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1804, Feb 8 1820s-1834 1834, Feb 6
a Cornish explorer of western Africa. Explored the Niger and Benue Rivers. While journeying upstream in a canoe, Lander was attacked by African tribesmen and wounded by a musket ball in his thigh. He managed to return to the coast, but died there from his injuries.
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Richard Lemon Lander 1804, Feb 8 1820
1834 1834, Feb 6
Alexander Gordon Laing 1793, Dec 27 1810 1826 1826, Sep 26 a Scottish explorer and the first European to reach Timbuktu via the north/south route. Explored ... Hugh Clapperton 1788, May 18 1801 1827 1827, Apr 13 a Scottish naval officer and explorer of West and Central Africa. Born in Annan, Dumfriesshire, w... John Oxley 1784 1802 1828 1828, May 25 an explorer and surveyor of Australia in the early period of British colonisation. He served as S... Manuel Quimper 1757 1770 1829 1844, Apr a Spanish Peruvian explorer, cartographer, naval officer, and colonial official. He participated ... William Clark [2] 1770, Aug 1 1789 1829 1838, Sep 1 an American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor. Along with Meriwether Lewi... James Weddell 1787, Aug 24 1800 1829 1834, Sep 9 a British sailor, navigator and seal hunter who in February 1823 sailed to latitude of 74°15'S (... Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff 1774, Apr 8 1803 1830 1852, Jun 9 a German-Russian naturalist and explorer. He was a member and correspondent of the Russian Imperi... Jose Maria Narvaez 1768 1780 1831 1840, Aug 4 a Spanish naval officer, explorer, and navigator notable for his work in the Gulf Islands and Low... Cayetano Valdes y Flores 1767 1782 1833 1835 a commander of the Spanish Navy, explorer, and captain general who served in the French Revolutio... William Henry Ashley 1778 ca 1808 1838 1838, Mar 26 an American who pioneered as a miner, land speculator, manufacturer, territorial militia officer,... Sir George Back 1796, Nov 6 1808 1839 1878, Jun 23 a British naval officer, explorer of the Canadian Arctic, naturalist and artist. As a boy, he wen... W. Price Hunt 1783, Mar 20 1810 1840 1842, Apr 13 an early pioneer of the Oregon Country in the Pacific Northwest of North America. An American and... Edmund Fanning [2] 1769, Jul 16 1773 1841 1841, Apr 23 an American explorer and sea captain, known as the "Pathfinder of the Pacific." As master of the ... David Thompson 1770, Apr 30 1784 1843 1857, Feb 10 a British-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and map-maker, known to some native peoples as "Koo-Koo-... George Everest 1790, Jul 4 1806 1843 1866, Dec 1 a Welsh surveyor and geographer, and the Surveyor General of India from 1830 through 1843. Everes... Joseph Nicollet 1786, Jul 24 1830 1843 1843, Sep 11 a French geographer, astronomer, and mathematician known for mapping the Upper Mississippi River ... Otto von Kotzebue 1787, Dec 30 1815 1846 1846, Feb 15 a Baltic German navigator in Russian service. Kotzebue set out on July 30, 1815 to find a passage... James Clark Ross 1800, Apr 15 1818 1849 1862, Apr 3 a British naval officer and explorer remembered today for his exploration of the Arctic (in the H... Charles Sturt 1795, Apr 28 1828 1851 1869, Jun 16 a British explorer of Australia, and part of the European exploration of Australia. He led severa... Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen 1778, Sep 9 1796 1852 1852, Jan 13 a Baltic-German officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, cartographer and explorer, ultimately rose ... Ferdinand von Wrangel 1796, Dec 29 1817 1864 1870, May 25 a Baltic German explorer and seaman in Russian service, Honorable Member of the Saint Petersburg ... John Rae 1813, Sep 30 1833 1864 1893, Jul 22 a Scottish doctor who explored parts of Northern Canada, found the final portion of the Northwest... Jim Bridger 1804, Mar 17 1822 1868 1881, Jul 17 was among the foremost mountain men, trappers, scouts and guides who explored and trapped the Wes... Jean-Frederic Waldeck 1766, Mar 16? 1790 1869 1875, Apr 30 a French antiquarian, cartographer, artist and explorer. Waldeck is remembered primarily for the... Charles Wilkes 1798, Apr 3 1830 1869 1877, Feb 8 an American naval officer and explorer. He led the United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 ... Sir Edward Sabine 1788, Oct 14 1818 1871 1883, Jun 26 an Irish astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist, explorer, soldier and the 30th President of the... Charles Darwin 1809, Feb 12 1827 1872 1882, Apr 19 an English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution... John C. Fremont 1813, Jan 21 1833 1890 1890, Jul 13 an American military officer, explorer, and politician who became the first candidate of the anti... Peter Skene Ogden 1790, Feb 12 1810 193 1854, Sep 27 a fur trader and a Canadian explorer of what is now British Columbia and the American West. Betwe...
