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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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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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Vasco da Gama

Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese navigator whose first voyage reached India by sea in 1498 after rounding the Cape of Good...

Maritime Portuguese Indian Ocean Age Of Exploration

8.9 Great

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Xuanzang

Xuanzang was a 7th-century Chinese Buddhist monk who traveled overland to India around 629–645 CE to collect sacred text...

Asia Ancient Chinese Terrestrial

8.9 Great

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Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus was a Genoese navigator who led four Atlantic voyages for the Spanish Crown beginning in 1492. His...

Transatlantic Maritime Americas Age Of Exploration

8.7 Great

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Leif Erikson

Leif Erikson was a Norse explorer, probably born in Iceland and raised in Greenland, who is described in medieval Icelan...

Medieval North America Maritime Viking

8.6 Great

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Juan Sebastián Elcano

Juan Sebastián Elcano was a Spanish navigator who completed the first recorded circumnavigation of the Earth. After Ferd...

Spanish Maritime Circumnavigation Age Of Exploration

8.5 Great

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Robin Knox-Johnston

Sir Robin Knox-Johnston is a British sailor who became the first person to complete a solo, nonstop circumnavigation of...

Contemporary Global British Maritime

8.5 Great

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Joshua Slocum

Joshua Slocum was a Canadian-born American mariner and writer who completed the first documented solo circumnavigation o...

American Global 19TH Century Maritime

8.4 Great

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Henry the Navigator

Henry the Navigator, or Infante Henry of Portugal, was a 15th-century prince who sponsored Portuguese voyages along the...

Africa Maritime Portuguese Patron

8.3 Great

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Bartolomeu Dias

Bartolomeu Dias was a Portuguese mariner and explorer who led the first recorded European expedition to round the southe...

Africa Maritime Portuguese Age Of Exploration

8.3 Great

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Vitus Bering

Vitus Bering was a Danish-born navigator and officer in the service of the Russian Empire. He commanded the First and Se...

18TH Century Maritime Alaska Arctic Pacific

8.2 Great

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Abel Tasman

Abel Tasman was a Dutch navigator and explorer employed by the Dutch East India Company during the 17th century. On his...

Australia Dutch Pacific 17TH Century

8.1 Great

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Francis Drake

Francis Drake was an English mariner, privateer and naval commander active during the reign of Elizabeth I. His expediti...

Privateer British Maritime Circumnavigation

8.0 Great

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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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Ellen MacArthur

Ellen MacArthur is a British sailor known for long-distance solo ocean racing. In February 2005 she completed a nonstop,...

Contemporary Global British 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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Erik the Red

Erik the Red was a Norse explorer associated with the establishment of permanent European settlements in Greenland near...

Maritime Viking Norse Colonization

7.8 Good

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Fabian von Bellingshausen

Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen was a Russian naval officer and explorer who lived from 1778 to 1852. He commanded th...

Russian 19TH Century Antarctic Maritime

7.8 Good

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Henry Hudson

Henry Hudson was an English navigator and explorer active in the early seventeenth century who undertook voyages seeking...

English Arctic Maritime Age Of Exploration

7.7 Good