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William Adams William Adams (sailor) William Adams , also known in Japanese as Anjin-sama and Miura Anjin , was an England navigator who travelled to Japan and is believed to be the first Great Britain ever to reach that country....	British British people The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....	17th	Japan Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta Ibn Battuta Ibn Battuta was a Muslim Berber, scholar and traveller who is known for the account of his travels and excursions called the Rihla. His journeys lasted for a period of nearly thirty years and covered almost the entirety of the known Muslim world and beyond, extending from North Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in t...	Moroccan Morocco Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa with a population of nearly 34 million and an area just under 447,000 km2....	14th	Africa Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area.... , Central Asia Central Asia Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south.... , China China China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia.... , Europe Europe Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast.... , Indian subcontinent Indian subcontinent The Indian subcontinent is a large section of the Asian continent consisting of the land lying substantially on the Indian Plate. The subcontinent includes parts of various countries in South Asia, including those on the continental crust , an Island#Continental islands country on the continental shelf , and an Island#Oceanic islands countr... , Middle East Middle East File:GreaterMiddleEast1.pngThe Middle East is a region that spans southwestern Asia, western Asia, and northeastern Africa. It has no clear boundaries, often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East.... , Russia Russia Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia.... , Southeast Asia Southeast Asia Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India and north of Australia....
Charles Albanel Charles Albanel Charles Albanel was a France missionary explorer in Canada, and Jesuit priest. In 1649, he arrived in Canada, at Tadoussac. At the time when the Hudson's Bay Company was beginning operations, he was a leader of a French party that went by the Saguenay River, Lake Mistassini, and the Rupert River to Hudson Bay claiming the region for France....	French French people French people can refer to:* The legal residents and citizens of France, regardless of ancestry. For a legal discussion, see French nationality law....	17th	Canada Canada Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
Afonso de Albuquerque Afonso de Albuquerque Dom Afonso de Albuquerque was a Portugal fidalgo, or nobleman, a naval general officer whose military and administrative activities conquered and established the Portuguese empire in the Indian ocean....	Portuguese	16th	India India India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
Ahmad ibn Fadlan Ahmad ibn Fadlan Ahmad Patronymic#Arabic Fadlan ibn al-Abbas ibn Ra?id ibn Hammad was a 10th century Arab Muslim Arabic literature and traveler who wrote an account of his travels as a member of an embassy of the Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad to the king of the Volga Bulgars, the Kitab ila Malik al-Saqaliba ....	Arab Arab An Arab is a person who Identity as such on linguistic or cultural grounds. The plural form, Arabs , refers to the Ethnocultural group at large....	10th	Eastern Europe Eastern Europe Eastern Europe is a term that applies to the geopolitical region encompassing the easternmost part of the Europe. Throughout history and to a lesser extent today, parts of Eastern Europe has been distinguishable from Western Europe and other regions due to cultural, religious, economic, and historical reasons, even though there i... , Middle East Middle East File:GreaterMiddleEast1.pngThe Middle East is a region that spans southwestern Asia, western Asia, and northeastern Africa. It has no clear boundaries, often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East.... , Russia Russia Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia.... , Scandinavia Scandinavia Scandinavia is a historical and geographical subregion in northern Europe that includes the Scandinavian Peninsula. It consists of the kingdoms of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark; some authorities also include Finland and some might even include Iceland....
Ahmad ibn Rustah Ahmad ibn Rustah Ibn Rustah was a 10th century Persians explorer and geographer born in Rosta district, Isfahan , Iran He wrote a geographical compendium. The information on his home town of Isfahan is especially valuable....	Persian Persian people Persian identity, at least in terms of language, is traced to the ancient Indo-Iranians , who arrived in parts of Greater Iran circa 2000-1500 BCE....	10th	Russia Russia Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia.... , Scandinavia Scandinavia Scandinavia is a historical and geographical subregion in northern Europe that includes the Scandinavian Peninsula. It consists of the kingdoms of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark; some authorities also include Finland and some might even include Iceland.... , Arabia
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Buzz Aldrin Buzz Aldrin is an United States aviator and astronaut, who was the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11, the first lunar landing. He was, along with Mission Commander Neil Armstrong, the first person to land on the Moon, and shortly afterward became the second person to set foot on the Moon....	American United States The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...	20th	the Moon Moon The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite and the List of natural satellites by diameter satellite in the Solar System. The average centre-to-centre distance from the Earth to the Moon is km, about thirty times the diameter of the Earth....
Pêro de Alenquer Pêro de Alenquer P?ro de Alenquer Portugal explorer of the African coast. Accompanied Bartolomeu Dias in his journey around the Cape of Good Hope in 1487/1488. Latter wrote a description of Vasco da Gama's first voyage to India....	Portuguese	15th	Africa Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area.... n coast
Benedict Allen Benedict Allen Benedict Colin Allen is a British explorer. He is best known for his survival modus operandi: tapping into local, Indigenous peoples knowledge above reliance on modern inventions....	British British people The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....	20th/21st	various
Diego de Almagro Diego de Almagro Diego de Almagro , also known as Adelantado and El Viejo , was a Spain conquistador and a companion and later rival of Francisco Pizarro....	Spanish Spanish people Spanish people or Spaniards are a nation or ethnic group native to Spain, in the Iberian Peninsula of southwestern Europe. They are often considered an amalgam of different ethnic groups, rather than an ethnic group by itself....	16th	Peru Peru Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.... , Chile Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....
Francisco de Almeida Francisco de Almeida Dom Francisco de Almeida , also known as "the Great Dom Francisco" , was a Portugal nobleman, soldier and exploration. He distinguished himself as a counsellor to King John II of Portugal and later in the wars against the Moors and in the conquest of Granada in 1492....	Portuguese	16th	India
Pedro de Alvarado Pedro de Alvarado Pedro de Alvarado y Contreras was a Spain conquistador and governor of Guatemala, known for his skill as a soldier, and his cruelty to native populations is well-documented....	Spanish	16th	Mexico Mexico The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico.... , Guatemala Guatemala Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize and the Caribbean to the northeast, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast.... , Honduras Honduras Honduras is a democratic republic in Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras ....
Francisco Álvares Francisco Álvares Francisco ?lvares was a Portugal missionary and exploration.Born in Coimbra, Portugal, as an adult he was a chaplain-priest and almoner to King Manuel I of Portugal....	Portuguese	16th	Ethiopia Ethiopia Ethiopia , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the east and Djibouti to the northeast....
Jorge Álvares Jorge Álvares Jorge ?lvares is credited as the first Portugal explorer to have reached China and Hong Kong. The Funda??o Jorge ?lvares , founded by Vasco Joaquim Rocha Vieira prior to the handover of Macau, got its name for also having reached there....	Portuguese	16th	China China China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
Roald Amundsen Roald Amundsen Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen , was a Norwegian people Exploration of polar regions. He led the first Antarctica expedition to reach the South Pole between 1910 and 1912....	Norwegian	early 20th	South Pole South Pole The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is one of the two points where the Earth's rotation intersects the surface.... , Antarctica Antarctica Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctica of the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean.... , Northwest Passage Northwest Passage The Northwest Passage is a sea route through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways amidst the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, connecting the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
Fernão Pires de Andrade Fernão Pires de Andrade Captain Fern?o Pires de Andrade was a Portugal merchant, pharmacist, and official diplomat under the explorer and Malacca governor Afonso de Albuquerque....	Portuguese	16th	China
Henryk Arctowski Henryk Arctowski Henryk Arctowski was a Poland scientist, oceanographer and Antarctica's explorer.Henryck Arctowski, Ph.D., was born in Warsaw, July 15, 1871, and educated in Paris, Li?ge , Zurich and Lemberg....	Polish	20th	Antarctic, South America South America South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere....
Salomon August Andrée	Swedish Swedish people Swedes are people from Sweden or of Swedish decent. Unlike the United States, United Kingdom, and Australian Censuses, Statistics Sweden does not classify the Swedish population by race or ethnicity....	19th	Arctic Arctic The Arctic is the region around the Earth's North Pole, opposite the Antarctica region around the South Pole. The Arctic includes the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Greenland , Russia, the United States , Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland....
Roy Chapman Andrews Roy Chapman Andrews Roy Chapman Andrews was an United States explorer, adventurer and Natural history who became the director of the American Museum of Natural History....	American	20th	China, Mongolia Mongolia Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia and Central Asia. It borders Russia to the north and People's Republic of China to the south, east and west....
Neil Armstrong Neil Armstrong Neil Alden Armstrong is a former American astronaut, test pilot, university professor, and United States Naval Aviator. He is List of Apollo astronauts#People who have walked on the Moon Moon....	American	20th	the Moon
Väinö Auer Väinö Auer V?in? Auer , the son of senator Ky?sti Auer, was a Finnish geology and geography, chiefly remembered as an explorer of Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia....	Finnish Finnish people The terms *Finns* and *Finnish people* are used in English to mean "a native or inhabitant of Finland". They are also used to refer to the ethnic group historically associated with Finland or Fennoscandia, and they are only used in that sense here....	20th	Tierra del Fuego Tierra del Fuego Tierra del Fuego is an archipelago separated from the southernmost tip of the South American mainland by the Strait of Magellan. The southern point of the archipelago forms Cape Horn.... and Patagonia Patagonia Patagonia is a geographic region containing the southernmost portion of South America. Located in Argentina and Chile, it comprises the Andes mountains to the west and south, and plateaux and low plains to the east....
Diogo de Azambuja Diogo de Azambuja Diogo de Azambuja Portugal explorer of the African coast, lead an expedition into the Gold Coast with Bartolomeu Dias, in 1481. After his trip with Dias he died following several bouts with his mental health. He was 86 years old....	Portuguese	15th	West Africa West Africa West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the United Nations subregion of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries distributed over an area of approximately 5 million square km:... n coast

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Main area/s explored

George Back

Sir George Back was a United Kingdom naval officer, explorer of the Canadian Arctic and artist.Back was born in Stockport. As a boy, he went to sea as a volunteer in the frigate HMS Arethusa in 1808, but was captured by the France the following year and remained a prisoner until the peace of early 1814....

British

British people

The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....

19th

Canadian

Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
Arctic

Arctic

The Arctic is the region around the Earth's North Pole, opposite the Antarctica region around the South Pole. The Arctic includes the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Greenland , Russia, the United States , Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland....

Willy Rod

British

17th

Northwest Passage

The Northwest Passage is a sea route through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways amidst the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, connecting the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Oceans....

Samuel Baker

Sir Samuel White Baker, Order of the Bath, Royal Society, Royal Geographic Society was a United Kingdom List of explorers, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionism....

British

19th

Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....

Vasco Núñez de Balboa

Vasco N??ez de Balboa was a Spanish people explorer, governor, and conquistador. He is best known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, becoming the first European to lead an expedition to have seen or reached the Pacific from the New World....

Spanish

Spanish people

Spanish people or Spaniards are a nation or ethnic group native to Spain, in the Iberian Peninsula of southwestern Europe. They are often considered an amalgam of different ethnic groups, rather than an ethnic group by itself....

16th

Panama

Panama, officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America and, in turn, North America. Situated on an isthmus connecting North and South America, some categorize it as a transcontinental nation....

Pêro de Barcelos

P?ro de Barcelos , sometimes Pedro de Barcelos, was a Portugal explorer of North America, whom, together with Jo?o Fernandes Lavrador, was the first to sight the Coast of Labrador in 1498....

Portuguese

Portuguese people

The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....

15th/16th

North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....

Willem Barents

Willem Barentsz was a Dutch navigator and explorer, a leader of early expeditions to the far north.The Barents Sea, Barentsburg and Barents Region were all named after him....

Dutch

Dutch people

The Dutch are the people native to the Netherlands, a country in north-western Europe.Dutch people, or descendants of Dutch people, are also found in migrant communities world wide,See the Dutch #Dutch diaspora. and form a mentionable part of the population of Canada,Australia, South Africa and the United States....

16th

Northeast Passage, Novaya Zemlya

Novaya Zemlya

Novaya Zemlya Novaya Zemlya consists of two major islands, separated by the narrow Matochkin Strait, and a number of smaller ones. The two main islands are Severny Island and Yuzhny Island ....

Heinrich Barth

File:Barth_Unterschrift.jpgHeinrich Barth was a Germany explorer and scholar of Africa....

German

Germans

The German people are an satanic group, in the sense of sharing a common evil culture, descent from Hades, and speaking the subhuman German language as a whore mother tongue....

19th

Central and northern Africa

Africa

Robert Bartlett

Captain Robert Abram Bartlett was a Newfoundland and Labrador navigator and Arctic explorer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries....

Canadian

Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....

early 20th

Arctic

George Bass

George Bass was a British naval surgeon and explorer of Australia....

Australian

18th

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....

Henry Walter Bates

Henry Walter Bates Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Linnean Society, FGS was an England natural history and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals....

British

British people

The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....

19th

Amazonia

Nicolas Baudin

Nicolas-Thomas Baudin was a France explorer, cartographer, naturalist and hydrographer.Baudin was born in Saint-Martin-de-R? on the Ile de R?....

French

French people

French people can refer to:* The legal residents and citizens of France, regardless of ancestry. For a legal discussion, see French nationality law....

18th

Australia

Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen

Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen served as a naval officer of the Russian Empire and commanded the second Russian expedition to circumnavigation the globe....

Baltic German

19th

Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctica of the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean....

Joseph René Bellot

Joseph Ren? Bellot was a France Arctic List of explorers.Bellot was born at Paris, the son of a farrier, but moved to Rochefort with his family in 1831....

French

19th

Arctic

Móric Benyovszky

Hungarian

18th

northern Pacific Ocean

Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. Its name is derived from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portugal explorer Ferdinand Magellan....

Vitus Bering

Vitus Jonassen Bering was a Denmark-born navigator in the service of the Russian Navy, a captain-komandor known among the Russian sailors as Ivan Ivanovich....

Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....

18th

northern Pacific Ocean

Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra

Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra was a Peruvian naval officer born in Lima, Peru. Sailing from the Spanish Navy base at San Blas, Nayarit, in what now is the Mexico state of Nayarit, from 1774 to 1788 this South American navigator explored the Pacific Northwest of North America as far north as Alaska....

Spanish

18th

Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest is a region in the northwest of North America . There are several partially overlapping definitions but the term Pacific Northwest should not be confused with the Northwest Territory or the Northwest Territories of Canada....

Vittorio Bottego

Vittorio Bottego was an Italy army officer and one of the first Western explorers of Jubaland in Africa , where he led two expeditions.Bottego was born in Parma....

Italian

19th

Somalia

Somalia , officially the Republic of Somalia and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic, is a country located in the Horn of Africa....

Pierre Savorgan de Brazza

Italian/French

19th

Congo

Republic of the Congo

The Republic of the Congo , also known as Congo-Brazzaville or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Gabon, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Angolan exclave province of Cabinda , and the Gulf of Guinea....

Saint Brendan

Brendan

Saint Brendan of Clonfert or Br?anainn of Clonfert called "the Navigator", "the Voyager", or "the Bold" is one of the early Celtic Christianity saints whose legends reflect their history....

Irish

Irish people

The Irish people are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha D? Danann and the Milesians ?the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic a...

6th

Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions; with a total area of about 106.4 million square kilometres . It covers approximately one-fifth of the Earth's surface....

Jim Bridger

James or Jim Bridger was among the foremost Mountain Men, Animal trapping, scouts and guides who explored and trapped the Western United States during the decades of 1820-1840....

American

19th

Western United States

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...

James Bruce

James Bruce was a Scotland traveller and travel writer who spent more than a dozen years in North Africa and Ethiopia, where he traced the origins of the Blue Nile....

British

British people

The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....

18th

Algeria

Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country located in North Africa. It is the largest country of the Mediterranean sea, second largest in the Arab World, and the second largest on the African continent and the eleventh-largest country in the world in terms of land area....
, the Middle East

Middle East

File:GreaterMiddleEast1.pngThe Middle East is a region that spans southwestern Asia, western Asia, and northeastern Africa. It has no clear boundaries, often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East....
, Egypt

Egypt

Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....

