List of explorers

The following is a list of explorers.

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Name	Nationality	Century	Main area/s explored
William Adams	British	17th	Japan
Charles Albanel	French	17th	Canada
Afonso de Albuquerque	Portuguese	16th	India
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin	American	20th	the Moon
Pêro de Alenquer	Portuguese	15th	African coast
Benedict Allen	British	20th/21st	various
Diego de Almagro	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	Norwegian	early 20th	South Pole, Antarctica, Northwest Passage
António de Andrade	Portuguese	16th/17th	India, Tibet
Fernão Pires de Andrade	Portuguese	16th	China
Henryk Arctowski	Polish	20th	Antarctic, South America
Salomon August Andrée	Swedish	19th	Arctic
Roy Chapman Andrews	American	20th	China, Mongolia
Neil Armstrong	American	20th	the Moon (first man on the moon)
Väinö Auer	Finnish	20th	Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia
Diogo de Azambuja	Portuguese	15th	West African coast
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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 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 Italian/English 15th North American mainland (Canada) Pedro Álvares Cabral Portuguese 15th/16th Brazil, Madagascar João Rodrigues Cabrilho Portuguese 16th California Alvise Cadamosto Italian 15th Cape Verde islands René Caillé French 19th North Africa Álvaro Caminha Portuguese 15th São Tomé and Príncipe islands Pêro Vaz de Caminha Portuguese 15th Brazil 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 Juan Carrasco Spanish 18th Pacific Northwest Jan Carstensz Dutch 17th New Guinea coast, Gulf of Carpentaria Jacques Cartier French 16th St. Lawrence River René-Robert Cavelier French 17th Mississippi embayment Thomas Cavendish British 16th Virginia, Pacific coast of Central and South America Samuel de Champlain French 16th/17th Quebec, Great Lakes Jean Chardin French 17th Persia, India Fletcher Christian British 18th Polynesia 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 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 Francisco Vázquez 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 Miguel Côrte-Real Portuguese 16th 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 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 Isaac Davis British 18th Hawaii Adrien de Gerlache Belgian 19th/20th Antarctica, Arctic Pierre-Jean De Smet Belgian 19th North America Bartolomeu Dias Portuguese 15th Africa Dicuil Irish 8th England, Scotland Francis Drake British 16th Caribbean E Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored Gil Eanes Portuguese 15th northwest African coast Juan Sebastián Elcano Spain 16th completed Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation Francisco de Eliza Spain 18th Strait of Juan de Fuca and Strait of Georgia Erik the Red Viking 10th Greenland Leif Ericson Viking early 11th Vinland (Newfoundland) Pedro Escobar Portuguese 15th São Tomé and Príncipe islands Eudoxus of Cyzicus ancient Greek 2nd BCE Indian Ocean, attempted circumnavigation of Africa Euthymenes ancient Greek 6th BCE 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 Arab 10th Eastern Europe, Middle East, Russia, Scandinavia Edmund Fanning American 18th/19th Oceania Ibn Farrukh Andalusian 10th Atlantic Ocean, Canary islands Percy Harrison Fawcett British 20th Amazon Rainforest Sir Ranulph Fiennes British 20th/21st Arctic, Antarctica António Fernandes Portuguese 15th west African 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 Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne French 18th Oceania Louis de Freycinet French 19th western Australia, Oceania Martin Frobisher English 16th Northwest Passage, Canada Ioannis Fokas Greco-Spanish 16th Strait of Juan de Fuca, Canada – United States border Xu Fu Chinese 3rd century BC Japan Vivian Fuchs British 20th Antarctica G Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored Alfons Gabriel Austrian 20th Iran Dionisio Alcalá Galiano Spanish 18th Pacific Northwest Yuri Gagarin Russian 20th Earth orbit Juan Galindo mixed 19th Mesoamerica (Mayan remains) Estevão da Gama Portuguese 16th Indian Ocean 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) Francis Garnier French 19th Mekong River Pierre Gaultier