swap_horiz Henry Morton Stanley 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

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

6

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

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Nikolai Przhevalsky

Nikolai Przhevalsky was a Russian geographer, naturalist, and military officer who led four major expeditions through Ce...

Russian 19TH Century Asia Central Asia

7.7 Good

8

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

9

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

10

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

11

René Caillié

René Caillié was a French explorer who in 1828 became the first non-Muslim European to visit Timbuktu in present-day Mal...

French 19TH Century Africa Terrestrial

7.4 Good

12

Nellie Bly

Nellie Bly, born Elizabeth Cochran Seaman, was an American journalist and writer who pioneered the field of investigativ...

American Global 19TH Century Terrestrial

7.4 Good

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Jedidiah Smith

Jedidiah Smith (1799-1831) was an American fur trader and explorer who made significant contributions to the mapping of...

American 19TH Century North America Mountain Man

7.2 Good

14

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

15

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

16

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

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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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Paul du Chaillu

Paul du Chaillu was a nineteenth-century French-American explorer and writer whose journeys in equatorial West Africa br...

19TH Century Africa French American Terrestrial

6.7 Fair

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James Grant

James Augustus Grant was a Scottish explorer of eastern equatorial Africa. He accompanied John Hanning Speke on the expe...

19TH Century British Africa Terrestrial

6.6 Fair

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Hugh Clapperton

Hugh Clapperton (1788-1827) was a Scottish naval officer and explorer of West Africa. He joined the expedition led by Wa...

19TH Century British Africa West Africa

6.5 Fair