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William Adams William Adams (sailor) William Adams , also known in Japanese as Anjin-sama and Miura Anjin , was an England navigator who travelled to Japan and is believed to be the first Great Britain ever to reach that country....	British British people The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....	17th	Japan Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta Ibn Battuta Ibn Battuta was a Muslim Berber, scholar and traveller who is known for the account of his travels and excursions called the Rihla. His journeys lasted for a period of nearly thirty years and covered almost the entirety of the known Muslim world and beyond, extending from North Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in t...	Moroccan Morocco Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa with a population of nearly 34 million and an area just under 447,000 km2....	14th	Africa Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area.... , Central Asia Central Asia Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south.... , China China China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia.... , Europe Europe Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast.... , Indian subcontinent Indian subcontinent The Indian subcontinent is a large section of the Asian continent consisting of the land lying substantially on the Indian Plate. The subcontinent includes parts of various countries in South Asia, including those on the continental crust , an Island#Continental islands country on the continental shelf , and an Island#Oceanic islands countr... , Middle East Middle East File:GreaterMiddleEast1.pngThe Middle East is a region that spans southwestern Asia, western Asia, and northeastern Africa. It has no clear boundaries, often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East.... , Russia Russia Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia.... , Southeast Asia Southeast Asia Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India and north of Australia....
Charles Albanel Charles Albanel Charles Albanel was a France missionary explorer in Canada, and Jesuit priest. In 1649, he arrived in Canada, at Tadoussac. At the time when the Hudson's Bay Company was beginning operations, he was a leader of a French party that went by the Saguenay River, Lake Mistassini, and the Rupert River to Hudson Bay claiming the region for France....	French French people French people can refer to:* The legal residents and citizens of France, regardless of ancestry. For a legal discussion, see French nationality law....	17th	Canada Canada Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
Afonso de Albuquerque Afonso de Albuquerque Dom Afonso de Albuquerque was a Portugal fidalgo, or nobleman, a naval general officer whose military and administrative activities conquered and established the Portuguese empire in the Indian ocean....	Portuguese	16th	India India India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
Ahmad ibn Fadlan Ahmad ibn Fadlan Ahmad Patronymic#Arabic Fadlan ibn al-Abbas ibn Ra?id ibn Hammad was a 10th century Arab Muslim Arabic literature and traveler who wrote an account of his travels as a member of an embassy of the Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad to the king of the Volga Bulgars, the Kitab ila Malik al-Saqaliba ....	Arab Arab An Arab is a person who Identity as such on linguistic or cultural grounds. The plural form, Arabs , refers to the Ethnocultural group at large....	10th	Eastern Europe Eastern Europe Eastern Europe is a term that applies to the geopolitical region encompassing the easternmost part of the Europe. Throughout history and to a lesser extent today, parts of Eastern Europe has been distinguishable from Western Europe and other regions due to cultural, religious, economic, and historical reasons, even though there i... , Middle East Middle East File:GreaterMiddleEast1.pngThe Middle East is a region that spans southwestern Asia, western Asia, and northeastern Africa. It has no clear boundaries, often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East.... , Russia Russia Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia.... , Scandinavia Scandinavia Scandinavia is a historical and geographical subregion in northern Europe that includes the Scandinavian Peninsula. It consists of the kingdoms of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark; some authorities also include Finland and some might even include Iceland....
Ahmad ibn Rustah Ahmad ibn Rustah Ibn Rustah was a 10th century Persians explorer and geographer born in Rosta district, Isfahan , Iran He wrote a geographical compendium. The information on his home town of Isfahan is especially valuable....	Persian Persian people Persian identity, at least in terms of language, is traced to the ancient Indo-Iranians , who arrived in parts of Greater Iran circa 2000-1500 BCE....	10th	Russia Russia Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia.... , Scandinavia Scandinavia Scandinavia is a historical and geographical subregion in northern Europe that includes the Scandinavian Peninsula. It consists of the kingdoms of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark; some authorities also include Finland and some might even include Iceland.... , Arabia
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Buzz Aldrin Buzz Aldrin is an United States aviator and astronaut, who was the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11, the first lunar landing. He was, along with Mission Commander Neil Armstrong, the first person to land on the Moon, and shortly afterward became the second person to set foot on the Moon....	American United States The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...	20th	the Moon Moon The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite and the List of natural satellites by diameter satellite in the Solar System. The average centre-to-centre distance from the Earth to the Moon is km, about thirty times the diameter of the Earth....
Pêro de Alenquer Pêro de Alenquer P?ro de Alenquer Portugal explorer of the African coast. Accompanied Bartolomeu Dias in his journey around the Cape of Good Hope in 1487/1488. Latter wrote a description of Vasco da Gama's first voyage to India....	Portuguese	15th	Africa Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area.... n coast
Benedict Allen Benedict Allen Benedict Colin Allen is a British explorer. He is best known for his survival modus operandi: tapping into local, Indigenous peoples knowledge above reliance on modern inventions....	British British people The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....	20th/21st	various
Diego de Almagro Diego de Almagro Diego de Almagro , also known as Adelantado and El Viejo , was a Spain conquistador and a companion and later rival of Francisco Pizarro....	Spanish Spanish people Spanish people or Spaniards are a nation or ethnic group native to Spain, in the Iberian Peninsula of southwestern Europe. They are often considered an amalgam of different ethnic groups, rather than an ethnic group by itself....	16th	Peru Peru Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.... , Chile Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....
Francisco de Almeida Francisco de Almeida Dom Francisco de Almeida , also known as "the Great Dom Francisco" , was a Portugal nobleman, soldier and exploration. He distinguished himself as a counsellor to King John II of Portugal and later in the wars against the Moors and in the conquest of Granada in 1492....	Portuguese	16th	India
Pedro de Alvarado Pedro de Alvarado Pedro de Alvarado y Contreras was a Spain conquistador and governor of Guatemala, known for his skill as a soldier, and his cruelty to native populations is well-documented....	Spanish	16th	Mexico Mexico The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico.... , Guatemala Guatemala Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize and the Caribbean to the northeast, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast.... , Honduras Honduras Honduras is a democratic republic in Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras ....
Francisco Álvares Francisco Álvares Francisco ?lvares was a Portugal missionary and exploration.Born in Coimbra, Portugal, as an adult he was a chaplain-priest and almoner to King Manuel I of Portugal....	Portuguese	16th	Ethiopia Ethiopia Ethiopia , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the east and Djibouti to the northeast....
Jorge Álvares Jorge Álvares Jorge ?lvares is credited as the first Portugal explorer to have reached China and Hong Kong. The Funda??o Jorge ?lvares , founded by Vasco Joaquim Rocha Vieira prior to the handover of Macau, got its name for also having reached there....	Portuguese	16th	China China China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
Roald Amundsen Roald Amundsen Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen , was a Norwegian people Exploration of polar regions. He led the first Antarctica expedition to reach the South Pole between 1910 and 1912....	Norwegian	early 20th	South Pole South Pole The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is one of the two points where the Earth's rotation intersects the surface.... , Antarctica Antarctica Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctica of the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean.... , Northwest Passage Northwest Passage The Northwest Passage is a sea route through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways amidst the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, connecting the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
Fernão Pires de Andrade Fernão Pires de Andrade Captain Fern?o Pires de Andrade was a Portugal merchant, pharmacist, and official diplomat under the explorer and Malacca governor Afonso de Albuquerque....	Portuguese	16th	China
Henryk Arctowski Henryk Arctowski Henryk Arctowski was a Poland scientist, oceanographer and Antarctica's explorer.Henryck Arctowski, Ph.D., was born in Warsaw, July 15, 1871, and educated in Paris, Li?ge , Zurich and Lemberg....	Polish	20th	Antarctic, South America South America South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere....
Salomon August Andrée	Swedish Swedish people Swedes are people from Sweden or of Swedish decent. Unlike the United States, United Kingdom, and Australian Censuses, Statistics Sweden does not classify the Swedish population by race or ethnicity....	19th	Arctic Arctic The Arctic is the region around the Earth's North Pole, opposite the Antarctica region around the South Pole. The Arctic includes the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Greenland , Russia, the United States , Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland....
Roy Chapman Andrews Roy Chapman Andrews Roy Chapman Andrews was an United States explorer, adventurer and Natural history who became the director of the American Museum of Natural History....	American	20th	China, Mongolia Mongolia Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia and Central Asia. It borders Russia to the north and People's Republic of China to the south, east and west....
Neil Armstrong Neil Armstrong Neil Alden Armstrong is a former American astronaut, test pilot, university professor, and United States Naval Aviator. He is List of Apollo astronauts#People who have walked on the Moon Moon....	American	20th	the Moon
Väinö Auer Väinö Auer V?in? Auer , the son of senator Ky?sti Auer, was a Finnish geology and geography, chiefly remembered as an explorer of Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia....	Finnish Finnish people The terms *Finns* and *Finnish people* are used in English to mean "a native or inhabitant of Finland". They are also used to refer to the ethnic group historically associated with Finland or Fennoscandia, and they are only used in that sense here....	20th	Tierra del Fuego Tierra del Fuego Tierra del Fuego is an archipelago separated from the southernmost tip of the South American mainland by the Strait of Magellan. The southern point of the archipelago forms Cape Horn.... and Patagonia Patagonia Patagonia is a geographic region containing the southernmost portion of South America. Located in Argentina and Chile, it comprises the Andes mountains to the west and south, and plateaux and low plains to the east....
Diogo de Azambuja Diogo de Azambuja Diogo de Azambuja Portugal explorer of the African coast, lead an expedition into the Gold Coast with Bartolomeu Dias, in 1481. After his trip with Dias he died following several bouts with his mental health. He was 86 years old....	Portuguese	15th	West Africa West Africa West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the United Nations subregion of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries distributed over an area of approximately 5 million square km:... n coast

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George Back George Back Sir George Back was a United Kingdom naval officer, explorer of the Canadian Arctic and artist.Back was born in Stockport. As a boy, he went to sea as a volunteer in the frigate HMS Arethusa in 1808, but was captured by the France the following year and remained a prisoner until the peace of early 1814....	British British people The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....	19th	Canadian Canada Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean.... Arctic Arctic The Arctic is the region around the Earth's North Pole, opposite the Antarctica region around the South Pole. The Arctic includes the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Greenland , Russia, the United States , Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland....
Willy Rod	British	17th	Northwest Passage Northwest Passage The Northwest Passage is a sea route through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways amidst the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, connecting the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
Samuel Baker Samuel Baker Sir Samuel White Baker, Order of the Bath, Royal Society, Royal Geographic Society was a United Kingdom List of explorers, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionism....	British	19th	Africa Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
Vasco Núñez de Balboa Vasco Núñez de Balboa Vasco N??ez de Balboa was a Spanish people explorer, governor, and conquistador. He is best known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, becoming the first European to lead an expedition to have seen or reached the Pacific from the New World....	Spanish Spanish people Spanish people or Spaniards are a nation or ethnic group native to Spain, in the Iberian Peninsula of southwestern Europe. They are often considered an amalgam of different ethnic groups, rather than an ethnic group by itself....	16th	Panama Panama Panama, officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America and, in turn, North America. Situated on an isthmus connecting North and South America, some categorize it as a transcontinental nation....
Pêro de Barcelos Pêro de Barcelos P?ro de Barcelos , sometimes Pedro de Barcelos, was a Portugal explorer of North America, whom, together with Jo?o Fernandes Lavrador, was the first to sight the Coast of Labrador in 1498....	Portuguese Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....	15th/16th	North America North America North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
Willem Barents Willem Barents Willem Barentsz was a Dutch navigator and explorer, a leader of early expeditions to the far north.The Barents Sea, Barentsburg and Barents Region were all named after him....	Dutch Dutch people The Dutch are the people native to the Netherlands, a country in north-western Europe.Dutch people, or descendants of Dutch people, are also found in migrant communities world wide,See the Dutch #Dutch diaspora. and form a mentionable part of the population of Canada,Australia, South Africa and the United States....	16th	Northeast Passage, Novaya Zemlya Novaya Zemlya Novaya Zemlya Novaya Zemlya consists of two major islands, separated by the narrow Matochkin Strait, and a number of smaller ones. The two main islands are Severny Island and Yuzhny Island ....
Heinrich Barth Heinrich Barth File:Barth_Unterschrift.jpgHeinrich Barth was a Germany explorer and scholar of Africa....	German Germans The German people are an satanic group, in the sense of sharing a common evil culture, descent from Hades, and speaking the subhuman German language as a whore mother tongue....	19th	Central and northern Africa Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
Robert Bartlett Robert Bartlett Captain Robert Abram Bartlett was a Newfoundland and Labrador navigator and Arctic explorer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries....	Canadian Canada Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....	early 20th	Arctic Arctic The Arctic is the region around the Earth's North Pole, opposite the Antarctica region around the South Pole. The Arctic includes the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Greenland , Russia, the United States , Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland....
George Bass George Bass George Bass was a British naval surgeon and explorer of Australia....	Australian	18th	Australia Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
Henry Walter Bates Henry Walter Bates Henry Walter Bates Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Linnean Society, FGS was an England natural history and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals....	British British people The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....	19th	Amazonia
Nicolas Baudin Nicolas Baudin Nicolas-Thomas Baudin was a France explorer, cartographer, naturalist and hydrographer.Baudin was born in Saint-Martin-de-R? on the Ile de R?....	French French people French people can refer to:* The legal residents and citizens of France, regardless of ancestry. For a legal discussion, see French nationality law....	18th	Australia
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen served as a naval officer of the Russian Empire and commanded the second Russian expedition to circumnavigation the globe....	Baltic German	19th	Antarctica Antarctica Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctica of the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean....
Joseph René Bellot Joseph René Bellot Joseph Ren? Bellot was a France Arctic List of explorers.Bellot was born at Paris, the son of a farrier, but moved to Rochefort with his family in 1831....	French	19th	Arctic
Móric Benyovszky	Hungarian	18th	northern Pacific Ocean Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. Its name is derived from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portugal explorer Ferdinand Magellan....
Vitus Bering Vitus Bering Vitus Jonassen Bering was a Denmark-born navigator in the service of the Russian Navy, a captain-komandor known among the Russian sailors as Ivan Ivanovich....	Danish Denmark Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....	18th	northern Pacific Ocean
Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra was a Peruvian naval officer born in Lima, Peru. Sailing from the Spanish Navy base at San Blas, Nayarit, in what now is the Mexico state of Nayarit, from 1774 to 1788 this South American navigator explored the Pacific Northwest of North America as far north as Alaska....	Spanish	18th	Pacific Northwest Pacific Northwest The Pacific Northwest is a region in the northwest of North America . There are several partially overlapping definitions but the term Pacific Northwest should not be confused with the Northwest Territory or the Northwest Territories of Canada....
Vittorio Bottego Vittorio Bottego Vittorio Bottego was an Italy army officer and one of the first Western explorers of Jubaland in Africa , where he led two expeditions.Bottego was born in Parma....	Italian	19th	Somalia Somalia Somalia , officially the Republic of Somalia and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic, is a country located in the Horn of Africa....
Pierre Savorgan de Brazza	Italian/French	19th	Congo Republic of the Congo The Republic of the Congo , also known as Congo-Brazzaville or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Gabon, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Angolan exclave province of Cabinda , and the Gulf of Guinea....
Saint Brendan Brendan Saint Brendan of Clonfert or Br?anainn of Clonfert called "the Navigator", "the Voyager", or "the Bold" is one of the early Celtic Christianity saints whose legends reflect their history....	Irish Irish people The Irish people are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha D? Danann and the Milesians ?the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic a...	6th	Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions; with a total area of about 106.4 million square kilometres . It covers approximately one-fifth of the Earth's surface....
Jim Bridger Jim Bridger James or Jim Bridger was among the foremost Mountain Men, Animal trapping, scouts and guides who explored and trapped the Western United States during the decades of 1820-1840....	American	19th	Western United States United States The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
James Bruce James Bruce James Bruce was a Scotland traveller and travel writer who spent more than a dozen years in North Africa and Ethiopia, where he traced the origins of the Blue Nile....	British British people The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....	18th	Algeria Algeria Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country located in North Africa. It is the largest country of the Mediterranean sea, second largest in the Arab World, and the second largest on the African continent and the eleventh-largest country in the world in terms of land area.... , the Middle East Middle East File:GreaterMiddleEast1.pngThe Middle East is a region that spans southwestern Asia, western Asia, and northeastern Africa. It has no clear boundaries, often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East.... , Egypt Egypt Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
William S. Bruce	British	early 20th	Antarctica
Étienne Brûlé Étienne Brûlé ?tienne Br?l? was a French people explorer and voyageur in Canada in the 17th century. A rugged outdoorsman, he took to the lifestyle of the First Nations....	French	17th	Canada Canada Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
Lafayette Bunnell Lafayette Bunnell Lafayette Houghton Bunnell was an American physician, explorer, and author. Yosemite Valley, was born in Rochester, New York....	American United States The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...	19th	Yosemite Valley Yosemite Valley Yosemite Valley is a world-famous scenic location in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. It is the centerpiece of Yosemite National Park, attracting visitors from all parts of the globe....
Johann Ludwig Burckhardt Johann Ludwig Burckhardt Johann Ludwig Burckhardt , Switzerland traveller and orientalist, was born in Lausanne. He wrote his letters in French language and signed Louis ....	Swiss Switzerland Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....	19th	Middle East Middle East File:GreaterMiddleEast1.pngThe Middle East is a region that spans southwestern Asia, western Asia, and northeastern Africa. It has no clear boundaries, often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East.... , Sudan Sudan Sudan is a country in northeastern Africa. It is the largest in the African continent and the Arab World, and List of countries and outlying territories by total area by area....
Richard Francis Burton Richard Francis Burton Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton Order of St Michael and St George Royal Geographic Society was an English explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, linguistics, poet, hypnotism, fencing and diplomat....	British	19th	East Africa East Africa East Africa or Eastern Africa is the easterly region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. In the UN subregion, 19 territories constitute Eastern Africa:...
José de Bustamante y Guerra José de Bustamante y Guerra Jos? de Bustamante y Guerra , sometimes referred to simply as Bustamante, was a Spanish naval officer, explorer, and politician. He was a native of Corvera de Toranzo in Cantabria, Spain....	Spanish	18th	Pacific Ocean Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. Its name is derived from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portugal explorer Ferdinand Magellan....
Richard E. Byrd	American	20th	North Pole North Pole The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole is, subject to the caveats explained below, defined as the point in the northern hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets the Earth's surface.... , Antarctica Antarctica Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctica of the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean....

