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The following is a list of explorers .
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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
Joseph Banks
British
18th
Newfoundland and Labrador , South Pacific
Giosafat Barbaro
Italian
15th
Black Sea , Near East
Pêro de Barcelos
Portuguese
15th/16th
North America
Willem Barentsz
Dutch
16th
Northeast Passage , Novaya Zemlya
Heinrich Barth
German
19th
Central and northern Africa
Robert Bartlett
Canadian
early 20th
Arctic
George Bass
Australian
18th
Australia
Henry Walter Bates
British
19th
Amazonia
Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta [1] [2]
Moroccan
14th
Africa , Central Asia , China , Europe , Indian subcontinent , Middle East , Russia , Southeast Asia
Nicolas Baudin
French
18th
Australia
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
Baltic German
19th
Antarctica
Joseph René Bellot
French
19th
Arctic
Móric Benyovszky
Hungarian
18th
northern Pacific Ocean
Vitus Bering
Danish
18th
northern Pacific Ocean
Hiram Bingham III
American
20th
Machu Picchu , Peru
Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra
Spanish
18th
Pacific Northwest
Vittorio Bottego
Italian
19th
Somalia
Pierre Savorgan de Brazza
Italian/French
19th
Congo
Saint Brendan
Irish
6th
Atlantic Ocean
Jim Bridger
American
19th
Western United States
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
Richard Francis Burton
British
19th
East Africa
José de Bustamante y Guerra
Spanish
18th
Pacific Ocean
Richard E. Byrd
American
20th
North Pole , Antarctica
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Name
Nationality
Century
Main area/s explored
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Spanish
16th
southwestern United States , Mexico , Argentina
John Cabot [3]
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 [4]
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
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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
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K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
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 [8]
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
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References
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