List of explorers 60043 225044314 2008-07-11T16:51:55Z H2ppyme 533338 /* B */ This '''list of explorers''' is sorted by surname. See also the links [[#See also|below]]. {{compactTOC2}} == A == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !width="250px"| Name !width="125px"| Nationality !!width="100px"| Century !width="400px"| Main area/s explored |- | [[António de Abreu]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 16th | [[Indonesia]] |- | [[William Adams (sailor)|William Adams]] | [[English people|English]] || 17th | [[Japan]] |- | [[Ibn Battuta|Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta]]<ref>[http://www.silk-road.com/artl/srtravelmain.shtml Ancient Silk Road Travellers]</ref><ref>[http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch618/Ibn_Battuta/Battuta's_Trip_Three.html Battuta's Travels: Part Three - Persia and Iraq]</ref> | [[Morocco|Moroccan]] || 14th | [[Africa]], [[Central Asia]], [[China]], [[Europe]], [[Indian subcontinent]], [[Middle East|Middle&nbsp;East]], [[Russia]], [[Southeast Asia]] |- | [[Charles Albanel]] | [[French people|French]] || 17th | [[Canada]] |- | [[Afonso de Albuquerque]] | Portuguese || 16th | [[India]] |- | [[Ahmad ibn Fadlan]] | [[Iraq]]i [[Arab]] || 10th | [[Easterns Europes]], [[Middle East]], [[Russia]], [[Scandinavia]] |- | [[Ahmad ibn Rustah]] | [[Persian people|Persian]] || 10th | [[Russia]], [[Scandinavia]], [[Arabia]] |- | [[Buzz Aldrin|Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin]] | [[United States|American]] || 20th | the [[Moon]] |- | [[Pêro de Alenquer]] | Portuguese || 15th | [[Africa]]n coast |- | [[Benedict Allen]] | [[British people|British]] || 20th/21st | various |- | [[Diego de Almagro]] | [[Spanish people|Spanish]] || 16th | [[Peru]], [[Chile]] |- | [[Francisco de Almeida]] | Portuguese || 16th | India |- | [[Pedro de Alvarado]] | Spanish || 16th | [[Mexico]], [[Guatemala]], [[Honduras]] |- | [[Francisco Álvares]] | Portuguese || 16th | [[Ethiopia]] |- | [[Jorge Álvares]] | Portuguese || 16th | [[China]] |- | [[Roald Amundsen]] | [[Norwegians|Norwegian]] | early&nbsp;20th || [[South Pole]], [[Antarctica]], [[Northwest Passage]] |- | [[Fernão Pires de Andrade]] | Portuguese || 16th | China |- | [[Henryk Arctowski]] | Polish || 20th | [[Antarctic]], [[South America]] |- | [[Salomon August Andrée]] | [[Swedish people|Swedish]] || 19th | [[Arctic]] |- | [[Roy Chapman Andrews]] | American || 20th | China, [[Mongolia]] |- | [[Neil Armstrong]] | American || 20th | the Moon |- | [[Väinö Auer]] | [[Finnish people|Finnish]] || 20th | [[Tierra del Fuego]] and [[Patagonia]] |- | [[Diogo de Azambuja]] | Portuguese || 15th | [[West Africa]]n coast |- |} == B == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !width="250px"| Name !width="125px"| Nationality !!width="100px"| Century !width="400px"| Main area/s explored |- | [[George Back]] | [[British people|British]] || 19th | [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]] |- | [[William Baffin]] | British || 17th | [[Northwest Passage]] |- | [[Samuel Baker]] | British || 19th | [[Africa]] |- | [[Vasco Núñez de Balboa]] | [[Spanish people|Spanish]] || 16th | [[Panama]] |- | [[Pêro de Barcelos]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 15th/16th | [[North America]] |- | [[Willem Barents]] | [[Dutch people|Dutch]] || 16th | [[Northeast Passage]], [[Novaya Zemlya]] |- | [[Heinrich Barth]] | [[Germans|German]] || 19th | Central and northern [[Africa]] |- | [[Robert Bartlett]] | [[Canadians|Canadian]] | early 20th | [[Arctic]] |- | [[George Bass]] | [[Australians|Australian]] || 18th | [[Australia]] |- | [[Henry Walter Bates]] | [[British people|British]] || 19th | [[Amazonia]] |- | [[Nicolas Baudin]] | [[French people|French]] || 18th | Australia |- | [[Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen]] | [[Baltic Germans|Baltic German]] || 19th | [[Antarctica]] |- | [[Joseph René Bellot]] | French || 19th | Arctic |- | [[Móric Beňovský]] | [[Slovaks|Slovak]] || 18th | northern [[Pacific Ocean]] |- | [[Vitus Bering]] | [[Danes|Danish]] || 18th | northern Pacific Ocean |- | [[Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra]] | Spanish || 18th | [[Pacific Northwest]] |- | [[Vittorio Bottego]] | [[Italians|Italian]] || 19th | [[Somalia]] |- | [[Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza|Pierre Savorgan de Brazza]] | Italian/French || 19th | [[Republic of the Congo|Congo]] |- | [[Brendan|Saint Brendan]] | [[Irish people|Irish]] || 6th | [[Atlantic Ocean]] |- | [[Jim Bridger]] | American || 19th | Western [[United States]] |- | [[James Bruce]] | [[British people|British]] || 18th | [[Algeria]], the [[Middle East]], [[Egypt]] |- | [[William S. Bruce]] | British || early 20th | Antarctica |- | [[Étienne Brûlé]] | French || 17th | [[Canada]] |- | [[Lafayette Bunnell]] | [[United States|American]] || 19th | [[Yosemite Valley]] |- | [[Johann Ludwig Burckhardt]] | [[Switzerland|Swiss]] || 19th | [[Middle East]], [[Sudan]] |- | [[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 == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !width="250px"| Name !width="125px"| Nationality !!width="100px"| Century !width="400px"| Main area/s explored |- | [[Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca]] | [[Spanish people|Spanish]] || 16th | [[southwestern United States]], [[Mexico]], [[Argentina]] |- | [[John Cabot]]<ref>Giovanni Caboto.</ref> | [[Italians|Italian]]/[[Engish people|English]] || 15th | [[North America]]n mainland ([[Canada]]) |- | [[Pedro Álvares Cabral]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 15th/16th | [[Brazil]], [[Madagascar]] |- | [[Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo|João Rodrigues Cabrilho]] | Portuguese || 16th | [[California]] |- | [[Alvise Cadamosto]] | Italian || 15th | [[Cape Verde]] islands |- | [[René Caillé]] | [[French people|French]] || 19th | [[North Africa]] |- | [[Álvaro Caminha]] | Portuguese || 15th | [[São Tomé and Príncipe]] islands |- | [[Pêro Vaz de Caminha]] | Portuguese || 15th | [[Brazil]] |- | [[Diogo Cão]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 15th | west coast of [[Africa]] (including the [[Congo River]]) |- | [[Hermenegildo Capelo|Hermenegildo de Brito Capelo]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 19th | [[Africa|African continent]] |- | [[Giovanni da Pian del Carpine|John Carpini]] | Italian || 13th | [[Central Asia]] |- | [[Juan Carrasco (explorer)|Juan Carrasco]] | Spanish || 18th | [[Pacific Northwest]] |- | [[Jan Carstenszoon|Jan Carstensz]] | [[Dutch people|Dutch]] || 17th | [[New Guinea]] coast, [[Gulf of Carpentaria]] |- | [[Jacques Cartier]] | [[French people|French]] || 16th | [[St. Lawrence River]] |- | [[René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle|René-Robert Cavelier]] | French || 17th | [[Mississippi embayment]] |- | [[Thomas Cavendish]] | [[British people|British]] || 16th | [[Virginia]], Pacific coast of [[Central America|Central]] and [[South America]] |- | [[Samuel de Champlain]] | French || 16th/17th | [[Quebec]], [[Great Lakes]] |- | [[Jean Chardin]] | French || 17th | [[Iran|Persia]], [[India]] |- | [[Fletcher Christian]] | British || 18th | [[Polynesia]] |- | [[Hugh Clapperton]] | British || early&nbsp;19th | [[West Africa|west]] and [[central Africa]] |- | [[William Clark (explorer)|William Clark]] | [[United States|American]] || early&nbsp;19th | [[Lewis and Clark Expedition|western United States]] |- | [[Gonçalo Coelho]] | Portuguese || 15th/16th | South American coast |- | [[Nicolau Coelho]] | Portuguese || 15th | Brazil |- | [[Christopher Columbus]]<ref>Cristoforo Colombo.</ref> | Italian || 15th/16th | [[Caribbean]] |- | [[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]] |- | [[Caramuru|Diogo Álvares Correia]] | Portuguese || 16th | [[Brazil]] |- | [[Francisco Vasquez de Coronado]] | [[Spanish people|Spanish]] || 16th | [[New Mexico]] |- | [[Gaspar Corte-Real|Gaspar Côrte-Real]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 16th | [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]], [[Greenland]] |- | [[João Vaz Corte-Real|João Côrte-Real]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || late 15th | [[Azores]], [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]] |- | [[Miguel Corte-Real|Miguel Côrte-Real]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 16th | [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]], [[Massachusetts]] |- | [[Hernán Cortés]] | Spanish || 16th | [[Mexico]] |- | [[Juan de la Cosa]] | Spanish || 