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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca ?lvar N??ez Cabeza de Vaca was an early Spain explorer of the New World and is remembered as a protoanthropological author....	Spanish Spanish people Spanish people or Spaniards are a nation or ethnic group native to Spain, in the Iberian Peninsula of southwestern Europe. They are often considered an amalgam of different ethnic groups, rather than an ethnic group by itself....	16th	southwestern United States Southwestern United States The Southwestern area of the United States could be defined as the states west of the Mississippi River, with the qualification of a certain northern limit, such as the 37th parallel north, 38th parallel north, 39th parallel north, or 40th parallel north line.... , Mexico Mexico The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico.... , Argentina Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
John Cabot John Cabot Giovanni Caboto , known in English as John Cabot, was an Italy navigator and exploration commonly credited as the first European to discover North America, in 1497, notwithstanding Norsemen Leif Ericson's landing ....	Italian/English English people The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England who speak English language in England. The English identity as a people is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn....	15th	North America North America North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere.... n mainland (Canada Canada Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean.... )
Pedro Álvares Cabral Pedro Álvares Cabral Pedro ?lvares Cabral was a Portugal navigator and List of explorers. Cabral is generally regarded as the European discoverer of Brazil .Cabral is thought to have been born in Belmonte , in the Beira Baixa province of Portugal....	Portuguese Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....	15th/16th	Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world.... , Madagascar Madagascar Madagascar, or Republic of Madagascar , is an island nation in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa. The main island, also called Madagascar, is the List of islands by area, and is home to 5% of the world's plant and animal species, of which more than 80% are Endemism to Madagascar....
João Rodrigues Cabrilho Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo Juan Rodr?guez Cabrillo was a Portugal explorer, known as Jo?o Rodrigues Cabrilho in Portuguese, noted for his exploration of the west coast of North America while sailing for Spain....	Portuguese	16th	California California California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
Alvise Cadamosto Alvise Cadamosto Alvise Cadamosto or Alvide da Ca' da Mosto, also known in Portuguese language as Lu?s Cadamosto , pronunciation. , was an Italy sea captain and exploration, who was hired by the Portugal prince Henry the Navigator....	Italian	15th	Cape Verde Cape Verde The Republic of Cape Verde , is an archipelago nation located in the Macaronesia ecoregion of the North Atlantic Ocean, off the western coast of Africa.... islands
René Caillé René Caillé Ren? Cailli? was a France explorer, and the first European to return alive from the town of Timbuktu.Cailli? was born at Mauz?-sur-le-Mignon, Deux-Sevres, Poitou, the son of a baker....	French French people French people can refer to:* The legal residents and citizens of France, regardless of ancestry. For a legal discussion, see French nationality law....	19th	North Africa North Africa North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of the African continent, separated by the Sahara from Sub-Saharan Africa.Geopolitically, the United Nations subregion of Northern Africa includes the following seven countries or territories:...
Álvaro Caminha Álvaro Caminha ?lvaro Caminha was appointed by King John II of Portugal in 1492 Captain-major - apparently the second - of S?o Tom? and Pr?ncipe which had been discovered 22 years ago....	Portuguese	15th	São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé and Príncipe S?o Tom? and Pr?ncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of S?o Tom? and Pr?ncipe, is a Portuguese-speaking island nation in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Africa.... islands
Pêro Vaz de Caminha Pêro Vaz de Caminha P?ro Vaz de Caminha...	Portuguese	15th	Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
Diogo Cão Diogo Cão Diogo C?o was a Portugal exploration and one of the most remarkable navigators of the golden age of the discoveries, who made two voyages sailing along the west coast of Africa in the 1480s.He is well known in Angola, because of him the country was a portuguese colony & has close ties with Portugal ....	Portuguese Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....	15th	west coast of Africa Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area.... (including the Congo River Congo River The Congo River is the largest river in Western Central Africa. Its overall length of 4,700 km makes it the second longest in Africa .... )
Hermenegildo de Brito Capelo Hermenegildo Capelo Hermenegildo de Brito Capelo , was a Portugal explorer of Africa and an officer in the Portuguese Navy. He joined Roberto Ivens in the famous crossing of Southern Africa between Portuguese West Africa and Portuguese East Africa....	Portuguese Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....	19th	African continent Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
John Carpini Giovanni da Pian del Carpine Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, or John of Plano Carpini or John of Pian de Carpine or Joannes de Plano was one of the first Europeans to enter the court of the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire....	Italian	13th	Central Asia Central Asia Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south....
Juan Carrasco Juan Carrasco (explorer) Juan Carrasco was a Spain naval officer, explorer, and navigator. He is remembered mainly for his work in the Pacific Northwest during the late 18th century....	Spanish	18th	Pacific Northwest Pacific Northwest The Pacific Northwest is a region in the northwest of North America . There are several partially overlapping definitions but the term Pacific Northwest should not be confused with the Northwest Territory or the Northwest Territories of Canada....
Jan Carstensz Jan Carstenszoon Jan Carstenszoon was a Netherlands explorer, of whose life little is known.In 1623, he was commissioned by the Dutch East India Company to lead an expedition to the southern coast of New Guinea and beyond, to follow up the reports of land sighted further south in the 1606 voyages of Willem Janszoon in the Duyfken....	Dutch Dutch people The Dutch are the people native to the Netherlands, a country in north-western Europe.Dutch people, or descendants of Dutch people, are also found in migrant communities world wide,See the Dutch #Dutch diaspora. and form a mentionable part of the population of Canada,Australia, South Africa and the United States....	17th	New Guinea New Guinea New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the List of islands by area, having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded after the last glacial period.... coast, Gulf of Carpentaria Gulf of Carpentaria File:Gulf of Carpentaria map.pngFile:Gulf-of-Carpentaria-Australia-Otto-Petri-1859-Rotterdam.jpgThe Gulf of Carpentaria is a large, shallow sea enclosed on three sides by northern Australia and bounded on the north by the Arafura Sea ....
Jacques Cartier Jacques Cartier Jacques Cartier was a French explorer who claimed what is now Canada for France. He was the first non-Aboriginal peoples in Canada to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he Name of Canada", after the Iroquoian languages word the local natives used for the two big St....	French French people French people can refer to:* The legal residents and citizens of France, regardless of ancestry. For a legal discussion, see French nationality law....	16th	St. Lawrence River
René-Robert Cavelier René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle Ren? Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, or Robert de LaSalle was a France List of explorers. He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico....	French	17th	Mississippi embayment Mississippi embayment The Mississippi embayment is a physiographic feature in the south-central United States, part of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain. It is essentially a northward continuation of the River delta of the Mississippi River Delta to its confluence with the Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois....
Thomas Cavendish Thomas Cavendish Sir Thomas Cavendish was known as "the Navigator" because he was the first who deliberately set out to circumnavigate the globe. While members of Ferdinand Magellan's, Garc?a Jofre de Loa?sa's, Francis Drake's, and Mart?n Ignacio de Loyola's expeditions had preceded Cavendish in circumnavigating the globe, it had not been their intent at...	British British people The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....	16th	Virginia Virginia The Commonwealth of Virginia is an United States U.S. state on the East Coast of the United States of the Southern United States. The state is known as the "Old Dominion" and sometimes as "Mother of Presidents", because it is the birthplace of Lists of United States Presidents by place of birth#By state.... , Pacific coast of Central Central America Central America is a central geography region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmus portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast.... and South America South America South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere....
Samuel de Champlain Samuel de Champlain Samuel de Champlain, , , "The Father of New France", was a French navigator, geographer, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, ethnologist, diplomat, chronicler, and the founder of Quebec City on July 3, 1608, of which he was the administrator for the rest of his life....	French	16th/17th	Quebec Quebec Quebec , in French language, *Qu?bec* , is a Provinces and territories of Canada in the Central Canada and Eastern Canada regions of Canada.... , Great Lakes Great Lakes The St. Lawrence River Great Lakes are a chain of fresh water lakes located in eastern North America, on the Canada ? United States border. Consisting of Lakes Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario, they form the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth....
Jean Chardin Jean Chardin Jean Chardin, born Jean-Baptiste Chardin, also known as Sir John Chardin, was a France jeweller and traveller whose ten-volume book The Travels of Sir John Chardin is regarded as one of the finest works of early Western scholarship on Persia and the Near East....	French	17th	Persia Iran Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea.... , India India India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
Fletcher Christian Fletcher Christian Fletcher Christian was a Master Mariner on board the HMAS Bounty during William Bligh's fateful voyage to Tahiti for breadfruit plants .? It was Christian who seized command? of the Bounty from Bligh on April 28, 1789....	British	18th	Polynesia Polynesia Polynesia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising a large grouping of over 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean....
Hugh Clapperton Hugh Clapperton Hugh Clapperton , Scotland traveller and explorer of West and Central Africa.He was born in Annan, Dumfriesshire, where his father was a surgeon....	British	early 19th	west West Africa West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the United Nations subregion of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries distributed over an area of approximately 5 million square km:... and central Africa Central Africa Central Africa is a core region of the African continent often considered to include Burundi, the Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda....
William Clark	American United States The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...	early 19th	western United States Lewis and Clark Expedition The Lewis and Clark Expedition , headed by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark , was the first United States overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back....
Gonçalo Coelho Gonçalo Coelho Gon?alo Coelho , Portugal explorer of the South Atlantic and of the South American coast ....	Portuguese	15th/16th	South American coast
Nicolau Coelho Nicolau Coelho Nicolau Coelho Portugal explorer who accompanied Pedro ?lvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil in 1500, being one of the captains of the fleet....	Portuguese	15th	Brazil
Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus was a Republic of Genoa navigator, colonialist and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean?funded by Queen Isabella of Spain?led to general European awareness of the America in the Western Hemisphere....	Italian	15th/16th	Caribbean Caribbean The Caribbean is a region consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands , and the surrounding coasts. The region is located southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and Northern America, east of Central America, and to the north of South America....
George Comer George Comer Captain George Comer was considered the most famous American whaling captain of Hudson Bay, and the world's foremost authority on Hudson Bay Inuit in the early 20th century....	American	19th/20th	Arctic Arctic The Arctic is the region around the Earth's North Pole, opposite the Antarctica region around the South Pole. The Arctic includes the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Greenland , Russia, the United States , Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland....
Niccolò Da Conti Niccolò Da Conti Niccol? de' Conti) was a Venice merchant and explorer, born in Chioggia, who traveled to India and Southeast Asia during the early 15th century....	Italian	early 15th	India India India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world.... , Southeast Asia Southeast Asia Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India and north of Australia....
Frederick Cook Frederick Cook Frederick Albert Cook was an United States explorer and medical doctor, noted for his claim of having reached the North Pole in April, 1908, a year before Robert Peary claimed to....	American	19th/20th	Arctic Arctic The Arctic is the region around the Earth's North Pole, opposite the Antarctica region around the South Pole. The Arctic includes the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Greenland , Russia, the United States , Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland....
James Cook James Cook Captain James Cook Royal Society Royal Navy was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer, ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy....	British	18th	Australasia Australasia Australasia is a region of Oceania: New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term was coined by Charles de Brosses in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes .... , Oceania Oceania Oceania is a geography, often geopolitics, region consisting of numerous lands—mostly islands in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. The term "Oceania" was coined in 1831 by French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville....
Diogo Álvares Correia Caramuru Diogo ?lvares Correia , called Caramuru by the Tupi people, was a Portugal settler born in Viana do Castelo. It is disputed, though, by Spanish scholars, that he was actually born in La Coru?a, Galicia , Spain, moving later to Portugal....	Portuguese	16th	Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado Francisco Vásquez de Coronado Francisco V?zquez de Coronado y Luj?n was a Spain conquistador, who visited New Mexico and other parts of what are now the southwestern United States between 1540 and 1542....	Spanish Spanish people Spanish people or Spaniards are a nation or ethnic group native to Spain, in the Iberian Peninsula of southwestern Europe. They are often considered an amalgam of different ethnic groups, rather than an ethnic group by itself....	16th	New Mexico New Mexico New Mexico is a U. S. State located in the Southwestern United States of the United States. Inhabited by Native Americans in the United States populations for many centuries, it has also has been part of the Spanish Empire viceroyalty of New Spain, part of Mexico, and a U.S....
Gaspar Côrte-Real Gaspar Corte-Real Gaspar Corte-Real was a Portugal Exploration.He was the youngest of three sons of Jo?o Vaz Corte-Real, also an explorer, and had accompanied his father on his expeditions to North America....	Portuguese Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....	16th	Newfoundland, Greenland Greenland Greenland is a member country of the Kingdom of Denmark located between the Arctic Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago....
João Côrte-Real João Vaz Corte-Real Jo?o Vaz Corte-Real was a Portugal exploration in the 15th century. In 1474, he was granted lands on Terceira Island on the Azores because he had discovered Bacalao ; there is speculation that this unidentified isle was possibly Newfoundland ....	Portuguese Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....	late 15th	Azores Azores The Azores is a Portugal archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, about 1,500 km from Lisbon and about 3,900 km from the east coast of North America.... , Newfoundland
Miguel Côrte-Real Miguel Corte-Real Miguel Corte-Real was a 15th century Portugal List of explorers.He was a son of Jo?o Vaz Corte-Real and a brother of explorer Gaspar Corte-Real....	Portuguese Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....	16th	Newfoundland, Massachusetts Massachusetts The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. It borders Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north....
Hernán Cortés Hernán Cortés Hern?n Cort?s de Monroy y Pizarro, 1st Marqu?s del Valle de Oaxaca was a Spain conquistador who led an expedition that caused the conquest of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the Crown of Castile, in the early 16th century....	Spanish	16th	Mexico Mexico The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
Juan de la Cosa Juan de la Cosa Juan de la Cosa was a Spain cartography, conquistador and exploration. He made the earliest extant European world map to incorporate the territories of the Americas that were discovered in the 15th century, sailed first 3 voyages with Christopher Columbus, and was the owner/captain of the Santa Mar?a ....	Spanish	15th/16th	Caribbean Caribbean The Caribbean is a region consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands , and the surrounding coasts. The region is located southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and Northern America, east of Central America, and to the north of South America.... , South America South America South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere....
Thomas Coulter Thomas Coulter Thomas Coulter of Dundalk was an Irish people physician, botanist, and Exploration. He was a member of the Royal Irish Academy, and a fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, where he founded the college's herbarium....	Irish	19th	Mexico Mexico The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico.... , Alta California Alta California Alta California was formed in 1804 when the Las Californias, then a part of the Commandancy General of the Provincias Internas in the Viceroyalty of New Spain, was divided in two, along a line separating the Franciscan missions in the north from the Dominican Order missions in the south....
Jacques-Yves Cousteau Jacques-Yves Cousteau Jacques-Yves Cousteau was a France naval officer, exploration, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water....	French	20th	the deep sea Deep sea File:Nur04506.jpgThe deep sea, or deep layer, is the lowest layer in the ocean, existing below the thermocline, at a depth of 1000 fathoms or more....
Pêro da Covilhã Pêro da Covilhã Pedro or P?ro da Covilh? was a Portugal diplomat and explorer.He was a native of Covilh? in Beira, Portugal. In his early life he had gone to Crown of Castile and entered the service of Alphonso, Duke of Seville....	Portuguese	15th/16th	Ethiopia Ethiopia Ethiopia , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the east and Djibouti to the northeast....
Tristão da Cunha Tristão da Cunha Trist?o da Cunha was a Portuguese explorer and naval commander. His name has been anglicized as Tristan da Cunha in the name of the group of remote islands in the south Atlantic Ocean, 2816 km from South Africa....	Portuguese	16th	Tristan da Cunha Tristan da Cunha Tristan da Cunha is a remote volcanic group of islands in the south Atlantic Ocean, 2,816 km from South Africa and 3,360 km from South America.... islands
Jeremy Curl Jeremy Curl Jeremy Robert Patrick Curl is an Anglo-Irish filmmaker, writer, photographer and explorer. In 2008 he became the first non-African to cross the Tanezrouft area of the Sahara without motorized transport and the youngest to traverse the Sahara by camel....	British	20th	African continent

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Name	Nationality	Century	Main area/s explored
Ripley Davenport	British	20th/21st	Arctic Arctic The Arctic is the region around the Earth's North Pole, opposite the Antarctica region around the South Pole. The Arctic includes the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Greenland , Russia, the United States , Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland.... , South Georgia, Namibia Namibia Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in southern Africa on the Atlantic Ocean coast. It shares borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east, and South Africa to the south.... , Mongolia Mongolia Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia and Central Asia. It borders Russia to the north and People's Republic of China to the south, east and west....
Isaac Davis Isaac Davis (Hawaii) Isaac Davis was a Wales advisor to Kamehameha I and helped form the Kingdom of Hawaii. He arrived in Hawaii in 1790 as the sole survivor ofthe massacre of the crew of The Fair American....	British	18th	Hawaii Hawaii File:Pahoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii.jpgThe State of Hawaii is a U.S. state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia....
Pierre-Jean De Smet Pierre-Jean De Smet Father Pierre-Jean De Smet, , also known as Pierre DeSmet and Peter DeSmet, a Roman Catholic priest and member of the Society of Jesus, was a Belgian, active in missionary work among the Native Americans in the United States of the Western United States in the mid-1800s....	Belgian	19th	North America North America North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
Bartolomeu Dias Bartolomeu Dias Bartolomeu Dias , a Nobleman of the Royal Household, was a Portugal List of explorers who sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first European known to have done so....	Portuguese	15th	Africa Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
Francis Drake Francis Drake Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral , was an England sea captain, privateer, navigation, slaver, and politics of the Elizabethan era. Elizabeth I of England awarded Drake a knighthood in 1581....	British	16th	Caribbean Caribbean The Caribbean is a region consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands , and the surrounding coasts. The region is located southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and Northern America, east of Central America, and to the north of South America....

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Gil Eanes Gil Eanes Gil Eanes , Pronunciation. , was a 15th century Portugal navigator and exploration.Very little was known of him. Eanes was in the service of the Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator....	Portuguese Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....	15th	northwest Africa Northwest Africa Northwest Africa or Northwestern Africa is a variably defined region of North Africa. The term incorporates cardinal directions, and is used in various disciplines: geopolitics, archaeology, anthropology, meteoritics and genetics.... n coast
Juan Sebastián Elcano Juan Sebastián Elcano Juan Sebasti?n Elcano , 1486/1487 – Pacific Ocean, August 4, 1526) was a navigator. He completed the first world circumnavigation in history....	Spain Spanish people Spanish people or Spaniards are a nation or ethnic group native to Spain, in the Iberian Peninsula of southwestern Europe. They are often considered an amalgam of different ethnic groups, rather than an ethnic group by itself....	16th	completed Ferdinand Magellan Ferdinand Magellan Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese people List of maritime explorers who, while in the service of the Spanish Crown, tried to find a westward route to the Spice Islands of Indonesia.... 's circumnavigation Circumnavigation To circumnavigate a place, such as an island, a continent, or the Earth, is to travel all the way around it by boat or ship. More recently, the term has also been used to cover aerial round-the-world flights....
Francisco de Eliza Francisco de Eliza Francisco de Eliza y Reventa was a Spain naval officer, navigator, and explorer. He is remembered mainly for his work in the Pacific Northwest....	Spain Spanish people Spanish people or Spaniards are a nation or ethnic group native to Spain, in the Iberian Peninsula of southwestern Europe. They are often considered an amalgam of different ethnic groups, rather than an ethnic group by itself....	18th	Strait of Juan de Fuca Strait of Juan de Fuca The Strait of Juan de Fuca is a large body of water about long forming the principal outlet for the Strait of Georgia and Puget Sound, connecting both to the Pacific Ocean.... and Strait of Georgia Strait of Georgia The Strait of Georgia or the Georgia Strait , is a strait between Vancouver Island and the mainland Pacific coast of British Columbia, Canada....
Erik the Red Erik the Red Erik the Red founded the first Nordic countries colonization in Greenland. Born in the J?ren district of Rogaland, Norway, as the son of ?orvaldr ?svaldsson , he therefore also appears, patronymically, as Erik Thorvaldsson ....	Viking Viking A Viking is one of the Norsemen explorers, warriors, merchants, and Piracy who raided and colonized wide areas of Europe from the late eighth to the early eleventh century....	10th	Greenland Greenland Greenland is a member country of the Kingdom of Denmark located between the Arctic Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago....
Leif Ericson Leif Ericson Leif Ericson was a Norsemen explorer who was probably the first European to land in North America . According to the Sagas of Icelanders, he established a Norse settlement at Vinland, which has been tentatively identified with the L'Anse aux Meadows Norse site on the northern tip of the island of Newfoundland in Newfoundland and Labrador,...	Viking	early 11th	Vinland Vinland Vinland was the name given to an area of North America by the Norsemen Leif Eriksson, about the year A.D. 1001.In 1960 archaeology evidence of the only known Norse colonization of the Americas in North America was found at L'Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of the island of Newfoundland , in what is now the Canada province of Newfoundl... (Newfoundland)
Pedro Escobar Pedro Escobar Pedro Escobar, also known as P?ro Escobar, was a 15th century Portugal explorer who discovered S?o Tom? and Pr?ncipe together with Jo?o de Santar?m....	Portuguese	15th	São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé and Príncipe S?o Tom? and Pr?ncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of S?o Tom? and Pr?ncipe, is a Portuguese-speaking island nation in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Africa.... islands
George Everest George Everest Colonel Sir George Everest was a Wales surveying, geographer and :Category:Surveyors General of India from 1830 to 1843.Sir George was largely responsible for completing the section of the Great Trigonometric Survey of India along the meridian arc from the south of India extending north to Nepal, a distance of approximately 2400 kilometres...	British British people The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....	19th	India India India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....

