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[[File:Nlc amundsen.jpg|thumb|right|150px|{{flagicon|Norway}} [[Roald Amundsen]] (1872–1928) was a Norwegian explorer of the [[polar regions]]. He led the first successful expedition to the [[South Pole]] in 1911, and eventually also reached the [[North Pole]] by air in 1926.]]
==List==
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Line 89: | [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 15th/16th
| [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 15th/16th
| [[Indian Ocean]]
| [[Indian Ocean]]
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| [[Alexander the Great]]
| [[Greeks|Greek]] [[Macedonia (ancient kingdom)|(Macedonian)]]
| 4th BC
| [[Indus River]], [[Hindu Kush]]
|-
|-
| [[Jean Alfonse|Jean Alfonse (João Afonso)]]
| [[Jean Alfonse|Jean Alfonse (João Afonso)]]
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| [[Spaniards|Spanish]] || 18th
| [[Pacific Northwest]]
| [[Pacific Northwest]]
|-
|[[Kate Marsden]]
|[[British people|British]]
|19th-20th
|[[Sakha Republic|Yakutia]]
|-
|-
| [[Kit Carson]]
| [[Kit Carson]]
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|[[Megasthenes]]
|[[Greeks|Greek]]
|[[Greeks|Greek]]
|3rd BCE
|3rd BC
|[[India]]
|[[India]]
|-
|-
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|[[Mahinda (Buddhist monk)|Mahinda]]
|[[Indian people|Indian]]
|[[Indian people|Indian]]
|3rd BCE
|3rd BC
|[[Sri Lanka]]
|[[Sri Lanka]]
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|-
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| [[Turkish people|Turkish]] || 17th
| [[Turkey]], [[Egypt]], [[Africa]], [[Europe]]
| [[Turkey]], [[Egypt]], [[Africa]], [[Europe]]
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| [[Edward John Eyre]]
| [[English people|English]] || 19th
| [[Australia]]
|-
|-
| [[Ahmad ibn Fadlan]]
| [[Ahmad ibn Fadlan]]
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| [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]] and [[Nova Scotia]]
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|-
| [[Edmund Fanning]]
| [[Edmund Fanning (explorer)| Edmund Fanning]]
| [[Americans|American]] || 18th/19th
| [[Americans|American]] || 18th/19th
| [[Oceania]]
| [[Oceania]]
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| [[Percy Harrison Fawcett]]
| [[English people|English]] || 20th
| [[English people|English]] || 20th
| [[Amazon Rainforest]]
| [[Amazon rainforest ]]
|-
|-
| [[Álvaro Fernandes]]
| [[Álvaro Fernandes]]
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| [[Anthony de la Roché]]
| [[English people|English]] || 17th
| [[English people|English]] || 17th
| [[Antarctica]]
| [[Antarctic ]] ([[South Georgia Island|South Georgia]])
|-
|-
| [[Gadifer de la Salle]]
| [[Gadifer de la Salle]]
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| Caribbean, [[Brazil]]
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| [[Luís Pires]]
| Luís Pires
| [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 15th
| [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] || 15th
| abortive voyage to Brazil
| abortive voyage to Brazil
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| [[Great Northern Expedition]]
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| [[Maria Pronchishcheva]]
| [[Tatiana Pronchishcheva]]
| [[Russians|Russian]] || 18th
| [[Russians|Russian]] || 18th
| The first female [[Arctic]] explorer
| The first female [[Arctic]] explorer
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| [[Italians|Italian]] || 19th
| [[Africa]]
| [[Africa]]
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| [[Anthony de la Roché]]
| [[English people|English]] || 17th
| [[Antarctic]] ([[South Georgia Island|South Georgia]])
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|-
| [[Diogo Rodrigues]]
| [[Diogo Rodrigues]]
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| 20th
| [[Java]], [[Sumatra]], [[Borneo]], [[Central America]]
| [[Java]], [[Sumatra]], [[Borneo]], [[Central America]]
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| [[John Lawson (explorer)|John Lawson]]
| [[English people|English]]
| 18th
| [[North Carolina]], [[South Carolina]]
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|-