de Varennes French Canadian 18th North American interior 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 James Augustus Grant British 19th eastern Africa João Grego Portuguese 15th African coast Juan de Grijalva Spanish 16th Mexico, Nicaragua Gonzalo Guerrero Spanish 16th Yucatán Peninsula Charles Gwynn British 19th/20th Sudan H Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored Hanno the Navigator Carthaginian 6th BCE west African coast Hannu ancient Egyptian (c.2750 BCE) eastern Africa Gonzalo López de Haro Spanish 18th Pacific Northwest Alfred Harrison English 20th Arctic Dirk Hartog Dutch 17th western Australian coast Ahmed Pasha Hassanein 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 Louis Hennepin Belgian/French 17th North American interior William Lewis Herndon American 19th Amazonia Bjarni Herjulfsson Viking 10th North America Thor Heyerdahl Norwegian 20th anthropological ocean voyages Sir Edmund Hillary New Zealand 20th Mount Everest, Antarctica Himilco the Navigator Carthaginian 6th BCE northwestern coast of Europe Hippalus ancient Greek 1st BCE Indian Ocean Clement Hodgkinson British 19th New South Wales (Australia) Emil Holub 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 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 Roberto Ivens Portuguese 19th African continent Helge Ingstad Norwegian 20th Newfoundland, Greenland, Alaska J Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored James of Ireland Irish 14th Sumatra China Willem Jansz Dutch 17th Australia (Queensland) Anthony Jenkinson British 16th Russia, Persia 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 Edmund Kennedy British/Australian 19th Australian interior Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad Andalusian 9th Atlantic Ocean (possibly Americas) Ferdinand Konščak Croatian 18th Baja California peninsula Pyotr Kozlov Russian early 20th Mongolia, Tibet L Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored 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 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 Dragutin Lerman Croatian 19th/20th Congo Meriwether Lewis American 18th/19th western United States St. George Littledale British 19th central Asia and North America David Livingstone British 19th southern and eastern Africa M Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored Alexander Mackenzie Canadian 18th/19th Canada Ferdinand Magellan Portuguese 15th/16th circumnavigation Alessandro Malaspina Italian-Spanish 18th Pacific Ocean 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 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 Archibald Menzies British 18th/19th Pacific Ocean, circumnavigation Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay Russian 19th New Guinea Thomas Mitchell British 19th Australian interior Richard Mohun American 19th/20th Congo Free State George Fletcher Moore Irish 19th Australia John Moresby British 19th New Guinea coast Henri Mouhot French 19th South East Asia Francisco Antonio Mourelle Spanish 18th Pacific Northwest and Pacific Ocean Joaquim Augusto Mouzinho de Albuquerque Portuguese 19th Mozambique N Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored Gustav Nachtigal German 19th Africa Fridtjof Nansen Norwegian 19th/20th Arctic José María Narváez Spanish 18th Pacific Northwest Nearchus ancient Greek 4th BCE Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf Nehsi ancient Egyptian 15th BCE Land of Punt 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 Finnish/Swedish 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 Nain Singh Rawat (Pundit Brothers) Indian 19th Tibet and Himalayas 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 John Oxley British early 19th Australia 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 Robert Peary American 19th/20th Arctic Paul Pelliot French 19th/20th central Asia Duarte Pacheco Pereira Portuguese 15th Atlantic Ocean, Brazil Bartolomeu Perestrelo Portuguese 15th Madeira Islands Juan Pérez Spanish 18th Pacific Northwest 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 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 African coast Marco Polo Venetian 13th/14th China, Mongol Empire Juan Ponce de León Spanish 15th/16th Florida Peter Pond American 18th/19th Canadian interior