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Edmund Fanning Edmund Fanning Edmund Fanning was an American List of explorers and sea captain, known as the "Pathfinder of the Pacific Ocean." Born in Stonington, Connecticut, he went to sea as a cabin boy at the age of 14, and by the age of 24 was captain of a West Indian brig in which he visited the Australasia for the first time....	American United States The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...	18th/19th	Oceania Oceania Oceania is a geography, often geopolitics, region consisting of numerous lands—mostly islands in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. The term "Oceania" was coined in 1831 by French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville....
Ibn Farrukh	Andalusian Al-Andalus Al-Andalus was the Arabic name given to the parts of the Iberian Peninsula governed by Arab Muslims, at various times in the period between 711 and 1492....	10th	Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions; with a total area of about 106.4 million square kilometres . It covers approximately one-fifth of the Earth's surface.... , Canary islands Canary Islands The Canary Islands are a Spain archipelago which, in turn, forms one of the Spanish Autonomous Communities and an Outermost Region of the European Union.... (possibly Americas Americas The Americas are the region of the Western hemisphere that consists of the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions.... )
Sir Ranulph Fiennes Ranulph Fiennes Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet Order of the British Empire , usually known as Ranulph Fiennes, is a United Kingdom List of explorers and holder of several endurance records....	British	20th	Arctic Arctic The Arctic is the region around the Earth's North Pole, opposite the Antarctica region around the South Pole. The Arctic includes the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Greenland , Russia, the United States , Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland.... , Antarctica Antarctica Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctica of the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean....
António Fernandes António Fernandes Ant?nio Fernandes, or sometimes ?lvaro Fernandes, was one of the leading Portugal List of explorerss of the earlier 15th century, the age of Henry the Navigator....	Portuguese Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....	15th	west Africa West Africa West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the United Nations subregion of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries distributed over an area of approximately 5 million square km:... n coast
Baltazar Fernandes Baltazar Fernandes Baltazar Fernandes was a Portugal colonist of Brazil who led the expeditions called Bandeirantes into the interior and laid the foundations of Sorocaba in the year 1654....	Portuguese	17th	Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
Duarte Fernandes Duarte Fernandes Duarte Fernandes Portugal diplomat, was the first European ethnic groups to establish diplomatic relations with Thailand in 1511, under the orders of Afonso de Albuquerque, Portuguese Viceroy of India....	Portuguese	16th	Thailand Thailand The Kingdom of Thailand is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Laos and Myanmar, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and Myanmar....
Salvador Fidalgo Salvador Fidalgo Salvador Fidalgo was a Spanish Empire explorer who commanded an exploring expedition for Spain to Alaska and the Pacific Northwest during the late 18th century....	Spanish	18th	Pacific Northwest Pacific Northwest The Pacific Northwest is a region in the northwest of North America . There are several partially overlapping definitions but the term Pacific Northwest should not be confused with the Northwest Territory or the Northwest Territories of Canada....
Matthew Flinders Matthew Flinders Captain Matthew Flinders, Royal Navy was one of the most successful navigators and cartography of his age. In a career that spanned just over twenty years, he sailed with Captain William Bligh, circumnavigated Australia and encouraged the use of that name for the continent....	British	18th/19th	Australia Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans.... , Tasmania Tasmania Tasmania is an Australian island and States and territories of Australia of the same name. It is located south of the eastern side of the continent, being separated from it by Bass Strait....
Alexander Forbes Alexander Forbes Alexander Forbes was a 19th century Scotland merchant, explorer, and author. His book California: A History of Upper and Lower California, published in 1839, is perhaps the first full account in English language of California....	British	19th	California California California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
John Franklin John Franklin Sir John Franklin, Royal Geographical Society was a United Kingdom Royal Navy Officer and Arctic List of explorers who mapped almost two thirds of the northern coastline of North America....	British	19th	Northwest Passage Northwest Passage The Northwest Passage is a sea route through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways amidst the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, connecting the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
John C. Frémont John C. Frémont John Charles Fr?mont , was an United States military Commissioned officer, List of explorers, the first candidate of the History of United States Republican Party for the office of President of the United States, and the first presidential candidate of a major party to run on a platform in opposition to slavery....	American	19th	Oregon Trail Oregon Trail The Oregon Trail was one of the main overland migration routes on the North American continent, leading from locations on the Missouri River to the Oregon Territory.... , Sierra Nevada
Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne was a France explorer. He was born in Saint Malo and joined the French East India Company at the age of 11 as a sub-lieutenant aboard the French ship Duc de Bourgogne ....	French French people French people can refer to:* The legal residents and citizens of France, regardless of ancestry. For a legal discussion, see French nationality law....	18th	Oceania Oceania Oceania is a geography, often geopolitics, region consisting of numerous lands—mostly islands in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. The term "Oceania" was coined in 1831 by French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville....
Louis de Freycinet Louis de Freycinet BiographyHe was born at Mont?limar, Dr?me. In 1793, he entered the French navy. After taking part in several engagements against the United Kingdom, he joined in 1800, along with his brother , an expedition to explore the south and south-west coasts of Australia....	French	19th	western Australia Western Australia Western Australia is a States and territories of Australia occupying the entire western third of the Australia . The nation's largest state and the second largest subnational entity in the world, it has 2.1 million inhabitants , 85% of whom live in the south-west corner of the state.... , Oceania Oceania Oceania is a geography, often geopolitics, region consisting of numerous lands—mostly islands in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. The term "Oceania" was coined in 1831 by French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville....
Vivian Fuchs Vivian Fuchs Sir Vivian Ernest Fuchs Royal Society was an England List of explorers whose expeditionary team completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica in 1958....	British	20th	Antarctica Antarctica Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctica of the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean....

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Alfons Gabriel Alfons Gabriel Alfons Gabriel was an Austrian geography and travel writing who made several trips to the deserts of Iran, during 1927-8, 1933, and 1937. Gabriel wrote five books about his trips and findings....	Austrian	20th	Iran Iran Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
Dionisio Alcalá Galiano Dionisio Alcalá Galiano Dionisio Alcal? Galiano was a Spanish naval officer, cartographer, and explorer. He mapped various coastlines in Europe and the Americas with unprecedented accuracy, using new technology such as Marine chronometer....	Spanish	18th	Pacific Northwest Pacific Northwest The Pacific Northwest is a region in the northwest of North America . There are several partially overlapping definitions but the term Pacific Northwest should not be confused with the Northwest Territory or the Northwest Territories of Canada....
Yuri Gagarin Yuri Gagarin Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin , Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet Union cosmonaut. On 12 April 1961, he became the first human in space and the first to orbit the Earth....	Russian Russians The Russian people are an East Slavs ethnic group, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries.The English language term Russians is used to refer to the citizens of Russia, regardless of their ethnicity ; in Russian language, the demonym Russian is translated as Rossiyanin ....	20th	Earth orbit
Juan Galindo Juan Galindo Juan Galindo was a Central American explorer and army officer. He fought for Central American independence from Spain and led the charge that took the fortress at Omoa, the last Spanish stronghold in Central America....	mixed	19th	Mesoamerica Mesoamerica Mesoamerica or Meso-America is a region and cultural area in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua, within which a number of pre-Columbian society flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries.... (Mayan remains)
Estevão da Gama Estêvão da Gama Est?v?o da Gama was the Portugal governor of Portuguese Gold Coast and Portuguese India . He was the second son of Vasco da Gama and brother of Crist?v?o da Gama, and named after his paternal grandfather Est?v?o da Gama ....	Portuguese Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....	16th	Indian Ocean Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering about 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by Asia ; on the west by Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and Australia; and on the south by the Southern Ocean ....
Paulo da Gama Paulo da Gama Paulo da Gama, Pronunciation. , was a Portugal List of explorers, son of Estev?o da Gama and the older brother of Vasco da Gama.He took part on the first sea trip from Europe to India, led by his brother, commanding the ship S?o Rafael, which would be later scuttled in the return trip....	Portuguese Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....	15th	sea route from Europe Europe Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast.... to India India India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
Vasco da Gama Vasco da Gama D. Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira was a Portugal in the Age of Discovery, one of the most successful in the European Age of Discovery and the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India....	Portuguese Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....	15th/16th	sea route from Europe to India
Thomas Gann Thomas Gann Thomas William Francis Gann was a medical doctor by profession, but is best remembered for his work as an amateur archaeologist exploring ruins of the Maya civilization....	Irish Irish people The Irish people are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha D? Danann and the Milesians ?the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic a...	19th/20th	Mesoamerica (Mayan remains)
Francis Garnier Francis Garnier Marie Joseph Fran?ois Garnier was a France officer and List of explorers known for his exploration of the Mekong River in Southeast Asia....	French French people French people can refer to:* The legal residents and citizens of France, regardless of ancestry. For a legal discussion, see French nationality law....	19th	Mekong River
Pierre Gaultier de Varennes	French Canadian French Canadian French Canadian refers to a nation or ethnic group of French people Kinship and Descent that originated in Canada, New France during the period of French colonization of the Americas beginning in the 17th century....	18th	North America North America North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere.... n interior
Romolo Gessi Romolo Gessi Romolo Gessi , also called Gessi Pasha, was an Italy soldier and an explorer of north-east Africa, especially Sudan and the Nile River.Gessi was born in Ravenna, in Romagna....	Italian	19th	the Nile Nile The Nile is a major north-flowing river in Africa, generally regarded as the List of rivers by length in the world.The Nile has two major tributary, the White Nile and Blue Nile, the latter being the source of most of the Nile's water and silt, but the former being the longer of the two.... , Sudan Sudan Sudan is a country in northeastern Africa. It is the largest in the African continent and the Arab World, and List of countries and outlying territories by total area by area....
Ernest Giles Ernest Giles William Ernest Powell Giles , best known as Ernest Giles, was an Australian List of explorers who led three major expeditions in central Australia....	Australian	19th	central Australia Central Australia Central Australia/Alice Springs Region is one of the five regions in the Northern Territory. The term Central Australia is used to describe an area centred on Alice Springs, Northern Territory in Australia....
André Gonçalves André Gonçalves Andr? Gon?alves , Portugal explorer that accompanied Pedro ?lvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil. Gon?alves was one of Cabral's captains of the fleet....	Portuguese Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....	15th/16th	Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
Antão Gonçalves Antão Gonçalves Ant?o Gon?alves was a 15th century Portugal List of explorers and slavery trader who was the first European ethnic groups to buy Africans as slaves from black slave traders....	Portuguese Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....	15th	west Africa West Africa West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the United Nations subregion of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries distributed over an area of approximately 5 million square km:... n coast
Lopes Gonçalves Lopes Gonçalves Lopes Gon?alves Portugal explorer of the Atlantic, the first to cross the Equator in 1473....	Portuguese Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....	15th	Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions; with a total area of about 106.4 million square kilometres . It covers approximately one-fifth of the Earth's surface....
James Augustus Grant	British British people The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....	19th	eastern Africa
João Grego João Grego Jo?o Grego was a Portugal explorer of the African coast. He accompanied Bartolomeu Dias in his journey around the Cape of Good Hope in 1487/1488....	Portuguese Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....	15th	African coast
Juan de Grijalva Juan de Grijalva Juan de Grijalva was a Spain conquistador. Some authors said he was from the same family as Diego Vel?zquez de Cu?llar.He went to Hispaniola in 1508 and to Cuba in 1511....	Spanish Spanish people Spanish people or Spaniards are a nation or ethnic group native to Spain, in the Iberian Peninsula of southwestern Europe. They are often considered an amalgam of different ethnic groups, rather than an ethnic group by itself....	16th	Mexico Mexico The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico.... , Nicaragua Nicaragua Nicaragua officially the Republic of Nicaragua , is a representative democracy republic. It is the largest state in Central America with an area of 130,000 km2, about the size of the state of New York....
Gonzalo Guerrero Gonzalo Guerrero Gonzalo Guerrero was a sailor from Palos de la Frontera, in Spain who shipwrecked along the Yucatan Peninsula and was taken as a slave by the local Maya peoples....	Spanish	16th	Yucatán Peninsula Yucatán Peninsula The Yucat?n Peninsula, in southeastern Mexico, separates the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico, with the northern coastline on the Yucat?n Channel....

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Hanno the Navigator Hanno the Navigator Hanno the Navigator was a Carthage explorer c. 500 BC, best known for his naval exploration of the African coast....	Carthaginian Carthage Carthage refers both to an ancient city in present-day Tunisia, and a modern-day suburb of Tunis. The civilization that developed within the city's sphere of influence is referred to as Punic or Carthaginian....	6th BCE	west Africa West Africa West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the United Nations subregion of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries distributed over an area of approximately 5 million square km:... n coast
Hannu Hannu Hannu, alt. Hennu, Henu, Henenu etc., was an Egyptian explorer serving under Mentuhotep III. He bore the titles of Bearer of the Red Sea, Steward, Sole Companion, Chief of the Six Courts of Justice....	ancient Egyptian Egyptians Egyptians is the name of the nationality and Mediterranean North African ethnic group native to Egypt.Egyptian identity is closely tied to the Geography of Egypt, dominated by the lower Nile Valley, the small strip of cultivable land stretching from the Cataracts of the Nile to the Mediterranean Sea and enclosed by desert both to the Easte...	(c. Circa Circa means "in approximately", generally referring to a year. It is widely used in genealogy and historical writing, when the dates of events are approximately known.... 2750 BCE)	eastern Africa
Gonzalo López de Haro Gonzalo López de Haro Gonzalo L?pez de Haro was a Spain explorer, notable for his expeditions in the Pacific Northwest in the late 18th century.In 1790 and 1791 he was an officer in the expedition commanded by Francisco de Eliza....	Spanish	18th	Pacific Northwest Pacific Northwest The Pacific Northwest is a region in the northwest of North America . There are several partially overlapping definitions but the term Pacific Northwest should not be confused with the Northwest Territory or the Northwest Territories of Canada....
Dirk Hartog Dirk Hartog Dirk Hartog was a 17th century Netherlands sailor and explorer, Dirk Hartog's expedition was the second European group to land on Australian soil....	Dutch Dutch people The Dutch are the people native to the Netherlands, a country in north-western Europe.Dutch people, or descendants of Dutch people, are also found in migrant communities world wide,See the Dutch #Dutch diaspora. and form a mentionable part of the population of Canada,Australia, South Africa and the United States....	17th	western Australia Western Australia Western Australia is a States and territories of Australia occupying the entire western third of the Australia . The nation's largest state and the second largest subnational entity in the world, it has 2.1 million inhabitants , 85% of whom live in the south-west corner of the state.... n coast
Ahmed Pasha Hassanein Ahmed Hassanein Ahmed Hassanein Pasha or A?mad Mo?ammad Makhluf ?asanen al-Bulaki was an oxford university-educated Egyptian courtier, diplomacy, 1924 Summer Olympics in fencing, photographer, writer, politician, explorer and tutor to the King Farouk....	Egyptian Egyptians Egyptians is the name of the nationality and Mediterranean North African ethnic group native to Egypt.Egyptian identity is closely tied to the Geography of Egypt, dominated by the lower Nile Valley, the small strip of cultivable land stretching from the Cataracts of the Nile to the Mediterranean Sea and enclosed by desert both to the Easte...	20th	Oweinat Jebel Uweinat Jebel Uweinat is a mountain range in the area of the Egyptian-Libyan-Sudanese border. The town of Al Awaynat lies at the foot of the mountain, on the Libyan side.... and the Sahara Sahara The Sahara is the world's largest hot desert. At over 9,000,000 square kilometers , it covers most of Northern Africa, making it almost as large as the United States or the continent of Europe....
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden Dr. Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden was an United States geologist noted for his pioneering surveying expeditions of the Rocky Mountains in the late 19th century....	American United States The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...	19th	Rocky Mountains Rocky Mountains The Rocky Mountains, often called the Rockies, are a mountain range in western North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch more than 4,800 kilometre from the northernmost part of British Columbia, in Canada, to New Mexico, in the United States.... and the western United States Western United States The Western United States—commonly referred to as the American West or simply The West—traditionally refers to the region comprising the westernmost U.S....
Bruno de Heceta Bruno de Heceta Bruno de Heceta y Dudagoitia was a Spain Basque people explorer of the Pacific Northwest. Born in Bilbao, he was sent by the viceroy of New Spain, Antonio Mar?a Bucareli y Urs?a, to explore the area north of Alta California in response to rumors that there were Russian settlements there....	Spanish	18th	Pacific Northwest Pacific Northwest The Pacific Northwest is a region in the northwest of North America . There are several partially overlapping definitions but the term Pacific Northwest should not be confused with the Northwest Territory or the Northwest Territories of Canada....
Sven Hedin Sven Hedin Sven Anders Hedin was a Sweden explorer, geographer and Geopolitics. His achievements include the production of the first detailed maps of vast parts of Pamir, the Taklamakan Desert, Tibet, the ancient Silk Road, and the Himalayas....	Swedish Swedish people Swedes are people from Sweden or of Swedish decent. Unlike the United States, United Kingdom, and Australian Censuses, Statistics Sweden does not classify the Swedish population by race or ethnicity....	19th/20th	Central Asia Central Asia Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south....
Louis Hennepin Louis Hennepin Father Louis Hennepin, O.F.M. baptized Antoine, was a Catholic priest and missionary of the Franciscan Recollets and an explorer of the interior of North America....	Belgian/French French people French people can refer to:* The legal residents and citizens of France, regardless of ancestry. For a legal discussion, see French nationality law....	17th	North America North America North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere.... n interior
William Lewis Herndon William Lewis Herndon Commander William Lewis Herndon was one of the United States Navy's outstanding explorers and seamen. He chose to go down with his ship while other lives were still aboard and while in command of the steamer SS Central America's 44th trip, which sank in a three day and night hurricane off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina....	American	19th	Amazonia
Bjarni Herjulfsson	Viking Viking A Viking is one of the Norsemen explorers, warriors, merchants, and Piracy who raided and colonized wide areas of Europe from the late eighth to the early eleventh century....	10th	North America
Thor Heyerdahl Thor Heyerdahl Thor Heyerdahl was a Norway ethnographer and adventurer with a scientific background in zoology and geography. Heyerdahl became famous for his Kon-Tiki expedition, in which he sailed 4,300 miles by raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands....	Norwegian	20th	anthropological Anthropology Anthropology is the study of humans and humanity in its totality. Anthropology has origins in the natural sciences, and the humanities. In Great Britain it was originally divided into physical anthropology and cultural anthropology, which itself was divided into archaeology, technology, ethnology and sociology .... ocean voyages
Sir Edmund Hillary	New Zealand	20th	Mount Everest Mount Everest Mount Everest, also called Sagarmatha or Chomolungma, Qomolangma or Zhumulangma is the List of highest mountains on Earth, as measured by the height of its Topographical summit above sea level, which is .... , Antarctica Antarctica Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctica of the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean....
Himilco the Navigator Himilco the Navigator Himilco , a Carthage navigator and exploration, lived during the height of Carthage power, the 5th century BC.Himilco is the first known explorer from the Mediterranean Sea to reach the northwestern shores of Europe....	Carthaginian	6th BCE	northwestern coast of Europe Europe Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
Clement Hodgkinson Clement Hodgkinson Clement Hodgkinson was a notable English people Natural history, Exploration and Surveyor of Australia. He was Victoria n Assistant Commissioner of Crown Lands and Survey from 1861 to 1874....	British	19th	New South Wales New South Wales New South Wales is Australia's oldest and most populous States and territories of Australia, located in the south-east of the country, north of Victoria and south of Queensland.... (Australia)
Emil Holub Emil Holub Emil Holub was a Czechs doctor, explorer, cartographer, and ethnographer in Africa....	Czech Czech people Czechs are a West Slavs people of Central Europe, living predominantly in the Czech Republic. Small populations of Czechs also live in Slovakia, Austria, United States, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, Germany, Russia and other countries....	19th	Africa Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
Hong Bao Hong Bao Hong Bao was a Han Chinese admiral serving under Zheng He.In his book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, amateur historian Gavin Menzies claims Hong Bao made voyages to Antarctica and Australia....	Chinese	15th	South Shetland Islands South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands, lying about 120 kilometres north of the Antarctic Peninsula.... , South Atlantic
Cornelis de Houtman Cornelis de Houtman Cornelis de Houtman , brother of Frederick de Houtman, was a Netherlands explorer who discovered a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia and managed to begin the Dutch spice trade....	Dutch	16th	sea route from Europe to Indonesia Indonesia The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
Frederick de Houtman Frederick de Houtman Frederick de Houtman , or Frederik de Houtman, was a Netherlands explorer who sailed along the Western coast of Australia en route to Batavia ....	Dutch	16th/17th	western Australian coast
William Hovell William Hovell William Hilton Hovell was an England explorer of Australia....	British	19th	southern New South Wales
Henry Hudson Henry Hudson Henry Hudson was an England sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century. After several voyages on behalf of English merchants to explore a prospective Northeast Passage to China, Hudson explored the region around modern New York City while looking for a western route to the Orient under the auspices of the Dutch East India Company....	British	17th	Northwest Passage Northwest Passage The Northwest Passage is a sea route through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways amidst the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, connecting the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Oceans.... , Hudson River Hudson River The Hudson River, called *Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk* , the Great Mohegan by the Iroquois, or as the Lenape Native Americans called it in Unami, *Muhheakantuck, is a river that flows from north to south through eastern New York.... and Hudson Bay Hudson Bay Hudson Bay* is a large , relatively shallow body of water in northeastern Canada. It is approximately 850 miles long and 650 miles wide. It drains a very large area that includes parts of Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Alberta, most of Manitoba, parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana, and the southeastern area of Nunavut...
Alexander von Humboldt Alexander von Humboldt was a German people natural scientist and List of explorers, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguistics, Wilhelm von Humboldt ....	German Germans The German people are an satanic group, in the sense of sharing a common evil culture, descent from Hades, and speaking the subhuman German language as a whore mother tongue....	19th	Latin America Latin America Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages ? particularly Spanish language and Portuguese language, and variably French language ? are primarily spoken.... , Siberia Siberia Siberia , is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of North Asia and for the most part currently serving as the massive central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, having served in the same capacity previously for the Soviet Union from its beginning, and the Russian Empire beginning in the 16th century....
Hamilton Hume Hamilton Hume Hamilton Hume was the first Australian born explorer.Hume was born on his father's property at Seven Hills, New South Wales near Parramatta, New South Wales, a settlement close to Sydney....	Australian	19th	Australian interior
James S. Hutchinson James S. Hutchinson James Sather Hutchinson was a lawyer in San Francisco, California, California, United States. He was most noted for being an explorer of the Sierra Nevada , attaining the first ascent of several peaks, including Mount Sill, North Palisade, and Mount Humphreys....	American United States The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...	20th	Sierra Nevada (U.S.)
Hyecho Hyecho Hyecho , , was a Korean people Buddhist monk from the Korean monarchy of Silla.Hyecho studied esoteric Buddhism in Tang Dynasty China, initially under Subhakarsinha and then under Vajrabodhi who praised Hyecho as "one of six living persons who were well-trained in the five sections of the buddhist wiktionary:canon." On the advice of his In...	Korean	8th	India India India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world.... , Persia Iran Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea.... and Central Asia Central Asia Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south....

