List of explorers explained

The following is a list of explorers. Their common names, countries of origin (modern and former), centuries when they were active and main areas of exploration are listed below.

List

Name	Modern (and former) nationality	Centuries	Main areas explored
Antonio de Abreu		16th	Indonesia
Thomas Wyndham	English	16th	West Africa
Sir Richard Guildford	English	16th	Mediterranean Sea
William Adams		17th	Japan
Diogo Afonso	Portuguese	15th	Northwest African coast
		16th	North America
Crispin Agnew	Scottish	20th	Greenland, Elephant Island, Northern Patagonian Icefield, Himalayas
Charles Albanel		17th	Canada (interior)
Afonso de Albuquerque		16th	Asia
Buzz Aldrin		20th	The Moon
Pero de Alenquer		15th/16th	Indian Ocean
Alexander the Great	Greek (Macedonian)	4th BC	Indus River, Hindu Kush
Jean Alfonse (João Afonso)		15th/16th	Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia, possibly Australia; Brazil, North America
Benedict Allen		20th/21st	various
Diego de Almagro		16th	Peru, Chile
László Almásy		19th/20th	Africa
Francisco de Almeida		16th	India
Lourenço de Almeida		16th	Sri Lanka, India
Pedro de Alvarado		16th	Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras
Francisco Álvares		16th	Ethiopia
Gonçalo Álvares		15th	Gough Island, Namibia
Jorge Álvares		16th	China
Roald Amundsen	Norwegian	20th	South Pole, Antarctica, Northwest Passage
José Alberto de Oliveira Anchieta		19th	Gough Island
Charles John Andersson		19th	Southern Africa
António de Andrade		16th/17th	India, Tibet
Fernão Pires de Andrade		16th	Ming China
Salomon August Andrée		19th	Arctic
Roy Chapman Andrews		20th	China, Mongolia
Juan Bautista de Anza		18th	California
Moncacht-Apé	Yazoo	17th/18th	North America
Dominick Arduin		20th/21st	North Pole
Henryk Arctowski		20th	Antarctic, South America
Neil Armstrong		20th	The Moon
Ingólfur Arnarson		9th	Iceland
Vladimir Arsenyev		20th	Far East
Michael Asher		20th	Africa
Pero de Ataíde		16th/17th	Indian Ocean
Vasco de Ataíde		16th/17th	India, Tibet
Vladimir Atlasov		17th	Kamchatka Peninsula
François Xavier Aubry		19th	American Southwest
Väinö Auer		20th	Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés		16th	Florida
Juan de Ayala		18th	California
Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón	Spanish	16th	South Carolina
Diogo de Azambuja		15th	West African coast
George Back		19th	Canada (Arctic)
William Baffin		17th	Northwest Passage, Canada (Arctic)
		14th	Atlantic Ocean, trans-Atlantic (allegedly)
Samuel Baker		19th	Africa
Vasco Núñez de Balboa		16th	Panama, 'discovered' the Pacific Ocean
Robert Ballard		20th	deep sea wrecks, Titanic
Ann Bancroft		20th/21st	Arctic, Antarctic
Joseph Banks		18th	Newfoundland and Labrador, South Pacific
Hong Bao	Chinese	15th	South Asia, Southeast Asia, Middle East, East African coast
Giosafat Barbaro		15th	Black Sea, Near East
Duarte Barbosa		15th/16th	Indian Ocean, 1st circumnavigation
Pero de Barcelos		15th/16th	North America
Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia		15th	Western Sahara
Jeanne Baré		18th/19th	Pacific Ocean
Willem Barentsz		16th	Northeast Passage, Novaya Zemlya, Svalbard
Heinrich Barth		19th	Central and northern Africa
Robert Bartlett	Newfoundlander	20th	Arctic
William Bartram	American	18th	Southern United States
George Bass		18th	Australia, Tasmania
Henry Walter Bates		19th	Amazon basin
Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta^[1] ^[2]		14th	Africa, Central Asia, China, Europe, Indian subcontinent, Middle East, Russia, Southeast Asia
Nicolas Baudin		18th	Australia
James Beckwourth		19th	Sierra Nevada
William Beebe		20th	deep sea
Pyotr Beketov		17th	Siberia
Gertrude Bell		19th/20th	the region of Syria Mesopotamia Asia Minor Arabia
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen		19th	Antarctica
Joseph René Bellot		19th	Arctic
Móric Benyovszky		18th	northern Pacific Ocean^[3]
Vitus Bering		18th	Northern Pacific Ocean, Bering Strait, Alaska (North America)
