swap_horiz Alexander Mackenzie Alternatives

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Samuel de Champlain

Samuel de Champlain was a French navigator, cartographer, explorer, and colonial administrator active in northeastern No...

French Canada Great Lakes Terrestrial

8.2 Great

2

Richard Francis Burton

Sir Richard Francis Burton was a British explorer, army officer, diplomat, translator, and linguist active during the ni...

19TH Century British Terrestrial Africa Middle East

8.1 Great

3

Wilfred Thesiger

Wilfred Thesiger was a British explorer who between 1945 and 1950 made two crossings of the Arabian Empty Quarter, becom...

Desert 20TH Century British Terrestrial

8.0 Great

4

Freya Stark

Freya Stark was a British-Italian travel writer and explorer known for journeys through the Middle East, particularly du...

20TH Century Female British Middle East

7.8 Good

5

Isabella Bird

Isabella Bird was a British traveler, writer, photographer, and natural observer whose journeys took her through North A...

Global 19TH Century Female British

7.7 Good

6

Mary Kingsley

Mary Kingsley was a British writer and traveler who undertook extensive journeys in West and Central Africa during the 1...

19TH Century Female British Africa

7.6 Good

7

John McDouall Stuart

John McDouall Stuart was a Scottish-born explorer whose expeditions mapped large areas of inland Australia during the ni...

Australia 19TH Century British Terrestrial

7.5 Good

8

Mungo Park

Mungo Park was a Scottish surgeon and explorer best known for his two major expeditions to trace the course of the Niger...

19TH Century British Africa Terrestrial

7.4 Good

9

T.E. Lawrence

Thomas Edward Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, was a British archaeologist, army officer, and writer. Durin...

20TH Century British Middle East Terrestrial

7.3 Good

10

John Hanning Speke

John Hanning Speke was a British explorer and officer in the British Indian Army who undertook several expeditions in Af...

19TH Century British Africa Terrestrial

7.2 Good

11

James Bruce

James Bruce (1730-1794) was a Scottish explorer who traveled through North Africa and Ethiopia. In 1770, he reached what...

18TH Century British Africa Terrestrial

7.2 Good

12

Charles Sturt

Captain Charles Sturt (1795–1869) was a British military officer and explorer prominent for leading several expeditions...

Australia 19TH Century British Terrestrial

7.1 Good

13

Samuel Baker

Sir Samuel White Baker was a nineteenth-century British explorer, writer, hunter, and colonial administrator associated...

19TH Century Nile British Africa

7.0 Good

14

Mark Beaumont

Mark Beaumont is a Scottish endurance cyclist, broadcaster, and adventurer known for long-distance bicycle expeditions....

Contemporary Global British Terrestrial

7.0 Good

15

Captain John Smith

Captain John Smith was an English soldier and explorer who helped establish the first permanent English settlement in No...

British Virginia North America Terrestrial

6.9 Fair

16

Edward John Eyre

Edward John Eyre was an English explorer and colonial official whose 1840 to 1841 expedition crossed southern Australia...

Australia 19TH Century Overland British

6.9 Fair

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Joseph Thomson

Joseph Thomson was a Scottish geologist and explorer active in East Africa during the late nineteenth century. In 1883 a...

19TH Century British Africa East Africa

6.8 Fair

18

Robert O'Hara Burke

Robert O'Hara Burke (1821-1861) was an Irish-born soldier, police officer, and Australian explorer. He led the Victorian...

Australia 19TH Century Irish Terrestrial

6.8 Fair

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Florence Baker

Florence Baker was a Transylvanian-born Hungarian explorer who traveled with the English explorer Samuel Baker during hi...

19TH Century Nile British Africa

6.7 Fair

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Alastair Humphreys

British adventurer Alastair Humphreys cycled around the world between 2001 and 2005 and later popularized the concept of...

Contemporary Global British Terrestrial

6.7 Fair