explorer

Norwegian explorer who was the first to traverse the Northwest Passage and in 1911 the first to reach the South Pole (1872-1928)

United States explorer who accompanied Peary's expedition to the North Pole and who led many other Arctic trips (1875-1946)

French explorer who circumnavigated the globe accompanied by scientists (1729-1811)

English explorer who with John Speke was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika (1821-1890)

explorer and United States naval officer; led expeditions to explore Antarctica (1888-1957)

son of John Cabot who was born in Italy and who led an English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and a Spanish expedition that explored the La Plata region of Brazil; in 1544 he published a map of the world (1476-1557)

French explorer in Nova Scotia who established a settlement on the site of modern Quebec (1567-1635)

United States explorer who (with Meriwether Lewis) led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River; Clark was responsible for making maps of the area (1770-1838)

Spanish explorer who discovered Yucatan (1475-1526)

French underwater explorer (born in 1910)

British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814)

United States explorer who mapped much of the American west and Northwest (1813-1890)

English explorer who led an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage to the orient; served under Drake and helped defeat the Spanish Armada (1535-1594)

United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1821-1871)

French explorer (with Jacques Marquette) of the upper Mississippi River valley (1645-1700)

French explorer who claimed Louisiana for France (1643-1687)

United States explorer and soldier who lead led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River (1774-1809)

Scottish missionary and explorer who discovered the Zambezi River and Victoria Falls (1813-1873)

Canadian explorer (born in England) who explored the Mackenzie River and who was first to cross North America by land north of Mexico (1764-1820)

Norwegian explorer of the Arctic and director of the League of Nations relief program for refugees of World War I (1861-1930)

Scottish explorer in Africa (1771-1806)

United States Arctic explorer and United States naval officer who has been regarded as the first man to reach the North Pole (1856-1920)

Danish ethnologist and Arctic explorer; led expeditions into the Arctic to find support for his theory that Eskimos and North American Indians originally migrated from Asia (1879-1933)

British explorer of the Arctic and Antarctic; located the north magnetic pole in 1831; discovered the Ross Sea in Antarctica; nephew of Sir John Ross (1800-1862)

Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856)

United States geologist and ethnologist and explorer who discovered the source of the Mississippi River (1793-1864)

English explorer who reached the South Pole just a month after Amundsen; he and his party died on the return journey (1868-1912)

English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas (1580-1631)

English explorer who with Sir Richard Burton was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika; he also discovered Lake Victoria and named it (1827-1864)

Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904)

Norwegian explorer who led expeditions into the Arctic (1855-1930)

Spanish explorer who was the first European to explore the California coast (1550-1615)

United States explorer of Antarctica (1798-1877)

Australian who was the first to explore the Arctic by airplane (1888-1958)

Spanish explorer who in 1513 crossed the Isthmus of Darien and became the first European to see the eastern shores of the Pacific Ocean (1475-1519)

Danish explorer who explored the northern Pacific Ocean for the Russians and discovered the Bering Strait (1681-1741)

Italian explorer who led the English expedition in 1497 that discovered the mainland of North America and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland (ca. 1450-1498)

French explorer who explored the St. Lawrence river and laid claim to the region for France (1491-1557)

Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)

English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)

Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547)

Portuguese navigator who led an expedition around the Cape of Good Hope in 1497; he sighted and named Natal on Christmas Day before crossing the Indian Ocean (1469-1524)

English navigator who explored the Arctic while searching for the Northwest Passage (1550-1605)

Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500)

English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)

English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America (1539-1583)

American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)

English navigator who discovered the Hudson River; in 1610 he attempted to winter in Hudson Bay but his crew mutinied and set him adrift to die (1565-1611)

Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain; he commanded an expedition that was the first to circumnavigate the world (1480-1521)

Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541)

Dutch navigator who was the first European to discover Tasmania and New Zealand (1603-1659)

English navigator remembered for his exploration of the Pacific coast of North America (1757-1798)

Florentine navigator who explored the eastern coast of North America (circa 1485-1528)

Florentine navigator who explored the coast of South America; America was named in his honor (1454-1512)

an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century)

someone who works underwater

in earlier times, a person who explored by ship

a person who explores caves

a diver in the deeper parts of the sea

a diver who searches for molluscs containing pearls

an underwater diver who uses scuba gear

Spanish explorer who accompanied Columbus on his second trip in 1493; in 1513 he discovered Florida while searching for the legendary Fountain of Youth (1460-1521)