List Of Explorers

The motivations of the explorers were very diverse in history. A small number of them were only interested in the scientific discovery of the Earth, but as many of them sought out all kinds of advantages: the conquest of new land, greed, converting people visited, seeking political alliances, leak, etc..

Here is a list of known explorers, sorted alphabetically by their names Principal:

A

• Antonio de Abreu (Portuguese, c. 1480-early ^XVI), explored the islands of Sunda and discovered Timor.
• Alberto Mara De Agostini (Italian, 1883-1960), explored the Salesian missionary Patagonia and particularly the Tierra del Fuego.
• Lope de Aguirre (Spanish, c. 1510-1561), explored the Amazon River.
• Dionisio Alcal Galiano (Spanish, 1760-1805), explored the northwestern coast of America.
• Afonso de Albuquerque (Portuguese, 1453-1515), explored the Red Sea , the Persian Gulf and the coast of Malabar.
• Diego de Almagro (Spanish, c. 1475-1538), explored and conquered the Inca empire.
• Francisco de Almeida (Portuguese, v. 1450-1510), explored the coasts of East Africa, Ceylon and Madagascar.
• Pedro de Alvarado (Spanish, c. 1495-1541), explored the Guatemala.
• Roald Amundsen (Norwegian, 1872-1928), passed the first on the Northwest Passage and reached the South Pole.

B

• William Baffin (English, 1584-1622), explored the Arctic Ocean and discovered the Baffin Sea.
• Vasco Nez de Balboa (Spanish, c. 1475-1519), explored the Panama , discovered the Pacific Ocean.
• Afonso Gonalves de Antona Baldaya (Portuguese, 14? -1481), Gil Eanes accompanies when it exceeds the cap Bojador , crossed the Tropic of Cancer and discovered the Ro de Oro
• Willem Barents (Dutch, c. 1550-1597), explored the Arctic Ocean , and discovered Spitsbergen and Novaya Zemlya. A Wed bears his name.
• Heinrich Barth (German, 1821-1865), explored the Sahara and Sahel
• Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892), explored the Amazon.
• Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta (Morocco, v. 1304-1377), explored the Mali Empire , the Africa to Timbuktu , the Iran , the India and China.
• Nicolas Baudin (French, 1754-1803), explored the coasts of Australia.
• Sebastian Belalcazar (Spanish, c. 1480-1551), explored the Colombia and Ecuador.
• Vitus Bering (Danish, 1681-1741), explored the Kamchatka , discovered the Bering Strait.
• Joseph-Elzear Bernier (Canadian, 1852-1934), explored and took possession of the Arctic Islands on behalf of Canada.
• Jean de Bethencourt (French, c. 1360-1425), discovered the Canary Islands
• Louis-Gustave Binger (French, 1856-1935), explored the Ivory Coast and Upper Volta.
• Bonvalot Gabriel (French, 1853-1933), crossed Central Asia from Siberia to Tonkin in 1889 - 1890.
• Bottego Vittorio (Italian, 1860-1897), explored the Ethiopia and Somalia.
• Louis Antoine de Bougainville (French, 1729-1811), explored the Polynesia and Melanesia then taken to the King the Falkland Islands
• Daniel Boone (American, 1734-1820), explored the Kentucky and then he opened the first known trail between North Carolina and Tennessee.
• Savorgnan Pierre de Brazza (French, 1852-1905), explored the equatorial Africa (the Ogoou ), Congo.
• Saint Brendan (Irish, 484-578), explored the Atlantic Ocean.
• James Bruce (Scottish, 1730-1794), explored the Sudan and Ethiopia.
• tienne Brl (French, c. 1592-1630), explored the Great Lakes.
• Richard Francis Burton (Scottish, 1821-1890), discovered Lake Tanganyika.
• Richard Byrd (American, 1888-1957), explored the Antarctic.
• John Byron (1723-1786), explored the Pacific in 1764 - 1767.

