swap_horiz John McDouall Stuart 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

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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

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

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

8

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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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

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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

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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

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Charles Sturt

Captain Charles Sturt (1795–1869) was a British military officer and explorer prominent for leading several expeditions...

Australia 19TH Century British Terrestrial

7.1 Good

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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

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Edward John Eyre

Edward John Eyre was an English explorer and colonial official whose 1840 to 1841 expedition crossed southern Australia...

Australia 19TH Century Overland British

6.9 Fair

15

Joseph Thomson

Scottish geologist who in 1883 became the first European to cross Maasai territory in East Africa, opening a direct inla...

19TH Century British Africa East Africa

6.8 Fair

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Ludwig Leichhardt

Prussian-born explorer who in 1844–1845 led the first successful overland expedition from Moreton Bay to Port Essington...

German Australia 19TH Century Overland

6.8 Fair

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Robert O'Hara Burke

Irish-born explorer who co-led the 1860–1861 Burke and Wills expedition, the first to cross Australia from south to nort...

Australia 19TH Century Irish Terrestrial

6.8 Fair

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Florence Baker

Hungarian-born explorer who accompanied her husband Samuel Baker on the 1861–1865 Nile expedition and co-discovered Lake...

19TH Century Nile British Africa

6.7 Fair

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James Grant

Scottish explorer who accompanied John Hanning Speke on the 1860–1863 expedition that traced the Nile's exit from Lake V...

19TH Century British Africa Terrestrial

6.6 Fair

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Hugh Clapperton

Scottish explorer who made two expeditions into West Africa, joining the first European party to reach Lake Chad in 1823...

19TH Century British Africa West Africa

6.5 Fair