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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Roald Amundsen
Explorer
16-Jul-1872 18-Jun-1928 First to reach South Pole
William Baffin
Explorer
c. 1584 23-Jan-1622 Tried to find North-West Passage
Sir Samuel White Baker
Explorer
8-Jun-1821 30-Dec-1893 Travelled to the source of the Nile
Vasco Nuñez de Balboa
Explorer
1475 12-Jan-1519 Discovered Pacific Ocean
Willem Barents
Explorer
c. 1550 20-Jun-1597 Dutch Arctic navigator
Vitus Bering
Explorer
1681 19-Dec-1741 Danish navigator in the Bering Sea
Hiram Bingham
Politician
19-Nov-1875 6-Jun-1956 US Senator, discovered Machu Picchu
Charles F. Brush III
Archaeologist
3-Apr-1923 1-Jun-2006 Explorers Club president 1978-81
Robert O'Hara Burke
Explorer
6-May-1820 28-Jun-1861 Tried to cross Australia
Sir Richard Burton
Explorer
19-Mar-1821 20-Oct-1890 Translated The Arabian Nights
Richard E. Byrd
Explorer
25-Oct-1888 11-Mar-1957 Arctic and Antarctic explorer
John Cabot
Explorer
c. 1450 1499 Discovered North America
Sebastian Cabot
Explorer
1476 1557 16th century Italian/English explorer
Alvise Cadamosto
Explorer
1432 18-Jul-1488 Discovered Cape Verde islands
René Caillié
Explorer
19-Sep-1799 17-May-1838 First European to return from Timbuktu
Kit Carson
Explorer
24-Dec-1809 23-May-1868 Frontiersman and Indian agent
Jacques Cartier
Explorer
1491 1-Sep-1557 Discovered St. Lawrence river
Thomas Cavendish
Explorer
1560 1592 Third global circumnavigator
Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix
Explorer
29-Oct-1682 1-Feb-1761 Jesuit explorer of America
William Clark
Explorer
1-Aug-1770 1-Sep-1838 Lewis and Clark expedition
Christopher Columbus
Explorer
1451 20-May-1506 Rediscovered the New World
James Cook
Explorer
27-Oct-1728 14-Feb-1779 Explorer of the South Pacific
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
Explorer
c. 1510 22-Sep-1554 Discovered the Grand Canyon
Hernando Cortes
Explorer
1485 2-Dec-1547 Spanish Conquistador, conquered Mexico
Vasco da Gama
Explorer
c. 1469 24-Dec-1524 Portuguese explorer, conqueror, privateer
William Dampier
Explorer
1651 1715 New Voyage Round the World
John Davis
Explorer
c. 1550 29-Dec-1605 Discovered Falkland Islands
Juan Bautista de Anza
Explorer
Jul-1736 19-Dec-1788 Spanish explorer
Samuel de Champlain
Explorer
1567 25-Dec-1635 Namesake of Lake Champlain
Dixon Denham
Explorer
1-Jan-1786 8-May-1828 English explorer of Central Africa
Bartholomew Diaz
Explorer
c. 1450 29-May-1500 Found the Cape of Good Hope
Sir Francis Drake
Explorer
c. 1540 28-Jan-1596 Defeated Spanish Armada
Leif Ericsson
Explorer
fl. 11th c. fl. 11th c. European discoverer of Vinland
Erik the Red
Explorer
c. 950 AD c. 1005 AD Viking, explored Greenland
George Everest
Explorer
4-Jul-1790 1-Dec-1866 Namesake of Mt. Everest
David G. Fairchild
Botanist
7-Apr-1869 6-Aug-1954 Brought exotic plants to America
Ranulph Fiennes
Explorer
7-Mar-1944   World explorer
George Finch
Chemist
4-Aug-1888 22-Nov-1970 Oxygen for mountain climbing
John C. Fremont
Explorer
21-Jan-1813 13-Jul-1890 Conqueror of California
Francis Galton
Anthropologist
16-Feb-1822 17-Jan-1911 Word Association Test
John Oliver La Gorce
Explorer
1880 1949 Antarctica explorer, National Geographic editor
Hanno
Explorer
fl. 500 BC fl. 500 BC Navigated west coast of Africa
Samuel Hearne
Explorer