C

• Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (Spanish, 1507-1559), explored the Louisiana , the Texas , northern Mexico and the river Paraguay.
• John Cabot (Italian, c. 1450-1499), discovered Newfoundland.
• Sebastian Cabot (1476-1557), recognized the Rio de la Plata.
• Pedro Alvares Cabral (Portuguese, v. 1467-1520), discovered Brazil.
• Ren Caill (French, 1799-1838), explored the Sahara , the Senegal and the Sudan and reached Timbuktu.
• Verney Lovett Cameron (English, 1844-1894), explored the African Central and Eastern Europe.
• Diogo Co (Portugal, late ^fifteenth), discovered the mouth of the Congo.
• Philip Carteret (English, 1733-1796), starts with Samuel Wallis , discovered the Pitcairn Islands and ends his world tour.
• Jacques Cartier (French, 1491-1557), the Labrador and Gaspe. Entered the West Indies up the river St. Lawrence to the site of Montreal. Named the Mount Royal , the beginning of Montreal.
• Rene Robert Cavelier de La Salle (French, 1643-1687), explored the Great Lakes , the Mississippi to its mouth, and Texas.
• Samuel de Champlain (French, 1580-1635), explored the West Indies , sailed up the St. Lawrence River , the Lake Champlain (he named it) and Lake Huron called it La Mer Douce.
• Jean-Baptiste Charcot (French, 1867-1936), explored the Arctic Ocean and the coasts of Antarctica.
• Hugh Clapperton (1788-1827), explored the Chad and Niger with Dixon Denham in 1823 - 1824.
• George Claraz (Switzerland, 1832-1930), explored the province of Buenos Aires, the Pampas , and discovered in September 1865 Patagonia north.
• William Clark (American, 1770-1838), explored the western United States to the Pacific Ocean.
• Christopher Columbus (Genoa, 1451-1506), reached the New World , discovered the Caribbean and Central America.
• Nicolo de 'Conti (Italian, c. 1395-1469), explored the India , the Malaya and Java.
• James Cook (British, 1728-1779), explored the Pacific and the coasts of Australia , discovered New Caledonia , Hawaii.
• Francisco Hernndez de Crdoba (Spanish, c. 1475-1526), explored the Nicaragua.
• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (Spanish, c. 1510-1554), explored the New Mexico and Arizona.
• Gaspar Corte-Real (Portuguese, v. 1450-1501), discovered Greenland and explored the coasts of Canada.
• Joo Vaz Corte-Real (Portuguese? -1496), potentially discoverer of Newfoundland
• Miguel Corte-Real (Portuguese, v. 1448-1502), explored the coasts of Canada.
• Hernn Corts (Spanish, 1485-1547), discovered and conquered the Aztec empire , exploring the Baja.
• Jacques-Yves Cousteau (French, 1910-1997), explored the oceans and the seabed.
• Guillaume Couture (French, c. 1618-1701), explored the territory of New France , notably the north to the Rupert River.
• Pedro da Covilha (Portugal, v. 1460-1526), explored the Ethiopia and the coast of Malabar.
• Crevaux Jules (French, 1847-1882), explored the Guianas ( French Guiana , Guyana and Suriname ) and the Orinoco.
• Andrew Croft (1906-1998)
• Tristan da Cunha (Portuguese, v. 1460-1540), explored the coasts of Mozambique and Madagascar , and discovered the Tristan da Cunha.

D

• William Dampier (English, 1651-1715), explored the coasts of New Guinea , to Australia and North West.
• Alexandra David-Neel (French, 1868-1969), explored the Tibet.
• John Davis (English, c. 1550-1605), discovered the west coast of Greenland and the Davis Strait in 1585.
• Dixon Denham (1786-1828), explored the Chad and Niger with Hugh Clapperton in 1823 - 1824.
• Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese, v. 1450-1500), discovered the Cape of Good Hope.
• Dinis Dias (Portuguese, ^XV), discovered the Cape Verde and the island of Goree ( Senegal ).
• Dias Diogo (Portuguese, v. 1450-v. 1500), explored the Indian Ocean.
• Bernal Daz del Castillo (Spanish, c. 1495-1582), explored the Mexican.
• Juan Daz de Sols (Spanish, 1470-1516), discovered the Ro de la Plata.
• Francis Drake (English, c. 1540-1596), completed the second round of the world.
• Jules Dumont d'Urville (French, 1790-1842), explored the Melanesia , the coast of Antarctica , discovered the southern lands Louis Philippe and Joinville and Adelie Land.
• Jules Leon Dutreuil of Rhins (French, 1846-1894), explored the Tibet and Central Asia.
• Duveyrier Henri (French, 1840-1892), explored the Sahara ( Touggourt and Ghadames ).

