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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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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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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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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

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Samuel de Champlain

Samuel de Champlain was a French navigator, cartographer, explorer, and colonial administrator active in northeastern No...

French Canada Great Lakes Terrestrial

8.2 Great

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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

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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

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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

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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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Alexander Mackenzie

Alexander Mackenzie was a Scottish-born fur trader and explorer whose journeys mapped major waterways across what is now...

18TH Century Canada British Terrestrial

8.1 Great

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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

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Wilfred Thesiger

Wilfred Thesiger was a British explorer who between 1945 and 1950 made two crossings of the Arabian Empty Quarter, becom...

Desert 20TH Century British Terrestrial

8.0 Great

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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer who, after a failed 1527 expedition to Florida, spent eight years wand...

Spanish North America Terrestrial Age Of Exploration

7.8 Good

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Alexandra David-Néel

Alexandra David-Néel was a French-Belgian explorer, writer, opera singer, and student of Asian religions whose travels c...

French Asia 20TH Century Terrestrial

7.8 Good

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Freya Stark

Freya Stark was a British-Italian travel writer and explorer known for journeys through the Middle East, particularly du...

20TH Century Female British Middle East

7.8 Good

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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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William of Rubruck

William of Rubruck was a Flemish Franciscan friar who traveled to the court of Mongol Great Khan Möngke in 1253–55, prod...

Asia Medieval Mongolia Flemish

7.6 Good

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Giovanni da Pian del Carpine

Giovanni da Pian del Carpine was an Italian Franciscan friar who in 1245–47 undertook one of the first European diplomat...

Italian Asia Medieval Mongolia

7.3 Good

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Odoric of Pordenone

Odoric of Pordenone was an Italian Franciscan friar and traveler who journeyed through Asia between roughly 1318 and 133...

Italian China Asia Medieval

6.9 Fair