swap_horiz Charles Sturt Alternatives

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Meriwether Lewis

Meriwether Lewis was an American army officer and explorer who, with William Clark, led the Lewis and Clark Expedition f...

American 19TH Century North America Terrestrial

8.3 Great

2

William Clark

William Clark was an American soldier, explorer, territorial official, and Indian agent who co-led the Lewis and Clark E...

American 19TH Century North America Terrestrial

8.2 Great

3

Heinrich Barth

Heinrich Barth was a nineteenth-century German geographer, linguist, and explorer whose travels produced extensive recor...

German 19TH Century Africa Terrestrial

8.2 Great

4

Nain Singh Rawat

Nain Singh Rawat was a 19th-century Indian explorer and surveyor trained by the British Survey of India as one of its so...

Indian 19TH Century Asia Terrestrial

8.2 Great

5

Alexander Mackenzie

Alexander Mackenzie was a Scottish-born fur trader and explorer whose journeys mapped major waterways across what is now...

18TH Century Canada British Terrestrial

8.1 Great

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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

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

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

11

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

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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

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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

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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

15

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

16

Ludwig Leichhardt

Ludwig Leichhardt was a Prussian-born naturalist and explorer who became associated with the exploration of northern Aus...

German Australia 19TH Century Overland

6.8 Fair

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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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James Grant

Scottish explorer who accompanied John Hanning Speke on the 1860–1863 expedition that traced the Nile's exit from Lake V...

19TH Century British Africa Terrestrial

6.6 Fair

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Hugh Clapperton

Scottish explorer who made two expeditions into West Africa, joining the first European party to reach Lake Chad in 1823...

19TH Century British Africa West Africa

6.5 Fair