E

• Gil Eanes (Portuguese, ^XV), exceeded the cap Bojador.
• Juan Sebastin Elcano (Spanish, 1476-1526), completed the first round the world
• Antoine Bruny d'Entrecasteaux (French, 1737-1793), explored the Melanesia and the coasts of Australia.
• Erik the Red (Norwegian, v. 950-1003), discovered Greenland.
• Leif Ericson (Icelandic, late ^{tenth-early eleventh),} discovered the North America.
• Stanislas Escayrac Lauture (French, 1822-1868), explored the sources of the Nile and China
• Jean-Louis Etienne (French, born 1946), explored the Arctic and the Antarctic.
• Eudoxus of Cyzicus , has explored the Arabian Gulf and can be toured Africa ⁱⁿ the second century BC. AD.
• Edward Eyre (English, 1815-1901), explored the Australia Southern.

F

• Federmann Nikolaus (German, c. 1506-1542), explored the Venezuela and Colombia.
• John Franklin (British, 1786-1847), explored the northeast coast of America.
• John Charles Frmont (American, 1813-1890), explored the upper Mississippi , the Oregon and California.
• Charles de Foucauld (French, 1858-1916), explored the Morocco in 1883 - 1884.
• Foureau Fernand (French, 1850-1914), made several expeditions (nine) in the Sahara between 1888 and 1896.
• Martin Frobisher (English, c. 1535-1594), explored the Arctic Ocean.
• Vivian Fuchs (1908-1999), explored the Antarctic with Sir Edmund Hillary.

G

• Vasco da Gama (Portuguese, v. 1469-1524), doubled the Cape of Good Hope , reached Calicut , discovering the route to India.
• Francis Garnier (French, 1839-1873), explored the river Mekong.
• Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery (Belgian, 1866-1934), explored the Antarctic by carrying out ^1, winter 1897 -1898.
• Diogo Gomes languages (Portuguese, 1420-1502), he must discover the Selvagens Islands , exploring the river Gambia and Guinea.
• Ferno Gomes (Portugal), he should explore the African coast in the Gulf of Guinea.
• Anto Gonalves (Portuguese), leads expeditions to the Ro de Oro , and reached the Senegal and Guinea.
• Alexander Gordon Laing (Scottish 1796-1826) explored Africa, including Timbuktu.
• Alfred Grandidier (French, 1836-1921), explored the Andes , the Brazil and Madagascar.
• Juan de Grijalva (Spanish, c. 1489-1527), explored the coasts of Mexico.
• Medard Chouart of Groseilliers (French, ca 1618-1696), explored part of North America (New France, Lake Superior, etc.)..

H

• Hanno (Carthaginian ^fifth century BC.) explored the coasts of Africa Western.
• Edmond Hanssens (Captain Hanssens), (Belgian, 1843-1884), explored the Congo basin and discovered the Ubangi River.
• Sven Hedin (Swedish, 1865-1952), explored the Central Asia.
• Herodotus sailed up the Nile to the first cataract ⁱⁿ the fifth century BC. AD
• Edmund Hillary (New Zealander, 1919-2008), explored the Antarctic with Vivian Fuchs.
• Alvaro Martins Homem (Portugal died in 1528), sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and has acknowledged the coasts of Greenland and Newfoundland in 1472 with Joo Vaz Corte-Real.
• Henry Hudson (English, 1570-1611), explored the coasts of Canada North.
• Alexander von Humboldt (German, 1769-1859), explored the river Orinoco and the Andes.
• Mike Horn (South Africa, 1966 -), has toured the world along the Arctic Circle against the tide alone. Shipment of two years and four months.