Jean de Béthencourt		15th	Canary Islands
Hiram Bingham III		20th	Machu Picchu, Peru
Laura Bingham		20th/21st	South America
Isabella Bird		19th/20th	North America, Hawaii, Japan, Korea, China, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Persia, Kurdistan, Turkey, Morocco
John Blashford-Snell		20th/21st	various
Adriaen Block		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		18th	Pacific Northwest
Benjamin Bonneville		19th	Oregon Country, Great Basin
Daniel Boone		18th	Kentucky, Appalachian Mountains
Vittorio Bottego		19th	Somalia
Adam Brand		17th	Russia, China
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza		19th	Congo
Saint Brendan		6th	Atlantic Ocean, Iceland
Jim Bridger		19th	Western United States
James Bruce		18th	Algeria, the Middle East, Egypt
William S. Bruce		20th	Antarctica
Jørgen Brønlund	Greenlandic	20th	Greenland
Étienne Brûlé		17th	Canada (interior)
Bungaree		18th/19th	Australian coasts
Lafayette Bunnell		19th	Yosemite Valley
Johann Ludwig Burckhardt		19th	Middle East, Sudan
Robert O'Hara Burke		19th	Australia
Frederick Russell Burnham		19th/20th	Africa, Mexico
Richard Francis Burton		19th	East Africa
Thomas Button	Welsh	17th	Northwest Passage
José de Bustamante y Guerra		18th	Pacific Ocean
Richard E. Byrd		20th	North Pole, Antarctica
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca		16th	Southwestern United States, Mexico, Argentina
John Cabot^[4]		15th	North American mainland (Canada)
Sebastian Cabot		15th	Northwest Passage (Canada), Río de la Plata, Paraná River (South America)
João Cabral		16th	Bhutan & Nepal
Pedro Álvares Cabral		15th/16th	Brazil, Madagascar
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo		16th	California
Estêvão Cacella		16th	Himalayas
Alvise Cadamosto		15th	Cape Verde islands
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac		18th	North America
René Caillié		19th	North Africa
Álvaro Caminha		15th	São Tomé and Príncipe islands
Pero Vaz de Caminha		15th	Brazil
Alberto del Canto		15th/16th	Northwestern Mexico
Diogo Cão		15th	west coast of Africa (including the Congo River)
Hermenegildo de Brito Capelo		19th	African continent
John Carpini		13th	Central Asia, Mongolia
Juan Carrasco		18th	Pacific Northwest
Kit Carson		19th	Rocky Mountains, California, Oregon, Great Basin
Jan Carstensz		17th	New Guinea coast, Gulf of Carpentaria
Jacques Cartier		16th	St. Lawrence River
João de Castro		15th	India, Arabian Peninsula & Red Sea
René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle		17th	Mississippi embayment
Bodhidharma		5th/6th	China and Southeast Asia (semi-legendary)
Thomas Cavendish		16th	Virginia, Pacific coast of Central and South America
Merieme Chadid		20th/21st	Antarctica, South America, Asia, Astronomer
Paul Du Chaillu		19th	Africa
Harriet Chalmers Adams		19th/20th	South America, Asia, South Pacific
Samuel de Champlain		16th/17th	Quebec, Great Lakes
Chang Chun		13th	Central Asia, Mongolia
Jean Chardin		17th	Persia, India
Semion Chelyuskin		18th	Great Northern Expedition
Vasily Chichagov		18th	Northern Sea Route
Aleksei Chirikov		18th	Great Northern Expedition
Fletcher Christian		18th	Polynesia
Boris Chukhnovsky		20th	Arctic
Hugh Clapperton		19th	west and Central Africa
William Clark		19th	Western United States
Gonçalo Coelho		15th/16th	South American coast
Nicolau Coelho		15th	Brazil
Frank Cole		20th	Sahara
Bartholomew Columbus	Italian (Genoese)	15th/16th	Hispaniola, The Antilles
Christopher Columbus^[5]		15th/16th	Bahamas, Caribbean, Central America, South America (Colombia and Venezuela)
Diego Columbus	Portuguese	16th	Hispaniola (Mainly Dominican Republic)
George Comer		19th/20th	Arctic
Megasthenes	Greek	3rd BCE	India
Niccolò Da Conti		15th	India, Southeast Asia
Frederick Cook		19th/20th	Arctic
James Cook		18th	Australasia, Oceania
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado		16th	New Mexico
Mahinda	Indian	3rd BCE	Sri Lanka