1745 Nov-1792 Explored the Hudson Bay area
Matthew Henson
Explorer
8-Aug-1866 9-Mar-1955 Possibly first to reach North Pole
Thor Heyerdahl
Explorer
6-Oct-1914 18-Apr-2002 Kon-Tiki
Edmund Hillary
Explorer
20-Jul-1919 11-Jan-2008 First to summit Mt. Everest
Friederich Konrad Hornemann
Explorer
1772 1801 First European to cross Sahara
Henry Hudson
Explorer
c. 1570 22-Jun-1611 Sought a Northeast Passage
Wilhelm Junker
Explorer
6-Apr-1840 13-Feb-1892 Reisen in Afrika
Eusebio Kino
Religion
10-Aug-1645 15-Mar-1711 Jesuit missionary to Mexico
Alexander Gordon Laing
Explorer
27-Dec-1793 26-Sep-1826 Explorer killed returning from Timbuktu
John Ledyard
Explorer
1751 10-Jan-1789 Explored Hawaii with Captain James Cook
Juan Ponce de León
Explorer
1460 1521 Sought the Fountain of Youth
Meriwether Lewis
Explorer
18-Aug-1774 11-Oct-1809 Lewis and Clark expedition
Carolus Linnaeus
Botanist
23-May-1707 10-Jan-1778 Created a taxonomy of the species
David Livingstone
Explorer
19-Mar-1813 1-May-1873 Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
Ferdinand Magellan
Explorer
1480 27-Apr-1521 Circumnavigated the globe
George Mallory
Explorer
18-Jun-1886 8-Jun-1924 Frozen for 75 years on Mt. Everest
James Marshall
Explorer
8-Oct-1810 10-Aug-1885 Discovered gold at Sutter's Mill
Fridtjof Nansen
Explorer
10-Oct-1861 13-May-1930 Polar explorer, Nobel Prize recipient
Jean Nicholas Nicollet
Explorer
24-Jul-1786 11-Sep-1843 Surveyor of the Mississippi basin
Tenzing Norgay
Explorer
15-May-1914 9-May-1986 With Edmund Hilllary on Everest
Mungo Park
Explorer
10-Sep-1771 1806 Scottish explorer of the Niger
Emin Pasha
Explorer
28-Mar-1840 23-Oct-1892 German colonial traveller in Africa
Robert E. Peary
Explorer
6-May-1856 20-Feb-1920 First to reach the North Pole
Zebulon Pike
Military
5-Jan-1779 27-Apr-1813 Lent his name to Pike's Peak
Francisco Pizarro
Explorer
c. 1471 26-Jun-1541 Conqueror of the Inca
Marco Polo
Explorer
c. 1254 8-Jan-1324 Travels of Marco Polo
John Wesley Powell
Geologist
24-Mar-1834 23-Sep-1902 Exploration of the Colorado River
Sir Walter Raleigh
Explorer
c. 1552 29-Oct-1618 Favorite of Queen Elizabeth I
Sacagawea
Explorer
c. 1787 20-Dec-1812 Lewis and Clark expedition translator
Robert Falcon Scott
Explorer
6-Jun-1868 29-Mar-1912 Led 2 expeditions to Antarctica
Ernest Shackleton
Explorer
15-Feb-1874 5-Jan-1922 Antarctic explorer
John Smith
Explorer
1580 21-Jun-1631 Founder of Jamestown Colony
Hernando de Soto
Explorer
1496 21-May-1542 Explored the Mississippi
Henry Morton Stanley
Explorer
28-Jan-1841 10-May-1904 Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
John Lloyd Stephens
Explorer
28-Nov-1805 12-Oct-1852 Incidents of Travel
John McDouall Stuart
Explorer
7-Sep-1815 5-Jun-1866 Explorer of South Australia
Charles Sturt
Explorer
28-Apr-1795 16-Jun-1869 Explorer of NSW and South Australia
John Augustus Sutter
Explorer
15-Feb-1803 18-Jun-1880 California gold rush
Abel Janszoon Tasman
Explorer
c. 1603 c. 1659 Discovered Tasmania and New Zealand
George Vancouver
Explorer
22-Jun-1757 10-May-1798 Surveyed the West coast of America
Giovanni da Verrazano
Explorer
1485 1528 Discovered New York Harbor
Amerigo Vespucci
Explorer
9-Mar-1454 22-Feb-1512 American eponym
Edward Whymper
Explorer
27-Apr-1840 16-Sep-1911 Scrambles among the Alps



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