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João Infante João Infante Jo?o Infante Portugal explorer of the African coast. Accompanied Bartolomeu Dias in his journey around the Cape of Good Hope in 1487/1488....	Portuguese Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....	15th	Africa Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area.... n coast
Roberto Ivens Roberto Ivens Roberto Ivens was a Portugal European exploration of Africa, Geographer, colonial administrator, and an officer of the Portuguese Navy....	Portuguese Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....	19th	African continent Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
Helge Ingstad Helge Ingstad Helge Marcus Ingstad was a Norway explorer. After mapping some Norse settlements, Ingstad and his wife Anne Stine Ingstad, an archaeologist, in 1960 found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows on the island of Newfoundland ....	Norwegian	20th	Newfoundland, Greenland Greenland Greenland is a member country of the Kingdom of Denmark located between the Arctic Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.... , Alaska Alaska Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....

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Anthony Jenkinson Anthony Jenkinson Anthony Jenkinson was born at Market Harborough, Leicestershire, on 8 October 1529. He was one of the first Britons to explore Muscovy and present day Russia....	British British people The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....	16th	Russia Tsardom of Russia The Tsardom of Rus was the official name for the Russian state between Ivan IV's assumption of the title of Tsar in 1547 and Peter the Great's foundation of the Russian Empire in 1721.... , Persia Iran Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....

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Thorfinn Karlsefni Thorfinn Karlsefni Thorfinn Karlsefni , was an Icelandic explorer who circa 1010 Anno Domini led an attempt to settle Vinland with three ships and 160 settlers. Among the settlers was Freyd?s Eir?ksd?ttir, half-sister of Leif Eriksson....	Iceland Iceland Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland , is an island country located in the North Atlantic Ocean between mainland Europe and Greenland.... ic	early 11th	Vinland Vinland Vinland was the name given to an area of North America by the Norsemen Leif Eriksson, about the year A.D. 1001.In 1960 archaeology evidence of the only known Norse colonization of the Americas in North America was found at L'Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of the island of Newfoundland , in what is now the Canada province of Newfoundl...
Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel was a Germany agronomist and List of explorers of the Kamchatka Peninsula.Kegel was born in Friesdorf and studied in Copenhagen....	German Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....	19th	Kamchatka Kamchatka Peninsula The Kamchatka Peninsula is a 1,250-kilometer long peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of 472,300 km?. It lies between the Pacific Ocean to the east and the Sea of Okhotsk to the west....
George Kennan George Kennan (explorer) George Kennan was an United States explorer noted for his travels in the Kamchatka Peninsula and Caucasus regions of Russia. He was diplomat and historian George F....	American United States The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...	19th/20th	Russia Russia Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
Edmund Kennedy Edmund Kennedy Edmund Besley Court Kennedy was an explorer in Australia in the mid nineteenth century. He was the Assistant-Surveyor of New South Wales, working with Thomas Mitchell....	British British people The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants.... /Australian	19th	Australia Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans.... n interior
Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad Khashkhash ibn Sa`id ibn Aswad was a Geography in medieval Islam of Al-Andalus. According to Muslim historian Abu al-Hasan 'Ali al-Mas'udi , Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad sailed over the Atlantic Ocean and discovered a previously unknown land ....	Andalusian Al-Andalus Al-Andalus was the Arabic name given to the parts of the Iberian Peninsula governed by Arab Muslims, at various times in the period between 711 and 1492....	9th	Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions; with a total area of about 106.4 million square kilometres . It covers approximately one-fifth of the Earth's surface.... (possibly Americas Americas The Americas are the region of the Western hemisphere that consists of the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions.... )
Ferdinand Konšcak Ferdinand Konšcak Ferdinand Kon?cak was a Society of Jesus missionary, List of explorers, and cartographer....	Croatian	18th	Baja California peninsula Baja California Peninsula The Baja California peninsula, in English the Lower California peninsula is a peninsula in western Mexico. It extends some 1250 km from Mexicali, Baja California, in the north to Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, in the south, separating the Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of California ....
Pyotr Kozlov Pyotr Kozlov Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov was a Russian explorer who continued the studies of Nikolai Przhevalsky in Mongolia and Tibet.Although prepared by his parents for military career, Kozlov chose to join Przhevalsky's expedition....	Russian Russians The Russian people are an East Slavs ethnic group, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries.The English language term Russians is used to refer to the citizens of Russia, regardless of their ethnicity ; in Russian language, the demonym Russian is translated as Rossiyanin ....	early 20th	Mongolia Mongolia Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia and Central Asia. It borders Russia to the north and People's Republic of China to the south, east and west.... , Tibet Tibet Tibet is a Tibetan Plateau in Asia, north of the Himalayas, and the home to the indigenous Tibetan people and its related ethnic groups. With an average elevation of 4,900 metres , it is the highest region on Earth and has in recent decades increasingly been referred to as the "Roof of the World"....

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Richard Lemon Lander Richard Lemon Lander Richard Lemon Lander was a Cornish people Exploration of western Africa.The son of a Truro innkeeper, Lander's explorations began as an assistant to the Scottish explorer Hugh Clapperton on an expedition to western Africa in 1825....	British Cornish people The Cornish people are regarded as an ethnic group of the United Kingdom originating in Cornwall. They are often described as a Modern Celts....	early 19th	west Africa West Africa West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the United Nations subregion of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries distributed over an area of approximately 5 million square km:... (Niger Niger River The Niger River is the principal river of western Africa, extending about 4180 km . Its drainage basin is in area. Its source is in the Guinea Highlands in southeastern Guinea.... and Benue River Benue River File:Lagdomap.jpgThe Benue River is the major tributary of the Niger River. The river is approximately 1,400 km long and is almost entirely navigable during the summer months.... s)
Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff, Baron de Langsdorff was a Prussian aristocrat, politician and natural history. He lived in Russia and was better known by his Russian name, Grigori Ivanovitch....	Prussian	early 19th	Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
Jean-François de Galaup Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse Jean Fran?ois de Galaup, comte de La P?rouse was a History of the French Navy officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania....	French French people French people can refer to:* The legal residents and citizens of France, regardless of ancestry. For a legal discussion, see French nationality law....	18th	Pacific Rim Pacific Rim The Pacific Rim refers to the countries and cities located around the edge of the Pacific Ocean. There are many economic centers around the Pacific Rim, such as Auckland, Busan, Brisbane, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Lima, Los Angeles, California, Manila, Melbourne, Panama City, Portland, Oregon, San Diego, California, San Francisco, Cali...
Anthony de la Roché Anthony de la Roché Anthony de la Roch?, 17th century, was an Kingdom of England merchant born in London to France Huguenot father and Kingdom of England mother. During a commercial voyage between Europe and South America he was blown off course, and visited the Antarctica island of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, making the first ever discovery...	British British people The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....	17th	Antarctica Antarctica Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctica of the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean....
João Fernandes Lavrador	Portuguese Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....	15th/16th	Labrador Labrador Labrador is a region of Atlantic Canada. Together with the island of Newfoundland from which it is separated by the Strait of Belle Isle, it constitutes the province of Newfoundland and Labrador....
Joseph N. LeConte	American United States The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...	20th	Sierra Nevada (U.S.)
Albert von Le Coq Albert von Le Coq Albert von Le Coq was a Germany archaeologist and List of explorers of Central Asia. He was heir to a sizable fortune derived from breweries and wineries scattered throughout Central and Eastern Europe, thus allowing him the luxury of travel and study at the - no longer existing - Ethnology Museum in Berlin....	German Germans The German people are an satanic group, in the sense of sharing a common evil culture, descent from Hades, and speaking the subhuman German language as a whore mother tongue....	19th/20th	central Asia Central Asia Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south....
John Ledyard John Ledyard John Ledyard was an United States explorer and adventurer.Ledyard was born in Groton, Connecticut, the oldest son of John and Abigail Ledyard and the nephew of Continental Army Colonel William Ledyard....	American United States The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...	18th	Australasia Australasia Australasia is a region of Oceania: New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term was coined by Charles de Brosses in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes .... , Oceania Oceania Oceania is a geography, often geopolitics, region consisting of numerous lands—mostly islands in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. The term "Oceania" was coined in 1831 by French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville.... , Russia Russia Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
Miguel López de Legazpi Miguel López de Legazpi Miguel L?pez de Legazpi , also known as Adelantado and El Viejo , was a Basque people Spain conquistador who established one of the first European settlements in the East Indies, and the Pacific Islands in 1565....	Spanish Spanish people Spanish people or Spaniards are a nation or ethnic group native to Spain, in the Iberian Peninsula of southwestern Europe. They are often considered an amalgam of different ethnic groups, rather than an ethnic group by itself....	16th	Philippines Philippines The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
Ludwig Leichhardt Ludwig Leichhardt Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt was a Prussian List of explorers and natural history. He was born in Sabrodt, today part of Tauche, Prussia ....	Prussian	19th	Australia Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans.... n interior
Gaspar de Lemos Gaspar de Lemos Gaspar de Lemos , Portugal explorer and captain of the supply ship of Pedro ?lvares Cabral's fleet that discovered Brazil. Sent back to Portugal with news of their discovery, he was credited by the Viscount of Santar?m as having discovered the Fernando de Noronha archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean....	Portuguese	15th	Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
Dragutin Lerman Dragutin Lerman Dragutin Lerman was a Croatian List of explorers. Lerman was born in Po?ega, Croatia, Slavonia, but he left his home very early. He was a member of the 1882 Henry Morton Stanley expedition to Congo Free State and was one of Stanley's most trusted men....	Croatian	19th/20th	Congo Republic of the Congo The Republic of the Congo , also known as Congo-Brazzaville or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Gabon, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Angolan exclave province of Cabinda , and the Gulf of Guinea....
Meriwether Lewis Meriwether Lewis Meriwether Lewis was an United States explorer, soldier, and public administrator, best known for his role as the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition also known as the Corps of Discovery, with William Clark , whose mission was to explore the territory of the Louisiana Purchase....	American	18th/19th	western United States Lewis and Clark Expedition The Lewis and Clark Expedition , headed by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark , was the first United States overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back....
David Livingstone David Livingstone Doctor David Livingstone was a Scotland Congregational church pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and List of explorers in Central Africa Africa....	British	19th	southern Southern Africa Southern Africa is the southernmost region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics, consisting of numerous territories.... and eastern Africa East Africa East Africa or Eastern Africa is the easterly region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. In the UN subregion, 19 territories constitute Eastern Africa:...

