List of explorers

The following is a list of explorers:

Contents :

A

Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored
Antonio de Abreu Portuguese 16th Indonesia
William Adams British 17th Japan
Charles Albanel French 17th Canada
Afonso de Albuquerque Portuguese 16th Asia
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin American 20th the Moon
Pêro de Alenquer Portuguese 15th/16th Indian Ocean
Jean Alfonse (João Afonso) Portuguese (Luso-French) 15th/16th Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia, possibly Australia; Brazil, North America
Benedict Allen British 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 15th 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 early 20th South Pole, Antarctica, Northwest Passage
José Alberto de Oliveira Anchieta Portuguese 19th Gough Island
William "Bill" Anders American 20th first to fly to the Moon
Charles John Andersson Swedish 19th Southern Africa
António de Andrade Portuguese 16th/17th India, Tibet
Fernão Pires de Andrade Portuguese 15th Ming China
Salomon August Andrée Swedish 19th Arctic
Roy Chapman Andrews American 20th China, Mongolia
Dominick Arduin French 20th/21st North Pole
Henryk Arctowski Polish 20th Antarctic, South America
Neil Armstrong American 20th the Moon (first man on the moon)
Ingólfur Arnarson Norse 9th Iceland
Vladimir Arsenyev Russian 20th Far East
Pêro 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
Diogo de Azambuja Portuguese 15th West African coast

B

Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored
George Back British 19th Canadian Arctic khoa
William Baffin British 17th Northwest Passage
Samuel Baker British 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 British 18th Newfoundland and Labrador, South Pacific
Giosafat Barbaro Italian 15th Black Sea, Near East
Duarte Barbosa Portuguese 15th/16th Indian Ocean, 1st circumnavigation (most historians believe that he is the same person accompanying Magellan), became second in command (later co-captain general). Commanded the ship Victoria from the South Atlantic and across the Pacific. Kingdom of Mutapa, India, Bahrein.
Pêro 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 early 20th Arctic
George Bass Australian 18th Australia
Henry Walter Bates British 19th Amazonia
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
William Beebe American 20th deep sea
Pyotr Beketov Russian 17th Siberia
Gertrude Bell British 19th/20th Greater Syria Mesopotamia Asia Minor Arabia
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen Baltic German 19th Antarctica
Joseph René Bellot French 19th Arctic
Benjamin of Tudela Navarrese 12th Syria, Palestine, Baghdad, Persia (Iran), Arabian Peninsula
Móric Benyovszky Hungarian 18th northern Pacific Ocean[3]
Vitus Bering Danish 18th Northern Pacific Ocean, Bering Strait, Alaska (North America)
Hiram Bingham III American 20th Machu Picchu, Peru
Isabella Bird British 19th/20th North America Hawaii Japan Korea China Vietnam Singapore Malaysia India Persia Kurdistan Turkey Morocco
John Blashford-Snell British 20th/21st various
Adriaen Block Dutch early 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
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
William A. Brown American 20th Pacific Ocean
James Bruce British 18th Algeria, the Middle East, Egypt
William S. Bruce British early 20th Antarctica
Étienne Brûlé French 17th Canada
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 British 19th East Africa
José de Bustamante y Guerra Spanish 18th Pacific Ocean
Richard E. Byrd American 20th North Pole, Antarctica

