English navigator and cartographer who made three voyages to the Pacific Ocean in the 18th century; killed in Hawaii 1779
Scottish explorer and missionary, first European to see and name Victoria Falls 1855
English explorer who was cast adrift and disappeared in James Bay Canada in 1611
English Admiral and explorer who founded the Roanoke Island Colony North Carolina in 1585
Scottish explorer who crossed Canada east-to-west 1792-93; The longest river in Canada is named after him
English explorer, first European to see and name Lake Victoria claiming it to be the source of the White Nile 1858
English mariner who visited Western Australia 1699; first man to circumnavigate the world three times
English explorer of Arabia and East Africa; visited Mecca and Medina in disguise 1851–53; first European to see Lake Tanganyika 1858
Welsh explorer of central Africa, travelled the length of the Lualaba and Congo Rivers reaching the Atlantic 1877
Scottish explorer who claimed to be the first European to find the source of the Blue Nile in Ethiopia 1770
Scottish explorer of west Africa, first European to reach the long sought Niger River 1796
English explorer who attempted to find the Northwest Passage 1612; a Canadian island, the fifth largest in the world, and bay are named after him
English Antarctic explorer, second man to reach the South Pole 1912; died with his team on the return journey
English explorer who surveyed the Northwest Coast of Canada 1792–1794; an island in British Columbia is named after him
Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer, best known for leading the 'Endurance' expedition of 1914–16
British Army officer, leader of the British expedition to Tibet 1904
Trader and navigator, first Englishman to reach Japan 1600 and never left eventually becoming a samurai
Victorian female explorer of Australia, USA, Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, India, Persia, Turkey and Morocco; First woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society 1892
English female explorer, archaeologist and political officer (1868–1926) in Greater Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor and Arabia
Victorian female explorer of Sierra Leone, Angola, Gabon and Cameroon 1893-95
Elizabethan Admiral and explorer who made three attempts to discover the Northwest Passage in the 1570s
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