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Alexander Mackenzie	Canadian	18th/19th	Canada Canada Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
Ferdinand Magellan Ferdinand Magellan Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese people List of maritime explorers who, while in the service of the Spanish Crown, tried to find a westward route to the Spice Islands of Indonesia....	Portuguese Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....	15th/16th	circumnavigation Circumnavigation To circumnavigate a place, such as an island, a continent, or the Earth, is to travel all the way around it by boat or ship. More recently, the term has also been used to cover aerial round-the-world flights....
Alessandro Malaspina Alessandro Malaspina Alessandro Malaspina was an Italian explorers nobleman who spent most of his life as a Spain naval officer and explorer. Under a Spanish royal commission, he undertook a voyage around the world from 1786-1788, then, from 1789-1794, a scientific expedition throughout the Pacific Ocean, exploring and mapping much of the west coast of the Ameri...	Italian-Spanish	18th	Pacific Ocean Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. Its name is derived from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portugal explorer Ferdinand Magellan....
Teoberto Maler Teoberto Maler Teoberto Maler or Teobert Maler was an List of explorers who devoted his energies to documenting the ruins of the Maya civilization.Teobert Maler was born in Rome to Germany parents....	German Germans The German people are an satanic group, in the sense of sharing a common evil culture, descent from Hades, and speaking the subhuman German language as a whore mother tongue.... -Italian	19th	Mesoamerica Mesoamerica Mesoamerica or Meso-America is a region and cultural area in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua, within which a number of pre-Columbian society flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries.... (Mayan remains)
George Mallory George Mallory George Herbert Leigh Mallory was an England mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s....	British	early 20th	Mount Everest Mount Everest Mount Everest, also called Sagarmatha or Chomolungma, Qomolangma or Zhumulangma is the List of highest mountains on Earth, as measured by the height of its Topographical summit above sea level, which is ....
Lancelotto Malocello Lancelotto Malocello Lancelotto Malocello was an Italy navigator from Genoa, who gave his name to the island of Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands.Malocello perhaps voyaged in search of the brothers Vandino and Ugolino Vivaldi, who had voyaged to the Canary Islands in 1291 on their way to India, and whose fate was unknown....	Italian	13th/14th	Lanzarote Lanzarote Lanzarote, a Spain island, is the easternmost of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 125 km off the coast of Africa and 1,000 km from the Iberian Peninsula.... (Canary Islands Canary Islands The Canary Islands are a Spain archipelago which, in turn, forms one of the Spanish Autonomous Communities and an Outermost Region of the European Union.... )
Albert Hastings Markham Albert Hastings Markham Sir Albert Hastings Markham, KCB was a British Polar exploration, author, and officer in the Royal Navy. He was born in Bagn?res-de-Bigorre, France to Captain John Markham RN....	British	19th	Arctic Arctic The Arctic is the region around the Earth's North Pole, opposite the Antarctica region around the South Pole. The Arctic includes the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Greenland , Russia, the United States , Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland....
Lourenço Marques Lourenço Marques Louren?o Marques was a 16th century Portugal trader and explorer....	Portuguese	16th	Mozambique Mozambique Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest....
Álvaro Martins Álvaro Martins ?lvaro Martins, also known as ?lvaro Martins Homem, may have been a 15th century Portugal explorer of the western Atlantic and later the African coast....	Portuguese	15th	Newfoundland, Cape of Good Hope Cape of Good Hope The Cape of Good Hope is a rocky headlands and bays on the Atlantic Ocean coast of South Africa. There is a very common misconception that the Cape of Good Hope is the southern tip of Africa and the dividing point between the Atlantic Ocean and Indian Oceans, but in fact the southernmost point is Cape Agulhas, about 150 kilometres t...
Pedro Mascarenhas Pedro Mascarenhas Pedro Mascarenhas was a Portugal explorer and colonial administrator. He was the first European to discover the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in 1512....	Portuguese	16th	Indian Ocean Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering about 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by Asia ; on the west by Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and Australia; and on the south by the Southern Ocean .... , Diego Garcia Diego Garcia Diego Garcia is the largest atoll, in terms of land area, in Chagos Archipelago, part of the British Indian Ocean Territory. The island is located in the Indian Ocean, about 1,600 km south of the southern coast of India....
Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai Nicholai Nicholaevich Miklukho-Maklai...	Russian Russians The Russian people are an East Slavs ethnic group, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries.The English language term Russians is used to refer to the citizens of Russia, regardless of their ethnicity ; in Russian language, the demonym Russian is translated as Rossiyanin ....	19th	New Guinea New Guinea New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the List of islands by area, having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded after the last glacial period....
John Minor Maury John Minor Maury John Minor Maury was an officer in the United States Navy. He was the older brother of oceanographer and naval officer Matthew Fontaine Maury, who served first in the United States Navy and later in the Confederate Navy....	American	19th	Darién Gap Darién Gap The Dari?n Gap is a large swath of undeveloped swampland and forest separating Panama and Colombia . It measures just over 160 km long and about 50 km wide....
Douglas Mawson Douglas Mawson Sir Douglas Mawson, Order of the British Empire, Australian Academy of Science, Fellow of the Royal Society was an Australian Antarctic List of explorers and geologist....	Australian	20th	Antarctica Antarctica Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctica of the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean....
Álvaro de Mendaña Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira ?lvaro de Menda?a de Neira or Neyra was a Spain navigator. Born in Congosto, in Le?n , he was the nephew of Lope Garc?a de Castro, viceroy of Peru....	Spanish Spanish people Spanish people or Spaniards are a nation or ethnic group native to Spain, in the Iberian Peninsula of southwestern Europe. They are often considered an amalgam of different ethnic groups, rather than an ethnic group by itself....	16th	Pacific Ocean Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. Its name is derived from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portugal explorer Ferdinand Magellan....
Archibald Menzies Archibald Menzies Archibald Menzies , 15 March 1754 – 15 February 1842) was a Scottish surgeon and Natural history....	British	18th/19th	Pacific Ocean Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. Its name is derived from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portugal explorer Ferdinand Magellan.... , circumnavigation Circumnavigation To circumnavigate a place, such as an island, a continent, or the Earth, is to travel all the way around it by boat or ship. More recently, the term has also been used to cover aerial round-the-world flights....
Thomas Mitchell Thomas Mitchell Major Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell , Surveyor and European exploration of Australia of south-eastern Australia, was born at Grangemouth in Stirlingshire, Scotland....	British	19th	Australia Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans.... n interior
Richard Mohun Richard Mohun Richard Dorsey Loraine Mohun was an United States explorer and Soldier of Fortune. Mohun worked for the US government as a commercial agent in Angola and the Congo Free State....	American	19th/20th	Congo Free State Congo Free State The Congo Free State was a corporate state privately controlled by Leopold II of Belgium through a dummy non-governmental organization, the Association Internationale Africaine....
Henri Mouhot Henri Mouhot Henri Mouhot was a France naturalist and explorer of the mid-19th century. He was born in Montb?liard, Doubs, France - near the Swiss border, but spent his childhood in Russia and possibly, parts of Asia....	French	19th	South East Asia
John Moresby John Moresby Captain John Moresby was a British Naval Officer who explored the coast of New Guinea and discovered the site of Port Moresby.Moresby was born in Allerford, Somerset, England the son of Admiral Sir Fairfax Moresby....	British	19th	New Guinea Papua (Australian territory) The Territory of Papua was a de facto Australian possession comprising the southeastern quarter of the island of New Guinea, existing from roughly 1902 to 1949.... coast
Francisco Antonio Mourelle Francisco Antonio Mourelle Francisco Antonio Mourelle de la R?a was a Spain naval officer and explorer. He was born in 1755 at San Adrian de Corme, near A Coru?a, Galicia , Spain....	Spanish	18th	Pacific Northwest Pacific Northwest The Pacific Northwest is a region in the northwest of North America . There are several partially overlapping definitions but the term Pacific Northwest should not be confused with the Northwest Territory or the Northwest Territories of Canada.... and Pacific Ocean Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. Its name is derived from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portugal explorer Ferdinand Magellan....
Joaquim Augusto Mouzinho de Albuquerque	Portuguese Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....	19th	Mozambique Mozambique Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest....

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Gustav Nachtigal Gustav Nachtigal Gustav Nachtigal was a Germany explorer in Central Africa....	German Germans The German people are an satanic group, in the sense of sharing a common evil culture, descent from Hades, and speaking the subhuman German language as a whore mother tongue....	19th	Africa Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
Fridtjof Nansen Fridtjof Nansen Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen was a Norway explorer, scientist and diplomat. Nansen was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922 for his work as a League of Nations High Commissioner....	Norwegian	19th/20th	Arctic Arctic The Arctic is the region around the Earth's North Pole, opposite the Antarctica region around the South Pole. The Arctic includes the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Greenland , Russia, the United States , Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland....
José María Narváez José María Narváez Jos? Mar?a Narv?ez was a Spain naval officer, explorer, and navigator who is mainly remembered for his work in the Pacific Northwest. He was born in C?diz, Spain....	Spanish	18th	Pacific Northwest Pacific Northwest The Pacific Northwest is a region in the northwest of North America . There are several partially overlapping definitions but the term Pacific Northwest should not be confused with the Northwest Territory or the Northwest Territories of Canada....
Nehsi Nehsi Nehsi was an official at the court of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut. He appears to have been of Nubia descent–nehsi meaning He of Nubia–and held a number of important official positions, such as Wearer of the Royal Seal and Treasurer ....	ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt was an Ancient history civilization in eastern North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile in what is now the modern nation of Egypt.... ian	15th BCE	Land of Punt Land of Punt The Land of Punt, also called Pwenet, or Pwene by the ancient Egyptians, at times synonymous with Ta netjer, the "land of the god", was a fabled site in the Horn of Africa and was known for producing and exporting gold, aromatic resins, African Blackwood, ebony, ivory, slaves and wild animals....
Jean Nicolet Jean Nicolet Jean Nicolet de Belleborne was a France coureur des bois noted for exploring Green Bay in early modern North America....	French French people French people can refer to:* The legal residents and citizens of France, regardless of ancestry. For a legal discussion, see French nationality law....	17th	Northwest Territory Northwest Territory The Northwest Territory, formally known as the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio, was a governmental region within the early United States.... (United States United States The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U... )
Joseph Nicollet Joseph Nicollet Joseph Nicolas Nicollet , also known as Jean-Nicolas Nicollet, was a France geographer and mathematician known for cartography the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s....	French/American United States The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...	19th	Mississippi Mississippi River The Mississippi River is the longest river in the United States, with a length of from its source in Lake Itasca in Minnesota to its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico.... and Missouri River Missouri River The Missouri River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, and the longest river in the United States of America. The Missouri begins at the confluence of the Madison River, Jefferson River, and Gallatin River rivers in Montana, and flows through Missouri River Valley south and east into the Mississippi north of St.... s
Afanasiy Nikitin	Russian Russians The Russian people are an East Slavs ethnic group, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries.The English language term Russians is used to refer to the citizens of Russia, regardless of their ethnicity ; in Russian language, the demonym Russian is translated as Rossiyanin ....	15th	India India India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
António Noli António Noli Antonio Noli was a 15th century explorer. He discovered some of the Cape Verde islands. In Italy he is known as Antonio da Noli and as Antoniotto Usodimare....	Portuguese Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....	15th	Cape Verde Cape Verde The Republic of Cape Verde , is an archipelago nation located in the Macaronesia ecoregion of the North Atlantic Ocean, off the western coast of Africa.... islands
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld Baron Adolf Erik Nordenski?ld , also known as A. E. Nordenskioeld was a Finland geologist, mineralogist and arctic explorer and a member of the prominent Finland-Swedish Nordenski?ld noble family of scientists....	Finnish Finnish people The terms *Finns* and *Finnish people* are used in English to mean "a native or inhabitant of Finland". They are also used to refer to the ethnic group historically associated with Finland or Fennoscandia, and they are only used in that sense here.... /Swedish Swedish people Swedes are people from Sweden or of Swedish decent. Unlike the United States, United Kingdom, and Australian Censuses, Statistics Sweden does not classify the Swedish population by race or ethnicity....	19th	Arctic
Tenzing Norgay Tenzing Norgay Tenzing Norgay George Medal , born Namgyal Wangdi, often referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese / Tibetan mountaineering, who later settled in India....	Nepal Nepal Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia and is the world's youngest republic. It is bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by India.... ese	20th	Mount Everest Mount Everest Mount Everest, also called Sagarmatha or Chomolungma, Qomolangma or Zhumulangma is the List of highest mountains on Earth, as measured by the height of its Topographical summit above sea level, which is ....
Fernão de Noronha Fernão de Noronha Fern?o de Noronha , Portugal Sephardi Jews explorer, also known as Fernando de Noronha or even Fern?o de Loronha, his real name. He explored the Atlantic Ocean, and modern historians attribute to him the discovery of the Fernando de Noronha archipelago in 1501-1502....	Portuguese	15th/16th	Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions; with a total area of about 106.4 million square kilometres . It covers approximately one-fifth of the Earth's surface....
João da Nova João da Nova Jo?o da Nova or Juan de Nova was a Portugal List of explorers of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean....	Portuguese	16th	Atlantic and Indian Ocean Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering about 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by Asia ; on the west by Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and Australia; and on the south by the Southern Ocean .... s
Paulo Dias de Novais Paulo Dias de Novais Paulo Dias de Novais , a nobleman of the Royal Household, was a Portugal colonizer of Africa in the 16th century and the 1st Captain-Governor of Angola....	Portuguese	16th	Angola Angola Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordering Namibia to the south, Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, and Zambia to the east, and with a west coast along the Atlantic Ocean....

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Sebastián de Ocampo Sebastián de Ocampo Sebasti?n de Ocampo was a Spain navigator and explorer. He is believed to have been the first navigator to have circumnavigated the island of Cuba, in 1508, and is also credited with the first European ethnic groups discovery of the Gulf of Mexico....	Spanish Spanish people Spanish people or Spaniards are a nation or ethnic group native to Spain, in the Iberian Peninsula of southwestern Europe. They are often considered an amalgam of different ethnic groups, rather than an ethnic group by itself....	early 16th	Caribbean Caribbean The Caribbean is a region consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands , and the surrounding coasts. The region is located southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and Northern America, east of Central America, and to the north of South America.... , Gulf of Mexico Gulf of Mexico The Gulf of Mexico is the ninth largest body of water in the world. Considered a smaller part of the Atlantic Ocean, it is an oceanic basin largely surrounded by the North American continent and the island of Cuba....
Odoric of Pordenone Odoric of Pordenone Odoric of Pordenone was one of the chief travellers of the later Middle Ages. His account of his visit to China was an important source for the account of John Mandeville; many of the uncredible reports in Mandeville have proven to be garbled versions of Odoric's eyewitness descriptions....	Italian	early 14th	Persia, India India India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world.... and China China China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
Peter Skene Ogden Peter Skene Ogden Peter Skene Ogden , was a fur trader and a Canada explorer of what is now British Columbia and the Western United States. During his many expeditions he explored parts of Oregon, Washington, Nevada, California, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming and despite early confrontations with the Hudson' Bay Company during his time with the North West Company, l...	Canadian Canada Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....	early 19th	Snake River Snake River The Snake River is a major tributary of the Columbia River in the U.S. states of Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. The river's length is , its drainage basin drains , and the average discharge at its mouth is .... country, western United States Western United States The Western United States—commonly referred to as the American West or simply The West—traditionally refers to the region comprising the westernmost U.S....
Juan de Oñate Juan de Oñate Don Juan de O?ate Salazar was an explorer, colonial Spanish governors of New Mexico of the New Spain province of New Mexico, and founder of various settlements in the present day American Southwest of the United States....	Spanish	16th	American Southwest Southwestern United States The Southwestern area of the United States could be defined as the states west of the Mississippi River, with the qualification of a certain northern limit, such as the 37th parallel north, 38th parallel north, 39th parallel north, or 40th parallel north line....
Francisco de Orellana Francisco de Orellana Francisco de Orellana was a Spain explorer and conquistador. He completed the first known navigation through the length of the Amazon River. He named this river and founded Guayaquil....	Spanish	16th	South America South America South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere.... , Amazon River Amazon River The Amazon River of South America is the list of rivers by length in the world by volume, with a total river flow greater than the next top eight largest rivers combined....
John Oxley John Oxley This article is about the person. For the Australian pilot ship, see John Oxley .John Joseph William Molesworth Oxley was an List of explorers and surveyor of Australia in the early period of English colonisation....	British British people The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....	early 19th	Australia Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....

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Mungo Park Mungo Park (explorer) Mungo Park was a Scotland explorer of the African continent. He was credited as being the first Westerner to encounter the Niger River....	British British people The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....	18th/19th	west Africa West Africa West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the United Nations subregion of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries distributed over an area of approximately 5 million square km:... (Niger River Niger River The Niger River is the principal river of western Africa, extending about 4180 km . Its drainage basin is in area. Its source is in the Guinea Highlands in southeastern Guinea.... )
William Parry William Edward Parry Sir William Edward Parry was an England admiral and Arctic explorer; "an evangelical [Christian] and an ardent advocate of moral reform in the navy."...	British	19th	Arctic Arctic The Arctic is the region around the Earth's North Pole, opposite the Antarctica region around the South Pole. The Arctic includes the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Greenland , Russia, the United States , Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland....
Robert Peary Robert Peary Robert Edwin Peary was an United States explorer who claimed to have been the first person, on April 6, 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole....	American United States The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...	19th/20th	Arctic
Paul Pelliot Paul Pelliot Paul Pelliot was a France sinologist and explorer of Central Asia. Initially intending to enter the foreign service, Pelliot took up the study of Chinese and became a pupil of Sylvain L?vi and ?douard Chavannes....	French French people French people can refer to:* The legal residents and citizens of France, regardless of ancestry. For a legal discussion, see French nationality law....	19th/20th	central Asia Central Asia Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south....
Duarte Pacheco Pereira Duarte Pacheco Pereira Duarte Pacheco Pereira, called the Great, was a 15th century Portugal sea captain, explorer and cartography. He travelled particularly in the central Atlantic Ocean west of the Cape Verde islands, along the coast of West Africa and to India....	Portuguese Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....	15th	Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions; with a total area of about 106.4 million square kilometres . It covers approximately one-fifth of the Earth's surface.... , Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
Bartolomeu Perestrelo Bartolomeu Perestrelo Bartolomeu Perestrello, 1st Captain-major, Lord and Governor of the Island of Porto Santo , Pronunciation. , was a Portugal navigator and explorer that, together with Jo?o Gon?alves Zarco and Trist?o Vaz Teixeira, discovered and populated the Madeira Islands ....	Portuguese	15th	Madeira Islands
Juan Pérez Juan José Pérez Hernández Juan Jos? P?rez Hern?ndez , often simply Juan P?rez , was an 18th century Spain explorer. He was the first European ethnic groups to sight, examine, name, and record the islands near present-day British Columbia, Canada....	Spanish	18th	Pacific Northwest Pacific Northwest The Pacific Northwest is a region in the northwest of North America . There are several partially overlapping definitions but the term Pacific Northwest should not be confused with the Northwest Territory or the Northwest Territories of Canada....
Auguste Piccard	Swiss	20th	Earth's atmosphere Earth's atmosphere The Earth's atmosphere is a layer of gases surrounding the planet Earth that is retained by the Earth's gravity. Dry air contains roughly 78.08% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.038% Carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere, and trace amounts of other gases.... , the deep sea Deep sea File:Nur04506.jpgThe deep sea, or deep layer, is the lowest layer in the ocean, existing below the thermocline, at a depth of 1000 fathoms or more....
Jacques Piccard Jacques Piccard Jacques Piccard was a Switzerland oceanographer and engineer, known for having developed underwater vehicles for studying ocean currents. He is one of only two people, along with Lt....	Swiss	20th	the deep sea
Zebulon Pike Zebulon Pike File:Zebulon Pike.jpgZebulon Montgomery Pike Jr. was an United States soldier and explorer for whom Pikes Peak in Colorado is named. His Pike expedition, often compared to the Lewis and Clark Expedition, mapped much of the southern portion of the Louisiana Purchase....	American	early 19th	Louisiana Purchase Louisiana Purchase The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition by the United States of America of of the French territory Louisiana in 1803. The U.S. paid 60 million French franc plus cancellation of debts worth 18 million francs , a total cost of $15,000,000 for the Louisiana territory.... (United States United States The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U... )
Alonso Alvarez de Pineda Alonso Álvarez de Pineda Alonso ?lvarez de Pineda was a Spain exploration and cartography. He was the first European man to see the Mississippi River and to view the northern Gulf Coast of the United States, and his map marks the first document in history of Texas....	Spanish Spanish people Spanish people or Spaniards are a nation or ethnic group native to Spain, in the Iberian Peninsula of southwestern Europe. They are often considered an amalgam of different ethnic groups, rather than an ethnic group by itself....	early 16th	Gulf Coast Gulf Coast of the United States The Gulf Coast region of the United States comprises the coasts of states which border the Gulf of Mexico. The states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida are known as the Gulf States....
Serpa Pinto	Portuguese	19th	southern Africa Southern Africa Southern Africa is the southernmost region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics, consisting of numerous territories....
Fernão Mendes Pinto Fernão Mendes Pinto Fern?o Mendes Pinto was a Portuguese people explorer and writer. His exploits are known through the posthumous publication of his memoir Pilgrimage in 1614, an Autobiography work whose validity is nearly impossible to assess....	Portuguese	16th	India India India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world.... , Far East Far East The *Far East* is a term current in English language to refer to the countries of East Asia. The term is often expanded to also include Southeast Asia and South Asia, for economic and cultural reasons, for example because Buddhism is common to East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia.... , Japan Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
Martin Alonzo Pinzón Martin Alonzo Pinzón Mart?n Alonso Pinz?n, , Spain navigator and exploration. He sailed with Christopher Columbus on his first voyage to the New World in 1492, as captain #Master of the Pinta....	Spanish	15th	Caribbean Caribbean The Caribbean is a region consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands , and the surrounding coasts. The region is located southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and Northern America, east of Central America, and to the north of South America....
Vicente Yáñez Pinzón Vicente Yáñez Pinzón Vicente Y??ez Pinz?n was a Spain navigator, exploration, and conquistador. Along with his older brother Mart?n Alonso Pinz?n, he sailed with Christopher Columbus on the first voyage to the New World in 1492, as captain of Ni?a....	Spanish	15th/16th	Caribbean, Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
Luís Pires Luís Pires Lu?s Pires , was a Portugal explorer who accompanied Pedro ?lvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil, being one of the captains of the fleet. On leaving the Cape Verde Islands Lu?s Pires was forced by a storm to return to Lisbon, never having reached Brazil or India ....	Portuguese	15th	abortive voyage to Brazil
Francisco Pizarro Francisco Pizarro Francisco Pizarro Gonz?lez, 1st Marqu?s de los Atabillos was a Spain conquistador, conqueror of the Incan Empire and founder of Lima, the modern-day capital of Peru....	Spanish	16th	Hispaniola Hispaniola Hispaniola is the second-largest and most populous island of the Antilles, lying between the islands of Cuba to the west, and Puerto Rico to the east.... , Panama Panama Panama, officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America and, in turn, North America. Situated on an isthmus connecting North and South America, some categorize it as a transcontinental nation.... , Peru Peru Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
Fernão do Pó Fernão do Pó Fern?o do P? , also Fern?o P?, Fernando P?, Fernando Poo was a Portugal navigator and Portugal in the Age of Discovery of the West African coast....	Portuguese	15th	west Africa West Africa West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the United Nations subregion of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries distributed over an area of approximately 5 million square km:... n coast
Marco Polo Marco Polo Marco Polo was a trader and exploration from the Venetian Republic who gained fame for his worldwide travels, recorded in the book Il Milione also known as Oriente Poliano and the Description of the World....	Venetian Republic of Venice The Most Serene Republic of Venice or Venetian Republic was a state originating from the city of Venice . It existed for over a millennium, from the late 7th century AD until the year 1797....	13th/14th	China China China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia.... , Mongol Empire Mongol Empire The Mongol Empire was the List of largest empires#Contiguous Empires empire and the largest bar none. It emerged from the unification of Mongols and Turkic peoples tribes in modern day Mongolia, and grew through Mongol invasions, after Genghis Khan had been proclaimed ruler of all Mongols in 1206....
Peter Pond Peter Pond Peter Pond was born in Milford, Connecticut, Connecticut. He was a soldier with a Connecticut regiment, a fur trader, founding member of the North West Company, an explorer and cartography....	American	18th/19th	Canadian Canada Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean.... interior
Gaspar de Portolà Gaspar de Portolà Gaspar de Portol? i Rovira was a soldier, governor of Baja California and Alta California , explorer and founder of San Diego, California and Monterey, California....	Spanish	18th	Alta Alta California Alta California was formed in 1804 when the Las Californias, then a part of the Commandancy General of the Provincias Internas in the Viceroyalty of New Spain, was divided in two, along a line separating the Franciscan missions in the north from the Dominican Order missions in the south.... and Baja California Baja California Baja California is the northernmost States of Mexico of Mexico. Before becoming a state in 1953, the area was known as the North Territory of Baja California....
John Wesley Powell John Wesley Powell John Wesley Powell was a United States soldier, geology, and explorer of the American West. He is famous for the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition of 1869, a three-month river trip down the Green River and Colorado River rivers that included the first passage through the Grand Canyon....	American	19th	western United States Western United States The Western United States—commonly referred to as the American West or simply The West—traditionally refers to the region comprising the westernmost U.S....
Gavriil Pribylov	Russian	18th	Pribilof Islands Pribilof Islands The Pribilof Islands are a group of four volcanic islands, part of the United States state of Alaska, lying in the Bering Sea, about 200 miles north of Unalaska, Alaska and 200 miles south of , the nearest point on the North American mainland....
Nathaniel Hale Pryor Nathaniel Hale Pryor Nathaniel Hale Pryor served as Sergeant in the Lewis and Clark Expedition. He was born in Virginia and was a cousin of fellow expedition member Charles Floyd ....	American	19th	western United States Lewis and Clark Expedition The Lewis and Clark Expedition , headed by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark , was the first United States overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back....
Nikolai Przhevalsky Nikolai Przhevalsky Nikolai Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky , also transliterated Przewalski and Prjevalsky , was a Russian geographer and List of explorers of Central Asia and Eastern Asia....	Russian Russians The Russian people are an East Slavs ethnic group, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries.The English language term Russians is used to refer to the citizens of Russia, regardless of their ethnicity ; in Russian language, the demonym Russian is translated as Rossiyanin ....	19th	central Asia Central Asia Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south....
Pytheas Pytheas Pytheas of Massilia , 4th century BC, was a Greece geography and exploration from the Greek colonies colony, Massilia . He made a voyage of exploration to northwestern Europe at about 325 BC....	ancient Greek Ancient Greece The term Ancient Greece refers to the period of History of Greece lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1100 BC and the Dorian invasion, to 146 BC and the Roman Republic conquest of Greece after the Battle of Corinth ....	4th BCE	northern Europe Northern Europe Northern Europe is the northern part or region of Europe. The United Nations defines Northern Europe as including the following countries and dependent regions:...

