Emil Racoviţă or Racovitza (1868–1947) — he traveled to Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, but most notably he is remembered for his research in Antarctica on board the ship Belgica; he was one of the world's foremost cave explorers, and the international founder for the science of biospelology (study of life in caves).
Bazil Assan (1860–1918) — from 1896 to 1897 he travelled and studied Lapland, the Arctic, Spitzbergen, discovering new islands; he later voyaged fully around the world and on his return, with the King of Romania's permission, boarded the NMS Elisabeta warship and took possession of certain unclaimed islands in the Pacific for Romania, but the project fell short for financial reasons.[citation needed]
Teodor Negoiţă (1947–2011) — polar-region explorer who, in 1995, became the first Romanian explorer who reached the North Pole; he ran the first permanent Romanian research-and-exploration station in Antarctica, the Law-Racoviță-Negoiță Station, which he established in 2006. Originally named Law-Racoviță Station, his name was added in 2011 in his honor after his death.
List of explorers born in Transylvania, Romania, but of other heritage than Romanian[edit]
Francisc Bidner (1824–1875) — of German origin and a prosperous pharmacist by profession, he traveled to Sudan and Congo, studying the Nile and Congo, being the first European to have visited some places; he filled the Brukenthal National Museum in Sibiu, Romania, with natural specimens but most notably with ethnographic pieces; he was the first European to see the Akka pigmies, while at a royal court; he also made studies of the gorillas; he is little-known as minimal literature has been preserved on him.
Florence Baker or Florica Sas (1826–1913) — of Hungarian (Szekely) origin, the wife of Sir Samuel White Baker, she was active with her expedition-leader husband in Africa as a full participant.
