Famous Explorers

Famous Explorers

Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus (1450 - 1506)

Italian explorer

James Cook

James Cook (1728 - 1779)

British explorer and captain in the Royal Navy

Ernest Shackleton

Ernest Shackleton (1874 - 1922)

Irish explorer

John Smith

John Smith (1580 - 1631)

English explorer and soldier

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone (1734 - 1820)

American explorer and frontiersman

Ibn Battuta

Ibn Battuta (1304 - 1369)

Moroccan explorer

Samuel De Champlain

Samuel De Champlain (1574 - 1635)

French explorer, navigator, cartographer and geographer

Thor Heyerdahl

Thor Heyerdahl (1914 - 2002)

Norwegian explorer

Henry Hudson

Henry Hudson (1565 - 1611)

English explorer

Roald Amundsen

Roald Amundsen (1872 - 1928)

Norwegian explorer

John Chapman

John Chapman (1774 - 1845)

American missionary and explorer

Henry Morton Stanley

Henry Morton Stanley (1841 - 1904)

Welsh-American explorer and journalist

Richard Francis Burton

Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)

British explorer, diplomat and author

Amerigo Vespucci

Amerigo Vespucci (1454 - 1512)

Italian explorer

Matthew Henson

Matthew Henson (1866 - 1955)

American explorer

Ed Stafford

Ed Stafford (45)

British explorer

Robert Peary

Robert Peary (1856 - 1920)

American explorer

Fridtjof Nansen

Fridtjof Nansen (1861 - 1930)

Norwegian explorer

Vitus Bering

Vitus Bering (1681 - 1741)

Danish explorer

Jacques Cartier

Jacques Cartier (1491 - 1557)

French explorer

Louis Jolliet

Louis Jolliet (1645 - 1700)

Canadian explorer

Floyd Collins

Floyd Collins (1887 - 1925)

American explorer

Frederick Cook

Frederick Cook (1865 - 1940)

American explorer and physician

Wilfred Thesiger

Wilfred Thesiger (1910 - 2003)

British explorer

Walter Raleigh

Walter Raleigh (1552 - 1618)

English writer, poet, soldier, courtier and explorer

Knud Rasmussen

Knud Rasmussen (1879 - 1933)

Danish explorer and anthropologist

David Fairchild

David Fairchild (1869 - 1954)

American explorer

James Augustus Grant

James Augustus Grant (1827 - 1892)

Scottish explorer

Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 - 1913)

British geographer, biologist, and explorer