Gaspar de Portolà Spanish 18th Alta and Baja California Panayotis Potagos Greek 19th Africa John Wesley Powell American 19th western United States Gavriil Pribylov Russian 18th Pribilof Islands Nathaniel Hale Pryor American 19th western United States Nikolai Przhevalsky Russian 19th central Asia Pytheas ancient Greek 4th BCE northern Europe Q Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored Manuel Quimper Spanish 18th Pacific Northwest Pedro Fernandes de Queirós Portuguese 16th/17th Oceania R Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored John Rae British 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 Jacob Roggeveen Dutch 18th South Pacific (Easter Island) Diogo Rodrigues Portuguese 16th Mascarene Islands Cândido Rondon Brazilian 19th/20th Brazilian interior (Amazon Basin) James Clark Ross British 19th Arctic, Antarctic William of Rubruck Flemish 13th century Central Asia Henry Russell Irish 19th Pyrenees Ahmad ibn Rustah Persian 10th Russia, Scandinavia, Arabia S Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored Edward Sabine Irish 19th Arctic Kira Salak American 20th/21st century Papua New Guinea, Mali, Bhutan Sándor Kőrösi Csoma Hungarian early 19th Tibet João de Santarém Portuguese 15th São Tomé and Príncipe islands Rabban Bar Sauma Turco-Mongol 13th Europe, Middle East Johann Schiltberger German 15th Central Asia 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 British 19th/20th Antarctica (South Pole) Scylax of Caryanda ancient Greek 6th BCE Indus River, Indian Ocean, Red Sea Tibor Sekelj Croat 20th Argentina Mirko and Stjepan Seljan Croat early 20th Ethiopia, South America Symon Semeonis Hiberno-Norman 14th Jerusalem, Albania Alexandre de Serpa Pinto Portuguese 19th African continent Francisco Serrão Portuguese 16th century Indonesia Ernest Shackleton British early 20th Antarctica 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 eastern Africa Hans Staden German 16th Brazil Ed Stafford British 21st Amazon William Grant Stairs Canadian 19th central Africa Henry Morton Stanley British 19th eastern Africa Marc Aurel Stein Hungarian/British 19th/20th central Asia John Lloyd Stephens American 19th Middle East, Mesoamerica (Mayan remains) Paweł Strzelecki Polish/British 19th the Americas, Australia (Gippsland) John McDouall Stuart British Australian 19th Australian interior Charles Sturt British 19th Australian interior 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 Jean-Baptiste Tavernier French 17th Persia, India Pedro Teixeira Portuguese 17th Amazon River Tristão Vaz Teixeira Portuguese 15th Madeira Islands 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 16th Siberia Tenjiku Tokubei Japanese 17th South East Asia, India Luis Váez de Torres Spanish or Portuguese 16th/17th Australasia Nuno Tristão Portuguese 15th west African coast, Guinea-Bissau Hasekura Tsunenaga Japanese 17th Mexico, Europe U Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored Andrés de Urdaneta Spanish 16th 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 Pierre Gaultier de Varennes French Canadian 18th western Canada 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 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 Jean-Frédéric Waldeck French 19th Mesoamerica (Mayan remains) Thomas Walker British 18th eastern United States Wang Dayuan Chinese 14th Southeast Asia, Singapore Langdon Warner American early 20th the Silk Road Alfred Wegener German early 20th Greenland Charles Wilkes American 19th Pacific Ocean Harry de Windt French 19th/20th Eurasia Y Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored John Young British 18th Hawaii Sir Francis Younghusband British 19th/20th central Asia Yermak Timofeyevich Russian 16th Siberia Z Name Nationality Century Main area/s explored João Gonçalves Zarco Portuguese 15th Madeira Islands Zhang Qian Chinese 2nd BCE central Asia Xuanzang Chinese 7th Indian subcontinent, Central Asia Zheng He Chinese 15th South Asia, Southeast Asia, Middle East, East African coast See also Age of Discovery Astronaut/Cosmonaut International Space Station Bandeirantes Conquistador Exploration Exploration of Asia List of explorations List of maritime explorers List of Russian explorers Radhanites Silk Road Spice trade Trans-Saharan trade Travel literature References