Diogo Álvares Correia		16th	Brazil
Gaspar Côrte-Real		16th	Newfoundland, Greenland
João Côrte-Real		15th	Azores, Newfoundland (Possible exploration of North America in 1473)
Miguel Côrte-Real		16th	Greenland, Newfoundland, Massachusetts
Hernán Cortés		16th	Mexico
Juan de la Cosa		15th/16th	Caribbean, South America
Thomas Coulter		19th	Mexico, Alta California
Jean Cousin		15th	Possibly the Americas around 1488. Possibly mouth of the Amazon River
Jacques-Yves Cousteau		20th	the deep sea
Pero da Covilhã		15th/16th	India, Ethiopia
Tom Crean		20th	Antarctica
Andrew Croft		20th	Arctic
Tristão da Cunha		16th	Tristan da Cunha islands
Jeremy Curl		20th	African continent
William Healey Dall		19th	Alaska, Yukon
William Dampier		17th/18th	Australia, Panama, many other locations
Alexandra David-Néel	French-Belgian	20th	Tibet (Traveled to Lhasa)
Isaac Davis		18th	Hawaii
Faxian	Chinese	5th	India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia
John Davis		16th	East Indies, Falkland Islands
Wang Dayuan	Chinese	14th	Southeast Asia, Singapore
Semyon Dezhnev		17th	Siberia, Bering Strait (80 years before Vitus Bering)
Bartolomeu Dias		15th	Africa
Dinis Dias	Portuguese	15th	Northwest African coast
Diogo Dias		16th	Madagascar, Somalia
Pero Dias	Portuguese	15th	African coast
Dicuil		8th	England, Scotland
Karl von Ditmar		19th	Kamchatka
Raphaël Domjan		21st	various
Francis Drake		16th	Caribbean, Pacific Coast of North America
Gil Eanes		15th	Northwest African coast
Juan Sebastián Elcano		16th	completed Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation
Francisco de Eliza		18th	Strait of Juan de Fuca and Strait of Georgia
Lincoln Ellsworth		20th	Arctic and Antarctica
Franz Engel		19th	South America
Kaundinya	Indian	1st	Southeast Asia
Leif Eriksson		11th	Vinland (Newfoundland) and North American mainland (Canada)
Erik the Red		10th	Greenland
Pedro Escobar		15th	São Tomé and Príncipe islands
St Vincent Whitshed Erskine	British-South African	19th	Gazaland & Limpopo River
Eudoxus of Cyzicus		2nd BC	Indian Ocean, attempted circumnavigation of Africa
Euthymenes		6th BC	Northwest African coast
George Everest		19th	India
Evliya Çelebi		17th	Turkey, Egypt, Africa, Europe
Ahmad ibn Fadlan		10th	Eastern Europe, Middle East, Russia
João Álvares Fagundes	Portuguese	16th	Newfoundland and Nova Scotia
Edmund Fanning		18th/19th	Oceania
Percy Harrison Fawcett		20th	Amazon Rainforest
Álvaro Fernandes		15th	West African coast
Baltasar Fernandes		17th	Brazil
Duarte Fernandes		16th	Thailand
Juan Fernández		16th	Juan Fernández Islands, Pacific Ocean
Salvador Fidalgo		18th	Pacific Northwest
Peter Fidler		18th	Western Canada
Sir Ranulph Fiennes		20th/21st	Arctic, Antarctica
Matthew Flinders		18th/19th	Australia, Tasmania
Alexander Forbes		19th	California
Peter Forsskål	Finnish	18th	Arabian Peninsula
John Franklin		19th	Northwest Passage
Simon Fraser		18th/19th	British Columbia
Lançarote de Freitas	Portuguese	15th	Northwest African coast
John C. Frémont		19th	Oregon Trail, Sierra Nevada
Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne		18th	Oceania
Louis de Freycinet		19th	Western Australia, Oceania
Martin Frobisher		16th	Northwest Passage, Canada
Afanasy Nikitin	Russian	15th	Ottoman Empire, Persia and India
Xu Fu		3rd BC	Japan
Juan de Fuca		16th	Strait of Juan de Fuca, Canada–United States border
Vivian Fuchs		20th	Antarctica
Alfons Gabriel		20th	Iran
Yuri Gagarin		20th	Earth orbit
Martín Galeano	Italian (Genoese)-Spanish	16th	Colombia
Dionisio Alcalá Galiano		18th	Pacific Northwest
Juan Galindo		19th	Mesoamerica (Mayan remains)
Estevão da Gama		16th	Trindade and Martim Vaz islands, Indian Ocean
João da Gama		16th	Hokkaido, Kuril islands, North Pacific, North America
Paulo da Gama		15th	sea route from Europe to India
Vasco da Gama		15th/16th	sea route from Europe to India
Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa		16th	Solomon Islands
Thomas Gann		19th/20th	Mesoamerica (Mayan remains)
