LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Roald Amundsen	Explorer	16-Jul-1872	18-Jun-1928	First to reach South Pole
William Baffin	Explorer	c. 1584	23-Jan-1622	Tried to find North-West Passage
Sir Samuel White Baker	Explorer	8-Jun-1821	30-Dec-1893	Travelled to the source of the Nile
Vasco Nuñez de Balboa	Explorer	1475	12-Jan-1519	Discovered Pacific Ocean
Willem Barents	Explorer	c. 1550	20-Jun-1597	Dutch Arctic navigator
Vitus Bering	Explorer	1681	19-Dec-1741	Danish navigator in the Bering Sea
Hiram Bingham	Politician	19-Nov-1875	6-Jun-1956	US Senator, discovered Machu Picchu
Charles F. Brush III	Archaeologist	3-Apr-1923	1-Jun-2006	Explorers Club president 1978-81
Robert O'Hara Burke	Explorer	6-May-1820	28-Jun-1861	Tried to cross Australia
Sir Richard Burton	Explorer	19-Mar-1821	20-Oct-1890	Translated The Arabian Nights
Richard E. Byrd	Explorer	25-Oct-1888	11-Mar-1957	Arctic and Antarctic explorer
John Cabot	Explorer	c. 1450	1499	Discovered North America
Sebastian Cabot	Explorer	1476	1557	16th century Italian/English explorer
Alvise Cadamosto	Explorer	1432	18-Jul-1488	Discovered Cape Verde islands
René Caillié	Explorer	19-Sep-1799	17-May-1838	First European to return from Timbuktu
Kit Carson	Explorer	24-Dec-1809	23-May-1868	Frontiersman and Indian agent
Jacques Cartier	Explorer	1491	1-Sep-1557	Discovered St. Lawrence river
Thomas Cavendish	Explorer	1560	1592	Third global circumnavigator
Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix	Explorer	29-Oct-1682	1-Feb-1761	Jesuit explorer of America
William Clark	Explorer	1-Aug-1770	1-Sep-1838	Lewis and Clark expedition
Christopher Columbus	Explorer	1451	20-May-1506	Rediscovered the New World
James Cook	Explorer	27-Oct-1728	14-Feb-1779	Explorer of the South Pacific
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado	Explorer	c. 1510	22-Sep-1554	Discovered the Grand Canyon
Hernando Cortes	Explorer	1485	2-Dec-1547	Spanish Conquistador, conquered Mexico
Vasco da Gama	Explorer	c. 1469	24-Dec-1524	Portuguese explorer, conqueror, privateer
William Dampier	Explorer	1651	1715	New Voyage Round the World
John Davis	Explorer	c. 1550	29-Dec-1605	Discovered Falkland Islands
Juan Bautista de Anza	Explorer	Jul-1736	19-Dec-1788	Spanish explorer
Samuel de Champlain	Explorer	1567	25-Dec-1635	Namesake of Lake Champlain
Dixon Denham	Explorer	1-Jan-1786	8-May-1828	English explorer of Central Africa
Bartholomew Diaz	Explorer	c. 1450	29-May-1500	Found the Cape of Good Hope
Sir Francis Drake	Explorer	c. 1540	28-Jan-1596	Defeated Spanish Armada
Leif Ericsson	Explorer	fl. 11th c.	fl. 11th c.	European discoverer of Vinland
Erik the Red	Explorer	c. 950 AD	c. 1005 AD	Viking, explored Greenland
George Everest	Explorer	4-Jul-1790	1-Dec-1866	Namesake of Mt. Everest
David G. Fairchild	Botanist	7-Apr-1869	6-Aug-1954	Brought exotic plants to America
Ranulph Fiennes	Explorer	7-Mar-1944		World explorer
George Finch	Chemist	4-Aug-1888	22-Nov-1970	Oxygen for mountain climbing
John C. Fremont	Explorer	21-Jan-1813	13-Jul-1890	Conqueror of California
Francis Galton	Anthropologist	16-Feb-1822	17-Jan-1911	Word Association Test
John Oliver La Gorce	Explorer	1880	1949	Antarctica explorer, National Geographic editor
Hanno	Explorer	fl. 500 BC	fl. 500 BC	Navigated west coast of Africa
Samuel Hearne	Explorer	1745	Nov-1792	Explored the Hudson Bay area
