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purpose of the list is to enable the reader to navigate between Wikipedia entries of diverse maritime explorers from a central encyclopedic point of reference.

ritime explorer is the noted leader of the expedition which primarily depends on a naval vessel

Ship

A ship is a large watercraft that floats on water. Ships are generally distinguished from boats based on size. Ships may be found on lakes, seas, and rivers and they allow for a variety of activities, such as the ferry or cargo ships, fishing, cruise ship, Coast guard, and warship....
mode of transportation to reach previously unknown or less known parts of the planet

Earth

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's maritime and coastal

Coast

The coast is defined as that part of the land adjoining or near the ocean or its saltwater arms. A precise line that can be called a coastline cannot be determined due to the process of tides....
regions.

Some explorers combined expeditionary roles with naturalist studies

Natural history

Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards the observational than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research that is published in magazines than in academic journals....
and scientific research, means of establishing communication with other populations, commercial trade

Trade

Tradeis the willing exchange of goods, Service , or both. Trade is also called commerce. A mechanism that allows trade is called a market. The original form of trade was barter , the direct exchange of goods and services....
, and military missions such as establishment of colonies

Chronology of colonialism

This is a non-exhaustive chronology of colonialism-related events, which may reflect political events, cultural events, and important global events that have influenced colonization and decolonization....
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Introduction

This is a list of notable maritime explorers throughout the history

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Purpose of the list

The purpose of the list is to enable the reader to navigate between Wikipedia entries of diverse maritime explorers from a central encyclopedic point of reference.

Definition

A maritime explorer is the noted leader of the expedition which primarily depends on a naval vessel

Ship

Earth

Coast

Natural history

Trade

Chronology of colonialism

List scope

Necessarily the list can only relate to individuals and their missions which used watercraft

Watercraft

A watercraft is a vehicle, vessel or craft designed to move across water, including saltwater and freshwater, for pleasure, recreation, physical exercise, commerce, transport and military missions....
for much of their duration. Maritime exploration has not diminished in importance with the emergence of the aircraft, and remains an important part of contemporary scientific research.

Although human maritime exploration is very ancient, only explorers known in recorded histories of their cultures are noted here. As such they represent three global maritime regions (in English alphabetic order): the 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....
, the 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 ....
and the 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....
and their sub-regional seas as points of origin of the exploration missions.

Notability criteria

The list includes explorers which had contributed, and continue to contribute to human knowledge of the planet's geography, weather, biodiversity, human cultures, the expansion of trade, or established communication between diverse populations.

Although many maritime explorers also used force as part of their missions, these are not considered as a reason for exclusion from the list because it represents a subjective contemporary view of the use of force.

