Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)
Explorer
1
Marco Polo (1254-1324)
2
John Smith (1580-1631)
3
Daniel Boone (1734-1820)
4
James Cook (1728-1779)
5
Jessica Watson, 32
6
Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521)
7
Henry Hudson (1565-1611)
8
Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922)
9
Calamity Jane (1852-1903)
10
Francis Drake (1540-1596)
11
Jacques Cartier (1491-1557)
12
Hernando Cortés (1485-1547)
13
Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512)
14
Samuel De Champlain (1574-1635)
15
William Clark (1770-1838)
16
Vasco da Gama (1460-1524)
17
St. George Littledale (1851-1931)
18
Joseph Banks (1743-1820)
19
Robert Ballard, 83
20
Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809)
21
Arthur Phillip (1738-1814)
22
Floyd Collins (1887-1925)
23
Jedediah Smith (1799-1831)
24
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John Cabot
25
Matthew Henson (1866-1955)
26
Jim Bowie (1796-1836)
27
Ranulph Fiennes, 81
28
Stephen Austin (1793-1863)
29
William Lewis Herndon (1813-1857)
30
Matthew Flinders (1774-1814)
31
Hernando Desoto (1496-1542)
32
Roald Amundsen (1872-1928)
33
Abel Tasman (1603-1659)
34
John Henry Mears (1878-1956)
35
Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912)
36
Paul-Henri Nargeolet (1946-2023)
37
Ed Stafford, 49
38
George Fletcher Moore (1798-1886)
39
Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)
40
William Kidd (1645-1701)
41
Jan van Riebeeck (1619-1677)
42
Annie Edson Taylor (1838-1921)
43
John Lloyd Stephens (1805-1852)
44
Pedro Menendez de Aviles (1519-1574)
45
Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002)
46
John Franklin (1786-1847)
47
Vitus Bering (1661-1741)
48
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