I

• Cosmas Indicopleustes (Greek from Alexandria , ^VI), explored the Red Sea , the Persian Gulf and Ethiopia.

J

• Willem Janszoon (Dutch, c. 1570-1630) explores the Gulf of Carpentaria in 1605.
• Louis Jolliet (French, 1645-1700), discovered the Upper Mississippi River , explored the Missouri , the Ohio and Illinois in 1673 with Jacques Marquette (1637-1675).

K

• Yves Joseph de Kerguelen de Trmarec (French, 1734-1797), explored the coasts of Australia and discovered the Kerguelen Islands.

L

• Charles Marie de La Condamine (French, 1701-1774), explored the Amazon River.
• Francis Joseph Amedee Lamy (French, 1858-1900), explored the Lake Chad in 1898 - 1900.
• Jean-Francois de Galaup de la Perouse (French, 1741-1788), explored the Pacific (Easter Island), discovered the La Perouse Strait between the island Sakhalin and Hokkaido.
• Cyrille Pierre Thodore Laplace (French, 1793-1875).
• Joo Fernandes Lavrador (Portuguese, late ^fifteenth), discovered the peninsula of Labrador.
• Gustave Le Bon (French, 1841-1931), the first French to enter 1885 in Nepal.
• Ludwig Leichhardt (German, 1813-1848), explored the Australian north.
• Jacob Le Maire (Dutch, 1585-1616), discovered the Cape Horn.
• Leo the African (Moroccan, v. 1488-1548), explored the Sahel and the valley of the Nile.
• Lenfant Eugene (French, 1865-1923), explored the course of the Niger and Chad.
• Dragutin Lerman (Croatian, 1863-1918), explored the Congo.
• Charles Alexandre Lesueur (French, 1778-1846), explored the Australia.
• Meriwether Lewis (American, 1774-1809), explored the western United States to the Pacific.
• Louis Liotard (French, 1904-1940), explored the Kham Tibetan, especially the banks of the Saluen.
• David Livingstone (Scottish, 1813-1873), explored the African southern and eastern up the Zambezi.
• Miguel Lopez de Legazpi (Spanish, c. 1502-1572), explored the Philippines.

M

• Alexander Mackenzie (Scottish, 1764-1820), explored the Canadian North and West.
• Eugene Mage (French, 1837-1869), explored the empire Toucouleur of Segou
• Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese, v. 1470-1521), led the first expedition around the world , for the Canary Islands , the La Plata estuary , the coast of Patagonia , the Strait of Magellan , he discovered and the Philippines.
• Lancelotto Malocello (Genoa, late ^thirteenth and early ^fourteenth), discovered the Canary Islands in 1312.
• Jean-Baptiste Marchand (French, 1863-1934), explored Central Africa.
• Jacques Marquette (French, 1637-1675), explored the river Mississippi , the Missouri , the Ohio and Illinois in 1673 with Louis Jolliet (1645-1700).
• Pedro de Mascarenhas (Portuguese, v. 1470-1555), explored the Indian Ocean , discovered the islands of the Mascarenes.
• Douglas Mawson (Australian, 1882-1958), explored the Antarctic in 1911 and 1929
• Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen (Danish, 1872-1907), explored the Greenland.

N

• Gustav Nachtigal (German, 1834-1885), explored the Sahara , the Chad and Sudan.
• Fridtjof Nansen (Norwegian, 1861-1930), explored the Arctic , crossed Greenland from east to west in 1888.
• Panfilo de Narvez (Spanish, c. 1470-1528), explored Cuba and Jamaica.
• Jean Nicolet (French, 1598-1642), explored the Great Lakes.
• Carsten Niebuhr (German, 1733-1815), explored the Arabia , the Yemen and Iran.
• January Nieuhof (Dutch, 1618-1671), explored China , the Indonesia and Cochin.
• Athanasius Nikitin (Russian, ^XV), explored the Iran and India.
• Adolf Erik Nordenskild (Swedish, 1832-1901), explored the Arctic , crossing the Arctic Ocean from Troms in the Bering Strait and Japan.