C

Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored
Álvar Núñez 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), Río de la Plata, Paraná River (South America)
João Cabral Portuguese 16th Bhutan & Nepal
Pedro Álvares Cabral Portuguese 15th/16th Brazil, Madagascar
João Rodrigues Cabrilho Portuguese 16th California
Estêvão Cacella Portuguese 16th Himalayas
Alvise Cadamosto Italian 15th Cape Verde islands
René Caillié French 19th North Africa
Álvaro Caminha Portuguese 15th São Tomé and Príncipe islands
Pêro 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
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 French 17th Mississippi embayment
Thomas Cavendish British 16th Virginia, Pacific coast of Central and South America
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 British 18th Polynesia
Boris Chukhnovsky Russian 20th Arctic
Hugh Clapperton British early 19th west and Central Africa
William Clark American early 19th Western United States
Gonçalo Coelho Portuguese 15th/16th South American coast
Nicolau Coelho Portuguese 15th Brazil
Frank Cole Canadian 20th Sahara
Christopher Columbus[5] Italian 15th/16th Bahamas, Caribbean, Central America, South America (Colombia and Venezuela)
George Comer American 19th/20th Arctic
Niccolò Da Conti Italian early 15th India, Southeast Asia
Frederick Cook American 19th/20th Arctic
James Cook British 18th Australasia, Oceania
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado Spanish 16th New Mexico
Diogo Álvares Correia Portuguese 16th Brazil
Gaspar Côrte-Real Portuguese 16th Newfoundland, Greenland
João Côrte-Real Portuguese late 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
Pêro 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
Jeremy Curl British 20th African continent

D

Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored
William Healey Dall American 19th Alaska, Yukon
William Dampier English 17th/18th Australia, Panama, many other locations
Isaac Davis British 18th Hawaii
Adrien de Gerlache Belgian 19th/20th Antarctica, Arctic
Pierre-Jean De Smet Belgian 19th North America
Semyon Dezhnev Russian 17th Siberia, Bering Strait (80 years before Vitus Bering)
Bartolomeu Dias Portuguese 15th Africa
Diogo Dias Portuguese 16th Madagascar, Somalia
Dicuil Irish 8th England, Scotland
Karl von Ditmar Baltic German 19th Kamchatka
Francis Drake English 16th Caribbean, Pacific Coast of North America

E

Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored
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
Leif Eriksson Viking early 11th Vinland (Newfoundland) and North American mainland (Canada)
Erik the Red Viking 10th Greenland
Pedro Escobar Portuguese 15th São Tomé and Príncipe islands
Eudoxus of Cyzicus ancient Greek 2nd BC Indian Ocean, attempted circumnavigation of Africa
Euthymenes ancient Greek 6th BC Northwest African coast
George Everest British 19th India
Evliya Çelebi Turkish 17th Turkey, Egypt, Africa, Europe

F

Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored
Ahmad ibn Fadlan Abbasid Caliphate 10th Eastern Europe, Middle East, Russia, Scandinavia
Edmund Fanning American 18th/19th Oceania
Percy Harrison Fawcett British 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
Sir Ranulph Fiennes British 20th/21st Arctic, Antarctica
Matthew Flinders British 18th/19th Australia, Tasmania
Alexander Forbes British 19th California
Peter Forsskål Swedish 18th Arabian Peninsula
John Franklin British 19th Northwest Passage
Simon Fraser Scottish 18th/19th British Columbia
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
Xu Fu Chinese 3rd BC Japan
Juan de Fuca Greek-Spanish 16th Strait of Juan de Fuca, Canada–United States border
Vivian Fuchs British 20th Antarctica

G

Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored
Alfons Gabriel Austrian 20th Iran
Yuri Gagarin Soviet 20th Earth orbit
Dionisio Alcalá Galiano Spanish 18th Pacific Northwest
Juan Galindo mixed 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)
Aleixo Garcia Portuguese 16th Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia
Francisco García Jofre de Loaísa Spanish 16th Pacific Ocean
Francis Garnier French 19th Mekong River
Romolo Gessi Italian 19th the Nile, Sudan
Ernest Giles Australian 19th Central Australia
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 British 19th East Africa
João Grego Portuguese 15th African coast
Juan de Grijalva Spanish 16th Mexico, Nicaragua
Grigory Grumm-Grzhimaylo 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 British 19th/20th Sudan