15th/16th | [[Caribbean]], [[South America]] |- | [[Thomas Coulter]] | Irish || 19th | [[Mexico]], [[Alta California]] |- | [[Jacques-Yves Cousteau]] | French || 20th | the [[deep sea]] |- | [[Pêro da Covilhã]] | Portuguese || 15th/16th | [[Ethiopia]] |- | [[Tristão da Cunha]] | Portuguese || 16th | [[Tristan da Cunha]] islands |- |} == D == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !width="250px"| Name !width="125px"| Nationality !!width="100px"| Century !width="400px"| Main area/s explored |- | [[Isaac Davis (Hawaii)|Isaac Davis]] | British || 18th | [[Hawaii]] |- | [[Pierre-Jean De Smet]] | Belgian || 19th | [[North America]] |- | [[Francis Drake (circumnavigation|Francis Drake]] | British || 16th | [[circumnavigation, Tierra del Fuego, Pacific Northwest]] |- |} == E == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !width="250px"| Name !width="125px"| Nationality !!width="100px"| Century !width="400px"| Main area/s explored |- | [[Gil Eanes]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 15th | [[northwest Africa]]n coast |- | [[Juan Sebastián Elcano]] | [[Spanish people|Spain]] || 16th | completed [[Ferdinand Magellan]]'s [[circumnavigation]] |- | [[Francisco de Eliza]] | [[Spanish people|Spain]] || 18th | [[Strait of Juan de Fuca]] and [[Strait of Georgia]] |- | [[Erik the Red]] | [[Viking]] || 10th | [[Greenland]] |- | [[Leif Ericson]] | Viking || early&nbsp;11th | [[Vinland]] ([[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]]) |- | [[Pedro Escobar]] | Portuguese || 15th | [[São Tomé and Príncipe]] islands |- | [[George Everest]] | [[British people|British]] || 19th | [[India]] |- |} == F == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !width="250px"| Name !width="125px"| Nationality !!width="100px"| Century !width="400px"| Main area/s explored |- | [[Edmund Fanning]] | [[United States|American]] || 18th/19th | [[Oceania]] |- | [[Ibn Farrukh]] | [[Al-Andalus|Andalusian]] || 10th | [[Americas]], [[Atlantic Ocean]], [[Canary islands]] |- | [[Ranulph Fiennes|Sir Ranulph Fiennes]] | British || 20th | [[Arctic]], [[Antarctica]] |- | [[António Fernandes]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 15th | [[west Africa]]n coast |- | [[Baltazar Fernandes]] | Portuguese || 17th | [[Brazil]] |- | [[Duarte Fernandes]] | Portuguese || 16th | [[Thailand]] |- | [[Salvador Fidalgo]] | Spanish || 18th | [[Pacific Northwest]] |- | [[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 (U.S.)|Sierra Nevada]] |- | [[Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne]] | [[French people|French]] || 18th | [[Oceania]] |- | [[Louis de Freycinet]] | French || 19th | [[western Australia]], [[Oceania]] |- | [[Vivian Fuchs]] | British || 20th | [[Antarctica]] |} == G == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !width="250px"| Name !width="125px"| Nationality !!width="100px"| Century !width="400px"| Main area/s explored |- | [[Alfons Gabriel]] | [[Austrian people|Austrian]] || 20th | [[Iran]] |- | [[Dionisio Alcalá Galiano]] | Spanish || 18th | [[Pacific Northwest]] |- | [[Yuri Gagarin]] | [[Russians|Russian]] || 20th | [[Earth orbit]] |- | [[Juan Galindo]] | mixed || 19th | [[Mesoamerica]] ([[Maya civilization|Maya]]n remains) |- | [[Estevão da Gama]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 16th | [[Indian Ocean]] |- | [[Paulo da Gama]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 15th | sea route from [[Europe]] to [[India]] |- | [[Vasco da Gama]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 15th/16th | sea route from Europe to India |- | [[Gaspar da Gama]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 15th/16th | [[Palestine]], [[Egypt]], [[India]], [[Brazil]], [[East Africa]]n coast |- | [[Thomas Gann]] | [[Irish people|Irish]] || 19th/20th | Mesoamerica (Mayan remains) |- | [[Francis Garnier]] | [[French people|French]] || 19th | [[Mekong River]] |- | [[Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye|Pierre Gaultier de Varennes]] | [[French Canadian]] || 18th | [[North America]]n interior |- | [[Romolo Gessi]] | [[Italians|Italian]] || 19th | the [[Nile]], [[Sudan]] |- | [[Ernest Giles]] | [[Australians|Australian]] || 19th | [[central Australia]] |- | [[André Gonçalves]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 