Francisco Garcés		18th	Southwestern United States, northwestern Mexico
Aleixo Garcia		16th	Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia
Francisco García Jofre de Loaísa		16th	Pacific Ocean
Francis Garnier		19th	Mekong River
Adrien de Gerlache		19th/20th	Antarctica, Arctic
Romolo Gessi		19th	the Nile, Sudan
Humphrey Gilbert		16th	North America
Ernest Giles		19th	Central Australia
Diogo Gomes	Portuguese	15th	West African coast
André Gonçalves		15th/16th	Brazil
Antão Gonçalves		15th	West African coast
Lopes Gonçalves		15th	Atlantic Ocean
Binot Paulmier de Gonneville		15th/16th	Brazil (Santa Catarina)
James Augustus Grant		19th	East Africa
João Grego		15th	African coast
Juan de Grijalva		16th	Mexico, Nicaragua
Grigory Grum-Grshimailo		19th/20th	Central Asia, Tuva, Far East
Gonzalo Guerrero		16th	Yucatán Peninsula
Mikhail Gvozdev		18th	First Kamchatka Expedition, Great Northern Expedition
Charles Gwynn		19th/20th	Sudan
Niels Peter Høeg Hagen		20th	Greenland
Hanno the Navigator		6th BC	West African coast
Hannu		21st/20th BC	East Africa
Gonzalo López de Haro		18th	Pacific Northwest
Alfred Harrison		20th	Arctic
Dirk Hartog		17th	Western Australian coast
Ahmed Pasha Hassanein^[6]		20th	Oweinat and the Sahara
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden		19th	Rocky Mountains and the Western United States
Zheng He	Chinese	15th	South Asia, Southeast Asia, Middle East, East African coast
Samuel Hearne		18th	North Canada, Arctic
Bruno de Heceta		18th	Pacific Northwest
Sven Hedin		19th/20th	Central Asia
Matthew Alexander Henson	American	20th	Arctic
Louis Hennepin		17th	North American interior
Pedro de Heredia		16th	Northern Colombia
Bjarni Herjulfsson		10th	North America
William Lewis Herndon		19th	Amazon basin
Herodotus		5th BC	Near East, Middle East, North Africa
Thor Heyerdahl		20th	anthropological ocean voyages
Sir Edmund Hillary		20th	Mount Everest, Antarctica
Himilco the Navigator		6th BC	Northwestern coast of Europe
Hippalus		1st BC	Indian Ocean
Clement Hodgkinson		19th	New South Wales (Australia)
Pelham Aldrich	English	19th/20th	Arctic
Emil Holub		19th	Africa
Robert Hottot		20th	Congo River
Cornelis de Houtman		16th	sea route from Europe to Indonesia
Frederick de Houtman		16th/17th	Western Australian coast
William Hovell		19th	Southern New South Wales
Du Huan	Chinese	8th	Central Asia, Middle East, East African coast
Henry Hudson		17th	Northwest Passage, Hudson River and Hudson Bay
Alexander von Humboldt		19th	Latin America, Siberia
Hamilton Hume		19th	Australian interior
James S. Hutchinson		20th	Sierra Nevada
Hyecho		8th	India, Persia and Central Asia
João Infante		15th	African coast
Helge Ingstad		20th	Newfoundland, Greenland, Alaska
James Irwin	American	20th	The Moon
Kurbat Ivanov		17th	Siberia, Russian Far East, discoverer of Lake Baikal
Roberto Ivens		19th	African continent
Cristóvão Jacques		16th	Paraná River, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina
James of Ireland		14th	Sumatra, China
Willem Janszoon		17th	Australia (Queensland)
Anthony Jenkinson		16th	Russia, Persia
Louis Jolliet		17th	Mississippi River
Jørgen Jørgensen		18th/19th	Tasmania
Friar Julian		13th	Volga Bulgaria
Conrad Carel Käyser		20th	Suriname
Thorfinn Karlsefni		11th	Vinland
Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel		19th	Kamchatka
George Kennan		19th/20th	Russia^[7]
Edmund Kennedy		19th	Australian interior
Robert Kennicott	American	19th	Alaska, Siberia, Yukon and Northern Canada
Yerofey Khabarov		17th	Second Russian to explore the Amur region
Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad		9th	Atlantic Ocean (possibly mythical)
Mary Kingsley	English	19th	Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, and other South West African regions
Eusebio Kino		17th/18th	Californias, Sonora and Arizona
Maria Klenova		20th	One of the founders of marine geology
Amyr Klink		20th	Antarctica
