n. 25B6; noun TRAVELLER, discoverer, voyager, adventurer; surveyor, scout, prospector. See list.
Explorers and Navigators
Amundsen, Roald (Norwegian) Humboldt, Alexander von (German)
Baffin, William (English) Hume, Hamilton (Australian)
Balboa, Vasco Núñez de (Spanish) Iberville, Pierre le Moyne, Sieur d' (French-Canadian)
Banks, Joseph (English) Ibn Batuta (Arab)
Barents, Willem (Dutch) La Salle, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de (French)
Barth, Heinrich (German) Leichhardt, Ludwig (Australian, b. in Prussia)
Bellingshausen, Fabian von (Russian) Lewis, Meriwether (American)
Bering, Vitus (Danish) Livingstone, David (Scottish)
Boone, Daniel (American) Lozier-Bouvet, François (French)
Bougainville, Louis Antoine de (French) Mackenzie, Alexander (Scottish)
Brazza, Pierre Savorgnan de (French) McKinlay, John (Australian, b. in Scotland)
Bruce, James (Scottish) Magellan, Ferdinand (Portuguese)
Burke, Robert O'Hara (Irish) Marco Polo (Italian)
Burton, Richard (English) Marquette, Jacques (French)
Byrd, Richard (American) Nansen, Fridtjof (Norwegian)
Cabot, John (Italian) Orellana, Francisco de (Spanish)
Cartier, Jacques (French) Park, Mungo (Scottish)
Champlain, Samuel de (French) Peary, Robert (American)
Clark, William (American) Pizarro, Francisco (Spanish)
Columbus, Christopher (Spanish, b. in Italy) Ponce de León, Juan (Spanish)
Cook, Captain James (English) Raleigh, Walter (English)
Cortés, Hernando (Spanish) Rasmussen, Knud (Danish)
Cousteau, Jacques (French) Ross, James (Scottish)
Covilhã, Pêro da (Portuguese) Ross, John (Scottish)
da Gama, Vasco (Portuguese) Scott, Robert (English)
Dampier, William (English) Selkirk, Alexander (Scottish)
Dias, Bartolomeu (Portuguese) Selous, Frederick Courteney (English)
Diemen, Anthony van (Dutch) Shackleton, Ernest (British, b. in Ireland)
Drake, Francis (English) Soto, Hernando de (Spanish)
Dumont d'Urville, Jules-Sébastien-César (French) Speke, John Hanning (English)
Ellsworth, Lincoln (American) Stanley, Henry Morton (Welsh)
Ericsson, Leif (11th century; Norse) Stuart, John McDouall (Scottish)
Eric the Red (Norse) Sturt, Charles (English)
Eyre, Edward John (Australian, b. in Britain) Tasman, Abel (Dutch)
Flaherty, Robert (American) Tenzing Norgay (Sherpa)
Flinders, Matthew (English) Thesiger, Wilfred (English)
Forrest, John (Australian) Vancouver, George (English)
Frémont, John (American) Van der Post, Laurens (South African)
Frobisher, Martin (English) Velázquez de Cuéllar, Diego (Spanish)
Fuchs, Vivian (English) Vespucci, Amerigo (Italian)
Gilbert, Humphrey (English) Whymper, Edward (English)
Henry the Navigator (Portuguese) Wilkins, George (British, b. in Australia)
Hillary, Edmund (New Zealand) Wills, William John (English)
Hudson, Henry (English) Wrangel, Ferdinand von (Russian)