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B Pierre Savorgan de Brazza Italian explorer naturalized French. French Congo 's founder.Vasco Núñez de Balboa , (c. 1475 -1519 ), Spanish , first to sight the Pacific Ocean , founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent.William Baffin , (1584 -1622 )Samuel Baker , AfricaHeinrich Barth (1821 -1865 ), Northern and Central AfricaWillem Barents , (1550 ?-1597 ), Dutch , died on Novaya Zemlya Northeast Passage George Bass - Australian explorerAbu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta , (1304 ?-1377 ?), Moroccan Berber Muslim, visited Mecca several times, travelled to Central Asia , East Africa , China , Tombouctou and other placesNicolas Baudin - 18th century French explorer, mapped the West Australian coastline.Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen , Russian explorerMoric Benovsky , Slovak Vitus Bering Vittorio Bottego (1860,1897), Italian explorer of the Giuba region in north-east AfricaSaint Brendan - Irish abbot who sailed the Atlantic Ocean James Bruce William Bruce , (1867-1921) Scottish explorer of AntarcticaRichard Francis Burton , (1821 -1890 ), looking for the source of the Nile , discovered Lake Tanganyika Richard E. Byrd , (1888 -1957 ), flew over South Pole
C John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) - Italian navigator in English service, crossed the Atlantic Ocean to North America Pedro Alvares Cabral , (c. 1467-c. 1520), Portuguese navigator, discovered Brazil and Madagascar Alvise Cadamosto (1432-1488), Venetian explorerDiogo Cao , (15th century ), Portuguese navigator, explored the area around the West African coastJacques Cartier , (1491-1557), discovered the St. Lawrence River and sailed up it to Montreal ; failed in an attempt to set up a colonyThomas Cavendish , (died 1592), English sailor and explorer.Samuel de Champlain , (c. 1567-1635), established the French colony in Canada ; discovered the Great Lakes William Clark , (1770-1838), with Meriwether Lewis led the first American expedition to reach the west coast.Christopher Columbus , (1451-1506), reached America looking for a searoute to the Indies ; discovered various lands and islands and established a colony on Hispaniola James Cook , (1728-1779), explored the Pacific , discovering or mapping many lands and islandsFrancisco Vasquez de Coronado , (c. 1510-1554), explored New Mexico and American southwestHernán Cortés , (1485-1547), conquered the Aztec empire in Mexico ; sent out expeditions to Baja California Juan de la Cosa
D Jacques-Yves Cousteau , (died 1997), French marine biologist and explorerAlexandra David-Néel , (1868-1969), French explorer, visited Lhasa , Tibet in 1924Harry de Windt Explorer, adventurer and author.Semyon Dezhnev , Russian explorer, first European who sailed through Bering Strait Bartolomeu Dias , (1450-1500), Portuguese explorer who first rounded the Cape of Good Hope .David Douglas , Scottish explorer, botanistSir Francis Drake , (c. 1540-1596), pirate, leader of the second circumnavigation Jules Dumont d'Urville , (1790-1842), explorer of the Pacific and Antarctica
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G Yuri Gagarin first man in Space and Cosmonaut Juan Galindo (1802-1839) explorer of Central American ruinsVasco da Gama , (1469?-1524), Portuguese navigator, first to reach India from Europe by the sea routeThomas Gann , explorerFrancis Garnier , (1839-1873), Mekong River Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye , (1685-1749), explorerRomolo Gessi ( (1831, 1881)), Italian explorer of the Nile and of Sudan Ernest Giles , (1835-1897),explorer of central Australia James Augustus Grant , (1827-1892), Scottish officer and explorer, explored the eastern equatorial Africa
H Hanno the Navigator - ancient Egyptian who travelled along the Red Sea to a land called Punt Hannu , ancient Egyptian explorer (around 2750 BC) and the first explorer of whom there is any knowledgeSven Hedin , (1865-1952), Swedish explorer of Central Asia Louis Hennepin - discoverer of Niagara Falls and the Saint Anthony Falls (the only waterfall on the Mississippi )Bjarni Herjulfsson - Viking , probable discoverer of North America Thor Heyerdahl , (1914-2002), Norwegian explorerSir Edmund Hillary , with Tenzing Norgay was the first person to the summit of Mount Everest Himilco the Navigator , Carthaginian navigatorWilliam Hovell - Australian explorerHenry Hudson , (died 1570), discovered the Hudson River and sailed up it to Albany , discovered Hudson Bay Alexander von Humboldt , (1769-1859), German naturalist, explored Central and South America , visited Siberia Hamilton Hume - Australian explorer
I Helge Ingstad , (1899-2001), Norwegian, Danish explorer, Governor of GreenlandIbn Battuta , (1304-1377), Moroccan explorer of Africa and Asia, author of the Rihla Ibn Rustah , 10th century Persian explorer of Russia, Scandinavia and Arabia.