John Knight		17th	Greenland, Labrador
Johan Peter Koch		20th	Greenland
Alexander Kolchak		20th	Russian Arctic
Ferdinand Konščak	Croatian	17th	Baja California Peninsula
Fyodor Konyukhov		20th/21st	circumnavigation, Explorers Grand Slam, pole of inaccessibility
Otto von Kotzebue		19th	Pacific Ocean
Pyotr Kozlov		20th	Mongolia, Tibet
Johann Ludwig Krapf		19th	Ethiopia, Kenya
Pyotr Krenitsyn		18th	Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Kamchatka Peninsula
Adam Johann von Krusenstern		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		19th	West Africa (Niger River and Timbuktu)
Pierre Martin de La Martinière		17th	Norway, Lapland, northern Russia, Novaya Zemlya, Greenland and Iceland
Richard Lemon Lander		19th	West Africa (Niger and Benue Rivers)
Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff		19th	Brazil
Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse		18th	Pacific Rim
Khariton Laptev		18th	Great Northern Expedition
Anthony de la Roché		17th	Antarctica
Gadifer de la Salle		15th	Canary Islands
João Fernandes Lavrador		15th/16th	Labrador
Joseph N. LeConte		20th	Sierra Nevada
Albert von Le Coq		19th/20th	Central Asia
John Ledyard		18th	Australasia, Oceania, Russia
Miguel López de Legazpi		16th	Philippines
Ludwig Leichhardt		19th	Australian interior
Jacob Le Maire		17th	South Pacific (Cape Horn, Tonga Islands, Wallis and Futuna)
Gaspar de Lemos		15th	Brazil
Dragutin Lerman	Croatian	19th/20th	Congo
Mikhail Levashev		18th	Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Kamchatka Peninsula
Meriwether Lewis		18th/19th	Western United States
Sir Martin Lindsay, 1st Baronet		20th	East Greenland
João de Lisboa		15th/16th	Indian Ocean, Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina
St. George Littledale		19th	Central Asia and North America
David Livingstone		19th	Southern and East Africa
Louis-Philippe Loncke	Belgian	21st	Australia, the Andes and Iceland
Jim Lovell		20th	Outer Space
Alexander Mackenzie		18th/19th	Canada
Ferdinand Magellan		15th/16th	1st circumnavigation, Philippines, Strait of Malacca, Indian Ocean
Jacques Mahu	French-Dutch	16th	Cape Verde islands
Alessandro Malaspina		18th	Pacific Ocean
Teoberto Maler		19th	Mesoamerica (Mayan remains)
George Mallory		20th	Mount Everest
Lancelotto Malocello		13th/14th	Lanzarote (Canary Islands)
Albert Hastings Markham		19th	Arctic
Lourenço Marques		16th	Mozambique
Jacques Marquette		17th	Mississippi River
Álvaro Martins		15th	Newfoundland, Cape of Good Hope
Pedro Mascarenhas		16th	Indian Ocean, Diego Garcia
John Minor Maury		19th	Darién Gap
Douglas Mawson		20th	Antarctica
Robert McClure		19th	Arctic
Robert McCormick	British	19th	Arctic and Antarctic Oceans
Álvaro de Mendaña		16th	Pacific Ocean
António Lopes Mendes	Portuguese	19th	Brazil, India
Cristóvão de Mendonça		16th	East Asia, Australasia
Pedro de Mendoza	Spanish	16th	South America
Jorge de Menezes		16th	Papua New Guinea
Archibald Menzies		18th/19th	Pacific Ocean, circumnavigation
Alexander von Middendorff		19th	Siberia, Far East, Lapland, Fergana Valley
Ejnar Mikkelsen		20th	Greenland
Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay		19th	New Guinea
Thomas Mitchell		19th	Australian interior
Richard Mohun		19th/20th	Congo Free State
Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons		16th/17th	North America
George Fletcher Moore		19th	Australia
John Moresby		19th	New Guinea coast
Ivan Moskvitin		17th	First European to reach the Sea of Okhotsk
António Mota	Portuguese	16th	Japan
Henri Mouhot		19th	South East Asia
Francisco Antonio Mourelle		18th	Pacific Northwest and Pacific Ocean
Bimal Mukherjee		20th	circumnavigation
Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen		20th	Greenland
Gustav Nachtigal		19th	Africa^[8]
Naddoddur		9th	Iceland
Nain Singh Rawat (Pundit Brothers)		19th	Tibet, Himalayas and Central Asia
Fridtjof Nansen		19th/20th	Arctic
José María Narváez		18th	Pacific Northwest