15th/16th | [[Brazil]] |- | [[Antão Gonçalves]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 15th | [[west Africa]]n coast |- | [[Lopes Gonçalves]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 15th | [[Atlantic Ocean]] |- | [[James Augustus Grant]] | [[British people|British]] || 19th | [[eastern Africa]] |- | [[João Grego]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 15th | African coast |- | [[Juan de Grijalva]] | [[Spanish people|Spanish]] || 16th | [[Mexico]], [[Nicaragua]] |- | [[Gonzalo Guerrero]] | Spanish || 16th | [[Yucatán Peninsula]] |- |} == H == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !width="250px"| Name !width="125px"| Nationality !!width="100px"| Century !width="400px"| Main area/s explored |- | [[Hanno the Navigator]] | [[Carthage|Carthaginian]] || [[6th century BCE|6th BCE]] | [[west Africa]]n coast |- | [[Hannu]] | ancient [[Egyptians|Egyptian]] || ([[circa|c.]]2750 BCE) | [[eastern Africa]] |- | [[Gonzalo López de Haro]] | Spanish || 18th | [[Pacific Northwest]] |- | [[Dirk Hartog]] | [[Dutch people|Dutch]] || 17th | [[western Australia]]n coast |- | [[Ahmed Hassanein|Ahmed Pasha Hassanein]]<ref>[http://saharasafaris.org/hassaneinbey Hassanein Bey]</ref> | [[Egyptians|Egyptian]] || 20th | [[Jebel Uweinat|Oweinat]] and the [[Sahara]] |- | [[Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden]] | [[United State|American]] || 19th | [[Rocky Mountains]] and the [[western United States]] |- | [[Bruno de Heceta]] | Spanish || 18th | [[Pacific Northwest]] |- | [[Sven Hedin]] | [[Swedish people|Swedish]] || 19th/20th | [[Central Asia]] |- | [[Louis Hennepin]] | [[Belgians|Belgian]]/[[French people|French]] || 17th | [[North America]]n interior |- | [[William Lewis Herndon]] | American || 19th | [[Amazonia]] |- | [[Bjarni Herjulfsson]] | [[Viking]] || 10th | North America |- | [[Thor Heyerdahl]] | [[Norwegians|Norwegian]] || 20th | [[Anthropology|anthropological]] ocean voyages |- | [[Sir Edmund Hillary]] | New Zealand || 20th | [[Mount Everest]], [[Antarctica]] |- | [[Himilco the Navigator]] | Carthaginian || 6th BCE | northwestern coast of [[Europe]] |- | [[Clement Hodgkinson]] | British || 19th | [[New South Wales]] (Australia) |- | [[Emil Holub]] | [[Czech people|Czech]] || 19th | [[Africa]] |- | [[Hong Bao]] | Chinese || 15th | [[South Shetland Islands]], [[South Atlantic]] |- | [[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]]&nbsp;and&nbsp;[[Hudson Bay]] |- | [[Alexander von Humboldt]] | [[Germans|German]] || 19th | [[Latin America]], [[Siberia]] |- | [[Hamilton Hume]] | [[Australians|Australian]] || 19th | Australian interior |- | [[James S. Hutchinson]] | [[United States|American]] || 20th | [[Sierra Nevada (U.S.)]] |} == I == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !width="250px"| Name !width="125px"| Nationality !!width="100px"| Century !width="400px"| Main area/s explored |- | [[João Infante]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 15th | [[Africa]]n coast |- | [[Roberto Ivens]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 19th | [[Africa|African continent]] |- | [[Helge Ingstad]] | [[Norwegians|Norwegian]] || 20th | [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]], [[Greenland]], [[Alaska]] |} == J == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !width="250px"| Name !width="125px"| Nationality !!width="100px"| Century !width="400px"| Main area/s explored |- | [[Anthony Jenkinson]] | [[British people|British]] || 16th | [[Tsardom of Russia|Russia]], [[Iran|Persia]] |- |} == K == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !width="250px"| Name !width="125px"| Nationality !!width="100px"| Century !width="400px"| Main area/s explored |- | [[Thorfinn Karlsefni]] | [[Iceland]]ic || early 11th | [[Vinland]] |- | [[Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel]] | [[Germany|German]] || 19th | [[Kamchatka Peninsula|Kamchatka]] |- | [[George Kennan (explorer)|George Kennan]] | [[United States|American]] || 19th/20th | [[Russia]]<ref>[[Kamchatka Peninsula|Kamchatka]], [[Caucasus]], [[Siberia]].