swap_horiz Ferdinand Magellan Alternatives

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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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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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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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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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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

7

Vasco Núñez de Balboa

Vasco Nunez de Balboa was a Spanish explorer and colonial administrator active in the early 16th century. In 1513 he cro...

Spanish Pacific Panama Terrestrial

8.1 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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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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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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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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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

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Amerigo Vespucci

Amerigo Vespucci was a Florentine navigator and writer associated with European voyages to the Atlantic coast of South A...

Italian Maritime Cartography Americas

7.6 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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Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo

Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo was a sixteenth-century maritime explorer who led a Spanish expedition along the Pacific coast o...

Spanish California North America Maritime

6.9 Fair

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Martin Frobisher

English navigator who made three voyages to the Canadian Arctic between 1576 and 1578 searching for the Northwest Passag...

British Arctic Maritime Age Of Exploration

6.5 Fair