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| Category | Nationality | Sort | Selected 12 |
 | Maarten Gerritsz Vries | 1589, Feb 18 | 1640 | 1649 | 1647 | |
 | Jean Nicolet | 1598 ca | 1610 | 1642 | 1642, Nov 1 | ||
| a French coureur des bois noted for exploring Green Bay of Lake Michigan, in what is now the U.S.... | |||||||
| Hendrik Brouwer | 1581 | 1606 | 1643 | 1643, Aug 7 | ||
| a Dutch explorer, admiral, and colonial administrator both in Japan and the Dutch East Indies. He... | |||||||
 | Andres de Urdaneta | 1498, Nov 30 | 1520 | 165 | 1568, Jun 3 | ||
| a Basque circumnavigator, explorer and Augustinian friar. As a navigator he achieved the "second"... | |||||||
 | Myles Standish | 1584 ca | 1603 | 1656 | 1656, Oct 3 | ||
| an English military officer hired by the Pilgrims as military adviser for Plymouth Colony. He acc... | |||||||
 | Antonio Raposo Tavares | 1598 | 1618 | 1658 | 1658 | ||
| Explored Paraguay River, part of the Andes mountain range, Grande River, Mamoré River, Madeira R... | |||||||
| Abel Tasman | 1603 | 1633 | 1659 | 1659, Oct 10 | ||
| a Dutch seafarer, explorer, and merchant, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the serv... | |||||||
| Anthony Jenkinson | 1529 | 1550 | 166 | 1610/1611 | ||
| one of the first Britons to explore Muscovy and present day Russia. Jenkinson was a traveller and... | |||||||
| Abraham Blauvelt | 1600 ca | 1630 | 1663 | 1663 ca | ||
| a Dutch privateer and explorer mapping much of Central America in the 1630s, after whom both the ... | |||||||
| Jean-Baptiste Tavernier | 1605 | 1630 | 1668 | 1689 | ||
| a 17th-century French gem merchant and traveler. Tavernier, a private individual and merchant tra... | |||||||
| Pedro Fernandes de Queiros | 1565 | 1590 | 169 | 1614 | ||
| a Portuguese navigator best known for his involvement with Spanish voyages of discovery in the Pa... | |||||||
| Sebastián Vizcaíno | 1548 | 1580 | 170 | 1624 | ||
| a Spanish soldier, entrepreneur, explorer, and diplomat whose varied roles took him to New Spain,... | |||||||
| Willem Janszoon | 1570 ca | 1598 | 171 | 1630 | ||
| a Dutch navigator and colonial governor. Janszoon served in the Netherlands East Indies in the pe... | |||||||
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