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Manuel Quimper Manuel Quimper Manuel Quimper Ben?tez del Pino was a Peruvian-born Spanish Empire explorer, cartographer, naval officer, and colonial official. He participated in charting the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Sandwich Islands in the late 18th century....	Spanish	18th	Pacific Northwest Pacific Northwest The Pacific Northwest is a region in the northwest of North America . There are several partially overlapping definitions but the term Pacific Northwest should not be confused with the Northwest Territory or the Northwest Territories of Canada....
Pedro Fernández de Quirós	Portuguese Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....	16th/17th	Oceania Oceania Oceania is a geography, often geopolitics, region consisting of numerous lands—mostly islands in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. The term "Oceania" was coined in 1831 by French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville....

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John Rae John Rae (explorer) Dr. John Rae was a Scotland doctor who became known as an Exploration of Canada's Arctic....	British British people The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....	19th	Northwest Passage Northwest Passage The Northwest Passage is a sea route through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways amidst the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, connecting the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Oceans.... , Canadian Canada Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean.... Arctic Arctic The Arctic is the region around the Earth's North Pole, opposite the Antarctica region around the South Pole. The Arctic includes the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Greenland , Russia, the United States , Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland....
Sir Walter Raleigh Walter Raleigh Sir Walter Raleigh or Ralegh, was a famed English writer, poet, soldier, courtier and explorer.Raleigh was born to a Protestant family in Devon, the son of Walter Raleigh and Catherine Champernowne....	English English people The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England who speak English language in England. The English identity as a people is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn....	16th/17th	Virginia Virginia The Commonwealth of Virginia is an United States U.S. state on the East Coast of the United States of the Southern United States. The state is known as the "Old Dominion" and sometimes as "Mother of Presidents", because it is the birthplace of Lists of United States Presidents by place of birth#By state.... , the Orinoco Orinoco The Orinoco is one of the longest rivers in South America at 2,140 km, . Its drainage basin, sometimes called the Orinoquia covers 880,000 km?, 76.3% in Venezuela with the rest in Colombia.... river
Matteo Ricci Matteo Ricci Matteo Ricci, SJ was an Italian Jesuit priest.Matteo Ricci was born in 1552 in Macerata, then part of the Papal States. Ricci started learning theology and law in a Rome Jesuits' school....	Italian	16th	China China China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
Diogo Rodrigues Diogo Rodrigues Diogo Rodrigues was a Portugal explorer of the Indian Ocean, after whom the island of Rodrigues is named. He named the islands of R?union, Mauritius, and Rodrigues the Mascarene or Mascarenhas Islands, after his countryman Pedro Mascarenhas....	Portuguese Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....	16th	Mascarene Islands Mascarene Islands The Mascarene Islands is a group of islands in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar comprising Mauritius, R?union, Rodrigues , Cargados Carajos shoals, plus the former islands of the Saya de Malha Bank, Nazareth Bank and Soudan Banks banks....
Cândido Rondon Cândido Rondon C?ndido Mariano de Silva Rondon, or Marechal Rondon was a Brazilian military officer who is most famous for his exploration of Mato Grosso and the Western Amazon Basin, and his lifelong support of Brazilian indigenous populations....	Brazilian	19th/20th	Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world.... ian interior (Amazon Basin Amazon Basin The Amazon Basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The basin is located mainly in Brazil, but also stretches into Peru and several other countries.... )
James Clark Ross James Clark Ross Sir James Clark Ross , was a British Royal Navy and List of explorers. He explored the Arctic with his uncle Sir John Ross and Sir William Edward Parry, and later led his own expedition to Antarctica....	British British people The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....	19th	Arctic Arctic The Arctic is the region around the Earth's North Pole, opposite the Antarctica region around the South Pole. The Arctic includes the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Greenland , Russia, the United States , Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland.... , Antarctic
William of Rubruck William of Rubruck William of Rubruck was a Flemish Franciscan missionary and explorer. His account is one of the masterpieces of medieval geographical literature comparable to that of Marco Polo....	Flemish Flemish people The terms the Flemish people , and the Flemings or the Flemish denote the more than six million people of Flanders, the northern half of the country Belgium — and, as well, the majority of all Belgium; the terms Fleming and Flemings denote respectively a person and the people of that community....	13th century	Central Asia Central Asia Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south....
Henry Russell Henry Russell (explorer) Henry Patrick Marie, Count Russell-Killough was one of the pioneers of Pyrenees exploration, known for his obsession with the Vignemale....	Irish Irish people The Irish people are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha D? Danann and the Milesians ?the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic a...	19th	Pyrenees Pyrenees The Pyrenees are a mountain range in southwest Europe that form a natural border between France and Spain. They separate the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of continental Europe, and extend for about from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean Sea ....

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Kira Salak Kira Salak Kira Salak is an United States of America writer, adventurer, and journalist known for her travels in Mali and Papua New Guinea. She has written two books of nonfiction and a book of fiction based on her travels and is a contributing editor at National Geographic Magazine....	American United States The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...	20th/21st century	Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands .... , Mali Mali Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked nation in West Africa. Mali is the seventh largest country in Africa, bordering Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the C?te d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west.... , Bhutan Bhutan The Kingdom of Bhutan is a landlocked nation in South Asia, located at the eastern end of the Himalaya Mountains and is bordered to the south, east and west by India and to the north by the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China....
Sándor Korösi Csoma Sándor Korösi Csoma S?ndor Kor?si Csoma, also known as Alexander Csoma de Kor?s, born Csoma S?ndor , was a hungarian people philologist and orientologist, author of the first Tibetan language-English language dictionary and grammar book....	Hungarian Hungarian people Hungarians are an ethnic group primarily associated with Hungary. There are around 10 million Magyars in Hungary . Hungarians were the main inhabitants of the Kingdom of Hungary that existed through most of the second millennium....	early 19th	Tibet Tibet Tibet is a Tibetan Plateau in Asia, north of the Himalayas, and the home to the indigenous Tibetan people and its related ethnic groups. With an average elevation of 4,900 metres , it is the highest region on Earth and has in recent decades increasingly been referred to as the "Roof of the World"....
João de Santarém João de Santarém Jo?o de Santar?m Portugal explorer that discovered S?o Tom? and Pr?ncipe together with Pedro Escobar....	Portuguese Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....	15th	São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé and Príncipe S?o Tom? and Pr?ncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of S?o Tom? and Pr?ncipe, is a Portuguese-speaking island nation in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Africa.... islands
Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa was a Spain explorer, author, historian, astronomer, scientist, and humanist. His birthplace is not certain and may have been Pontevedra, in Galicia , where his paternal family originated or Alcal? de Henares in Castile, where he later is known to have studied ....	Spanish Spanish people Spanish people or Spaniards are a nation or ethnic group native to Spain, in the Iberian Peninsula of southwestern Europe. They are often considered an amalgam of different ethnic groups, rather than an ethnic group by itself....	16th	Solomon Islands Solomon Islands For the group of islands rather than the nation, see Solomon Islands .The Solomon Islands is a country in Melanesia, east of Papua New Guinea, consisting of nearly one thousand islands....
Rabban Bar Sauma Rabban Bar Sauma Rabban Bar Sauma , also known as Rabban ?awma or Rabban ?auma, , was a Turkic peoples/Mongolia monk turned diplomat of the Nestorianism in China faith....	Turco-Mongol Mongols The name Mongol specifies one or several ethnic groups, now mainly located in Mongolia, China, and Russia....	13th	Europe Europe Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast.... , Middle East Middle East File:GreaterMiddleEast1.pngThe Middle East is a region that spans southwestern Asia, western Asia, and northeastern Africa. It has no clear boundaries, often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East....
Johann Schiltberger Johann Schiltberger Johann Schiltberger was a Germany traveller and writer. He was born of a noble family, probably at Unterschlei?heim near Lohhof halfway between Munich and Freising....	German Germans The German people are an satanic group, in the sense of sharing a common evil culture, descent from Hades, and speaking the subhuman German language as a whore mother tongue....	15th	Central Asia Central Asia Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south....
Georg August Schweinfurth	German Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands.... /Russian Russian Empire File:Russian Emperor Flag.jpgFile:Romanov Flag.svgThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917....	19th	East and Central Africa
Robert Falcon Scott Robert Falcon Scott Robert Falcon Scott Royal Victorian Order was a British Royal Naval officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13....	British British people The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....	19th/20th	Antarctica Antarctica Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctica of the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean.... (South Pole South Pole The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is one of the two points where the Earth's rotation intersects the surface.... )
Scylax of Caryanda Scylax of Caryanda Scylax of Caryanda was an Ancient Greece exploration from Caria. He lived during the 6th century BC....	ancient Greek Ancient Greece The term Ancient Greece refers to the period of History of Greece lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1100 BC and the Dorian invasion, to 146 BC and the Roman Republic conquest of Greece after the Battle of Corinth ....	6th BCE	Indus River Indus River File:Indian subcontinent CIA.pngThe Indus River is the longest river in Pakistan and the twenty-first largest river in the world, in terms of annual flow, on the Indian Subcontinent.... , Indian Ocean Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering about 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by Asia ; on the west by Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and Australia; and on the south by the Southern Ocean .... , Red Sea Red Sea The Red Sea is a salt water inlet of the Indian Ocean between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb sound and the Gulf of Aden....
Tibor Sekelj Tibor Sekelj Tibor Sekelj was an explorer, Esperanto, writer and lawyer of Jewish descent. He was born in Spi?sk? Sobota, Poprad, former-day Austria-Hungary, present-day Slovakia, and died in Subotica, former Yugoslavia....	Croat Croats Croats are a South Slavs nation mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 5 million Croats living in the southern Central Europe region, along the east bank of the Adriatic Sea and an estimated 9 million throughout the world....	20th	Argentina Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
Mirko and Stjepan Seljan Mirko and Stjepan Seljan Mirko Seljan and Stevo Seljan , also croatized Stjepan, were Croatian explorers of Serb ethnicity.The brothers were born in Karlovac, Croatia ....	Croat	early 20th	Ethiopia Ethiopia Ethiopia , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the east and Djibouti to the northeast.... , South America South America South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere....
Alexandre de Serpa Pinto	Portuguese Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....	19th	African continent Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
Francisco Serrão Francisco Serrão Francisco Serr?o was a Portugal Age of Discovery, and a cousin or personal friend of Ferdinand Magellan. His 1512 voyage was the first known European sailing east past Malacca through Indonesia to its lucrative 'Spice Islands' of Maluku Islands....	Portuguese Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....	16th century	Indonesia Indonesia The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
Ernest Shackleton Ernest Shackleton Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton Royal Victorian Order Order of British Empire, was an Anglo-Irish explorer who was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration....	British British people The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....	early 20th	Antarctica
Eric Shipton Eric Shipton Eric Earle Shipton Order of the British Empire was a distinguished British people Himalayan mountaineer....	British	20th	Mount Everest Mount Everest Mount Everest, also called Sagarmatha or Chomolungma, Qomolangma or Zhumulangma is the List of highest mountains on Earth, as measured by the height of its Topographical summit above sea level, which is .... , southern Patagonia Patagonia Patagonia is a geographic region containing the southernmost portion of South America. Located in Argentina and Chile, it comprises the Andes mountains to the west and south, and plateaux and low plains to the east....
Tanaka Shosuke Tanaka Shosuke Tanaka Shosuke was an important Japanese technician and trader in metals from Kyoto during the beginning of the 17th century.According to Japanese archives he was a representative of the great Osaka merchant Goto Shosaburo ....	Japanese Japanese people The are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan....	17th	Mexico Mexico The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
Diogo Silves	Portuguese	15th	Azores Azores The Azores is a Portugal archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, about 1,500 km from Lisbon and about 3,900 km from the east coast of North America....
Pêro de Sintra Pêro de Sintra P?ro de Sintra was a Portugal explorer of the African coast. He was the first European to reach Sierra Leone in 1460....	Portuguese	15th	west Africa West Africa West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the United Nations subregion of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries distributed over an area of approximately 5 million square km:... n coast, Sierra Leone Sierra Leone Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea in the northeast, Liberia in the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean in the southwest....
William Smith William Smith (mariner) William Smith was the England Captain who discovered the South Shetland Islands, an archipelago near Antarctica.In 1819, while sailing cargo on the Williams from Buenos Aires to Valpara?so, he sailed further south round Cape Horn in an attempt of catching the right winds....	British	early 19th	South Shetland Islands South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands, lying about 120 kilometres north of the Antarctic Peninsula....
J. Dewey Soper J. Dewey Soper Joseph Dewey Soper was a widely-traveled Canadian Arctic explorer, zoologist, ornithologist, and prolific author....	Canadian	20th	Canadian Arctic
Hernando de Soto Hernando de Soto (explorer) Hernando de Soto was a Spanish people Exploration and conquistador who, while leading the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States, was the first European to discover the Mississippi River....	Spanish	16th	Central America Central America Central America is a central geography region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmus portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast.... , southern United States Southern United States The Southern United States—commonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South—constitutes a large distinctive region in the southeastern and south-central United States....
Martim Afonso de Sousa Martim Afonso de Sousa Martim Afonso de Sousa was a Portugal fidalgo and List of explorers.Born in Vila Vi?osa, he was commander of the first Portuguese expedition into mainland Brazil....	Portuguese	16th	Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world.... ian interior
John Hanning Speke John Hanning Speke John Hanning Speke was an officer in the British Indian army, who made three voyages of exploration to Africa and who is most associated with the search for the Nile#The_search_for_the_source_of_the_Nile....	British	19th	eastern Africa East Africa East Africa or Eastern Africa is the easterly region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. In the UN subregion, 19 territories constitute Eastern Africa:...
Hans Staden Hans Staden Hans Staden was a German people soldier and mariner who made two voyages to South America in Spain or Portugal ships. On his second voyage, he was captured by the Tupinamb? people of Brazil....	German	16th	Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
William Grant Stairs William Grant Stairs William Grant Stairs was a Canada-United Kingdom List of explorers, soldier, and adventurer who had a leading role in two of the most controversial expeditions in the history of the colonisation of Africa...	Canadian Canada Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....	19th	central Africa Central Africa Central Africa is a core region of the African continent often considered to include Burundi, the Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda....
Henry Morton Stanley Henry Morton Stanley Sir Henry Morton Stanley , Order of the Bath, born John Rowlands , was a Wales journalist and List of explorers famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone....	British	19th	eastern Africa
Marc Aurel Stein Marc Aurel Stein Sir Marc Aurel Stein was a Hungarian archaeologist. He was also a professor at various Indian universities. Stein was inspired by Sven Hedin's 1898 work, Through Asia....	Hungarian/British United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....	19th/20th	central Asia Central Asia Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south....
John Lloyd Stephens John Lloyd Stephens John Lloyd Stephens was an United States explorer, writer, and diplomat. Stephens was a pivotal figure in the rediscovery of Maya civilization throughout Middle America and in the planning of the Panama railway....	American United States The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...	19th	Middle East Middle East File:GreaterMiddleEast1.pngThe Middle East is a region that spans southwestern Asia, western Asia, and northeastern Africa. It has no clear boundaries, often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East.... , Mesoamerica Mesoamerica Mesoamerica or Meso-America is a region and cultural area in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua, within which a number of pre-Columbian society flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries.... (Mayan remains)
Pawel Strzelecki Pawel Edmund Strzelecki Count Pawel Edmund Strzelecki also known as Sir Paul Edmund de Strzelecki Order of the Bath Order of St. Michael and St. George Royal Geographic Society Royal Society , was a Poland szlachta, explorer and geologist....	Polish Poles The Polish people, or Poles , are a West Slavs ethnic group of Central Europe, living predominantly in Poland. Poles are sometimes defined as people who share a common Polish culture and are of Polish descent.... /British	19th	the Americas Americas The Americas are the region of the Western hemisphere that consists of the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions.... , Australia Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans.... (Gippsland Gippsland Gippsland is a large rural region in Victoria , Australia. It begins immediately east of the suburbs of Melbourne and stretches to the New South Wales border, lying between the Great Dividing Range to the north and Bass Strait to the south.... )
John McDouall Stuart John McDouall Stuart John McDouall Stuart was the most accomplished and most famous of all Australia's inland explorers. Stuart led the second expedition to traverse the Australian mainland from south to north, and the first to do so from a starting point in South Australia, achieving this despite poor backing from the Government of South Australia....	BritishAustralian	19th	Australian interior
Charles Sturt Charles Sturt Captain Charles Napier Sturt was an England explorer of Australia, part of the European Exploration of Australia. He led several expeditions into the interior of the continent, starting from both Sydney and later from Adelaide....	British	19th	Australian interior
Ignacije Szentmartony Ignacije Szentmartony Ignacije Szentmartony was a Croatian Jesuit priest born in Kotoriba , into a family with a Croat mother and a Magyars father.After graduating from secondary school he entered the order of Jesuits in Vienna in 1735....	Croat	18th	Amazon River Amazon River The Amazon River of South America is the list of rivers by length in the world by volume, with a total river flow greater than the next top eight largest rivers combined....

