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1793, Dec 271810s-18261826, Sep 26
a Scottish explorer and the first European to reach Timbuktu via the north/south route. Explored West Africa (Niger River and Timbuktu)
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Alexander Gordon Laing1793, Dec 271810
 
18261826, Sep 26

Louis Antoine de Bougainville1729, Nov 121753
 
18111811, Aug 31
 a French admiral and explorer. A contemporary of the British explorer James Cook, he took part in...
Zebulon Pike1779, Jan 51799
 
18131813, Apr 27
 an American brigadier general and explorer for whom Pikes Peak in Colorado is named. As a United ...
Daniel Boone1734, Oct 221755
 
18161820, Sep 26
 an American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman, whose frontier exploits made him one o...
Jose de Bustamante y Guerra1759, Apr 11770
 
18171825, Mar 10
  a Spanish naval officer, explorer, and politician. With Alessandro Malaspina, they proposed to t...
Charles C. Brodhead1772, Apr 201797
 
18171852, Sep 14
 The Brodhead clan was one of high repute and station. Charles’ great-great-grandfather was Dan...
Johann Ludwig Burckhardt1784, Nov 241809
 
18171817, Oct 15
 a Swiss traveller, geographer, and orientalist. He wrote his letters in French and signed Louis. ...
John Young1742 ca1780
 
18191835, Dec 17
 a British subject who became an important military advisor to KamehamehaI during the formation of...
Joseph Banks1743, Feb 131766
 
18201820, Jun 19
 a British naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. Banks made his name on the 176...
William Smith17901811
 
 
18201847
 the English captain born in Blyth, Northumberland, who discovered the South Shetland Islands, an ...
Hugh Clapperton1788, May 181801
 
18271827, Apr 13
 a Scottish naval officer and explorer of West and Central Africa. Born in Annan, Dumfriesshire, w...
John Oxley17841802
 
18281828, May 25
 an explorer and surveyor of Australia in the early period of British colonisation. He served as S...
Manuel Quimper17571770
 
18291844, Apr
 a Spanish Peruvian explorer, cartographer, naval officer, and colonial official. He participated ...
William Clark [2]1770, Aug 11789
 
18291838, Sep 1
 an American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor. Along with Meriwether Lewi...
James Weddell1787, Aug 241800
 
18291834, Sep 9
 a British sailor, navigator and seal hunter who in February 1823 sailed to latitude of 74°15'S (...
Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff1774, Apr 81803
 
18301852, Jun 9
 a German-Russian naturalist and explorer. He was a member and correspondent of the Russian Imperi...
Jose Maria Narvaez17681780
 
18311840, Aug 4
 a Spanish naval officer, explorer, and navigator notable for his work in the Gulf Islands and Low...
Cayetano Valdes y Flores17671782
 
18331835
 a commander of the Spanish Navy, explorer, and captain general who served in the French Revolutio...
Richard Lemon Lander1804, Feb 81820
 
18341834, Feb 6
 a Cornish explorer of western Africa. Explored the Niger and Benue Rivers. While journeying upstr...
William Henry Ashley1778 ca1808
 
18381838, Mar 26
 an American who pioneered as a miner, land speculator, manufacturer, territorial militia officer,...
Sir George Back1796, Nov 61808
 
18391878, Jun 23
 a British naval officer, explorer of the Canadian Arctic, naturalist and artist. As a boy, he wen...
W. Price Hunt1783, Mar 201810
 
18401842, Apr 13
 an early pioneer of the Oregon Country in the Pacific Northwest of North America. An American and...
Edmund Fanning [2]1769, Jul 161773
 
18411841, Apr 23
 an American explorer and sea captain, known as the "Pathfinder of the Pacific." As master of the ...
David Thompson1770, Apr 301784
 
18431857, Feb 10
 a British-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and map-maker, known to some native peoples as "Koo-Koo-...
George Everest1790, Jul 41806
 
18431866, Dec 1
 a Welsh surveyor and geographer, and the Surveyor General of India from 1830 through 1843. Everes...
Otto von Kotzebue1787, Dec 301815
 
18461846, Feb 15
 a Baltic German navigator in Russian service. Kotzebue set out on July 30, 1815 to find a passage...
James Clark Ross1800, Apr 151818
 
18491862, Apr 3
 a British naval officer and explorer remembered today for his exploration of the Arctic (in the H...
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen1778, Sep 91796
 
18521852, Jan 13
 a Baltic-German officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, cartographer and explorer, ultimately rose ...
Ferdinand von Wrangel1796, Dec 291817
 
18641870, May 25
 a Baltic German explorer and seaman in Russian service, Honorable Member of the Saint Petersburg ...
Jim Bridger1804, Mar 171822
 
18681881, Jul 17
 was among the foremost mountain men, trappers, scouts and guides who explored and trapped the Wes...
Jean-Frederic Waldeck1766, Mar 16?1790
 
18691875, Apr 30
 a French antiquarian, cartographer, artist and explorer. Waldeck is remembered primarily for the...
Sir Edward Sabine1788, Oct 141818
 
18711883, Jun 26
 an Irish astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist, explorer, soldier and the 30th President of the...
Peter Skene Ogden1790, Feb 121810
 
1931854, Sep 27
 a fur trader and a Canadian explorer of what is now British Columbia and the American West. Betwe...
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