Nearchus		4th BC	Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf
Nehsi		15th BC	Land of Punt
Arthur Henry Neumann		19th	Africa
		19th	Sakhalin
Jean Nicolet		17th	Northwest Territory (United States)
Joseph Nicollet		19th	Mississippi and Missouri Rivers
António Noli		15th	Cape Verde islands
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld	Finnish	19th	Arctic
Tenzing Norgay	Nepalese	20th	Mount Everest
Fernão de Noronha		15th/16th	Atlantic Ocean
João da Nova		16th	Atlantic and Indian Oceans
Paulo Dias de Novais		16th	Angola
Kazimierz Nowak		20th	Africa
Vanessa O'Brien		20th/21st	Mountaineering and Challenger Deep in Marianas Trench
Sebastián de Ocampo		16th	Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico
Addison O'Dea	American	21st	The Sahara
Odoric of Pordenone		14th	Persia, India and China
Peter Skene Ogden		19th	Snake River country, Western United States
Alonso de Ojeda	Spanish	15th/16th	South America (north), Caribbean
Juan de Oñate		16th	American Southwest
Francisco de Orellana		16th	South America, Amazon River
Simone Orlandini		21st	Arctic, Tibet
Íñigo Órtiz de Retes		16th	Papua New Guinea
John Oxenham		16th	Panama, Pacific Ocean
John Oxley		19th	Australia^[9]
Pedro Páez		16th/17th	Ethiopia
Juan Pardo	Spanish	16th	Southeastern United States
Mungo Park		18th/19th	West Africa (Niger River)
William Parry		19th	Arctic
James Ohio Pattie		19th	Western United States
Fiann Paul	Icelandic	21st	Arctic, Antarctic, Oceans
Nathaniel Pearce		19th	Ethiopia
Robert Peary		19th/20th	Arctic
Paul Pelliot		19th/20th	central Asia
Diogo Fernandes Pereira		15th/16th	Madagascar, Mascarenes (Réunion, Mauritius, and Rodrigues)
Duarte Pacheco Pereira		15th	Atlantic Ocean, Brazil
Bartolomeu Perestrelo		15th	Madeira Islands
Juan Pérez		18th	Pacific Northwest
Maksim Perfilyev		17th	Eastern Siberia, first Russian to reach Transbaikalia
Ivan Petlin		17th	First Russian to reach China
Auguste Piccard		20th	Earth's atmosphere, the deep sea
Jacques Piccard		20th	the deep sea
Antonio Pigafetta		16th	Survived the 1st circumnavigation of the world
Zebulon Pike		19th	Louisiana Purchase (United States)
Alonso Alvarez de Pineda		16th	Gulf Coast
Fernão Mendes Pinto		16th	India, Far East, Japan
Serpa Pinto		19th	Southern Africa
Martin Alonzo Pinzón		15th	Caribbean
Vicente Yáñez Pinzón		15th/16th	Caribbean, Brazil
Luís Pires		15th	abortive voyage to Brazil
Francisco Pizarro		16th	Hispaniola, Panama, Peru
Fernão do Pó		15th	West African coast
Marco Polo		13th/14th	China, Mongol Empire, India
Juan Ponce de León		15th/16th	Florida
Peter Pond		18th/19th	Canada interior
Fedot Popov		17th	The first European expedition through the Bering Strait
António da Silva Porto	Portuguese	19th	Angola interior
Gaspar de Portolà		18th	Alta and Baja California
Posidonius		1st BC	Gaul
Sydney Possuelo		20th/21st
Panayotis Potagos		19th	Africa
Grigory Potanin		19th	Inner Asia
John Wesley Powell		19th	Western United States
Vassili Poyarkov		17th	First Russian explorer of the Amur region
Mandil Pradhan	Nepalese	21st	Himalayas
Gavriil Pribylov		18th	Pribilof Islands
Vasili Pronchishchev		18th	Great Northern Expedition
Maria Pronchishcheva		18th	The first female Arctic explorer
Nathaniel Hale Pryor		19th	western United States
Nikolai Przhevalsky		19th	Central Asia
Peter Puget		19th	Puget Sound
Pytheas		4th BC	Northern Europe
Zhang Qian	Chinese	2nd BC	Central Asia
Pedro Fernandes de Queirós		16th/17th	Oceania
Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada		16th	From Santa Marta to the Bogotá savanna quest for El Dorado
Hernán Pérez de Quesada		16th	Caquetá, Colombia; quest for El Dorado
Manuel Quimper		18th	Pacific Northwest
		19th/20th	Antarctica
John Rae		19th	Northwest Passage, Canada (Arctic)
Sir Walter Raleigh		16th/17th	Virginia, Orinoco River
Knud Rasmussen		20th	Arctic
Piri Reis		15th/16th	Mediterranean Sea
Matteo Ricci		16th	China
Mario Rigby		21st	Africa
Arthur Rimbaud		19th	Horn of Africa (Abyssinia)
