Famous Explorers - Biography, Life, Interesting Facts

• Lawrence Hargrave

  Engineer

  England, United Kingdom

• Amerigo Vespucci

  Explorer

  Tuscany, Italy

• Alfred Russel Wallace

  Anthropologist

  Wales, United Kingdom

• Charles Sturt

  Explorer

  West Bengal, India

• Matthew Henson

  Explorer

  Maryland, United States of America

• David Livingstone

  Explorer Missionary

  South Lanarkshire, United Kingdom

• Jacques Cartier

  Explorer

  Brittany, France

• Jan van Riebeeck

  Explorer

  Gelderland, Netherlands

• Ibn Battuta

  Explorer

  Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, Morocco

• Robert Falcon Scott

  Navy

  England, United Kingdom

• Matthew Flinders

  Explorer

  Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

• Kit Carson

  Military Leader

  Kentucky, United States of America

• James Oglethorpe

  Explorer

  England, United Kingdom

• Richard Francis Burton

  Explorer

  Devon, United Kingdom

• Stephen Austin

  Military Leader

  Virginia, United States of America

• Nikolay Przhevalsky

  Geographer

  Smolensk Oblast, Russia

• John Hanning Speke

  Explorer

  England, United Kingdom

• Knud Rasmussen

  Explorer

  Avannaata, Greenland

• Sir Ernest Shackleton

  Explorer

  Kildare, Republic of Ireland

• Meriwether Lewis

  Explorer

  Virginia, United States of America

• Bernard Moitessier

  Explorer

  Vietnam

• Douglas Mawson

  Geologist

  England, United Kingdom

• Elon Musk

  Entrepreneur

  Gauteng, South Africa

• Jacques Cousteau

  Explorer

  Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

• Robert Peary

  Explorer

  Pennsylvania, United States of America

• William Clark

  Explorer

  Virginia, United States of America

• Daniel Boone

  Explorer

  Pennsylvania, United States of America

• Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye

  Explorer

  Quebec, Canada

• James Cook

  Explorer

  England, United Kingdom

• Francis Galton

  Inventor

  England, United Kingdom

• Edmund Hillary

  Mountaineer

  New Zealand

• Walter Raleigh

  Writer

  England, United Kingdom

• John Smith

  Explorer

  Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

• Roald Amundsen

  Explorer

  Østfold, Norway

• Neil Armstrong

  Astronaut

  Ohio, United States of America

• Mungo Park

  Explorer

  Scotland, United Kingdom

• William Adams

  Explorer

  England, United Kingdom

• Edward Hammond Hargraves

  Explorer

  England, United Kingdom

• Jacob Roggeveen

  Explorer

  Zeeland, Netherlands

• John Wesley Powell

  Explorer

  New York, United States of America

• Henry Morton Stanley

  Explorer

  Wales, United Kingdom

• Sven Hedin

  Explorer

  Sodermanland?, Sweden

• Calamity Jane

  Explorer

  Missouri, United States of America

• Henry The Navigator

  Explorer

  Norte, Portugal

• William Kidd

  Explorer

  Scotland, United Kingdom

• Jacques Marquette

  Explorer

  Hauts-de-France,, France

• Samuel de Champlain

  Diplomat

  Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

• Hernando de Soto

  Explorer

  Badajoz, Spain

• Francisco Vázquez de Coronado

  Explorer

  Salamanca, Spain

• Hernán Cortés

  Military Leader

  Badajoz, Spain

• Vasco da Gama

  Explorer

  Alentejo, Portugal

• Henry Hudson

  Explorer

  England, United Kingdom

• Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

  Explorer

  Cádiz, Spain

• Peter Stuyvesant

  Explorer

  Friesland, Netherlands

• John White

  Illustrator

  England, United Kingdom

• Squanto

  Explorer

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• Juan Ponce de León

  Explorer

  Valladolid, Spain

• Vasco Núñez de Balboa

  Explorer

  Castile, Spain

• Miguel Corte Real

  Explorer

  Portugal

• Marco Polo

  Explorer

  Veneto, Italy

• Sacagawea

  Explorer

  Idaho, United States of America

• Peter Minuit

  Explorer

  North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

• Francis Drake

  Explorer

  England, United Kingdom

• Martin Frobisher

  Explorer

  West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

• Pedro de Alvarado

  Conquistador

  Extremadura, Spain

• Bartolomeu Dias

  Explorer

  Faro District, Portugal

• John Cabot

  Explorer

  Lazio Region, Italy

• Erik the Red

  Explorer

  Rogaland, Norway

• Leif Erikson

  Explorer

  Iceland

• Hugh Glass

  Explorer

  Pennsylvania, United States of America

• Giovanni da Verrazzano

  Explorer

  Tuscany, Italy

• Ferdinand Magellan

  Explorer

  Vila Real, Portugal

• Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo

  Explorer

  Córdoba, Spain

• Louis Joliet

  Explorer

  Quebec, Canada

• Annie Edson Taylor

  Explorer

  New York, United States Of America

• René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle

  Explorer

  Normandy, France

• Reinhold Messner

  Explorer

  South Tyrol, Italy

• Fletcher Christian

  Explorer

  England, United Kingdom

• Richard Byrd

  Explorer

  Virginia, United States Of America

• Gonzalo Pizarro

  Governor

  Cáceres, Spain

• John Galt

  Author

  Scotland, United Kingdom

• George Rogers Clark

  Explorer

  Virginia, United States

• John Lloyd Stephens

  Academic

  New Jersey, united states of America

• Christopher Columbus

  Explorer

  Liguria, Italy

• David Livingstone

  Explorer

  South Lanarkshire, United Kingdom

• Ernest Shackleton

  Explorer

  County Kildare, Ireland

• Gertrude Bell

  Academic

  England, United Kingdom