O

• Alonso de Ojeda (Spanish, 1466-1516), explored the Venezuela.
• Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny (French, 1802-1857), explored the south of Brazil.
• Francisco de Orellana (Spanish, c. 1500-1549), explored the Amazon River.

P

• John Palliser (Canadian, 1817-1887), explored Western Canada 1857 to 1861.
• Mungo Park (Scottish, 1771-1806), explored the Senegal River and Niger.
• Robert Peary (American, 1856-1920), reached the North Pole in 1909.
• Perestrelo Bartolomeu (Portuguese, circa 1395-1457), discovered the islands of Madeira and was the stepfather of Christopher Columbus.
• Auguste Piccard (Switzerland, 1884-1962), explored the underwater world.
• Zebulon Pike (American, 1779-1813), explored the Kansas , the Colorado , the New Mexico and Texas.
• Fernao Mendes Pinto (Portuguese, v. 1509-1583), explored the Ethiopia , of India , the Malaysia , the China and Japan.
• Vicente Yez Pinzn (Spanish, c. 1460-1523), discovered the mouth of the Amazon.
• Francisco Pizarro (Spanish, 1471-1541), discovered and conquered the empire Inca.
• Jean de Plan Carpin (Italian, c. 1180-1252), explored the Central Asia.
• Marco Polo (Italian, 1254-1323), explored the Iran , the Central Asia , the Chinese , the South East Asia and India.
• Juan Ponce de Len (Spanish, c. 1460-1521), discovered Florida.
• Fernando Poo (Portuguese, ^XV), explored the coasts of Africa Western.
• John Wesley Powell (1834-1902), explored the Colorado , the Utah and Arizona.
• Nikolai Mikhailovich Przewalski (Russian, 1839-1888), explored the Central Asia , the Mongolian and Tibetan.
• Pyrard Franois (French, c. 1570-1621), explored the Moluccas , the coasts of India and Madagascar.
• Pytheas the Massaliotes (Greek ^IV ACS), explored the British Isles and the coast of Scandinavia.

Q

• Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada (Spanish, c. 1499-1579), explored the Colombia and Venezuela.
• Pedro Fernndez de Quirs (Portuguese, 1565-1614), explored the Pacific Ocean ( Tuamotu , Espiritu Santo ).

R

• Pierre-Esprit Radisson (French, 1636-1710), explored North America (Lakes Grans-James Bay, etc..) and had numerous contacts with Native Americans.
• Walter Raleigh (English, 1554-1618), explored the Virginia and the River Orinoco.
• Raymond Rally du Baty (French, 1881-1978), explored the Kerguelen Islands.
• Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs (1831-1896), explored North Africa, the Sahara to Ethiopia.
• James Clark Ross (Scottish, 1800-1862), explored the coasts of Antarctica , discovering the South Victoria Land.
• John Ross (Scottish, 1777-1856), explored the Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage.
• William of Rubruck (Flemish, ca 1220-1293), explored the Central Asia and Mongolia.
• Henry Russell-Killough (An Englishman, 1834-1909), author of several trips around the world (immortalized by Jules Verne under the name of Phileas Fogg).
• Ibn Rustah ^(Persia, tenth), explored the Russian and Saudi.