H

Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored
Hanno the Navigator Carthaginian 6th BC West African coast
Hannu ancient Egyptian (c. 2750 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[6] Egyptian 20th Oweinat and the Sahara
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden American 19th Rocky Mountains and the Western United States
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 Viking 10th North America
William Lewis Herndon American 19th Amazonia
Herodotus Greek (c.484-425 BC) Middle East, North Africa
Thor Heyerdahl Norwegian 20th anthropological ocean voyages
Sir Edmund Hillary New Zealand 20th Mount Everest, Antarctica
Himilco the Navigator Carthaginian 6th BC Northwestern coast of Europe
Hippalus ancient Greek 1st BC Indian Ocean
Clement Hodgkinson British 19th New South Wales (Australia)
Emil Holub Czech 19th Africa
Hong Bao Chinese 15th South Asia, Southeast Asia, Middle East, East African coast
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 British 19th Southern New South Wales
Henry Hudson British 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 (U.S.)
Hyecho Korean 8th India, Persia and Central Asia

I

Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored
João Infante Portuguese 15th African coast
Helge Ingstad Norwegian 20th Newfoundland, Greenland, Alaska
Kurbat Ivanov Siberian Cossack 17th Siberia, Russian Far East, discoverer of Lake Baikal
Roberto Ivens Portuguese 19th African continent

J

Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored
Cristóvão Jacques Portuguese 16th Paraná River, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina
James of Ireland Irish 14th Sumatra, China
Willem Janszoon Dutch 17th Australia (Queensland)
Anthony Jenkinson British 16th Russia, Persia
Louis Jolliet French Canadian 17th Mississippi River
Friar Julian Hungarian 13th Volga Bulgaria

K

Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored
Thorfinn Karlsefni Icelandic early 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 Americas)
Eusebio Kino Italian/German 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
Alexander Kolchak Russian 20th Russian Arctic
Ferdinand Konščak Croatian 17th Baja California Peninsula
Fyodor Konyukhov Russian 20-21st circumnavigation, Explorers Grand Slam, pole of inaccessibility
Otto von Kotzebue Baltic German 19th Pacific Ocean
Pyotr Kozlov Russian early 20th Mongolia, Tibet
Pyotr Krenitsyn Russian 18th Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Kamchatka Peninsula
Adam Johann von Krusenstern Baltic German 19th First Russian circumnavigation

L

Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored
Alexander Gordon Laing Scottish early 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 British early 19th West Africa (Niger and Benue Rivers)
Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff Prussian early 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 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
Jacob Le Maire Dutch 17th South Pacific (Cape Horn, Tonga Islands, Wallis and Futuna)
Gaspar de Lemos Portuguese 15th Brazil
Alexey Leonov Soviet 20th The first human to perform a spacewalk
Dragutin Lerman Croatian 19th/20th Congo
Mikhail Levashev Russian 18th Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Kamchatka Peninsula
Meriwether Lewis American 18th/19th Western United States
João de Lisboa Portuguese 15th/16th Indian Ocean, Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina
St. George Littledale British 19th Central Asia and North America
David Livingstone Scottish 19th Southern and East Africa
Louis-Philippe Loncke Belgian 21st Australia, the Andes and Iceland

M

Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored
Alexander Mackenzie Scottish Canadian 18th/19th Canada
Ferdinand Magellan Portuguese 15th/16th 1st circumnavigation, Philippines, Strait of Malacca, Indian Ocean
Alessandro Malaspina Italian-Spanish 18th Pacific Ocean
Niall McCann British 20th Louisiana
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
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
Álvaro de Mendaña Spanish 16th Pacific Ocean
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 British 18th/19th Pacific Ocean, circumnavigation
Alexander von Middendorff Russian-Baltic German 19th Siberia, Far East, Lapland, Fergana Valley
Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay Russian 19th New Guinea
Thomas Mitchell British 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 British 19th New Guinea coast
Ivan Moskvitin Russian 17th First European to reach the Sea of Okhotsk
Henri Mouhot French 19th South East Asia
Francisco Antonio Mourelle Spanish 18th Pacific Northwest and Pacific Ocean
Bimal Mukherjee Indian 20th circumnavigation

