swap_horiz Meriwether Lewis Alternatives

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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

2

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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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

4

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

5

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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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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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

9

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

10

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

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Henry Morton Stanley

Henry Morton Stanley was a Welsh-American journalist and explorer best known for his 1871 expedition into Central Africa...

19TH Century Africa Congo British American

7.6 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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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

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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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René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle

René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle (1643-1687) was a French explorer who led expeditions across the Great Lakes region and...

French North America 17TH Century Mississippi

7.4 Good

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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

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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

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John C. Frémont

John C. Frémont was an American military officer, explorer, and politician known for his significant role in the westwar...

American 19TH Century West North America

7.1 Good

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Zebulon Pike

Zebulon Pike was a United States Army officer and explorer whose expeditions examined parts of the Louisiana Purchase be...

American 19TH Century North America Southwest

6.7 Fair