Ocean explorers

Nationality	Sailed for	Name	First voyage of exploration	Last voyage of exploration	Indian 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 ....	Pacific	South Atlantic	Southern Southern Ocean The Southern Ocean, also known as the Great Southern Ocean, the Antarctic Ocean and the South Polar Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the World Ocean south of 60th parallel south latitude....
Portuguese		de Abreu, António António de Abreu Ant?nio de Abreu was a Portugal navigator and naval officer . He participated under Afonso de Albuquerque in the conquest of Ormus in 1507 and Malacca in 1511, where he was injured....
Portuguese		de Albuquerque, Afonso 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		de Alenquer,Pêro 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		de Almeida, Francisco 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		Álvares, Jorge 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		de Azambuja, Diogo 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		de Barcelos, Pêro 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....
Newfoundlander		Bartlett, Robert Robert Bartlett Captain Robert Abram Bartlett was a Newfoundland and Labrador navigator and Arctic explorer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries....
Estonian		von Bellingshausen, Fabian Gottlieb 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....				*
Danish		Bering, Vitus 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....				*
French		de Bougainville, Louis Antoine Louis Antoine de Bougainville Louis-Antoine, comte de Bougainville was a French admiral and explorer....
British		Byron, John John Byron Vice-Admiral John Byron, Royal Navy was an England vice-admiral. Byron was the sixth child of William Byron, 4th Baron Byron of Rochdale , and the third child William Byron had with his second wife Hon....
Italian	Henry VII of England Henry VII of England Henry VII was the Kingdom of England and Lordship of Ireland from his usurpation of the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death on 21 April 1509, as the first monarch of the Tudor dynasty....	Cabot, John 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	Henry VII of England Henry VII of England Henry VII was the Kingdom of England and Lordship of Ireland from his usurpation of the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death on 21 April 1509, as the first monarch of the Tudor dynasty.... and Ferdinand II of Aragon Ferdinand II of Aragon Ferdinand the Catholic was king of Aragon , Sicily , Naples , Valencia , Sardinia and Navarre, Count of Barcelona, de jure uxoris King of Crown of Castile and then Regent of that country also from 1508 to his death, in the name of his mentally unstable daughter Joanna the Mad....	Cabot, Sebastian Sebastian Cabot (explorer) Sebastian Cabot was an Italy List of explorers, probably born in Venice....
Portuguese		Cabral, Pedro Álvares 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		Cabrilho, João Rodrígues 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....
		Cadamosto. Alvise 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....
Portuguese		Caminha, Álvaro 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		de Caminha, Pêro Vaz Pêro Vaz de Caminha P?ro Vaz de Caminha...
Portuguese		Cão,Diogo 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 ....
		Cartier, Jacques 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....
		Cavendish, Thomas 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...
		de Champlain, Samuel 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....
Portuguese		Coelho, Gonçalo Gonçalo Coelho Gon?alo Coelho , Portugal explorer of the South Atlantic and of the South American coast ....
Portuguese		Coelho, Nicolau 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....
Italian	Spain	Columbus, Christopher 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....
English	Britain	Cook, James 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....	1768–71	1776–79		3		1
Portuguese		Corte-Real, Gaspar 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		Corte-Real, Miguel 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		da Cunha, Tristão 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....
		Dampier, William William Dampier William Dampier was an England buccaneer, sea captain, author and scientific observer. He was the first Englishman to explore or map parts of New Holland and New Guinea....
English		Davis, John John Davis (English explorer) John Davis , was one of the chief England navigators and explorers under Elizabeth I of England, especially in Polar regions....
		Dezhnev, Semyon Semyon Dezhnev Semion Ivanovich Dezhnyov was a Russians explorer who in 1648 led the expedition that doubled the known extent of the easternmost promontory of the Eurasian continent and discovered that Asia is not connected to Alaska....				*
Portuguese		Dias, Bartolomeu 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		Dias, Dinis Dinis Dias Dinis Dias was a 15th century Portugal List of explorers.In 1445, as Dias was beginning to enter old age and made the decision to take up exploring because "he was unwilling to let himself grow soft in the well being of repose", left Portugal and sailed down the West African coast, setting a new record by reaching a point about 800 kilometr...
Portuguese		Dias, Diogo Diogo Dias Diogo Dias, also known as Diogo Gomes, was a 15th century Portugal explorer. He was the brother of Bartolomeu Dias and discovered some of the Cape Verde islands together with Ant?nio Noli....
Portuguese		Dias, Pêro Pêro Dias P?ro Dias was a Portugal explorer of the African coast. He accompanied his brother Bartolomeu Dias on his journey around the Cape of Good Hope in 1487/1488, having commanded the supply-ship....
Portuguese		do Pó, Fernão 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....
		Drake,Francis 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....	1577–81	1577–81	1	1	1