</ref> |- | [[Edmund Kennedy]] | [[British people|British]]/[[Australians|Australian]] || 19th | [[Australia]]n interior |- | [[Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad]] | [[Al-Andalus|Andalusian]] || 9th | [[Americas]], [[Atlantic Ocean]] |- | [[Ferdinand Konščak]] | [[Croat]]ian || 18th | [[Baja California peninsula]] |- | [[Pyotr Kozlov]] | [[Russians|Russian]] || early 20th | [[Mongolia]], [[Tibet]] |} == L == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !width="250px"| Name !width="125px"| Nationality !!width="100px"| Century !width="400px"| Main area/s explored |- | [[Richard Lemon Lander]] | [[Cornish people|British]] || early 19th | [[west Africa]] ([[Niger River|Niger]] and [[Benue River]]s) |- | [[Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff]] | [[Prussian people|Prussian]] || early 19th | [[Brazil]] |- | [[Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse|Jean-François de Galaup]] | [[French people|French]] || 18th | [[Pacific Rim]] |- | [[Anthony de la Roché]] | [[British people|British]] || 17th | [[Antarctica]] |- | [[João Fernandes Lavrador]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 15th/16th | [[Labrador]] |- | [[Joseph N. LeConte]] | [[United States|American]] || 20th | [[Sierra Nevada (U.S.)]] |- | [[Albert von Le Coq]] | [[Germans|German]] || 19th/20th | [[central Asia]] |- | [[John Ledyard]] | [[United States|American]] || 18th | [[Australasia]], [[Oceania]], [[Russia]] |- | [[Miguel López de Legazpi]] | [[Spanish people|Spanish]] || 16th | [[Philippines]] |- | [[Ludwig Leichhardt]] | Prussian || 19th | [[Australia]]n interior |- | [[Gaspar de Lemos]] | Portuguese || 15th | [[Brazil]] |- | [[Dragutin Lerman]] | [[Croat]]ian || 19th/20th | [[Republic of the Congo|Congo]] |- | [[Meriwether Lewis]] | American || 18th/19th | [[Lewis and Clark Expedition|western United States]] |- | [[David Livingstone]] | British || 19th | [[Southern Africa|southern]] and [[East Africa|eastern Africa]] |- |} == M == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !width="250px"| Name !width="125px"| Nationality !!width="100px"| Century !width="400px"| Main area/s explored |- | [[Alexander Mackenzie (explorer)|Alexander Mackenzie]] | [[British people|British]] || 18th/19th | [[Canada]] |- | [[Ferdinand Magellan]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 15th/16th | [[circumnavigation]] |- | [[Alessandro Malaspina]] | Italian-Spanish || 18th | [[Pacific Ocean]] |- | [[Teoberto Maler]] | [[Germans|German]]-[[Italians|Italian]] || 19th | [[Mesoamerica]] ([[Maya civilization|Maya]]n 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 (island)|Newfoundland]], [[Cape of Good Hope]] |- | [[Pedro Mascarenhas]] | Portuguese || 16th | [[Indian Ocean]], [[Diego Garcia]] |- | [[Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai]] | [[Russians|Russian]] || 19th | [[New Guinea]] |- | [[John Minor Maury]] | American || 19th | [[Darién Gap]] |- | [[Douglas Mawson]] | [[Australians|Australian]] || 20th | [[Antarctica]] |- | [[Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira|Álvaro de Mendaña]] | [[Spanish people|Spanish]] || 16th | [[Pacific Ocean]] |- | [[Archibald Menzies]] | British || 18th/19th | [[Pacific Ocean]], [[circumnavigation]] |- | [[Thomas Mitchell]] | British || 19th | [[Australia]]n interior |- | [[John Moresby]] | British || 19th | [[Papua (Australian territory)|New Guinea]] coast |- | [[Francisco Antonio Mourelle]] | Spanish || 18th | [[Pacific Northwest]] and [[Pacific Ocean]] |- | [[Joaquim Augusto Mouzinho de Albuquerque]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 19th | [[Mozambique]] |} == N == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !width="250px"| Name !width="125px"| Nationality !!width="100px"| Century !width="400px"| Main area/s explored |- | [[Gustav Nachtigal]] | [[Germans|German]] || 19th | [[Africa]] |- | [[Fridtjof Nansen]] | [[Norwegians|Norwegian]] || 19th/20th | [[Arctic]] |- | [[José María Narváez]] | Spanish || 18th | [[Pacific Northwest]] |- | [[Nehsi]] | [[ancient Egypt]]ian || [[15th century BCE|15th BCE]] | [[Land of Punt]] |- | [[Jean Nicolet]] | [[French people|French]] || 17th | [[Northwest Territory]] ([[United States]]) |- | [[Joseph Nicollet]] | French/[[United States|American]] || 19th | [[Mississippi River|Mississippi]] and [[Missouri River]]s |- | [[Afanasiy Nikitin]] | [[Russians|Russian]] || 15th | [[India]] |- | [[António