Matthew Henson	Explorer	8-Aug-1866	9-Mar-1955	Possibly first to reach North Pole
Thor Heyerdahl	Explorer	6-Oct-1914	18-Apr-2002	Kon-Tiki
Edmund Hillary	Explorer	20-Jul-1919	11-Jan-2008	First to summit Mt. Everest
Friederich Konrad Hornemann	Explorer	1772	1801	First European to cross Sahara
Henry Hudson	Explorer	c. 1570	22-Jun-1611	Sought a Northeast Passage
Wilhelm Junker	Explorer	6-Apr-1840	13-Feb-1892	Reisen in Afrika
Eusebio Kino	Religion	10-Aug-1645	15-Mar-1711	Jesuit missionary to Mexico
Alexander Gordon Laing	Explorer	27-Dec-1793	26-Sep-1826	Explorer killed returning from Timbuktu
John Ledyard	Explorer	1751	10-Jan-1789	Explored Hawaii with Captain James Cook
Juan Ponce de León	Explorer	1460	1521	Sought the Fountain of Youth
Meriwether Lewis	Explorer	18-Aug-1774	11-Oct-1809	Lewis and Clark expedition
Carolus Linnaeus	Botanist	23-May-1707	10-Jan-1778	Created a taxonomy of the species
David Livingstone	Explorer	19-Mar-1813	1-May-1873	Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
Ferdinand Magellan	Explorer	1480	27-Apr-1521	Circumnavigated the globe
George Mallory	Explorer	18-Jun-1886	8-Jun-1924	Frozen for 75 years on Mt. Everest
James Marshall	Explorer	8-Oct-1810	10-Aug-1885	Discovered gold at Sutter's Mill
Fridtjof Nansen	Explorer	10-Oct-1861	13-May-1930	Polar explorer, Nobel Prize recipient
Jean Nicholas Nicollet	Explorer	24-Jul-1786	11-Sep-1843	Surveyor of the Mississippi basin
Tenzing Norgay	Explorer	15-May-1914	9-May-1986	With Edmund Hilllary on Everest
Mungo Park	Explorer	10-Sep-1771	1806	Scottish explorer of the Niger
Emin Pasha	Explorer	28-Mar-1840	23-Oct-1892	German colonial traveller in Africa
Robert E. Peary	Explorer	6-May-1856	20-Feb-1920	First to reach the North Pole
Zebulon Pike	Military	5-Jan-1779	27-Apr-1813	Lent his name to Pike's Peak
Francisco Pizarro	Explorer	c. 1471	26-Jun-1541	Conqueror of the Inca
Marco Polo	Explorer	c. 1254	8-Jan-1324	Travels of Marco Polo
John Wesley Powell	Geologist	24-Mar-1834	23-Sep-1902	Exploration of the Colorado River
Sir Walter Raleigh	Explorer	c. 1552	29-Oct-1618	Favorite of Queen Elizabeth I
Sacagawea	Explorer	c. 1787	20-Dec-1812	Lewis and Clark expedition translator
Robert Falcon Scott	Explorer	6-Jun-1868	29-Mar-1912	Led 2 expeditions to Antarctica
Ernest Shackleton	Explorer	15-Feb-1874	5-Jan-1922	Antarctic explorer
John Smith	Explorer	1580	21-Jun-1631	Founder of Jamestown Colony
Hernando de Soto	Explorer	1496	21-May-1542	Explored the Mississippi
Henry Morton Stanley	Explorer	28-Jan-1841	10-May-1904	Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
John Lloyd Stephens	Explorer	28-Nov-1805	12-Oct-1852	Incidents of Travel
John McDouall Stuart	Explorer	7-Sep-1815	5-Jun-1866	Explorer of South Australia
Charles Sturt	Explorer	28-Apr-1795	16-Jun-1869	Explorer of NSW and South Australia
John Augustus Sutter	Explorer	15-Feb-1803	18-Jun-1880	California gold rush
Abel Janszoon Tasman	Explorer	c. 1603	c. 1659	Discovered Tasmania and New Zealand
George Vancouver	Explorer	22-Jun-1757	10-May-1798	Surveyed the West coast of America
Giovanni da Verrazano	Explorer	1485	1528	Discovered New York Harbor
Amerigo Vespucci	Explorer	9-Mar-1454	22-Feb-1512	American eponym
Edward Whymper	Explorer	27-Apr-1840	16-Sep-1911	Scrambles among the Alps

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