Luigi Robecchi		19th	Africa
Anthony de la Roché		17th	Antarctic (South Georgia)
Diogo Rodrigues		16th	Mascarene Islands
Nicholas Roerich		20th	Central Asia, Northeast Asia
Jacob Roggeveen		18th	South Pacific (Easter Island)
Cândido Rondon		19th/20th	Brazilian interior (Amazon Basin)
James Clark Ross		19th	Arctic, Antarctic
Sir John Ross		19th	Arctic
John Ross		19th	Northern Territory
		13th	Central Asia
		19th	Sakhalin
Henry Russell		19th	Pyrenees
Ahmad ibn Rustah		10th	Russia, Scandinavia, Arabia
João de Sá	Portuguese	15th/16th	India, African coast
Álvaro de Saavedra		16th	Papua New Guinea, Caroline Islands, Marshall Islands
Edward Sabine		19th	Arctic
Sacagawea		18th/19th	Western United States
Anatoly Sagalevich		20th/21st	Explorer of the World Ocean, seabed at the North Pole
Kira Salak		20th/21st	Papua New Guinea, Mali, Bhutan
Alonso de Salazar		16th	Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean
Agustín Lizárraga	Peruvian	20th	Machu Picchu
Gadiel Sánchez Rivera	Peruvian	21st	Amazon, Lake Titicaca
Sándor Kőrösi Csoma		19th	Tibet
Yakov Sannikov		19th	New Siberian Islands
João de Santarém		15th	São Tomé and Príncipe islands
Gavril Sarychev		18th/19th	Sea of Okhotsk, Baltic Sea, Aleutian Islands
Martin Sauer		18th	Siberia, Alaska
Rabban Bar Sauma		13th	Europe, Middle East
Johann Schiltberger		15th	Central Asia
Adolf Schlagintweit		19th	Central Asia
Eduard Schlagintweit		19th	Central Asia
Emil Schlagintweit		19th	Central Asia
Hermann Schlagintweit		19th	Central Asia
Robert Schlagintweit		19th	Central Asia
Ulrich Schmidl	German	16th	Río de la Plata
Willem Schouten		17th	South Pacific (Cape Horn, Tonga Islands, Wallis and Futuna)
Georg August Schweinfurth		19th	East and Central Africa
Robert Falcon Scott		19th/20th	Antarctica (South Pole)
Scylax of Caryanda		6th BC	Indus River, Indian Ocean, Red Sea
Tibor Sekelj		20th	Argentina
Mirko and Stjepan Seljan		20th	Ethiopia, South America
Frederick Courtney Selous		19th	Africa
Symon Semeonis		14th	Jerusalem, Albania
Gomes de Sequeira		16th	Caroline Islands, Pacific Ocean
João Serrão		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		15th/16th	Indonesia
Ernest Shackleton		20th	Antarctica
Robert Barkley Shaw		19th	Central Asia
Eric Shipton		20th	Mount Everest, southern Patagonia
Tanaka Shōsuke		17th	Mexico
Diogo Silves		15th	Azores
James Simpson		20th	North Greenland
Pero de Sintra		15th	West African coast, Sierra Leone
Pierre-Jean De Smet		19th	North America
Jedediah Smith	American	19th	Western United States, Rocky Mountains
John Smith	English	17th	North America
William Smith		19th	South Shetland Islands
Eugene Smurgis	Russian	20th	Arctic Ocean
J. Dewey Soper		20th	Canadian Arctic
Hernando de Soto		16th	Central America, Southern United States
Martim Afonso de Sousa		16th	Brazilian interior
John Hanning Speke		19th	East Africa
Hans Staden		16th	Brazil
Ed Stafford		21st	Amazon
William Grant Stairs		19th	Central Africa
Henry Morton Stanley		19th	East Africa
Vilhjalmur Stefansson		20th	Canadian Arctic
Marc Aurel Stein		19th/20th	Central Asia
John Lloyd Stephens		19th	Middle East, Mesoamerica (Mayan remains)
Paweł Strzelecki^[10]		19th	the Americas, Australia (Gippsland)
John McDouall Stuart		19th	Australian Interior
Charles Sturt		19th	Australian Interior
Gardar Svavarsson		9th	Iceland
Anders Svedlund	Swedish	20th	Oceans
Otto Sverdrup		19th/20th	Arctic
Ignacije Szentmartony		18th	Amazon River
Abel Tasman		17th	Australasia, including Tasmania
António Raposo Tavares		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		17th	Persia, India
Mikhail Tebenkov		19th	Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Amur River
Pedro Teixeira		17th	Amazon River
Tristão Vaz Teixeira		15th	Madeira Islands
Wilfred Thesiger	English	20th	Africa, Middle East
David Thompson	Welsh–English	18th/19th	Western Canada, Pacific Northwest
Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir			11th	North America
