Famous Explorers #5

All right, from here on I guess it's for enthusiasts only. Can you still name some?

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Hint	c.	Nationality	Explorer
first to cross South America (by sailing the Amazon)	16th	Spanish	Francisco de Orellana
first woman to sail around the world	18th	French	Jeanne Baret
first European to cross the equator	15th	Portuguese	Lopes Gonçalves
explored the Pacific, Oceania, and Antarctica	19th	French	Jules Dumont d'Urville
possibly the first European to see the contiguous US	16th	Venetian	Sebastian Cabot
name any: first vertebrate in space / first vertebrate to survive a spaceflight / first animal in orbit / first animal to survive orbit	20th	American \| Soviet \| Soviet \| Soviet	Albert II \| Dezik & Tsygan \| Laika \| Belka & Strelka
first Norse to settle permanently in Iceland	9th	Norse	Ingólfr Arnarson
Inca conquistador, first European to travel to Chile	16th	Spanish	Diego de Almagro
first European to reach Western Australia	17th	Dutch	Dirk Hartog
co-discovered the Antarctic continent	19th	Russian	Mikhail Lazarev
first to fly nonstop across an ocean (name any)	20th	British	John Alcock \| Arthur Brown
diplomat and enovy to the world outside China who pioneered the Silk Road	2nd BCE	Chinese	Zhang Qian
captain of the Beagle and pioneer meteorologist	19th	English	Robert FitzRoy
first woman on Mount Everest & the Seven Summits	20th	Japanese	Junko Tabei
led a scientific circumnavigation that vanished	18th	French	Jean-François de La Pérouse
longest time spent on a solo spaceflight	20th	Soviet	Valery Bykovsky
woman who travelled extensively through West Africa	19th	British	Mary Kingsley
travelled through Europe, Africa and the Middle East	12th	Jewish	Benjamin of Tudela
helped Lewis & Clark explore the Louisiana Territory	18th	Native American	Sacagawea
first to walk the length of the Amazon	20th	British	Ed Stafford

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