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a French Canadian explorer known for his discoveries in North America. Jolliet and Jesuit Father Jacques Marquette, a Catholic priest and missionary, were the first non-Natives to explore and map the Mississippi River in 1673.
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Louis Jolliet1645, Sep 211670
 
16991700+

Anthony de la Rocheunknown1674
 
 
1675unknown
 an English merchant born in London to a French Huguenot father and an English mother. During a co...
Pedro Fernandes de Queiros15651590
 
1691614
 a Portuguese navigator best known for his involvement with Spanish voyages of discovery in the Pa...
Charles Albanel16161649
 
16961696, Jun 11
 a French missionary explorer in Canada, and a Jesuit priest. In 1649, he arrived in Canada at Tad...
Willem de Vlamingh1640, Nov 281688
 
 
1698unknown
 a Dutch sea-captain who explored the central west coast of Australia (then "New Holland") in the ...
Sebastián Vizcaíno15481580
 
1701624
 a Spanish soldier, entrepreneur, explorer, and diplomat whose varied roles took him to New Spain,...
Lionel Wafer16401679
 
17051705
 a Welsh explorer, buccaneer and privateer. A ship's surgeon, Wafer made several voyages to the So...
Willem Janszoon1570 ca1598
 
1711630
 a Dutch navigator and colonial governor. Janszoon served in the Netherlands East Indies in the pe...
William Dampier1651, Sep1673
 
17151715, Mar
 the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumn...
Tenjiku Tokubei16121626
 
1721692 ca
 a Japanese adventurer and writer of the early 17th century. He traveled to Southeast and South As...
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