List of explorers

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.

Explorers are listed below with their common names, countries of origin (modern and former), centuries of activity and main areas of exploration.

Marco Polo (1254–1324) was an Italian explorer who recorded his 24 years-long travels in the Book of the Marvels of the World, introducing Europeans to Central Asia and China.[1] 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) was an Italian explorer who led an expedition to the New World in 1492. His voyages are celebrated as the discovery of the Americas from a European perspective, and they opened a new era in the history of humankind and sustained contact between the two worlds. 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's Hernán 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 a Norwegian 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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Name  | Modern (and former) nationality  | Centuries  | Main areas explored

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António de Abreu | Portuguese | 16th  | Indonesia
Francisco Zeimoto | Portuguese | 16th  | Japan
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 (João 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
László Almásy | Hungarian | 19th/20th  | Africa
Francisco de Almeida | Portuguese | 16th  | India
Lourenço de Almeida | Portuguese | 16th  | Sri Lanka, India
Pedro de Alvarado | Spanish | 16th  | Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras
Francisco Álvares | Portuguese | 16th  | Ethiopia
Gonçalo Álvares | Portuguese | 15th  | Gough Island, Namibia
Jorge Álvares | Portuguese | 16th  | China
Roald Amundsen | Norwegian | 20th | South Pole, Antarctica, Northwest Passage
José Alberto de Oliveira Anchieta | Portuguese | 19th  | Gough Island
Charles John Andersson | Swedish | 19th  | Southern Africa
António de Andrade | Portuguese | 16th/17th  | India, Tibet
Fernão Pires de Andrade | Portuguese | 16th  | Ming China
Salomon August Andrée | Swedish | 19th  | Arctic
Roy Chapman Andrews | American | 20th  | China, Mongolia
Juan Bautista de Anza | Spanish | 18th  | California
Moncacht-Apé | 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
Ingólfur Arnarson | Norse | 9th  | Iceland
Vladimir Arsenyev | Russian | 20th  | Far East
Michael Asher | English | 20th  | Africa
Pero de Ataíde | Portuguese | 16th/17th  | Indian Ocean
Vasco de Ataíde | Portuguese | 16th/17th  | India, Tibet
Vladimir Atlasov | Siberian Cossack | 17th  | Kamchatka Peninsula
François Xavier Aubry | French Canadian | 19th  | American Southwest
Väinö Auer | Finnish | 20th  | Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés | Spanish | 16th  | Florida
Juan de Ayala | Spanish | 18th  | California
Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón | 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)
Ralph Bagnold | British  | 20th  | Libyan Desert
Abu Bakr II | Mali Empire | 14th  | Atlantic Ocean, trans-Atlantic (allegedly)
Samuel Baker | English | 19th  | Africa
Vasco Núñez 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 Gonçalves Baldaia | Portuguese | 15th  | Western Sahara
Jeanne Baré | 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[2][3] | 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  | the region of Syria Mesopotamia Asia Minor Arabia
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen | Baltic German | 19th  | Antarctica
Joseph René Bellot | French | 19th  | Arctic
Móric Benyovszky | Hungarian | 18th  | northern Pacific Ocean[4]
Vitus Bering | Russian (Danish-born) | 18th  | Northern Pacific Ocean, Bering Strait, Alaska (North America)
Jean de Béthencourt | 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
Stephen Bishop | American | 19th  | Mammoth Cave
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
Jørgen Brønlund | Greenlandic | 20th  | Greenland
Étienne Brûlé | 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
José de Bustamante y Guerra | Spanish | 18th  | Pacific Ocean
Richard E. Byrd | American | 20th  | North Pole, Antarctica
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca | Spanish | 16th  | Southwestern United States, Mexico, Argentina
John Cabot[5] | Italian | 15th  | North American mainland (Canada)
Sebastian Cabot | Italian | 15th  | Northwest Passage (Canada), Río de la Plata, Paraná River (South America)
João Cabral | Portuguese | 16th  | Bhutan & Nepal
Pedro Álvares Cabral | Portuguese | 15th/16th  | Brazil, Madagascar
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo | Portuguese or Spanish | 16th  | California
Estêvão Cacella | Portuguese | 16th  | Himalayas
Alvise Cadamosto | Italian | 15th  | Cape Verde islands
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac | French | 18th  | North America
René Caillié | French | 19th  | North Africa
Álvaro Caminha | Portuguese | 15th  | São Tomé and Príncipe islands
Pero Vaz de Caminha | Portuguese | 15th  | Brazil
Alberto del Canto | Portuguese | 15th/16th  | Northwestern Mexico
Diogo Cão | 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
João de Castro | Portuguese | 15th  | India, Arabian Peninsula & Red Sea
René-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
Gonçalo Coelho | Portuguese | 15th/16th  | South American coast
Nicolau Coelho | Portuguese | 15th  | Brazil
Frank Cole | Canadian | 20th  | Sahara
Bartholomew Columbus | Genoese | 15th/16th  | Hispaniola, The Antilles
Christopher Columbus[6] | 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
Niccolò Da Conti | Italian (Venetian) |

