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Famous Explorers #4

Name more explorers based on their achievements. Warning: hard
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Last updated: January 23, 2024
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First submittedJanuary 23, 2024
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Nationality
Explorer
first to climb Mount Everest solo and first without oxygen
20th
Italian
Reinhold Messner
regarded as the first to set foot on the Antarctic continent
19th
American
John Davis
led Antarctic expeditions, first at the South Magnetic Pole
20th
Australian
Douglas Mawson
travelled through the Ottoman Empire for over 40 years
17th
Ottoman
Evliya Çelebi
farthest humans who didn't leave Earth orbit (Gemini 11)
20th
American
Pete Conrad | Richard Gordon
polar explorer who charted the Antarctic coast
19th
British
James Clark Ross
possibly the first European to set foot on American land
10th
Norse
Snæbjörn Galti
first to fly solo around the world, discovered the jet stream
20th
American
Wiley Post
made an early attempt to find the Northwest Passage
17th
British
William Baffin
first to go around the world three times, also a naturalist
17th
British
William Dampier
travelled Asia, Africa, & America, also a famed translator
19th
British
Richard Francis Burton
first to explore today's US east coast, in French service
15th
Florentine
Giovanni da Verrazzano
polar aviator, first to fly to the South Pole
20th
American
Richard Byrd
first to sight and set foot on Antarctic land
19th
British
William Smith
made five journeys through Central Asia and China
19th
Russian
Nikolay Przhevalsky
led the first French and first scientific circumnavigation
18th
French
Louis Antoine de Bougainville
first to circumnavigate Australia, also coined the name
19th
British
Matthew Flinders
first to actually reach the North Pole via airship
20th
Italian
Umberto Nobile
explored the Russian arctic, later Governor of Alaska
19th
Russian
Ferdinand von Wrangel
modern explorer, first to cross Antarctica on foot
20th
British
Ranulph Fiennes
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