arctic Sir Walter Raleigh English 16th 17th Virginia Orinoco River Knud Rasmussen Danish 20th Arctic Piri Reis Turkish 15th 16th Mediterranean Sea Matteo Ricci Italian 16th China Mario Rigby Turks and Caicos Islander 21st Africa Arthur Rimbaud French 19th Horn of Africa Abyssinia Luigi Robecchi Italian 19th Africa Anthony de la Roche English 17th Antarctic South Georgia Diogo Rodrigues Portuguese 16th Mascarene Islands Nicholas Roerich Russian 20th Central Asia Northeast Asia Jacob Roggeveen Dutch 18th South Pacific Easter Island Candido Rondon Brazilian 19th 20th Brazilian interior Amazon Basin James Clark Ross English 19th Arctic Antarctic Sir John Ross Scottish 19th Arctic John Ross Scottish Australian 19th Northern Territory William of Rubruck Flemish 13th Central Asia Nikolay Rudanovsky Russian 19th Sakhalin Henry Russell Irish 19th Pyrenees Ahmad ibn Rustah Persian 10th Russia Scandinavia Arabia Joao de Sa Portuguese 15th 16th India African coast Alvaro de Saavedra Spanish 16th Papua New Guinea Caroline Islands Marshall Islands Edward Sabine Irish 19th Arctic Sacagawea Lemhi Shoshone 18th 19th Western United States Anatoly Sagalevich Russian 20th 21st Explorer of the World Ocean seabed at the North Pole Kira Salak American 20th 21st Papua New Guinea Mali Bhutan Alonso de Salazar Spanish 16th Marshall Islands Pacific Ocean Agustin Lizarraga Peruvian 20th Machu Picchu Gadiel Sanchez Rivera Peruvian 21st Amazon Lake Titicaca Sandor Korosi Csoma Hungarian 19th Tibet Yakov Sannikov Russian 19th New Siberian Islands Joao de Santarem Portuguese 15th Sao Tome and Principe islands Gavril Sarychev Russian 18th 19th Sea of Okhotsk Baltic Sea Aleutian Islands Martin Sauer English 18th Siberia Alaska Rabban Bar Sauma Turco Mongol 13th Europe Middle East Johann Schiltberger German 15th Central Asia Adolf Schlagintweit German 19th Central Asia Eduard Schlagintweit German 19th Central Asia Emil Schlagintweit German 19th Central Asia Hermann Schlagintweit German 19th Central Asia Robert Schlagintweit German 19th Central Asia Ulrich Schmidl German 16th Rio de la Plata Willem Schouten Dutch 17th South Pacific Cape Horn Tonga Islands Wallis and Futuna Georg August Schweinfurth Baltic German 19th East and Central Africa Robert Falcon Scott English 19th 20th Antarctica South Pole Scylax of Caryanda Greek 6th BC Indus River Indian Ocean Red Sea Tibor Sekelj Croat 20th Argentina Mirko and Stjepan Seljan Croat 20th Ethiopia South America Frederick Courtney Selous English 19th Africa Symon Semeonis Hiberno Norman 14th Jerusalem Albania Gomes de Sequeira Portuguese 16th Caroline Islands Pacific Ocean Joao Serrao Portuguese 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 Serrao Portuguese 15th 16th Indonesia Ernest Shackleton English Irish 20th Antarctica Robert Barkley Shaw English 19th Central Asia Eric Shipton English 20th Mount Everest southern Patagonia Tanaka Shōsuke Japanese 17th Mexico Diogo Silves Portuguese 15th Azores James Simpson English 20th North Greenland Pero de Sintra Portuguese 15th West African coast Sierra Leone Pierre Jean De Smet Belgian 19th North America Jedediah Smith American 19th Western United States Rocky Mountains John Smith English 17th North America William Smith English 19th South Shetland Islands Eugene Smurgis Russian 20th Arctic Ocean J Dewey Soper Canadian 20th Canadian Arctic Hernando de Soto Spanish 16th Central America Southern United States Martim Afonso de Sousa Portuguese 16th Brazilian interior John Hanning Speke English 19th East Africa Hans Staden German 16th Brazil Ed Stafford English 21st Amazon William Grant Stairs Canadian 19th Central Africa Henry Morton Stanley Welsh 19th East Africa Vilhjalmur Stefansson Icelandic Canadian 20th Canadian Arctic Marc Aurel Stein Hungarian British 19th 20th Central Asia John Lloyd Stephens American 19th Middle East Mesoamerica Mayan remains Pawel Strzelecki 10 Polish British 19th the Americas Australia Gippsland John McDouall Stuart Scottish 19th Australian Interior Charles Sturt British 19th Australian Interior Gardar Svavarsson Swedish 9th Iceland Anders Svedlund Swedish 20th Oceans Otto Sverdrup Norwegian 19th 20th Arctic Ignacije Szentmartony Croat 18th Amazon River Abel Tasman Dutch 17th Australasia including Tasmania Antonio Raposo Tavares Portuguese 17th Paraguay River part of the Andes mountain range Grande River Mamore River Madeira River Amazon River Brazil Paraguay Bolivia Union of La Plata Basin to the Amazon River circumnavigation of Brazil Jean Baptiste Tavernier French 17th Persia India Mikhail Tebenkov Russian 19th Alaska Aleutian Islands Amur River Pedro Teixeira Portuguese 17th Amazon River Tristao Vaz Teixeira Portuguese 15th Madeira Islands Wilfred Thesiger English 