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File:Marco Polo Mosaic from Palazzo Tursi.jpg Marco Polo (1254–1324) was an Italian explorer who recorded his 24 years-long travels in the Book of the Marvels of the World [ 1] File:Zheng He.jpg Zheng He (1371 – c. 1435 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". File:Diogo Cão.jpg Template:Flagicon Diogo Cão (c. 1452 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Congo River and the west coast of Africa, south of the equator .File:Bartolomeu Dias, South Africa House (cut).JPG Template:Flagicon Bartolomeu Dias (c. 1450 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". eastern sea route to the Indian Ocean .File:Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio - Ritratto di Cristoforo Colombo (1520).jpg Template:Flagicon Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) was an Italian explorer who led an expedition to the New World in 1492. His voyages are celebrated as the discovery of the Americas from a European perspective, and they opened a new era in the history of humankind and sustained contact between the two worlds.File:Conquistador Alonso de Ojeda.png Template:Flagicon Alonso de Ojeda (c. 1466 – c. 1515 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Juan de la Cosa and Amerigo Vespucci .File:JohnCabotPainting.jpg Template:Flagicon John Cabot (c. 1450 – c. 1500 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". File:Vasco da Gama - 1838.png Template:Flagicon Vasco da Gama (c. 1460 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". File:Amerigo Vespucci (with turban) - cropped.jpg Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Amerigo Vespucci (1451–1512). Italian navigator who made several trips to the New World . He is known for convincing the Europeans that the New World is not Asia, but an entirely new unknown continent. This new continent was soon named after him, America File:Pedro Álvares Cabral.jpg Template:Flagicon Pedro Álvares Cabral (c. 1467 – c. 1520 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Brazil in 1500 and claimed it for Portugal .File:Retrato de Afonso de Albuquerque (após 1545) - Autor desconhecido.png Template:Flagicon Afonso de Albuquerque (c. 1453 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". East Indies and Spice Islands , along with Francisco Serrão and António de Abreu .File:Juan Ponce de León.jpg Template:Flagicon Juan Ponce de León (1474–1521) was the first Governor of Puerto Rico and discovered Florida in 1513. He is the first known European to set foot on today's contiguous United States .File:Retrato de Vasco Nuñez de Balboa (1475-1517) - Anónimo.jpg Template:Flagicon Vasco Núñez de Balboa (c. 1475 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, becoming the first European to reach and see the Pacific from the America'sFile:Retrato de Hernán Cortés.jpg Template:Flagicon Hernán Cortés (1485–1547). Famous Conquistador who led the Spanish expedition to explore and conquer the Aztec Empire (1519–1521).File:Ferdinand Magellan.jpg Template:Flagicon Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521) was a Portuguese explorer who led the successful expedition under Spain to find a western sea route to Asia (1519–1521).File:Las Glorias Nacionales, 1852 "Juan Sebastian Elcano". (4013953698).jpg Template:Flagicon Juan Sebastián Elcano (c. 1486 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". circumnavigate the Earth .File:Jacques Cartier 1851-1852.jpg Template:Flagicon Jacques Cartier (1491–1557) was the first European to travel inland in North America and claimed the lands he explored for France in 1534.File:Gheeraerts Francis Drake 1591.jpg Template:Flagicon Francis Drake (c. 1540 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". privateer who plundered many Spanish towns and ships in the Caribbean and elsewhere. However, he is most notable for completing the second circumnavigation of the world (1577–1580).File:Samuel-de-champlain-s.jpg Template:Flagicon Samuel de Champlain (1567–1635) is known as "The Father of New France ". He founded the first permanent European settlements in Canada , and explored many lakes and rivers in the interior lands from early age to his death.File:HenryHudson.jpg Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Henry Hudson (c. 1565 – c. 1611 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". New York and northeastern Canada . Today he has both a river and bay named after him.File:Abel Tasman - Cuyp (cropped) (adjusted).jpg Template:Flagicon Abel Tasman (1603–1659) was a Dutch seafarer who was the first known European to sight the islands of Tasmania (named after him), New Zealand , and Fiji (1642–43).File:Captainjamescookportrait.jpg Template:Flagicon James Cook (1728–1779). Famous British explorer who led three voyages to the Pacific . He is known for exploring and charting many islands in the ocean such as Polynesia , New Zealand , The Hawaiian Islands , and the eastern coast of Australia .File:David Livingstone -1.jpg Template:Flagicon David Livingstone (1813–1873) is a Scottish explorer and missionary who sought to convert the locals to Christianity and expand British colonization, all the while discovering lakes and rivers within Africa's interior.File:Nlc amundsen.jpg Template:Flagicon Roald Amundsen (1872–1928) was a Norwegian explorer of the polar regions . He led the first successful expedition to the South Pole in 1911, and eventually also reached the North Pole by air in 1926.Template:Sticky header
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