Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)
Explorer
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Marco Polo (1254-1324)
2
John Smith (1580-1631)
3
Daniel Boone (1734-1820)
4
James Cook (1728-1779)
5
Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521)
6
Francis Drake (1540-1596)
7
Henry Hudson (1565-1611)
8
Joseph Banks (1743-1820)
9
Roald Amundsen (1872-1928)
10
St. George Littledale (1851-1931)
11
Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922)
12
Hernando Cortés (1485-1547)
13
Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512)
14
Jacques Cartier (1491-1557)
15
Samuel De Champlain (1574-1635)
16
Vasco da Gama (1460-1524)
17
William Clark (1770-1838)
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Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809)
19
Robert Ballard, 83
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Arthur Phillip (1738-1814)
21
Jedediah Smith (1799-1831)
22
Matthew Henson (1866-1955)
23
William Kidd (1645-1701)
24
Female Explorers
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Floyd Collins (1887-1925)
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Hernando Desoto (1496-1542)
26
Jim Bowie (1796-1836)
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Ranulph Fiennes, 81
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Stephen Austin (1793-1863)
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John Cabot
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Jan van Riebeeck (1619-1677)
31
Abel Tasman (1603-1659)
32
Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912)
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John Henry Mears (1878-1956)
34
Mike Horn, 59
35
Matthew Flinders (1774-1814)
36
Ed Stafford, 49
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George Fletcher Moore (1798-1886)
38
John Franklin (1786-1847)
39
Jarle Andhoy, 47
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Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002)
41
Jim Bridger (1804-1881)
42
William Lewis Herndon (1813-1857)
43
Alby Mangels, 76
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Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)
45
Paul-Henri Nargeolet (1946-2023)
46
John Lloyd Stephens (1805-1852)
47
John C Fremont (1813-1890)
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