N

Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored
Gustav Nachtigal German 19th Africa[8]
Naddoddur Norwegian 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 ancient Greek 4th BC Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf
Nehsi ancient Egyptian 15th BC Land of Punt
Arthur Henry Neumann English 19th Africa
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 Swedish-Finnish 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

O

Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored
Sebastián de Ocampo Spanish early 16th Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico
Odoric of Pordenone Italian early 14th Persia, India and China
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
Íñigo Órtiz de Retes Spanish 16th Papua New Guinea
John Oxley British early 19th Australia[9]

P

Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored
Pedro Páez Spanish 16th/17th Ethiopia
Mungo Park British 18th/19th West Africa (Niger River)
William Parry British 19th Arctic
Nathaniel Pearce British 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
Zebulon Pike American early 19th Louisiana Purchase (United States)
Alonso Alvarez de Pineda Spanish early 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 Venetian 13th/14th China, Mongol Empire, India
Valeri Polyakov Soviet 20th The longest continuous spaceflight in history
Juan Ponce de León Spanish 15th/16th Florida
Peter Pond American 18th/19th Canadian interior
Fedot Popov Russian 17th The first European expedition through the Bering Strait
Gaspar de Portolà Spanish 18th Alta and Baja California
Sydney Possuelo Brazilian 20,21st 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
Pytheas ancient Greek 4th BC Northern Europe

Q

Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored
Pedro Fernandes de Queirós Portuguese 16th/17th Oceania
Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada Spanish 16th Colombia; quest for El Dorado
Manuel Quimper Spanish 18th Pacific Northwest

R

Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored
John Rae Scottish Canadian 19th Northwest Passage, Canadian Arctic
Sir Walter Raleigh English 16th/17th Virginia, the Orinoco river
Knud Rasmussen Danish 20th Arctic
Piri Reis Turkish 15th/16th Mediterranean Sea
Matteo Ricci Italian 16th China
Arthur Rimbaud French 19th Horn of Africa (Abyssinia)
Luigi Robecchi Italian 19th Africa
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 British 19th Arctic, Antarctic
William of Rubruck Flemish 13th Central Asia
Henry Russell Irish 19th Pyrenees
Ahmad ibn Rustah Persian 10th Russia, Scandinavia, Arabia

S

Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored
Álvaro de Saavedra Spanish 16th Papua New Guinea, Caroline Islands, Marshall Islands
Edward Sabine Irish 19th Arctic
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
Gadiel Sánchez Rivera Peruvian 21st Amazon, Lake Titicaca
Sándor Kőrösi Csoma Hungarian early 19th Tibet
Yakov Sannikov Russian early 19th New Siberian Islands
João de Santarém Portuguese 15th São Tomé and Príncipe islands
Gavril Sarychev Russian 18-19th Sea of Okhotsk, Baltic Sea, Aleutian Islands
Martin Sauer English late 18th Siberia, Alaska
Rabban Bar Sauma Turco-Mongol 13th Europe, Middle East
Svetlana Savitskaya Soviet 20th Second woman in space, first to conduct a spacewalk
Johann Schiltberger German 15th 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 German/Russian 19th East and Central Africa
Robert Falcon Scott English 19th/20th Antarctica (South Pole)
Scylax of Caryanda ancient Greek 6th BC Indus River, Indian Ocean, Red Sea
Tibor Sekelj Croat 20th Argentina
Mirko and Stjepan Seljan Croat early 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 British early 20th Antarctica
Robert Barkley Shaw British 19th Central Asia
Eric Shipton British 20th Mount Everest, southern Patagonia
Tanaka Shōsuke Japanese 17th Mexico
Diogo Silves Portuguese 15th Azores
Pêro de Sintra Portuguese 15th West African coast, Sierra Leone
William Smith British early 19th South Shetland Islands
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 British 19th East Africa
Hans Staden German 16th Brazil
Ed Stafford British 21st Amazon
William Grant Stairs Canadian 19th Central Africa
Henry Morton Stanley British 19th East Africa
Vilhjalmur Stefansson 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[10] Polish/British 19th the Americas, Australia (Gippsland)
John McDouall Stuart British Australian 19th Australian Interior
Charles Sturt British 19th Australian Interior
King Gardar Svavarsson Swedish 9th Iceland
Otto Sverdrup Norwegian 19th/20th Arctic
Ignacije Szentmartony Croat 18th Amazon River

