swap_horiz Leif Erikson Alternatives

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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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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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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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Alex Honnold

Alex Honnold is an American rock climber known for free-solo climbing, in which a climber ascends without ropes or prote...

American Contemporary Mountaineering North America

8.8 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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Juan Sebastián Elcano

Juan Sebastián Elcano was a Spanish navigator who completed the first recorded circumnavigation of the Earth. After Ferd...

Spanish Maritime Circumnavigation Age Of Exploration

8.5 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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Henry the Navigator

Henry the Navigator, or Infante Henry of Portugal, was a 15th-century prince who sponsored Portuguese voyages along the...

Africa Maritime Portuguese Patron

8.3 Great

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Bartolomeu Dias

Bartolomeu Dias was a Portuguese mariner and explorer who led the first recorded European expedition to round the southe...

Africa Maritime Portuguese Age Of Exploration

8.3 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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Tommy Caldwell

Tommy Caldwell is an American rock climber known for difficult free climbs, big-wall routes, and sustained climbing on Y...

American Contemporary Mountaineering North America

8.3 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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Vitus Bering

Vitus Bering was a Danish-born navigator and officer in the service of the Russian Empire. He commanded the First and Se...

18TH Century Maritime Alaska Arctic Pacific

8.2 Great

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Abel Tasman

Abel Tasman was a Dutch navigator and explorer employed by the Dutch East India Company during the 17th century. On his...

Australia Dutch Pacific 17TH Century

8.1 Great

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Francis Drake

Francis Drake was an English mariner, privateer and naval commander active during the reign of Elizabeth I. His expediti...

Privateer British Maritime Circumnavigation

8.0 Great

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Erik the Red

Erik the Red was a Norse explorer associated with the establishment of permanent European settlements in Greenland near...

Maritime Viking Norse Colonization

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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Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo

Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo was a sixteenth-century maritime explorer who led a Spanish expedition along the Pacific coast o...

Spanish California North America Maritime

6.9 Fair