20th Africa Middle East David Thompson Welsh English 18th 19th Western Canada Pacific Northwest Gudridur THorbjarnardottir Icelandic 11th North America Harold William Tilman English 20th Himalayas Patagonia Yermak Timofeyevich Russian 11 16th Siberia Tenjiku Tokubei Japanese 17th South East Asia India Eduard Toll Baltic German 19th Arctic Luis Vaez de Torres Spanish Galician 16th 17th Australasia Nuno Tristao Portuguese 15th West African coast Guinea Bissau Petrus Johannes Truter Dutch 19th Bechuanaland Hasekura Tsunenaga Japanese 17th Mexico Europe Benjamin of Tudela Jewish Navarrese 12th Mediterranean Sea Arabian Peninsula Red Sea Persian Gulf Andres de Urdaneta Spanish 16th Pacific Ocean Manila Galleon route Jules Dumont d Urville French 19th Antarctica Cayetano Valdes y Flores Spanish 18th Pacific Northwest George Vancouver English 18th Pacific coast of North America 12 Ludovico di Varthema Italian 15th 16th Arabian Peninsula Indian Ocean Southeast Asia Goncalo Velho Portuguese 15th Azores Francois de La Verendrye French Canadian 18th Western Canada Louis Joseph Gaultier de La Verendrye French Canadian 18th Great Plains Pierre Gaultier de Varennes sieur de La Verendrye French 18th Great Plains Giovanni da Verrazzano Italian 16th East Coast of the United States Amerigo Vespucci Italian 15th 16th Eastern South American coast Caribbean Floki Vilgerdarson Norse Viking 9th Iceland Ruy Lopez de Villalobos Spanish 16th Pacific Ocean Philippines Vandino and Ugolino Vivaldi Italian 13th Africa in a failed attempt to reach India Sebastian Vizcaino Spanish 16th Northwest Pacific California Coast Willem de Vlamingh Dutch 17th Southwest Australian coast Maarten Gerritsz Vries Dutch 17th Northwest Pacific Hokkaido Sakhalin Lionel Wafer Welsh 17th Malay Archipelago Isthmus of Panama Jean Frederic Waldeck French 19th Mesoamerica Mayan remains Thomas Walker American 18th Eastern United States 13 Samuel Wallis British 18th First recorded visit to Tahiti Gino Watkins English 20th East Greenland amp Labrador Langdon Warner American 20th the Silk Road Alfred Wegener German 20th Greenland John White English 16th Roanoke Island Jim Whittaker American 20th Mount Everest Antarctica Frederick Whymper English 19th Alaska Kamchatka Yukon Charles Wilkes American 19th Pacific Ocean Edward Adrian Wilson English 19th 20th Antarctica Ernest Henry Wilson English 19th 20th East Asia East Africa Central and South America Australia New Zealand James Wilson British 18th Pacific Islands Thomas Braidwood Wilson Scottish Australian 19th Australia Harry de Windt French 19th 20th Eurasia Fanny Bullock Workman American 19th 20th Himalaya Ferdinand von Wrangel Baltic German 19th Northern Russia Xuanzang Chinese 7th Indian subcontinent Central Asia John Young Scottish English 18th Hawaii Sir Francis Younghusband British 19th 20th Central Asia Topa Inca Yupanqui Inca 15th Pacific Joao Goncalves Zarco Portuguese 15th Madeira Islands Gonzalo Garcia Zorro Spanish 16th ColombiaSee also editAge of Discovery Astronaut Cosmonaut Taikonaut International Space Station List of people who have walked on the Moon Bandeirantes Chronology of European exploration of Asia Conquistador Exploration 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 Radhanites Silk Road Spice trade The Exploration Museum Timeline of maritime migration and exploration Trans Saharan trade Travel literatureReferences edit Travellers on the Silk Road before the year 1000 AD Silk Road com Archived from the original on 11 April 2001 Retrieved 14 June 2022 Battuta s Travels Part Three Persia and Iraq Archived 23 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine Memoirs and Travels of Mauritius Augustus Count de Benyowsky Consisting of His Military Operations in Poland His Exile into Kamchatka His Escape and Voyage from that Peninsula through the Northern Pacific Ocean Touching at Japan and Formosa to Canton in China with an Account of the French Settlement He Was Appointed to Form upon the Island of Madagascar World Digital Library 1790 Archived from the original on 22 April 2009 Retrieved 6 July 2013 Giovanni Caboto Cristoforo Colombo The World of Ahmed Bey Hassanein saharasafaris org Archived from the original on 3 May 2021 Retrieved 14 June 2022 Kamchatka Caucasus Siberia Sahara and Sudan The Results of Six Years Travel in Africa World Digital Library 1879 1889 Archived from the original on 3 May 2021 Retrieved 2 October 2013 New South Wales southeastern Queensland Sir Paul de Strzelecki Cossack U S Pacific Coast Pacific Northwest Allegheny Mountains Cumberland Plateau External links edit The Historyscoper explorers Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 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