List of maritime explorers

This is a list of maritime explorers. The list includes explorers which had contributed, and continue to contribute to human knowledge of the planet's geography, weather, biodiversity, human cultures, the expansion of trade, or established communication between diverse populations...

Ocean explorers
Nationality Sailed for Name First voyage of exploration Last voyage of exploration Arctic[1] North Atlantic Indian Pacific South Atlantic Southern
PortuguesePortugal de Abreu, António15071512      
PortuguesePortugal de Albuquerque, Afonso1503        
PortuguesePortugal de Alenquer,Pêro14871488      
PortuguesePortugal de Almeida, Francisco        
PortuguesePortugal Álvares, Jorge        
PortuguesePortugal de Azambuja, Diogo       
PortuguesePortugal de Barcelos, Pêro        
Newfoundlander[2]United States Bartlett, Robert        
Estonian[3]Russia von Bellingshausen, Fabian Gottlieb     *[4]  
Danish[5]Russia Bering, Vitus     *  
FrenchFrance de Bougainville, Louis Antoine        
EnglishBritain Byron, John        
ItalianEnglandCabot, John        
ItalianEngland and AragonCabot, Sebastian        
PortuguesePortugal Cabral, Pedro Álvares        
Portuguese[6]Spain Cabrilho, João Rodrígues        
VenetianPortugalCadamosto. Alvise        
PortuguesePortugal Caminha, Álvaro        
PortuguesePortugal de Caminha, Pêro Vaz        
PortuguesePortugal Cão,Diogo        
FrenchFrance Cartier, Jacques1534        
English England Cavendish, Thomas1586-1588        
FrenchFrance de Champlain, Samuel        
PortuguesePortugal Coelho, Gonçalo        
PortuguesePortugal Coelho, Nicolau        
ItalianSpainColumbus, Christopher        
EnglishBritainCook, James1768–17711776–1779   3 1
PortuguesePortugal Corte-Real, Gaspar        
PortuguesePortugal Corte-Real, Miguel        
PortuguesePortugal da Cunha, Tristão        
English England Dampier, William        
EnglishEngland and Netherlands Davis, John        
 RussianRussia Dezhnev, Semyon     *  
PortuguesePortugal Dias, Bartolomeu        
PortuguesePortugal Dias, Dinis        
PortuguesePortugal Dias, Diogo        
PortuguesePortugal Dias, Pêro        
PortuguesePortugal do Pó, Fernão        
EnglishEngland Drake,Francis1577–15811577–1581  111 
PortuguesePortugal Eanes, Gil        
NorwegianNorse Erik the Red        
 IcelandicNorse Ericson, Leif        
PortuguesePortugal Escobar, Pedro        
PortuguesePortugal Fernandes, Álvaro        
EnglishBritain Flinders, Matthew        
 EnglishEngland Frobisher, Martin        
PortuguesePortugal da Gama, Estêvão        
PortuguesePortugal da Gama, Paulo        
PortuguesePortugal da Gama, Vasco1497-1499 1524       
 EnglishEngland and Ireland Gilbert, Humphrey        
Russian Russia Golovnin, Vasily     *  
PortuguesePortugal Gonçalves, André        
PortuguesePortugal Gonçalves, Antão        
PortuguesePortugal Gonçalves, Lopes        
PortuguesePortugal Grego, João        
 EnglishEngland Hudson, Henry        
PortuguesePortugal Infante, João        
Baltic GermanRussia von Kotzebue, Otto     *  
Baltic German Russia and Britain Kruzenshtern, Ivan Fedorovich     *  
FrenchFrance de Lapérouse,Jean François de Galaup,comte        
PortuguesePortugal and England Lavrador, João Fernandes        
 RussianRussia and Britain Lazarev, Mikhail Petrovich     *  
PortuguesePortugal de Lemos, Gaspar        
RussianRussia Litke, Fyodor Petrovich     *  
PortugueseSpain and Portugal Magellan, Ferdinand        
 DutchNetherlands le Maire, Jacob        
PortuguesePortugal Martins, Álvaro        
PortuguesePortugal Mascarenhas, Pedro        
SpanishSpain de Mendaña, Álvaro 1567-1569       
GenoesePortugalNoli, António        
PortuguesePortugal de Noronha, Fernão        
GalicianPortugal da Nova, João        
 FrenchFrance Paulmyer, Binot        
PortuguesePortugal Pereira, Duarte Pacheco        
PortuguesePortugal Perestrelo, Bartolomeu        
 GermanDenmark and Hamburg Pining, Didrik        
PortuguesePortugal Pinto, Fernão Mendes        
PortuguesePortugal Pires, Luís        
PortugueseSpain de Queirós, Pedro Fernandes        
PortuguesePortugal Rodrigues, Diogo        
PortuguesePortugal de Santarém, João        
 DutchNetherlands Schouten, Willem        
IrishBritain Shackleton, Ernest        
PortuguesePortugal Silves, Diogo        
PortuguesePortugal de Sintra, Pedro        
Portuguese[7]Spain Soromenho, Sebastião Rodrígues        
PortuguesePortugal de Sousa, Martim Afonso        
 DutchNetherlands Tasman, Abel        
PortuguesePortugal Teixeira, Tristão Vaz        
Portuguese or Spanish (Galician)Spain de Torres, Luis Váez        
PortuguesePortugal Tristão, Nuno        
 EnglishBritain Vancouver, George        
PortuguesePortugal Vaz Corte-Real, João        
PortuguesePortugal Velho, Gonçalo        
Italian France da Verrazzano, Giovanni        
ItalianSpain and Portugal Vespucci, Amerigo        
EnglishBritain Wallis, Samuel        
 Baltic GermanRussia Wrangel, Ferdinand Petrovich     *  
PortuguesePortugal Zarco, João Gonçalves        
ChineseChina (Three Kingdoms Period of China) Kang Tai300        
ChineseChina (Three Kingdoms Period of China) Zhu Ying300        
ChineseChina（Yuen Dynasty） Wang Dayuan1330        
ChineseChina（Ming Dynasty） Zheng He1405 1431       
ChineseChina（Ming Dynasty） Ma Huan1413        
ChineseChina（Ming Dynasty） Fei Xin1409        

See also

References and notes
  1. The numbers indicate the number of exploratory voyages. A ship sailing from port through familiar seas does not start exploring until terra incognita is sighted, or a new sea is sailed confirming the lack of land — as in the case of James Cook's second voyage, when he could confirm that the Terra Australis land mass did not exist in the regions of the Southern Ocean that he sailed.
  2. Newfoundland then part of the British Empire
  3. Estonia - then part of the Russian Empire
  4. Indicates a voyage
  5. Sailed for the Russian Empire
  6. In some sources Spanish
  7. In some sources Spanish
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