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L Richard Lemon Lander (1804-1834)Jean François La Pérouse , (1741-1788), French explorer of the PacificRené Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle , (1643-1687), French explorer of the Mississippi basinAlbert von Le Coq , (1860-1930), German explorer of Central Asia Miguel López de Legaspi , Spanish explorer of the Philippines and Mexico Ludwig Leichhardt , (1813-1848), Prussian explorer of Australia Dragutin Lerman , (1863-1918), Croatia , (Congo , Africa )Meriwether Lewis , (1774-1809), leader of the first American expedition to cross the continentDavid Livingstone , (1813-1873), Scottish explorer of south and east Africa , determined the course of the Zambesi , discovered Lake Nyasa
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N Fridtjof Nansen , (1861-1930), arctic explorer , scientist and international statesmanNehsi , ancient Egyptian explorer in service of Egyptian queen Hatshepsut Jean Nicolet , (1628-1642), early French explorer of the Old Northwest Joseph Nicollet , (1786-1843), explorer of the Upper Mississippi River and Missouri River Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld , (1832-1901), arctic explorer Tenzing Norgay , with Sir Edmund Hillary was the first person to the summit of Mount Everest Hugh McNeil, Lewis and Clark Party member
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P Mungo Park (1771-1806), Scottish explorer of Western Equatorial AfricaWilliam Parry , (1790-1855), Arctic explorerRobert Edwin Peary , (1856-1920), first man to reach the North Pole Paul Pelliot , French explorer of Central Asia Auguste Piccard , (1884-1962), physicist and explorerJacques Piccard , (born 1922), undersea explorerZebulon Pike , (1779-1813), explored Louisiana Purchase , Pikes Peak Alonso Alvarez de Pineda , (1494?-1519?)Martin Alonzo Pinzón (1441?-1493)Vicente Yáñez Pinzón (1460? - after 1523)Francisco Pizarro , (1471-1541), conqueror of the Inca EmpirePeter Pond , (c. 1739 - 1807), Northwest CanadaMarco Polo , (1254-1323), Croatia , travelled to China in the 13th century Gaspar de Portolá (fl. 1734-1784), explored California John Wesley Powell , (1834-1902), explorer, environmentalistNicholas Michailovitch Prjevalsky , (1839-1888), Russian explorer in central and eastern AsiaNathaniel Pryor , (c. 1785-1850), US explorerPytheas , Greek explorer who visited Britain and other north and northwest European countries
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S René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle , (1643-1687) French merchant and explorer, explored Great Lakes , navigated Mississippi and looked for its deltaRobert Falcon Scott , (1868-1912), reached the South Pole less than one month after Amundsen, but died on the return voyageTibor Sekelj Croatia, South AmericaMirko Seljan (1821-1912?(3)), Croatia ,( Ethiopia , South America )Stjepan Seljan (1873-1936), Croatia , (Ethiopia , South America )Scylax of Caryanda - a Greek explorer sent by the king of Persia to sail down the Indus River and around Arabia to Egypt Ernest Shackleton , (1874-1922), attempted to reach the South Pole and went further south than anyone before himHernando de Soto , (died 1542), explorerJohn Hanning Speke , (1827-1864), discovered Lake Victoria Henry Morton Stanley , (1841-1904), successfully searched for Livingstone in Africa; later explored Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika and the Congo River William Stairs , (1863-1892), Victorian explorer, discovered one source of the Nile River , first non-African to ever climb in the Ruwenzori .Marc Aurel Stein , Hungarian explorer of Central Asia John Lloyd Stephens (1805-1852) explored Middle East, Central AmericaJohn McDouall Stuart (1815-1866), Scottish explorer of inland Australia Charles Sturt - Australian explorerSir Paul Edmund Strzelecki , (1793-1873), Polish explorer and geologist Ignacije Szentmartony (1718-1793), Croatia (Jesuit , astronomer ), Amazon , Brasil
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V George Vancouver , (1757-1798), British Royal Navy captain ; explored the Pacific coast of North America , naming many locations in the Pacific Northwest .Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye (1685-1749), French Canadian military officer, fur trader and explorer, explored Western Canada Giovanni da Verrazano , (died 1528), sea explorerAmerigo Vespucci , (1454-1512), discovered other parts of America and gave his name to the new continentRuy López de Villalobos . Spanish; explored the Pacific and the Philippines , which he named after Philip II of Spain Willem de Vlamingh (1640 -?). Dutch; in 1696 and 1697 he charted the coast of north-west Australia.
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Explorer-I , officially known as Satellite 1958 Alpha, was the first United States earth satellite and was sent aloft as part of the United States program for the International Geophysical Year 1957-1958. The satellite instrumentation of Explorer-I was designed and built by Dr. James Van Allen of the State University of Iowa. Explorer-I was placed in an orbit with a perigee of 224 miles and an apogee of 1,575 miles having a period of 114.9 minutes.
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