T

Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored
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
Valentina Tereshkova Soviet 20th The first woman in space
Wilfred Thesiger British 20th Africa, Middle East
David Thompson British 18th/19th Western Canada, Pacific Northwest
Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir Icelandic c.11th North America
Harold William Tilman British 20th Himalayas, Patagonia
Yermak Timofeyevich Russian[11] 16th Siberia
Gherman Titov Russian 20th First person to orbit the Earth multiple times
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
Hasekura Tsunenaga Japanese 17th Mexico, Europe
Benjamin of Tudela Jewish Navarrese 12th Mediterranean Sea, Arabian Peninsula, Red Sea, Persian Gulf

U

Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored
Andrés de Urdaneta Spanish 16th Pacific Ocean, Manila Galleon route

V

Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored
Cayetano Valdés Spanish 18th Pacific Northwest
George Vancouver British 18th Pacific coast of North America[12]
Pierre Gaultier de Varennes French Canadian 18th Western Canada
Ludovico di Varthema Italian 15th/16th Arabian Peninsula, Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia
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
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)

W

Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored
Lionel Wafer Welsh late 17th Malay Archipelago, Isthmus of Panama
Jean-Frédéric Waldeck French 19th Mesoamerica (Mayan remains)
Thomas Walker British 18th Eastern United States[13]
Wang Dayuan Chinese 14th Southeast Asia, Singapore
Langdon Warner American early 20th the Silk Road
Alfred Wegener German early 20th Greenland
John White English 15th Roanoke Island
Jim Whittaker American early 20th Mount Everest, Antarctica
Frederick Whymper English 19th Alaska, Kamchatka, Yukon
Charles Wilkes American 19th Pacific Ocean
Harry de Windt French 19th/20th Eurasia
Fanny Bullock Workman American 19th/20th Hymalaya
Ferdinand von Wrangel Baltic German 19th Northern Russia

X

Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored
Xuanzang Chinese 7th Indian subcontinent, Central Asia

Y

Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored
Yermak Timofeyevich Russian 16th Siberia
John Young British 18th Hawaii
Sir Francis Younghusband British 19th/20th Central Asia

Z

Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored
João Gonçalves Zarco Portuguese 15th Madeira Islands
Zhang Qian Chinese 2nd BC Central Asia
Zheng He Chinese 15th South Asia, Southeast Asia, Middle East, East African coast

See also

References

  1. ↑ Ancient Silk Road Travellers
  2. ↑ Battuta's Travels: Part Three - Persia and Iraq
  3. ↑ "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. Retrieved 2013-07-06.
  4. ↑ Giovanni Caboto.
  5. ↑ Cristoforo Colombo.
  6. ↑ Hassanein Bey
  7. ↑ Kamchatka, Caucasus, Siberia.
  8. ↑ "Sahara and Sudan: The Results of Six Years Travel in Africa". World Digital Library. 1879–1889. Retrieved 2013-10-02.
  9. ↑ New South Wales, southeastern Queensland.
  10. ↑ Sir Paul de Strzelecki.
  11. ↑ Cossack.
  12. ↑ U.S. Pacific Coast, Pacific Northwest.
  13. ↑ Allegheny Mountains, Cumberland Plateau.
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