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Ferdinand Magellan

Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese navigator who entered Spanish service and commanded an expedition that departed in 1...

Pacific Maritime Portuguese Circumnavigation

9.2 Excellent

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Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner is an Italian mountaineer, explorer, and author known for high-altitude climbing undertaken with minima...

Italian Mountaineering 20TH Century Himalaya

9.2 Excellent

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Edmund Hillary

Sir Edmund Hillary was a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer who, with the Sherpa climber Tenzing Norgay, reached the s...

Mountaineering 20TH Century Himalaya New Zealander

9.1 Excellent

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Tenzing Norgay

Tenzing Norgay was a Nepali-Indian Sherpa mountaineer who, alongside Edmund Hillary, made the first confirmed ascent of...

Mountaineering 20TH Century Himalaya Nepali

9.1 Excellent

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Zheng He

Zheng He was a Chinese Muslim admiral and explorer who commanded seven massive maritime expeditions from China between 1...

Medieval Chinese Maritime Admiral

9.1 Excellent

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Cheng Ho

Zheng He, historically romanized as Cheng Ho, was a Chinese admiral and court official of the Ming dynasty who commanded...

Medieval Chinese Maritime Indian Ocean

9.1 Excellent

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Jean-François de Galaup de Lapérouse

Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, was an eighteenth-century French naval officer and explorer who commanded a...

18TH Century French Pacific Maritime

7.9 Good

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Pedro Álvares Cabral

Pedro Álvares Cabral was a Portuguese navigator who commanded a large fleet sent to India in 1500 to develop the maritim...

Brazil Maritime Atlantic Portuguese

7.8 Good

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Alexandra David-Néel

Alexandra David-Néel was a French-Belgian explorer, writer, opera singer, and student of Asian religions whose travels c...

French Asia 20TH Century Terrestrial

7.8 Good

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William Beebe

William Beebe was an American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist, explorer, and writer associated for much of h...

American 20TH Century Underwater Atlantic

7.8 Good

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John Cabot

John Cabot, also known as Giovanni Caboto, was an Italian navigator who sailed under the authority of England's King Hen...

North America Maritime Atlantic Italian British

7.7 Good

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Jacques Cartier

Jacques Cartier was a French navigator whose three voyages to North America between 1534 and 1542 helped establish Franc...

French Canada Maritime St Lawrence

7.5 Good

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Louis-Antoine de Bougainville

Louis-Antoine de Bougainville was an eighteenth-century French naval officer, navigator, and explorer. He commanded the...

18TH Century French Pacific Maritime

7.5 Good

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Dumont d'Urville

Jules Dumont d'Urville was a French naval officer, explorer, and cartographer who led voyages through the Pacific, the M...

French 19TH Century Maritime Circumnavigation

7.5 Good

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Kay Cottee

Kay Cottee is an Australian sailor who achieved international recognition in 1988 when she became the first woman to com...

Global Australian 20TH Century Maritime

7.3 Good

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Paul-Émile Victor

Paul-Émile Victor was a French polar explorer and ethnologist who played a central role in modern French polar research....

French 20TH Century Polar Greenland

7.3 Good

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Naomi James

Naomi James was a New Zealand-born sailor who became the first woman to complete a solo circumnavigation of the world by...

Global 20TH Century Maritime New Zealander

7.1 Good

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Tori Murden McClure

Tori Murden McClure is an American adventurer, author, and academic administrator known for long-distance rowing and pol...

American Contemporary Maritime Atlantic

7.0 Good

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Otis Barton

Otis Barton was an American engineer, inventor, and deep-sea explorer who designed the spherical diving chamber known as...

American 20TH Century Underwater Atlantic

7.0 Good

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Hannes Lindemann

Hannes Lindemann was a German physician, sailor, and author who studied human survival at sea through long solo voyages....

German 20TH Century Maritime Atlantic

6.7 Fair