Noli]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 15th | [[Cape Verde]] islands |- | [[Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld]] | [[Finnish people|Finnish]]/[[Swedish people|Swedish]] || 19th | Arctic |- | [[Tenzing Norgay]] | [[Nepal]]ese || 20th | [[Mount Everest]] |- | [[Fernão de Noronha]] | Portuguese || 15th/16th | [[Atlantic Ocean]] |- | [[João da Nova]] | Portuguese || 16th | Atlantic and [[Indian Ocean]]s |- | [[Paulo Dias de Novais]] | Portuguese || 16th | [[Angola]] |} == O == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !width="250px"| Name !width="125px"| Nationality !!width="100px"| Century !width="400px"| Main area/s explored |- | [[Sebastián de Ocampo]] | [[Spanish people|Spanish]] || early&nbsp;16th | [[Caribbean]], [[Gulf of Mexico]] |- | [[Peter Skene Ogden]] | [[Canadian people|Canadian]] || early&nbsp;19th | [[Snake River]] country, [[western United States]] |- | [[Juan de Oñate]] | Spanish || 16th | [[Southwestern United States|American Southwest]] |- | [[Francisco de Orellana]] | Spanish || 16th | [[South America]], [[Amazon River]] |- | [[John Oxley]] | [[British people|British]] || early&nbsp;19th | [[Australia]]<ref>[[New South Wales]], southeastern [[Queensland]].</ref> |- |} == P == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !width="250px"| Name !width="125px"| Nationality !!width="100px"| Century !width="400px"| Main area/s explored |- | [[Mungo Park (explorer)|Mungo Park]] | [[British people|British]] || 18th/19th | [[west Africa]] ([[Niger River]]) |- | [[William Edward Parry|William Parry]] | British || 19th | [[Arctic]] |- | [[Robert Peary]] | [[United States|American]] || 19th/20th | Arctic |- | [[Paul Pelliot]] | [[French people|French]] || 19th/20th | [[central Asia]] |- | [[Duarte Pacheco Pereira]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 15th | [[Atlantic Ocean]], [[Brazil]] |- | [[Bartolomeu Perestrelo]] | Portuguese || 15th | [[Madeira Islands]] |- | [[Juan José Pérez Hernández|Juan Pérez]] | Spanish || 18th | [[Pacific Northwest]] |- | [[Auguste Piccard]] | [[Swiss people|Swiss]] || 20th | [[Earth's atmosphere]], the [[deep sea]] |- | [[Jacques Piccard]] | Swiss || 20th | the deep sea |- | [[Zebulon Pike]] | American || early&nbsp;19th | southern [[Louisiana Purchase]] ([[United States]]) |- | [[Alonso Alvarez de Pineda]] | [[Spanish people|Spanish]] || early&nbsp;16th | [[Gulf Coast of the United States|Gulf Coast]] |- | [[Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto|Serpa Pinto]] | Portuguese || 19th | [[southern Africa]] |- | [[Fernão Mendes Pinto]] | Portuguese || 16th | [[India]], [[Far East]], [[Japan]] |- | [[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 Africa]]n coast |- | [[Marco Polo]] | [[Republic of Venice|Venetian]] || 13th/14th | [[China]], [[Mongol Empire]] |- | [[Peter Pond]] | American || 18th/19th | [[Canada|Canadian]] interior |- | [[Gaspar de Portolà]] | Spanish || 18th | [[Alta California|Alta]] and [[Baja California]] |- | [[John Wesley Powell]] | American || 19th | [[western United States]] |- | [[Nathaniel Hale Pryor]] | American || 19th | [[Lewis and Clark Expedition|western United States]] |- | [[Nikolai Przhevalsky]] | [[Russians|Russian]] || 19th | [[central Asia]] |- | [[Pytheas]] | [[Ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] || [[4th century BCE|4th BCE]] | [[northern Europe]] |- |} == Q == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !width="250px"| Name !width="125px"| Nationality !!width="100px"| Century !width="400px"| Main area/s explored |- | [[Manuel Quimper]] | Spanish || 18th | [[Pacific Northwest]] |- | [[Pedro Fernández de Quirós]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 16th/17th | [[Oceania]] |- |} == R == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !width="250px"| Name !width="125px"| Nationality !!width="100px"| Century !width="400px"| Main area/s explored |- | [[John Rae (explorer)|John Rae]] | [[British people|British]] || 19th | [[Northwest Passage]], [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]] |- | [[Walter Raleigh|Sir Walter Raleigh]] | [[English people|English]] || 16th/17th | [[Virginia]], the [[Orinoco]] river |- | [[Matteo Ricci]] | [[Italians|Italian]] || 16th | [[China]] |- | [[Diogo