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