Famous Explorers #6

All right, the last one. I guess for enthusiasts only. Can you still name some?

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Hint	c.	Nationality	Explorer
led an expedition from Mexico to Kansas	16th	Spanish	Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
spent the longest time on the Moon	20th	American	Eugene Cernan \| Harrison Schmitt
tried to find the NW Passage; discovered the Falklands	16th	British	John Davis
explored the Great Lakes and the Mississippi to the Gulf	17th	French	René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle
might've discovered America 20 years before Columbus	15th	German	Hans Pothorst \| Didrik Pining
found Easter Island & Samoa while looking for Antarctica	18th	Dutch	Jacob Roggeveen
merchant who travelled to India and wrote about it	15th	Russian	Afanasy Nikitin
chronicler of Magellan's circumnavigation	16th	Venetian	Antonio Pigafetta
oldest human in Earth orbit	20th	American	John Glenn
travelled through Central Africa and claimed it for France	19th	Italian/French	Pierre Savognan de Brazza
founded the Cape Colony in modern South Africa	17th	Dutch	Jan van Riebeeck
travelled through Central Asia & China and met the Khan	13th	Italian	Giovanni da Pian del Carpine
explored Chesapeake Bay and led the Virginia Colony	17th	British	John Smith
explorer & archaeologist, discovered Egyptian antiquities	19th	Italian	Giovanni Battista Belzoni
first to fly non-stop across the Pacific	20th	American	Charles Kingsford Smith \| Charles Ulm
geographer who travelled through much of Asis	19/20	Swedish	Sven Hedin
first to explore the west coast of southern Africa	15th	Portuguese	Diogo Cão
sailed along the African coast, probably to the Gulf of Guinea	5th BCE	Carthagian	Hanno the Navigator
first to cross North America north of Mexico	18th	British	Alexander Mackenzie
spent the longest time in space	21st	Russian	Oleg Kononenko

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