S

• St. Louis Aloarn (French, 1738-1772), second in Yves Joseph de Kerguelen de Trmarec , took possession in 1772 the west coast of Australia on behalf of Louis XV , but died before being able to say king.
• Louis Claude de Freycinet Saulces (French, 1779-1842), explored the coasts of Australia south.
• Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa (Spanish, 1532-1592), acknowledged the Solomon Islands and explored the Atlantic South.
• Jan Jacobs May van Schellinkhout (Netherlands) provided the first mapping and the baptism of Jan Mayen in 1614.
• Leopold von Schrenk (Russian, 1826-1894), explored the region of the Amur.
• Robert Falcon Scott (British, 1868-1912), reached the South Pole.
• Scylax of Caryanda , explored the coasts of the Red Sea ( Eritrea ), circa 508 BC. AD
• Serpa Pinto (Portuguese, 1846-1900), explored the African Southern.
• Ernest Shackleton (British, 1874-1922), explored the Antarctic in the first quarter of the ^twentieth century.
• Pedro de Sintra (Portugal), he must explore the Sierra Leone.
• Hernando de Soto (Spanish, 1496-1542), explored Florida and discovered the Lower Mississippi.
• John Speke (English, 1827-1864), discovered Lake Victoria , explored the Uganda and Upper Nile.
• Henry Morton Stanley (English, 1841-1904), explored the African plant by the River Congo.
• Sir Aurel Stein (1862-1943), explored the Kashmir , the Turkestan and China.
• John McDouall Stuart (Scottish, 1815-1866), explored the Australia , crossing from south to north in 1861 - 1862.
• Jean de Surville (French, 1717-1770), explored the Pacific Ocean.

T

• Abel Tasman (Dutch, 1603-1659), explored the coasts of Australia and discovered the northern Tasmania , the New Zealand and Fiji.
• Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (French, 1605-1689), explored the India.
• Aleksei Chirikov (Russian, 1703-1748), explored the coasts of Alaska.
• Marcel-Treich Laplnie (French, 1860-1890), explored the Cte d'Ivoire.
• Tristo Nuno (Portuguese), the first European to reach the coast of Guinea.
• Johann Jakob von Tschudi (Switzerland, 1818-1889), explored the Andes of Peru.
• Benjamin of Tudela (Spanish, ^XII), explored the Middle East.

V

• Pedro de Valdivia (Spanish, c. 1500-1553), explored the Chile.
• George Vancouver (English, 1757-1798), explored the coasts of British Columbia.
• Tristo Vaz Teixeira (Portuguese, v. 1395-1480), one of the discoverers of Madeira ).
• Pierre de La Verendrye (French, 1685-1749), explored western Canada and the River Missouri.
• Giovanni da Verrazano (Italian, c. 1485-1528), explored the coasts of North America
• Verthema Ludovico (Italian, late ^{fifteenth-deb. XVI),} explored the Saudi , the coasts of India , from Bengal , and Burma , Malacca and the Moluccas.
• Amerigo Vespucci (Italian, 1454-1512), explored the coast of Northern South America
• Ruy Lpez de Villalobos (Spanish, c. 1500-1544), explored the Pacific Ocean and the Philippines.
• Nicolas Durand de Villegagnon (French, 1510-1571), explored the Bay of Rio de Janeiro.
• Sebastin Vizcano (Spanish, 1548-1615), explored California and Japan.

W

• Samuel Wallis (English, ca 1720-1795), discovered Tahiti
• Peter Egerton Warburton (1813-1889), explored the deserts of Western Australia in 1873 - 1874.
• Charles Wilkes (1798-1877), explored the South Pacific, Antarctica (Wilkes Land) and Borneo from 1838 to 1842.

Y

• Timofeyevich Yermak (Russian, ca 1537-1585), explored Siberia.
• Francis Younghusband (English, 1863-1942), explored the Himalayas and Tibet.

Z

• John Augustine Zahm (American, 1851-1921), explored the American South.
• Joo Gonalves Zarco (Portuguese, v. 1390-1470), discovered the island of Madeira.
• Zhang Qian (Chinese, ^I. ACS), explored the Central Asia.
• Zheng He (Chinese, 1371-1435), explored the coasts of Southeast Asia , the Indian and the African Eastern.
• Heinrich Zollinger (Switzerland, 1818-1859), explored Java and the Sunda Islands.

See also

• Conquistador
• Chronology of explorations
• Journey of scientific exploration
• History of European exploration in Tibet

• Portal Exploration

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