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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

3

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

10

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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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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Joshua Slocum

Joshua Slocum was a Canadian-born American mariner and writer who completed the first documented solo circumnavigation o...

American Global 19TH Century Maritime

8.4 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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Dervla Murphy

Dervla Murphy (1931–2022) was an Irish travel writer who gained recognition with her 1965 debut book "Full Tilt," which...

Global 20TH Century Irish Terrestrial

7.3 Good

15

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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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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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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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

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Hannes Lindemann

Hannes Lindemann was a German physician, sailor, and author who studied human survival at sea through long solo voyages....

German 20TH Century Maritime Atlantic

6.7 Fair