Harold William Tilman	English		20th	Himalayas, Patagonia
Yermak Timofeyevich	Russian^[11]	16th	Siberia
Tenjiku Tokubei		17th	South East Asia, India
Eduard Toll		19th	Arctic
Luis Váez de Torres	Spanish Galician	16th/17th	Australasia
Nuno Tristão		15th	West African coast, Guinea-Bissau
Petrus Johannes Truter		19th	Bechuanaland
Hasekura Tsunenaga		17th	Mexico, Europe
Benjamin of Tudela		12th	Mediterranean Sea, Arabian Peninsula, Red Sea, Persian Gulf
Andrés de Urdaneta		16th	Pacific Ocean, Manila Galleon route
Jules Dumont d'Urville		19th	Antarctica
Cayetano Valdés y Flores		18th	Pacific Northwest
George Vancouver	English	18th	Pacific coast of North America^[12]
Ludovico di Varthema	Italian	15th/16th	Arabian Peninsula, Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia
Gonçalo Velho		15th	Azores
François de La Vérendrye		18th	Western Canada
Louis-Joseph Gaultier de La Vérendrye		18th	Great Plains
Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye		18th	Great Plains
Giovanni da Verrazzano		16th	East Coast of the United States
Amerigo Vespucci		15th/16th	Eastern South American coast, Caribbean
Flóki Vilgerðarson	Norse Viking	9th	Iceland
Ruy López de Villalobos		16th	Pacific Ocean, Philippines
Vandino and Ugolino Vivaldi	Italian	13th	Africa, in a failed attempt to reach India
Sebastián Vizcaíno		16th	Northwest Pacific, California Coast
Willem de Vlamingh		17th	Southwest Australian coast
Maarten Gerritsz Vries		17th	Northwest Pacific (Hokkaido, Sakhalin)
Lionel Wafer		17th	Malay Archipelago, Isthmus of Panama
Jean-Frédéric Waldeck		19th	Mesoamerica (Mayan remains)
Thomas Walker		18th	Eastern United States^[13]
Samuel Wallis		18th	First recorded visit to Tahiti
Gino Watkins		20th	East Greenland & Labrador
Langdon Warner		20th	the Silk Road
Alfred Wegener		20th	Greenland
		16th	Roanoke Island
Jim Whittaker		20th	Mount Everest, Antarctica
Frederick Whymper		19th	Alaska, Kamchatka, Yukon
Charles Wilkes		19th	Pacific Ocean
Edward Adrian Wilson		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		19th/20th	Eurasia
Fanny Bullock Workman	American	19th/20th	Himalaya
Ferdinand von Wrangel	Baltic German	19th	Northern Russia
Xuanzang		7th	Indian subcontinent, Central Asia
John Young		18th	Hawaii
Sir Francis Younghusband		19th/20th	Central Asia
Topa Inca Yupanqui	Inca	15th	Pacific
João Gonçalves Zarco		15th	Madeira Islands
Gonzalo García Zorro	Spanish	16th	Colombia
Karl Helbig	German	20th	Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Central America

See also

• 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
• List of maritime explorers
• 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

External links

• The Historyscoper – explorers

Notes and References

1. Web site: Travellers on the Silk Road before the year 1000 AD - Silk-Road.com. 14 June 2022. 11 April 2001. https://web.archive.org/web/20010411045209/http://www.silk-road.com/artl/srtravelmain.shtml/. live.
2. http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch618/Ibn_Battuta/Battuta's_Trip_Three.html Battuta's Travels: Part Three – Persia and Iraq
3. Web site: 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 . . 1790 . 6 July 2013 . 22 April 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090422153250/http://www.wdl.org/en/item/2547/ . live .
4. Giovanni Caboto.
5. Cristoforo Colombo.
6. Web site: The World of Ahmed Bey Hassanein. saharasafaris.org. 14 June 2022. 3 May 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210503143939/http://saharasafaris.org/hassaneinbey/. live.
7. [Kamchatka Peninsula|Kamchatka]
8. Web site: Sahara and Sudan: The Results of Six Years Travel in Africa . . 1879–1889 . 2 October 2013 . 3 May 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210503160659/https://www.wdl.org/en/item/7312/ . live .
9. [New South Wales]
10. Sir Paul de Strzelecki.
11. [Cossack]
12. [West Coast of the United States|U.S. Pacific Coast]
13. [Allegheny Mountains]