List of explorers
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This list of explorers is sorted by surname. See also the links below.
Contents | Top · 0–9 · A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
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[edit] B
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[edit] D
Name | Nationality | Century | Main area/s explored |
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Isaac Davis | British | 18th | Hawaii |
[edit] E
Name | Nationality | Century | Main area/s explored |
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Gil Eanes | Portuguese | 15th | northwest African coast |
Juan Sebastián Elcano | Spain | 16th | completed Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation |
Francisco de Eliza | Spain | 18th | Strait of Juan de Fuca and Strait of Georgia |
Erik the Red | Viking | 10th | Greenland |
Leif Ericson | Viking | early 11th | Vinland (Newfoundland) |
Pedro Escobar | Portuguese | 15th | São Tomé and Príncipe islands |
George Everest | British | 19th | India |
[edit] F
Name | Nationality | Century | Main area/s explored |
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Edmund Fanning | American | 18th/19th | Oceania |
Ibn Farrukh | Andalusian | 10th | Americas, Atlantic Ocean, Canary islands |
Sir Ranulph Fiennes | British | 20th | Arctic, Antarctica |
António Fernandes | Portuguese | 15th | west African coast |
Baltazar Fernandes | Portuguese | 17th | Brazil |
Duarte Fernandes | Portuguese | 16th | Thailand |
Matthew Flinders | British | 18th/19th | Australia, Tasmania |
Alexander Forbes | British | 19th | California |
John Franklin | British | 19th | Northwest Passage |
John C. Frémont | American | 19th | Oregon Trail, Sierra Nevada |
Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne | French | 18th | Oceania |
Louis de Freycinet | French | 19th | western Australia, Oceania |
Vivian Fuchs | British | 20th | Antarctica |
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[edit] I
Name | Nationality | Century | Main area/s explored |
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João Infante | Portuguese | 15th | African coast |
Helge Ingstad | Norwegian | 20th | Newfoundland, Greenland, Alaska |
[edit] J
Name | Nationality | Century | Main area/s explored |
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Anthony Jenkinson | British | 16th | Russia, Persia |
[edit] K
Name | Nationality | Century | Main area/s explored |
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Thorfinn Karlsefni | Icelandic | early 11th | Vinland |
Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel | German | 19th | Kamchatka |
George Kennan | American | 19th/20th | Russia[6] |
Edmund Kennedy | British/Australian | 19th | Australian interior |
Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad | Andalusian | 9th | Americas, Atlantic Ocean |
Ferdinand Konščak | Croatian | 18th | Baja California peninsula |
Pyotr Kozlov | Russian | early 20th | Mongolia, Tibet |
[edit] L
Name | Nationality | Century | Main area/s explored |
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Richard Lemon Lander | British | early 19th | west Africa (Niger and Benue Rivers) |
Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff | Prussian | early 19th | Brazil |
Jean-François de Galaup | French | 18th | Pacific Rim |
Anthony de la Roché | British | 17th | Antarctica |
João Fernandes Lavrador | Portuguese | 15th/16th | Labrador |
Joseph N. LeConte | American | 20th | Sierra Nevada (U.S.) |
Albert von Le Coq | German | 19th/20th | central Asia |
John Ledyard | American | 18th | Australasia, Oceania, Russia |
Miguel López de Legazpi | Spanish | 16th | Philippines |
Ludwig Leichhardt | Prussian | 19th | Australian interior |
Gaspar de Lemos | Portuguese | 15th | Brazil |
Dragutin Lerman | Croatian | 19th/20th | Congo |
Meriwether Lewis | American | 18th/19th | western United States |
David Livingstone | British | 19th | southern and eastern Africa |
[edit] M
Name | Nationality | Century | Main area/s explored |
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Alexander Mackenzie | British | 18th/19th | Canada |
Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese | 15th/16th | circumnavigation |
Alessandro Malaspina | Italian-Spanish | 18th | Pacific Ocean |
Teoberto Maler | German-Italian | 19th | Mesoamerica (Mayan remains) |
George Mallory | British | early 20th | Mount Everest |
Lancelotto Malocello | Italian | 13th/14th | Lanzarote (Canary Islands) |
Albert Hastings Markham | British | 19th | Arctic |
Lourenço Marques | Portuguese | 16th | Mozambique |
Álvaro Martins | Portuguese | 15th | Newfoundland, Cape of Good Hope |
Pedro Mascarenhas | Portuguese | 16th | Indian Ocean, Diego Garcia |
Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai | Russian | 19th | New Guinea |
John Minor Maury | American | 19th | Darién Gap |
Douglas Mawson | Australian | 20th | Antarctica |
Álvaro de Mendaña | Spanish | 16th | Pacific Ocean |
Archibald Menzies | British | 18th/19th | Pacific Ocean, circumnavigation |
Thomas Mitchell | British | 19th | Australian interior |
John Moresby | British | 19th | New Guinea coast |
[edit] N
