swap_horiz Willem Barentsz 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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Fridtjof Nansen

Fridtjof Nansen was a Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, and humanitarian whose work ranged from zoology and ocean...

Norwegian 19TH Century Polar Arctic

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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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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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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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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Henry Hudson

Henry Hudson was an English navigator and explorer active in the early seventeenth century who undertook voyages seeking...

English Arctic Maritime Age Of Exploration

7.7 Good

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Semyon Dezhnev

Semyon Dezhnev was a Russian Cossack and explorer. In 1648 he led the first known European voyage through the strait sep...

Russian Arctic 17TH Century Maritime

7.4 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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Fiann Paul

Fiann Paul is an Icelandic ocean rower and explorer known for participating in human-powered crossings of major oceans....

Contemporary Arctic Maritime Icelandic

6.8 Fair

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Martin Frobisher

Sir Martin Frobisher was an English sea captain and privateer who led three voyages to the Canadian Arctic in 1576, 1577...

British Arctic Maritime Age Of Exploration

6.5 Fair