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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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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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Fridtjof Nansen

Fridtjof Nansen was a Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, and humanitarian whose work ranged from zoology and ocean...

Norwegian 19TH Century Polar Arctic

8.8 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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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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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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Willem Barentsz

Willem Barentsz was a Dutch navigator and cartographer who led three voyages into the Arctic during the 1590s in search...

Dutch Arctic Maritime 16TH Century

7.5 Good

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Semyon Dezhnev

Semyon Dezhnev was a Russian Cossack and explorer. In 1648 he led the first known European voyage through the strait sep...

Russian Arctic 17TH Century Maritime

7.4 Good

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Jean-Louis Etienne

Jean-Louis Etienne is a French physician, explorer, and environmental scientist recognized for his extensive research in...

French Contemporary Polar Arctic

7.2 Good

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Jessica Watson

Jessica Watson is an Australian sailor who gained international recognition for completing a solo circumnavigation of th...

Contemporary Global Australian Maritime

7.2 Good

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Roz Savage

Roz Savage is a British ocean rower and environmental campaigner who became the first woman to row solo across the world...

Contemporary British Maritime Atlantic Pacific Indian

7.2 Good

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Freya Hoffmeister

Freya Hoffmeister is a German athlete and expedition sea kayaker recognized for completing some of the most demanding lo...

German Contemporary Global Maritime

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

16

Park Youngsuk

Park Young-seok was a South Korean mountaineer and polar explorer who climbed all fourteen mountains higher than 8,000 m...

Contemporary South Korean Polar Arctic

7.0 Good

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Pen Hadow

Pen Hadow is a British polar explorer known for a 2003 journey from Ward Hunt Island in Canada to the Geographic North P...

Contemporary British Polar Arctic

6.9 Fair

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Laura Dekker

Laura Dekker is a Dutch-German sailor who became widely known for completing a solo circumnavigation of the world as a t...

Contemporary Global Dutch 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

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Aleksandr Brylin

Russian explorer Aleksandr Brylin is known for polar expeditions including traverses of Arctic and Antarctic regions, co...

Russian Contemporary Polar Arctic

5.6 Mediocre