Name | Nationality | Century | Main area/s explored |
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Gustav Nachtigal | German | 19th | Africa |
Fridtjof Nansen | Norwegian | 19th/20th | Arctic |
Nehsi | ancient Egyptian | 15th BCE | Land of Punt |
Jean Nicolet | French | 17th | Northwest Territory (United States) |
Joseph Nicollet | French/American | 19th | Mississippi and Missouri Rivers |
Afanasiy Nikitin | Russian | 15th | India |
António Noli | Portuguese | 15th | Cape Verde islands |
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld | Finnish/Swedish | 19th | Arctic |
Tenzing Norgay | Nepalese | 20th | Mount Everest |
Fernão de Noronha | Portuguese | 15th/16th | Atlantic Ocean |
João da Nova | Portuguese | 16th | Atlantic and Indian Oceans |
Paulo Dias de Novais | Portuguese | 16th | Angola |
[edit] O
Name | Nationality | Century | Main area/s explored |
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Sebastián de Ocampo | Spanish | early 16th | Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico |
Peter Skene Ogden | Canadian | early 19th | Snake River country, western United States |
Juan de Oñate | Spanish | 16th | American Southwest |
Francisco de Orellana | Spanish | 16th | South America, Amazon River |
John Oxley | British | early 19th | Australia[7] |
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[edit] Q
Name | Nationality | Century | Main area/s explored |
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Pedro Fernández de Quirós | Portuguese | 16th/17th | Oceania |
[edit] R
Name | Nationality | Century | Main area/s explored |
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John Rae | British | 19th | Northwest Passage, Canadian Arctic |
Sir Walter Raleigh | English | 16th/17th | Virginia, the Orinoco river |
Matteo Ricci | Italian | 16th | China |
Diogo Rodrigues | Portuguese | 16th | Mascarene Islands |
Cândido Rondon | Brazilian | 19th/20th | Brazilian interior (Amazon Basin) |
James Clark Ross | British | 19th | Arctic, Antarctic |
William of Rubruck | Flemish | 13th century | Central Asia |
Henry Russell | Irish | 19th | Pyrenees |
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[edit] T
Name | Nationality | Century | Main area/s explored |
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Abel Tasman | Dutch | 17th | Australasia, including Tasmania |
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier | French | 17th | Persia, India |
Pedro Teixeira | Portuguese | 17th | Amazon River |
Tristão Vaz Teixeira | Portuguese | 15th | Madeira Islands |
Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir | Icelandic | c.11th | North America |
Harold William Tilman | British | 20th | Himalayas, Patagonia |
Yermak Timofeyevich | Russian[9] | 16th | Siberia |
Tenjiku Tokubei | Japanese | 17th | South East Asia, India |
Luis Váez de Torres | Portuguese | 17th | Australasia |
Nuno Tristão | Portuguese | 15th | west African coast, Guinea-Bissau |
Hasekura Tsunenaga | Japanese | 17th | Mexico, Europe |
[edit] U
Name | Nationality | Century | Main area/s explored |
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Andrés de Urdaneta | Spanish | 16th | Manila Galleon route |
[edit] V
Name | Nationality | Century | Main area/s explored |
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George Vancouver | British | 18th | Pacific coast of North America[10] |
Pierre Gaultier de Varennes | French Canadian | 18th | western Canada |
Gonçalo Velho | Portuguese | 15th | Azores |
Giovanni da Verrazzano | Italian | early 16th | East Coast of the United States |
Amerigo Vespucci | Italian | 15th/16th | eastern South American coast, Caribbean |
Ruy López de Villalobos | Spanish | 16th | Pacific Ocean, Philippines |
Willem de Vlamingh | Flemish/Dutch | 17th | southwest Australian coast |
[edit] W
Name | Nationality | Century | Main area/s explored |
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Jean-Frédéric Waldeck | French | 19th | Mesoamerica (Mayan remains) |
Thomas Walker | British | 18th | eastern United States[11] |
Langdon Warner | American | early 20th | the Silk Road |
Harry de Windt | French | 19th/20th | Eurasia |
[edit] Y
Name | Nationality | Century | Main area/s explored |
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John Young | British | 18th | Hawaii |
Sir Francis Younghusband | British | 19th/20th | central Asia |
Yermak Timofeyevich | Russian | 16th | Siberia |
[edit] Z
Name | Nationality | Century | Main area/s explored |
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João Gonçalves Zarco | Portuguese | 15th | Madeira Islands |
Zhang Qian | Chinese | 2nd BCE | central Asia |
Xuanzang | Chinese | 7th | Indian subcontinent, Central Asia |
Zheng He | Chinese Muslim | 15th | South Asia, Southeast Asia, Middle East, East African coast, possibly Americas |
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Ancient Silk Road Travellers
- ^ Battuta's Travels: Part Three - Persia and Iraq
- ^ Giovanni Caboto.
- ^ Cristoforo Colombo.
- ^ Hassanein Bey
- ^ Kamchatka, Caucasus, Siberia.
- ^ New South Wales, southeastern Queensland.
- ^ Sir Paul de Strzelecki.
- ^ Cossack.
- ^ U.S. Pacific Coast, Pacific Northwest.
- ^ Allegheny Mountains, Cumberland Plateau.