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Explorers born active died
1548 1580s-1610s 1624
a Spanish soldier, entrepreneur, explorer, and diplomat whose varied roles took him to New Spain, the Philippines, the Baja California peninsula, the California coast and Japan.
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Sebastián Vizcaíno 1548 1580
170 1624
Yermak Timofeyevich 1537 ca 1582 1585 1585, Aug 5/6 a Cossack who started the Russian exploration and conquest of Siberia, in the reign of Tsar Ivan ... Martin Frobisher 1535 1585 1585 1595 an English seaman and privateer (licensed pirate) who made three voyages to the New World to look... Paulo Dias de Novais 1510 ca 1575 1589 1589 a Portuguese colonizer of Africa in the 16th century and the first Captain-Governor of Portuguese... John White 1540 ca 1580 1589 1593 an English artist and early pioneer of English efforts to settle North America. He was among thos... Thomas Cavendish 1560 1587 1592 1592 an English explorer and a privateer known as "The Navigator" because he was the first who deliber... Sir Francis Drake 1540 ca 1563 1596 1596, Jan 27/28 an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era. Drak... Willem Barentsz 1550 ca 1594 1597 1597, Jun 20 a Dutch navigator, cartographer, and Arctic explorer. He went on three expeditions to the far nor... Sir Robert Dudley [2] 1574, Aug 7 1594 1603 1649, Sep 6 an English explorer and cartographer. In 1594, he led an expedition to the West Indies, of which ... Luis Vaez de Torres 1565 ca 1606 1607 unknown a 16th- and 17th-century maritime explorer of a Spanish expedition noted for the first recorded ... Pedro Fernandes de Queiros 1565 1590 1609 1614 a Portuguese navigator best known for his involvement with Spanish voyages of discovery in the Pa... Anthony Shirley 1565 1590 1609 1637 an English traveller, whose imprisonment in 1603 by King James I caused the English House of Comm... Matteo Ricci 1552, Oct 6 1577 1610 1610, May 11 an Italian Jesuit priest and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China missions. His 1602 m... Henry Hudson 1567 ca 1607 1611 1611 an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century. Hudson made two attempts on beha... Tanaka Shosuke unknown 1610 1614 unknown an important Japanese technician and trader in metals from Kyoto during the beginning of the 17th... Jacob Le Maire 1585 ca 1615 1616 1616, Dec 22 a Dutch mariner who circumnavigated the earth in 1615 and 1616. Eendracht rounded Cape Horn, pro... Sir Walter Raleigh 1554 ca 1569 1618 1618, Oct 29 an English landed gentleman, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer. He i... Pedro Paez 1564 1589 1622 1622, May 25 a Spanish Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia. Páez is considered by many experts on Ethiopia to be th... William Baffin unknown 1612 1622 1622, Jan 23 an English navigator and explorer. In 1615, Baffin entered the service of the Company for the dis... Willem Schouten 1567 ca 1615 1625 1625 a Dutch navigator for the Dutch East India Company. He was the first to sail the Cape Horn route ... Adriaen Block 1567 ca 1590 1627 1627, Aug a Dutch private trader and navigator who is best known for exploring the coastal and river valley... Juan de Onate 1550 1595 1629 1626/1630 a Novohispanic Conquistador, explorer, and colonial governor of the Santa Fe de Nuevo México pro... Willem Janszoon 1570 ca 1598 1629 1630 a Dutch navigator and colonial governor. Janszoon served in the Netherlands East Indies in the pe... Nicolas de Cardona unknown 1610 1629 unknown a Spanish entrepreneur and adventurer with residence in Seville, who was involved in the explorat... Joao Cabral 1599 1620 1629 unknown a Portuguese Jesuit missionary, who, along with Estêvão Cacella, were the first Europeans to en... Jan Carstensz unknown 1620 1629 unknown a 17th-century Dutch explorer. In 1623, Carstenszoon was commissioned by the Dutch East India Com... Etienne Brule 1592 ca 1610 1633 1633, Jun ca the first European explorer to journey beyond the St. Lawrence River in what is today Canada. Tak... Antonio de Andrade 1580 1600 1634 1634, Mar 19 a Jesuit priest and explorer from Portugal. Engaged in missionary activity in India, was the firs... Tomas de Cardona unknown 1611 1639 unknown a rich explorer, trader, and teacher of Spanish royal palace from the 17th century, who invested ... Tenjiku Tokubei 1612 1626 1639 1692 ca a Japanese adventurer and writer of the early 17th century. He traveled to Southeast and South As... Pedro Teixeira unknown 1637 1639 1641, Jul 4 a Portuguese explorer who became, in 1637, the first European to travel up the entire length of t... 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... Maarten Gerritsz Vries 1589, Feb 18 1640 1649 1647 a 17th-century Dutch cartographer and explorer, the first Western European to leave an account of... 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... Sir Christopher Myngs 1625 1650 1669 1666 English naval officer and pirate. He first appears prominently as the captain of the Elisabeth, ... Anthony de la Roche unknown 1674 1675 unknown an English merchant born in London to a French Huguenot father and an English mother. During a co... Charles Albanel 1616 1649 1696 1696, Jun 11 a French missionary explorer in Canada, and a Jesuit priest. In 1649, he arrived in Canada at Tad... Willem de Vlamingh 1640, Nov 28 1688 1698 unknown a Dutch sea-captain who explored the central west coast of Australia (then "New Holland") in the ... Louis Jolliet 1645, Sep 21 1670 1699 1700+ a French Canadian explorer known for his discoveries in North America. Jolliet and Jesuit Father ... Lionel Wafer 1640 1679 1705 1705 a Welsh explorer, buccaneer and privateer. A ship's surgeon, Wafer made several voyages to the So... William Dampier 1651, Sep 1673 1715 1715, Mar the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumn... Vitus Bering 1681, Aug 1699 1741 1741, Dec 19 a Danish born explorer in Russian service, and an officer in the Russian Navy. He is known for hi...