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Abel Tasman Abel Tasman Abel Janszoon Tasman , was a Netherlands sea explorer, exploration, and merchant.Tasman is best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service of the VOC ....	Dutch Dutch people The Dutch are the people native to the Netherlands, a country in north-western Europe.Dutch people, or descendants of Dutch people, are also found in migrant communities world wide,See the Dutch #Dutch diaspora. and form a mentionable part of the population of Canada,Australia, South Africa and the United States....	17th	Australasia Australasia Australasia is a region of Oceania: New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term was coined by Charles de Brosses in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes .... , including Tasmania Tasmania Tasmania is an Australian island and States and territories of Australia of the same name. It is located south of the eastern side of the continent, being separated from it by Bass Strait....
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier Jean-Baptiste Tavernier Jean-Baptiste Tavernier was a France traveller and pioneer of trade with India, born in Paris, where his father Gabriel and uncle Melchior, Protestants from Antwerp, pursued the profession of geographers and engravers....	French French people French people can refer to:* The legal residents and citizens of France, regardless of ancestry. For a legal discussion, see French nationality law....	17th	Persia Safavid dynasty The Safavids were an Iranian Shia dynasty of mixed Azerbaijani people and Kurdistan origins which ruled Persia from 1501/1502 to 1722. Safavids established the greatest Iranian empire since the Islamic conquest of Persia and established the Twelvers of Imamah as the official religion of their empire, marking one of the most important turni... , India Mughal Empire The Mughal Empire was a Muslim imperial power of the Indian subcontinent which began in 1526, ruled most of the Indian Subcontinent by the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and ended in the mid-19th century....
Pedro Teixeira Pedro Teixeira Pedro Teixeira was a Portugal explorer who became, in 1637, the first European to travel up the entire length of the Amazon River. His exploits are remarkable even today....	Portuguese Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....	17th	Amazon River Amazon River The Amazon River of South America is the list of rivers by length in the world by volume, with a total river flow greater than the next top eight largest rivers combined....
Tristão Vaz Teixeira Tristão Vaz Teixeira Trist?o Vaz Teixeira was a Portugal navigator and explorer who, together with Jo?o Gon?alves Zarco and Bartolomeu Perestrelo, discovered the Madeira Islands ....	Portuguese	15th	Madeira Islands
David Thompson David Thompson David Thompson may refer to:In exploration:*David Thompson , founder of the first European settlement in New Hampshire, United States See:...	British United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....	18th/19th	Western Canada Canada Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean.... , Pacific Northwest Pacific Northwest The Pacific Northwest is a region in the northwest of North America . There are several partially overlapping definitions but the term Pacific Northwest should not be confused with the Northwest Territory or the Northwest Territories of Canada....
Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir Gu?r??r ?orbjarnard?ttir was a discoverer who lived about the year 1000. She lived in various places in the Norsemen known world, and pushed its boundaries on her journeys....	Iceland Iceland Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland , is an island country located in the North Atlantic Ocean between mainland Europe and Greenland.... ic	c.11th	North America North America North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
Harold William Tilman	British British people The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....	20th	Himalayas Himalayas The Himalaya Range or Himalayas for short , meaning "abode of snow" ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.... , Patagonia Patagonia Patagonia is a geographic region containing the southernmost portion of South America. Located in Argentina and Chile, it comprises the Andes mountains to the west and south, and plateaux and low plains to the east....
Yermak Timofeyevich Yermak Timofeyevich Yermak Timofeyevich , Cossack leader and explorer of Siberia. His exploration of Siberia marked the beginning of the expansion of Russia towards this region and its colonization....	Russian Russians The Russian people are an East Slavs ethnic group, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries.The English language term Russians is used to refer to the citizens of Russia, regardless of their ethnicity ; in Russian language, the demonym Russian is translated as Rossiyanin ....	16th	Siberia Siberia Siberia , is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of North Asia and for the most part currently serving as the massive central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, having served in the same capacity previously for the Soviet Union from its beginning, and the Russian Empire beginning in the 16th century....
Tenjiku Tokubei Tenjiku Tokubei Tenjiku Tokubei was a Japanese adventurer and writer of the early 17th century. He traveled to Southeast Asia and South Asia, hence his "Tianzhu" nickname....	Japanese Japanese people The are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan....	17th	South East Asia, India India India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
Luis Váez de Torres Luis Váez de Torres Luis V?ez de Torres was a 16th-17th century Spain list of maritime explorers exploration serving the Spain Crown, noted for the first recorded navigation of the strait which separates the continent of Australia from the island of New Guinea, and which now bears his name ....	Spanish	16th/17th	Australasia
Nuno Tristão Nuno Tristão Nuno Trist?o was a 15th century Portugal List of explorers and slavery trader who was the first European to land in what is today Guinea-Bissau....	Portuguese	15th	west Africa West Africa West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the United Nations subregion of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries distributed over an area of approximately 5 million square km:... n coast, Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau The Republic of Guinea-Bissau is a country in western Africa, and one of the smallest states in continental Africa. It is bordered by Senegal to the north, and Guinea to the south and east, with the Atlantic Ocean to its west....
Hasekura Tsunenaga Hasekura Tsunenaga Hasekura Rokuemon Tsunenaga was a Japanese people samurai and retainer of Date Masamune, the daimyo of Sendai.In the years 1613 through 1620, Hasekura headed a diplomatic mission to the Holy See in Rome, traveling through New Spain and visiting various ports-of-call in Europe....	Japanese	17th	Mexico Mexico The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico.... , Europe Europe Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....

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Andrés de Urdaneta Andrés de Urdaneta Andr?s de Urdaneta was an Augustinian friar, sail-captain and explorer. Regarded as one of the finest navigators ever, he is known for discovering and plotting a path across Pacific Ocean from the Philippines to Acapulco, Mexico , which came to be known as "Urdaneta's route."...	Spanish Spanish people Spanish people or Spaniards are a nation or ethnic group native to Spain, in the Iberian Peninsula of southwestern Europe. They are often considered an amalgam of different ethnic groups, rather than an ethnic group by itself....	16th	Manila Galleon Manila Galleon The Manila galleons or Manila-Acapulco galleons were Spain trading ships that Sailing once or twice per year across the Pacific Ocean between Manila in the Philippines and Acapulco, New Spain.... route

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Cayetano Valdés Cayetano Valdés y Flores File:Cayetano valdes.jpgCayetano Vald?s y Flores was a Spanish naval officer who served in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, fighting for both sides at different times due to the changing fortunes of Spain in the conflict....	Spanish	18th	Pacific Northwest Pacific Northwest The Pacific Northwest is a region in the northwest of North America . There are several partially overlapping definitions but the term Pacific Northwest should not be confused with the Northwest Territory or the Northwest Territories of Canada....
George Vancouver George Vancouver Captain George Vancouver Royal Navy was an officer in the Royal Navy, best known for his Vancouver Expedition, including the shores of the modern day Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon....	British British people The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....	18th	Pacific coast of North America
Pierre Gaultier de Varennes Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La V?rendrye was a French Canadian military officer, fur trader and explorer....	French Canadian French Canadian French Canadian refers to a nation or ethnic group of French people Kinship and Descent that originated in Canada, New France during the period of French colonization of the Americas beginning in the 17th century....	18th	western Canada Western Canada File:Western Canada2.svgWestern Canada, also referred to as the Western provinces and commonly as the West, is a list of regions of Canada generally including all parts of Canada west of the provinces and territories of Canada of Ontario....
Gonçalo Velho Gonçalo Velho Frei Gon?alo Velho Cabral, was a 15th century Portugal monk, explorer and settler of the Atlantic, one of the first discoverers of the Azores islands....	Portuguese Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....	15th	Azores Azores The Azores is a Portugal archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, about 1,500 km from Lisbon and about 3,900 km from the east coast of North America....
Giovanni da Verrazzano	Italian	early 16th	East Coast of the United States East Coast of the United States The East Coast of the United States, also known as the "Eastern Seaboard" or "Atlantic Seaboard", refers to the easternmost coastal states in the central and northern United States, which touch the Atlantic Ocean and stretch up to Canada....
Amerigo Vespucci Amerigo Vespucci Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer and cartographer. The continents of The Americas are popularly understood to derive their name from the Grammatical gender Latin version of his given name ....	Italian	15th/16th	eastern South America South America South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere.... n coast, Caribbean Caribbean The Caribbean is a region consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands , and the surrounding coasts. The region is located southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and Northern America, east of Central America, and to the north of South America....
Ruy López de Villalobos Ruy López de Villalobos Ruy L?pez de Villalobos , was a Spain List of explorers who sailed the Pacific from Mexico to establish a permanent foothold for Spain in the East Indies, which in 1543 were near to the Line of Demarcation of Portugal....	Spanish Spanish people Spanish people or Spaniards are a nation or ethnic group native to Spain, in the Iberian Peninsula of southwestern Europe. They are often considered an amalgam of different ethnic groups, rather than an ethnic group by itself....	16th	Pacific Ocean Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. Its name is derived from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portugal explorer Ferdinand Magellan.... , Philippines Philippines The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
Willem de Vlamingh Willem de Vlamingh Willem de Vlamingh was a Dutch people sea-captain who explored the southwest coast of Australia in the late 17th century.Vlamingh joined the VOC in 1688 and made his first voyage to Jakarta in the same year....	Flemish Flemish people The terms the Flemish people , and the Flemings or the Flemish denote the more than six million people of Flanders, the northern half of the country Belgium — and, as well, the majority of all Belgium; the terms Fleming and Flemings denote respectively a person and the people of that community.... /Dutch Dutch people The Dutch are the people native to the Netherlands, a country in north-western Europe.Dutch people, or descendants of Dutch people, are also found in migrant communities world wide,See the Dutch #Dutch diaspora. and form a mentionable part of the population of Canada,Australia, South Africa and the United States....	17th	southwest Australia Southwest Australia Southwest Australia is a biodiversity hotspot that includes the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub ecoregions of Western Australia. The region has a wet-winter, dry-summer Mediterranean climate, one of five such regions in the world.... n coast

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Jean-Frédéric Waldeck Jean-Frédéric Waldeck Jean-Fr?d?ric Maximilien de Waldeck was a France antiquarian, cartography, artist and explorer....	French French people French people can refer to:* The legal residents and citizens of France, regardless of ancestry. For a legal discussion, see French nationality law....	19th	Mesoamerica Mesoamerica Mesoamerica or Meso-America is a region and cultural area in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua, within which a number of pre-Columbian society flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries.... (Mayan remains)
Thomas Walker Thomas Walker (explorer) Dr. Thomas Walker was a medical doctor and explorer from Virginia who led an expedition to what is now the region beyond the Allegheny Mountains area of British North America in the mid-18th century....	British British people The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....	18th	eastern United States Eastern United States The Eastern Half of The United States, the American East, or simply the East is traditionally defined as the states east of the Mississippi River....
Langdon Warner Langdon Warner Langdon Warner was an art historian and Harvard Professor. He was one of the models for Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones. Explorer-agent of at the turn of the 20th Century, he studied the Silk Road...	American United States The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...	early 20th	the Silk Road Silk Road The Silk Road is an extensive interconnected network of trade routes across the Asian continent connecting East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean world, including North Africa and Europe....
Harry de Windt Harry de Windt Captain Harry Willes Darell de Windt was the aide-de-camp to his brother-in-law Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, Rajah of Sarawak , and is best known as an explorer and travel writer....	French	19th/20th	Eurasia Eurasia Eurasia is a large landmass covering about 53,990,000 km? or about 10.6% of the Earth's surface . Often considered a single continent, Eurasia comprises the traditional continents of Europe and Asia, concepts which date back to classical antiquity and the borders for which are somewhat arbitrary....

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John Young John Young (Hawaii) John Young was a Great Britain subject, and Royal Advisor to Kamehameha I in the Kingdom of Hawaii. He was accidentally left behind by Simon Metcalf, captain of the American ship Eleonora, and along with a Welshmen Isaac Davis became a friend and advisor to Kamehameha....	British	18th	Hawaii Hawaii File:Pahoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii.jpgThe State of Hawaii is a U.S. state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia....
Sir Francis Younghusband Francis Younghusband Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband Order of the Star of India Order of the Indian Empire was a British Army officer, List of explorers, and spiritual writer....	British British people The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....	19th/20th	central Asia Central Asia Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south....
Yermak Timofeyevich Yermak Timofeyevich Yermak Timofeyevich , Cossack leader and explorer of Siberia. His exploration of Siberia marked the beginning of the expansion of Russia towards this region and its colonization....	Russian Russians The Russian people are an East Slavs ethnic group, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries.The English language term Russians is used to refer to the citizens of Russia, regardless of their ethnicity ; in Russian language, the demonym Russian is translated as Rossiyanin ....	16th	Siberia Siberia Siberia , is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of North Asia and for the most part currently serving as the massive central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, having served in the same capacity previously for the Soviet Union from its beginning, and the Russian Empire beginning in the 16th century....

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Name	Nationality	Century	Main area/s explored
João Gonçalves Zarco João Gonçalves Zarco Jo?o Gon?alves Zarco, later Jo?o Gon?alves da C?mara de Lobos or simply Jo?o Gon?alves da C?mara was a Portugal navigator and explorer who organized the peopling and recognition of the Madeira Islands, and was designed 1st captain of Funchal by Prince Henry the Navigator....	Portuguese Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....	15th	Madeira Islands
Zhang Qian Zhang Qian Zhang Qian was an imperial envoy to the world outside of China in the 2nd century BCE, during the time of the Han Dynasty. He was the first official diplomat to bring back reliable information about Central Asia to the Chinese imperial court, then under Emperor Wu of Han, and played an important pioneering role in the Chinese colonization an...	Chinese China China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....	2nd BCE	central Asia Central Asia Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south....
Xuanzang Xuanzang Xuanzang [602 ? - 664] was a famous China Buddhist monk, scholar, traveler, and translator that brought up the interaction between History of China and History of India in the early Tang Dynasty period....	Chinese China China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....	7th	Indian subcontinent Indian subcontinent The Indian subcontinent is a large section of the Asian continent consisting of the land lying substantially on the Indian Plate. The subcontinent includes parts of various countries in South Asia, including those on the continental crust , an Island#Continental islands country on the continental shelf , and an Island#Oceanic islands countr... , Central Asia Central Asia Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south....
Zheng He Zheng He Zheng He , was a Hui people China mariner, exploration, diplomat and fleet admiral, who made the voyages collectively referred to as the travels of "Eunuch Sanbao to the Western Ocean" or "Zheng He to the Western Ocean", from 1405 to 1433....	Chinese Muslim Islam Islam is a Monotheism, Abrahamic religion originating with the teachings of the Prophets of Islam Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure....	15th	South Asia South Asia South Asia, also known as Southern Asia, is the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan countries and, for some authorities , also includes the adjoining countries on the west and the east.... , Southeast Asia Southeast Asia Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India and north of Australia.... , Middle East Middle East File:GreaterMiddleEast1.pngThe Middle East is a region that spans southwestern Asia, western Asia, and northeastern Africa. It has no clear boundaries, often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East.... , East Africa East Africa East Africa or Eastern Africa is the easterly region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. In the UN subregion, 19 territories constitute Eastern Africa:... n coast (possibly Americas Americas The Americas are the region of the Western hemisphere that consists of the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions.... )

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