Rodrigues]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 16th | [[Mascarene Islands]] |- | [[Cândido Rondon]] | [[Brazilians|Brazilian]] || 19th/20th | [[Brazil]]ian interior ([[Amazon Basin]]) |- | [[James Clark Ross]] | [[British people|British]] || 19th | [[Arctic]], [[Antarctic]] |- | [[William of Rubruck]] | [[Flemish people|Flemish]] || 13th century | [[Central Asia]] |- | [[Henry Russell (explorer)|Henry Russell]] | [[Irish people|Irish]] || 19th | [[Pyrenees]] |- |} == S == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !width="250px"| Name !width="125px"| Nationality !!width="100px"| Century !width="400px"| Main area/s explored |- | [[Francisco Serrão]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 16th century | [[Indonesia]] |- | [[Sándor Kőrösi Csoma]] | [[Hungarian people|Hungarian]] || early 19th | [[Tibet]] |- | [[João de Santarém]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 15th | [[São Tomé and Príncipe]] islands |- | [[Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa]] | [[Spanish people|Spanish]] || 16th | [[Solomon Islands]] |- | [[Rabban Bar Sauma]] | [[Turkic people|Turco]]-[[Mongols|Mongol]] || 13th | [[Europe]], [[Middle East]] |- | [[Johann Schiltberger]] | [[Germans|German]] || 15th | [[Central Asia]] |- | [[Georg August Schweinfurth]] | [[Germany|German]]/[[Russian Empire|Russian]] || 19th | East and Central Africa |- | [[Robert Falcon Scott]] | [[British people|British]] || 19th/20th | [[Antarctica]] ([[South Pole]]) |- | [[Scylax of Caryanda]] | [[Ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] || [[6th century BCE|6th BCE]] | [[Indus River]], [[Indian Ocean]], [[Red Sea]] |- | [[Tibor Sekelj]] | [[Croats|Croat]] || 20th | [[Argentina]] |- | [[Mirko and Stjepan Seljan]] | Croat || early 20th | [[Ethiopia]], [[South America]] |- | [[Serpa Pinto|Alexandre de Serpa Pinto]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 19th | [[Africa|African continent]] |- | [[Ernest Shackleton]] | [[British people|British]] || early 20th | Antarctica |- | [[Eric Shipton]] | British || 20th | [[Mount Everest]], southern [[Patagonia]] |- | [[Tanaka Shōsuke]] | [[Japanese people|Japanese]] || 17th | [[Mexico]] |- | [[Diogo Silves]] | Portuguese || 15th | [[Azores]] |- | [[Pêro de Sintra]] | Portuguese || 15th | [[west Africa]]n coast, [[Sierra Leone]] |- | [[William Smith (mariner)|William Smith]] | British || early 19th | [[South Shetland Islands]] |- | [[J. Dewey Soper]] | Canadian || 20th | [[Canadian Arctic]] |- | [[Hernando de Soto (explorer)|Hernando de Soto]] | Spanish || 16th | [[Central America]], [[southern United States]] |- | [[Martim Afonso de Sousa]] | Portuguese || 16th | [[Brazil]]ian interior |- | [[John Hanning Speke]] | British || 19th | [[East Africa|eastern Africa]] |- | [[Hans Staden]] | German || 16th | [[Brazil]] |- | [[William Grant Stairs]] | [[Canadians|Canadian]] || 19th | [[central Africa]] |- | [[Henry Morton Stanley]] | British || 19th | eastern Africa |- | [[Marc Aurel Stein]] | [[Hungarians|Hungarian]]/[[United Kingdom|British]] || 19th/20th | [[central Asia]] |- | [[John Lloyd Stephens]] | [[United States|American]] || 19th | [[Middle East]], [[Mesoamerica]] ([[Maya civilization|Maya]]n remains) |- | [[Paweł Edmund Strzelecki|Paweł Strzelecki]]<ref>Sir Paul de Strzelecki.</ref> | [[Poles|Polish]]/British || 19th | the [[Americas]], [[Australia]] ([[Gippsland]]) |- | [[John McDouall Stuart]] | British[[Australians|Australian]] || 19th | Australian interior |- | [[Charles Sturt]] | British || 19th | Australian interior |- | [[Ignacije Szentmartony]] | Croat || 18th | [[Amazon River]] |- |} == T == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !width="250px"| Name !width="125px"| Nationality !!width="100px"| Century !width="400px"| Main area/s explored |- | [[Abel Tasman]] | [[Dutch people|Dutch]] || 17th | [[Australasia]], including [[Tasmania]] |- | [[Jean-Baptiste Tavernier]] | [[French people|French]] || 17th | [[Safavid dynasty|Persia]], [[Mughal Empire|India]] |- | [[Pedro Teixeira]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 17th | [[Amazon River]] |- | [[Tristão Vaz Teixeira]] | Portuguese || 15th | [[Madeira Islands]] |- | [[Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir]] | [[Iceland]]ic ||| c.11th | [[North America]] |- | [[Harold William Tilman]] | [[British people|British]]||| 20th | [[Himalayas]], [[Patagonia]] |- | [[Yermak Timofeyevich]] | [[Russians|Russian]]<ref>[[Cossack]].