15th

| India, Southeast Asia
Frederick Cook | American | 19th/20th  | Arctic
James Cook | English | 18th  | Australasia, Oceania
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado | Spanish | 16th  | New Mexico
Mahinda | Indian | 3rd BCE  | Sri Lanka
Diogo Álvares Correia | Portuguese | 16th  | Brazil
Gaspar Côrte-Real | Portuguese | 16th  | Newfoundland, Greenland
João Côrte-Real | Portuguese | 15th  | Azores, Newfoundland (Possible exploration of North America in 1473)
Miguel Côrte-Real | Portuguese | 16th  | Greenland, Newfoundland, Massachusetts
Hernán Cortés | 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 Covilhã | Portuguese | 15th/16th  | India, Ethiopia
Tom Crean | Irish | 20th  | Antarctica
Andrew Croft | English | 20th  | Arctic
Tristão da Cunha | Portuguese | 16th  | Tristan da Cunha islands
William Healey Dall | American | 19th  | Alaska, Yukon
William Dampier | English | 17th/18th  | Australia, Panama, many other locations
Alexandra David-Néel | 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
Raphaël Domjan | Swiss | 21st  | various
Francis Drake | English | 16th  | Caribbean, Pacific Coast of North America
Gil Eanes | Portuguese | 15th  | Northwest African coast
Juan Sebastián 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  | São Tomé and Príncipe islands
St Vincent Whitshed Erskine | British-South African | 19th  | Gazaland & 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 Çelebi | Turkish | 17th  | Turkey, Egypt, Africa, Europe
Edward John Eyre | English | 19th  | Australia
Ahmad ibn Fadlan | Abbasid Caliphate | 10th  | Eastern Europe, Middle East, Russia
João Álvares Fagundes | Portuguese | 16th  | Newfoundland and Nova Scotia
Edmund Fanning | American | 18th/19th  | Oceania
Percy Harrison Fawcett | English | 20th  | Amazon Rainforest
Álvaro Fernandes | Portuguese | 15th  | West African coast
Baltasar Fernandes | Portuguese | 17th  | Brazil
Duarte Fernandes | Portuguese | 16th  | Thailand
Juan Fernández | Spanish | 16th  | Juan Fernández 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 Forsskål | Finnish | 18th  | Arabian Peninsula
John Franklin | English | 19th  | Northwest Passage
Simon Fraser | Scottish | 18th/19th  | British Columbia
Lançarote de Freitas | Portuguese | 15th  | Northwest African coast
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
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
Martín Galeano | Italian (Genoese)-Spanish | 16th  | Colombia
Dionisio Alcalá Galiano | Spanish | 18th  | Pacific Northwest
Juan Galindo | Spanish/Irish | 19th  | Mesoamerica (Mayan remains)
Estevão da Gama | Portuguese | 16th  | Trindade and Martim Vaz islands, Indian Ocean
João 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 Garcés | Spanish | 18th  | Southwestern United States, northwestern Mexico
Aleixo Garcia | Portuguese | 16th  | Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia
Francisco García Jofre de Loaísa | 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
André Gonçalves | Portuguese | 15th/16th  | Brazil
Antão Gonçalves | Portuguese | 15th  | West African coast
Lopes Gonçalves | Portuguese | 15th  | Atlantic Ocean
Binot Paulmier de Gonneville | French | 15th/16th  | Brazil (Santa Catarina)
James Augustus Grant | Scottish | 19th  | East Africa
João 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  | Yucatán Peninsula
Mikhail Gvozdev | Russian | 18th  | First Kamchatka Expedition, Great Northern Expedition
Charles Gwynn | Irish | 19th/20th  | Sudan
Niels Peter Høeg Hagen | Danish | 20th  | Greenland
Hanno the Navigator | Carthaginian | 6th BC  | West African coast
Hannu | Egyptian | 21st/20th BC  | East Africa
Gonzalo López de Haro | Spanish | 18th  | Pacific Northwest
Alfred Harrison | English | 20th  | Arctic
Dirk Hartog | Dutch | 17th  | Western Australian coast
Ahmed Pasha Hassanein[7] | 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
João 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
Cristóvão Jacques | Portuguese | 16th  | Paraná 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
Jørgen Jørgensen | Danish | 18th/19th  | Tasmania
Friar Julian | Hungarian | 13th  | Volga Bulgaria
Conrad Carel Käyser | Dutch | 20th  | Suriname
Thorfinn Karlsefni | Icelandic | 11th  | Vinland
Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel | German | 19th  | Kamchatka
George Kennan | American | 19th/20th  | Russia[8]
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 Konščak | 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 Lagrée | French | 19th  | Indochina, Mekong and Yunnan
Alexander Gordon Laing | Scottish | 19th  | West Africa (Niger River and Timbuktu)
Pierre Martin de La Martinière | 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-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse | French | 18th  | Pacific Rim
Khariton Laptev | Russian | 18th  | Great Northern Expedition
Anthony de la Roché | English | 17th  | Antarctica
Gadifer de la Salle | French | 15th  | Canary Islands
João 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 López 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
João 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
Lourenço Marques | Portuguese | 16th  | Mozambique
Jacques Marquette | French | 17th  | Mississippi River
Álvaro Martins | Portuguese | 15th  | Newfoundland, Cape of Good Hope
Pedro Mascarenhas | Portuguese | 16th  | Indian Ocean, Diego Garcia
John Minor Maury | American | 19th  | Darién Gap
Douglas Mawson | Australian | 20th  | Antarctica
Robert McClure | Irish | 19th  | Arctic
Robert McCormick | British | 19th  | Arctic and Antarctic Oceans
Álvaro de Mendaña | Spanish | 16th  | Pacific Ocean
António Lopes Mendes | Portuguese | 19th  | Brazil, India
Cristóvão de Mendonça | 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
António 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[9]
Naddoddur | Norse Viking | 9th  | Iceland
Nain Singh Rawat (Pundit Brothers)  | Indian | 19th  | Tibet, Himalayas and Central Asia
Fridtjof Nansen | Norwegian | 19th/20th  | Arctic
José María Narváez | 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
António Noli | Portuguese | 15th  | Cape Verde islands
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld | Finnish | 19th  | Arctic
Tenzing Norgay | Nepalese | 20th  | Mount Everest
Fernão de Noronha | Portuguese | 15th/16th  | Atlantic Ocean
João 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
Sebastián 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 Oñate | Spanish | 16th  | American Southwest
Francisco de Orellana | Spanish | 16th  | South America, Amazon River
Simone Orlandini | Italian | 21st  | Arctic, Tibet
Íñigo Órtiz de Retes | Spanish | 16th  | Papua New Guinea
John Oxenham | English | 16th  | Panama, Pacific Ocean
John Oxley | English | 19th  | Australia[10]
Pedro Páez | 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 (Réunion, Mauritius, and Rodrigues)
Duarte Pacheco Pereira | Portuguese | 15th  | Atlantic Ocean, Brazil
Bartolomeu Perestrelo | Portuguese | 15th  | Madeira Islands
Juan Pérez | 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
Fernão Mendes Pinto | Portuguese | 16th  | India, Far East, Japan
Serpa Pinto | Portuguese | 19th  | Southern Africa
Martin Alonzo Pinzón | Spanish | 15th  | Caribbean
Vicente Yáñez Pinzón | Spanish | 15th/16th  | Caribbean, Brazil
Luís Pires | Portuguese | 15th  | abortive voyage to Brazil
Francisco Pizarro | Spanish | 16th  | Hispaniola, Panama, Peru
Fernão do Pó | Portuguese | 15th  | West African coast
Marco Polo | Italian (Venetian) | 13th/14th  | China, Mongol Empire, India
Juan Ponce de León | Spanish | 15th/16th  | Florida
Peter Pond | American | 18th/19th  | Canada interior
Fedot Popov | Russian | 17th  | The first European expedition through the Bering Strait
António da Silva Porto | Portuguese | 19th  | Angola interior
Gaspar de Portolà | 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 Queirós | Portuguese | 16th/17th  | Oceania
Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada | Spanish | 16th  | From Santa Marta to the Bogotá savanna; quest for El Dorado
Hernán Pérez de Quesada | Spanish | 16th  | Caquetá, 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 Roché | 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)
Cândido 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
João de Sá | Portuguese | 15th/16th  | India, African coast
Álvaro 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
