Famous explorers
The most-searched explorers right now, with the latest news on each.
Edmund Hillary
New Zealand mountaineer (1919–2008)
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James Cook
British explorer and naval officer (1728–1779)
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Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator and explorer (1451–1506)
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Hernán Cortés
Spanish conquistador and explorer (1485–1547)
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Vasco da Gama
Portuguese explorer (c. 1460s – 1524)
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Ferdinand Magellan
Portuguese explorer (1480–1521)
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Francis Drake
English sailor and privateer (c. 1540–1596)
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Ibn Battuta
Maghrebi traveller and scholar (1304–1368/1369)
Richard E. Grant
British-Swazi actor
Zheng He
Chinese admiral and diplomat (1371–1433/1435)
Roald Amundsen
Norwegian polar explorer (1872–1928)
Heinrich Harrer
Austrian mountaineer and author (1912–2006)
Giovanni da Verrazzano
Florentine explorer of North America for France (1485–1528)
Willem Barentsz
Dutch navigator, cartographer, and Arctic explorer (c. 1550 – 1597)
Yelena Serova
Russian cosmonaut
Jacob Roggeveen
Dutch explorer of the Pacific Ocean (1659–1729)