</ref> || 16th | [[Siberia]] |- | [[Tenjiku Tokubei]] | [[Japanese people|Japanese]] || 17th | [[South East Asia]], [[India]] |- | [[Luis Váez de Torres]] | Portuguese || 17th | Australasia |- | [[Nuno Tristão]] | Portuguese || 15th | [[west Africa]]n coast, [[Guinea-Bissau]] |- | [[Hasekura Tsunenaga]] | Japanese || 17th | [[Mexico]], [[Europe]] |- |} == U == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !width="250px"| Name !width="125px"| Nationality !!width="100px"| Century !width="400px"| Main area/s explored |- | [[Andrés de Urdaneta]] | [[Spanish people|Spanish]] || 16th | [[Manila Galleon]] route |- |} == V == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !width="250px"| Name !width="125px"| Nationality !!width="100px"| Century !width="400px"| Main area/s explored |- | [[Cayetano Valdés y Flores|Cayetano Valdés]] | Spanish || 18th | [[Pacific Northwest]] |- | [[George Vancouver]] | [[British people|British]]|| 18th | Pacific coast of North America<ref>[[West Coast of the United States|U.S. Pacific Coast]], [[Pacific Northwest]].</ref> |- | [[Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye|Pierre Gaultier de Varennes]] | [[French Canadian]] || 18th | [[western Canada]] |- | [[Gonçalo Velho]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 15th | [[Azores]] |- | [[Giovanni da Verrazzano]] | [[Italians|Italian]] || early 16th | [[East Coast of the United States]] |- | [[Amerigo Vespucci]] | Italian || 15th/16th | eastern [[South America]]n coast, [[Caribbean]] |- | [[Ruy López de Villalobos]] | [[Spanish people|Spanish]] || 16th | [[Pacific Ocean]], [[Philippines]] |- | [[Willem de Vlamingh]] | [[Flemish people|Flemish]]/[[Dutch people|Dutch]] || 17th | [[southwest Australia]]n coast |- |} == W == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !width="250px"| Name !width="125px"| Nationality !!width="100px"| Century !width="400px"| Main area/s explored |- | [[Jean-Frédéric Waldeck]] | [[French people|French]] || 19th | [[Mesoamerica]] ([[Maya civilization|Maya]]n remains) |- | [[Thomas Walker (explorer)|Thomas Walker]] | [[British people|British]] || 18th | [[eastern United States]]<ref>[[Allegheny Mountains]], [[Cumberland Plateau]].</ref> |- | [[Langdon Warner]] | [[United States|American]] || early 20th | the [[Silk Road]] |- | [[Harry de Windt]] | French || 19th/20th | [[Eurasia]] |- |} == Y == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !width="250px"| Name !width="125px"| Nationality !!width="100px"| Century !width="400px"| Main area/s explored |- | [[John Young (Hawaii)|John Young]] | British || 18th | [[Hawaii]] |- | [[Francis Younghusband|Sir Francis Younghusband]] | [[British people|British]] || 19th/20th | [[central Asia]] |- | [[Yermak Timofeyevich]] | [[Russians|Russian]] || 16th | [[Siberia]] |- |} == Z == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !width="250px"| Name !width="125px"| Nationality !!width="100px"| Century !width="400px"| Main area/s explored |- | [[João Gonçalves Zarco]] | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 15th | [[Madeira Islands]] |- | [[Zhang Qian]] | [[China|Chinese]] || [[2nd century BCE|2nd BCE]] | [[central Asia]] |- | [[Xuanzang]] | [[China|Chinese]] || 7th | [[Indian subcontinent]], [[Central Asia]] |- | [[Zheng He]] | Chinese [[Islam|Muslim]]|| 15th | [[South Asia]], [[Southeast Asia]], [[Middle East]], [[East Africa]]n coast, possibly [[Americas]] |- |} == Footnotes == {{reflist}} == See also == * [[Age of Discovery]] * [[Astronaut|Astronaut/Cosmonaut]] ** [[International Space Station]] * [[Bandeirantes]] * [[Conquistador]] * [[Exploration]] * [[Exploration of Asia]] * [[List of maritime explorers]] * [[Radhanite]]s * [[Silk Road]] * [[Spice trade]] * [[Trans-Saharan trade]] * [[Travel literature]] <!--Categories--> [[Category:Explorers| ]] [[Category:Exploration]] [[Category:Lists of explorers| ]] <!--Other languages--> [[bs:Spisak istraživača]] [[br:Roll ergerzherien]] [[de:Liste der Entdecker]] [[es:Lista de exploradores]] [[fr:Liste des explorateurs]] 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