Agustín Lizárraga | Peruvian | 20th  | Machu Picchu
Gadiel Sánchez Rivera | Peruvian | 21st  | Amazon, Lake Titicaca
Sándor Kőrösi Csoma | Hungarian | 19th  | Tibet
Yakov Sannikov | Russian | 19th  | New Siberian Islands
João de Santarém | Portuguese | 15th  | São Tomé and Príncipe 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  | Río 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
João Serrão | 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 Serrão | 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)
Paweł Strzelecki[11] | 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
António Raposo Tavares | Portuguese | 17th  | Paraguay River, part of the Andes mountain range, 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 | French | 17th  | Persia, India
Mikhail Tebenkov | Russian | 19th  | Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Amur River
Pedro Teixeira | Portuguese | 17th  | Amazon River
Tristão Vaz Teixeira | Portuguese | 15th  | Madeira Islands
Wilfred Thesiger | English | 20th  | Africa, Middle East
David Thompson | Welsh–English | 18th/19th  | Western Canada, Pacific Northwest
Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir | Icelandic | 11th  | North America
Harold William Tilman | English | 20th  | Himalayas, Patagonia
Yermak Timofeyevich | Russian[12] | 16th  | Siberia
Tenjiku Tokubei | Japanese | 17th  | South East Asia, India
Eduard Toll | Baltic German | 19th  | Arctic
Luis Váez de Torres | Spanish Galician | 16th/17th  | Australasia
Nuno Tristão | 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
Andrés de Urdaneta | Spanish | 16th  | Pacific Ocean, Manila Galleon route
Jules Dumont d'Urville | French | 19th  | Antarctica
Cayetano Valdés y Flores | Spanish | 18th  | Pacific Northwest
George Vancouver | English | 18th  | Pacific coast of North America[13]
Ludovico di Varthema | Italian | 15th/16th  | Arabian Peninsula, Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia
Gonçalo Velho | Portuguese | 15th  | Azores
François de La Vérendrye | French Canadian | 18th  | Western Canada
Louis-Joseph Gaultier de La Vérendrye | French Canadian | 18th  | Great Plains
Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye | 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
Flóki Vilgerðarson | Norse Viking | 9th  | Iceland
Ruy López de Villalobos | Spanish | 16th  | Pacific Ocean, Philippines
Vandino and Ugolino Vivaldi | Italian | 13th  | Africa, in a failed attempt to reach India
Sebastián Vizcaíno | 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-Frédéric Waldeck | French | 19th  | Mesoamerica (Mayan remains)
Thomas Walker | American | 18th  | Eastern United States[14]
Samuel Wallis | British | 18th  | First recorded visit to Tahiti
Gino Watkins | English | 20th  | East Greenland & 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
João Gonçalves Zarco | Portuguese | 15th  | Madeira Islands
Gonzalo García Zorro | Spanish | 16th  | Colombia
Karl Helbig | German | 20th  | Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Central America

## See also

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* Age 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
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* 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 literature

## References

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1. ^ "Marco Polo – Exploration". History.com. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
2. ^ "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.
3. ^ Battuta's Travels: Part Three – Persia and Iraq Archived 23 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine
4. ^ "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.
5. ^ Giovanni Caboto.
6. ^ Cristoforo Colombo.
7. ^ "The World of Ahmed Bey Hassanein". saharasafaris.org. Archived from the original on 3 May 2021. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
8. ^ Kamchatka, Caucasus, Siberia.
9. ^ "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.
10. ^ New South Wales, southeastern Queensland.
11. ^ Sir Paul de Strzelecki.
12. ^ Cossack.
13. ^ U.S. Pacific Coast, Pacific Northwest.
14. ^ Allegheny Mountains, Cumberland Plateau.

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