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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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Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner is an Italian mountaineer, explorer, and author known for high-altitude climbing undertaken with minima...

Italian Mountaineering 20TH Century Himalaya

9.2 Excellent

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Edmund Hillary

Sir Edmund Hillary was a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer who, with the Sherpa climber Tenzing Norgay, reached the s...

Mountaineering 20TH Century Himalaya New Zealander

9.1 Excellent

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Tenzing Norgay

Tenzing Norgay was a Nepali-Indian Sherpa mountaineer who, alongside Edmund Hillary, made the first confirmed ascent of...

Mountaineering 20TH Century Himalaya Nepali

9.1 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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Ernest Shackleton

Ernest Shackleton was an Anglo-Irish explorer whose 1914–16 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition became famous for his le...

20TH Century Endurance British Polar

9.0 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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Jerzy Kukuczka

Jerzy Kukuczka was a Polish mountaineer who in 1987 became the second person to climb all fourteen mountains higher than...

Polish Mountaineering 20TH Century Himalaya

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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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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William Beebe

William Beebe was an American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist, explorer, and writer associated for much of h...

American 20TH Century Underwater Atlantic

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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Kay Cottee

Kay Cottee is an Australian sailor who achieved international recognition in 1988 when she became the first woman to com...

Global Australian 20TH Century Maritime

7.3 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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Naomi James

Naomi James was a New Zealand-born sailor who became the first woman to complete a solo circumnavigation of the world by...

Global 20TH Century Maritime New Zealander

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

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Otis Barton

Otis Barton was an American engineer, inventor, and deep-sea explorer who designed the spherical diving chamber known as...

American 20TH Century Underwater Atlantic

7.0 Good

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Alain Bombard

Alain Bombard was a French physician and biologist who investigated survival at sea. In 1952 he crossed the Atlantic alo...

French 20TH Century Maritime Atlantic

6.8 Fair