Portuguese		Eanes, Gil 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....
		Ericson, Leif 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,...
Spanish		Escobar, Pedro 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		Fernandes, António
		Frobisher, Martin Martin Frobisher Sir Martin Frobisher was an England seaman who made three voyages to the New World to look for the Northwest Passage. All landed in northeastern Canada, around today's Resolution Island and Frobisher Bay....
Portuguese		da Gama, Estêvão 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		da Gama, Paulo 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		da Gama, Vasco 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....
		Gilbert, Humfry
		Golovnin, Vasily Vasily Golovnin Vasily Mikhailovich Golovnin , Russian navigator, Vice Admiral, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg ....				*
Portuguese		Gonçalves, André 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		Gonçalves, Antão 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		Gonçalves, Lopes Lopes Gonçalves Lopes Gon?alves Portugal explorer of the Atlantic, the first to cross the Equator in 1473....
Portuguese		Grego, João 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....
Chinese		He, Zheng 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....				*
		Hudson, Henry 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....
Portuguese		Infante, João 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....
		von Kotzebue, Otto Otto von Kotzebue Otto von Kotzebue , was a Baltic German navigator in Russian service.The second son of August von Kotzebue, he was born at Tallinn , then part of the Russian Empire....				*
		Kruzenshtern, Ivan Fedorovich				*
Portuguese		Lavrador, João Fernandes
		Lazarev, Mikhail Petrovich Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev was a Russian Naval fleet commander and explorer, and Admiral ....				*
Portuguese		de Lemos, Gaspar 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....
		Litke, Fyodor Petrovich Fyodor Petrovich Litke Count Fyodor Petrovich Litke was a Russian navigator, geographer, and Arctic explorer. He became a count in 1866, and an admiral in 1855. He was a Corresponding Member , Honorable Member , and President of the Russian Academy of Science in St.Petersburg....				*
Portuguese		Magellan, Ferdinand 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....
		le Maire, Jacob Jacob Le Maire Jacob Le Maire was a Dutch Republic mariner, who circumnavigated the earth in 1615-16. The strait between Tierra del Fuego and Staten Island, Argentina was named the Le Maire Strait in his honor, however, not without controversy....
Portuguese		Martins, Álvaro 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		Mascarenhas, Pedro 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		de Mendaña, Álvaro
		Noli, António 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		de Noronha, Fernão 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		da Nova, João João da Nova Jo?o da Nova or Juan de Nova was a Portugal List of explorers of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean....
		Paulmyer, Binot
Portuguese		Pereira, Duarte Pacheco 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		Perestrelo, Bartolomeu 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 ....
		Pining, Didrik Didrik Pining Didrik Pining was a Germany or Norwegian-born privateer. He is most notable because of claims of his discovering North America in 1473, almost twenty years before Christopher Columbus....
Portuguese		Pinto, Fernão Mendes 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		Pires, Luís 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		de Queirós, Pedro Fernandes
Portuguese		Rodrigues, Diogo 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		de Santarém, João João de Santarém Jo?o de Santar?m Portugal explorer that discovered S?o Tom? and Pr?ncipe together with Pedro Escobar....
		Schouten, Willem Willem Schouten Willem Cornelisz Schouten was a Netherlands navigator.In 1615 Willem Cornelisz Schouten and Jacob le Maire sailed from Texel in the Netherlands, in command of an expedition sponsored by Isaac Le Maire and his Australische Compagnie in equal shares with Schouten....
Portuguese		Silves, Diogo
Portuguese		de Sintra, Pedro
Portuguese		Soromenho, Sebastião Rodrígues Sebastián Rodríguez Cermeño Sebasti?n Rodr?guez Cerme?o was a Portugal explorer, born in Sesimbra , known as Sebasti?o Rodrigues Soromenho in Portuguese, appointed by the king Philip II to sail along the shores of California, in the years 1594-1595, in order to map the American west coast line and define the maritime routes of the Pacific Ocean in the 16th...
Portuguese		de Sousa, Martim Afonso 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....
		Tasman, Abel 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 ....
Portuguese		Teixeira, Tristão Vaz 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 ....
		de Torres, Luis Váez 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 ....
Portuguese		Tristão, Nuno 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....
		Vancouver, George 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....
Portuguese		Vaz Corte-Real, João 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		Velho, Gonçalo 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....
		da Verrazzano, Giovanni
Italian		Vespucci, Amerigo
		Wallis, Samuel Samuel Wallis Samuel Wallis was a Cornwall navigator who circumnavigated the world.Wallis was born near Camelford, Cornwall. In 1766 he was given the command of HMS Dolphin to circumnavigate the world, accompanied by the Swallow under the command of Philip Carteret....
		Wrangel, Ferdinand Petrovich				*
Portuguese		Zarco, João Gonçalves 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....

List of maritime explorers

Introduction

Purpose of the list

Definition

List scope

Notability criteria

Ocean explorers

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