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The index arranged chronologically within specific regions of the world. Lettering in bold indicates how the name is placed alphabetically in the Encyclopedia. Articles of a general nature, giving an historical overview of exploration in specific regions, are indicated by an asterisk (*). These articles frequently include many lesser expeditions, or travellers for whom there is limited biographical information.

Volume 1: From the earliest times to the year 1800

 

Early travellers and expeditions in Egypt, Sudan and the Middle East, 2900-500 BCE

 

BCE c2900   Djer   Egypt
BCE c2530   Sneferu   Middle East, Egypt
BCE c2455   Sahura   Egypt, Somalia
BCE c2360   Baurtet   Sudan, Egypt
BCE c2300   Weni   Palestine, Egypt
BCE c2250   Herkhuf   Sudan, Egypt
BCE c2200   Mekhu   Egypt, Sudan
BCE c2200   Hekayib   Egypt
BCE c1950   Hennu   Somalia, Egypt
BCE c1940–1480   Thuthmosis I, II & III   Middle East, Egypt
BCE c1910   Sinuhe   Egypt, Syria
BCE c1800   Abraham   Middle East, Iraq, Palestine
BCE c1760   Zimri-Lim   Middle East, Iraq, Syria
BCE c1700   Jacob   Middle East, Egypt, Syria
BCE c1492   Queen Hatshepsut   Somalia, Egypt
BCE c1200   Jason   Middle East, Black Sea, Georgia
BCE c1095   Wen-Amon   Egypt, Lebanon
BCE c969–936   Solomon   Middle East, Palestine, South Arabia
BCE c607   Necho II   Africa, Egypt, South Africa
BCE c600   Necho II   Egypt
BCE 525–522   Cambyses II   Sudan, Egypt


Voyages, expeditions and travellers during the classical Greek period, 650-100 BCE

BCE c650   Colaeus of Samos   Mediterranean, North Africa, Spain
BCE c550   Euthymenes of Massilia   Northwest Africa, Senegal
BCE c550   Midacritus of Phocaea   Mediterranean, Atlantic, Greece
BCE c515   Scylax of Caryanda   Indian Ocean, Arabia, India
BCE 490   Himilco   Atlantic, Spain, France
BCE 470   Hanno   Northwest Africa, Mediterranean
BCE 470   Sataspes   North Africa, Mediterranean
BCE 464–447   Herodotus   Middle East,
BCE c440   *Phoenicians in the Canary Islands   Madeira, Canary Is.
BCE 401–400   Xenophon   Middle East, Turkey, Iraq
BCE c340   Pytheas of Massilia   Europe W., France, Britain
BCE 334–323   Alexander the Great   Middle East, Asia
BCE 330   Craterus   Central Asia, India, Afghanistan
BCE 325   Androsthenes of Thasos   Middle East, Persian Gulf
BCE 325   Onesicritus of Astypaleia   Asia S., Sri Lanka
BCE 325   Nearchus   Indian Ocean, India, Iran
BCE 325   Hiero of Soli   Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea
BCE 325   Archias of Pella   Middle East, Persian Gulf
BCE 302–291   Megasthenes   India
BCE 300   Euhemerus   Indian Ocean
BCE 285   Patrocles   Asia W., Caspian Sea, Russia
BCE 218–203   Hannibal   Europe S.W., Spain, Italy
BCE 208   Hasdrubal Barca   Europe S.W., Spain, France
BCE c200   *Carthaginians in the Azores   North Atlantic, Azores
BCE 181–146   Polybius   North Africa, Mediterranean, Senegal
BCE c140   Eudoxus of Cyzicus   Arabian Sea, India
BCE c130   Agatharchides of Cnidus   Persian Gulf, Red Sea
BCE c115   Eudoxus of Cyzicus   Northwest Africa, Morocco
BCE c100   Poseidonios   Mediterranean, North Africa, Greece

Expeditions at the time of the Roman Empire, 81 BCE-218 CE

BCE 81–45   Gaius Julius Caesar   Europe, France, Mediterranean
BCE 44–21   Strabo   Mediterranean, Turkey, Egypt
BCE 29–24   Juba II   North Africa, Morocco, Canary Is.
BCE 26–30   *Roman Voyages to Ceylon   Asia S., India, Sri Lanka
BCE 25–24   Aelius Gallus   Middle East, Egypt, South Arabia
BCE 25–22   C. Petronius   Nile, Sudan
BCE c20   Demetrius of Tarsus   Europe, Britain
BCE 19   Lucius Cornelius Balbus   North Africa, Sahara, Tunisia
BCE 15–10   Claudius Nero Tiberius   Northern Europe, Denmark, Germany
BCE 12–9   Nero Claudius Drusus   Germany
BCE c10   Julius Maternus   North Africa, Sahara, Algeria
BCE c5   Septimus Flaccus   North Africa, Sahara, Algeria
11–19   Germanicus Caesar   Germany
c20   Hippalus   Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, India
42   Suetonius Paulinus   North Africa, Morocco
46–79   Pliny (the Elder)   Mediterranean, Italy
c50   Diogenes   East Africa, Ethiopia, Tanzania
c50   Bion of Soli   Egypt, Ethiopia
c60   Claudius Caesar Nero   Egypt, Sudan
79–84   Gnaeus Julius Agricola   Europe, Britain
110   Maes Titanius   Central Asia, China
120   Marinus of Tyre   Asia S., Africa, Asia
150   Euphemus   North Atlantic, Canary Is.
218   Gauis Julius Solinus   Europe, Britain

Other travellers in the Middle East, the Mediterranean and North Africa, 316-1177

316–357   Frumentius   Red Sea, Ethiopia
320   Meropius of Tyre   Red Sea, Ethiopia
345   Thomas of Kana   India,
416   Rutilius   Mediterranean, Italy, France
530–550   Cosmas of Alexandria   Middle East, India, Red Sea
568–569   Zemarchus   Central Asia, Turkey
570   Antoninus of Placentia   Middle East, Egypt, Palestine
635   Alopen   Central Asia, China
722–732   Saint Willibald   Middle East, Palestine, Turkey
850   Eldad the Danite   Middle East, Egypt, North Africa
1159–1177   Benjamin of Tudela   Asia W., Iran, Middle East

Chinese and Japanese travellers, 219 BCE-1431 CE

BCE 219   Hsu Fu   China, Japan, Northwest Pacific
BCE 138–116   Chang Ch’ien   Central Asia, China
97–98   Kan Ying   Central Asia, China
250   Kang Tai   China, Vietnam, Cambodia
399–414   Fa-Hien   Central Asia, China, India
485   Hui Shen   China, Mexico, Pacific N.
518–521   Sung Yun   Central Asia, China, Pakistan
629–645   Hsuan Tsang   China, Central Asia, India
633–680   Hiuen-Chiu   Central Asia, China, India
643–664   Wang-Hiuen-Tse   India, Tibet
671–695   I-Tsing   China, India, Indonesia
838–847   Ennin   China, Japan
850   Duan Chengshi   China
1405–1433   Zheng He   China, Africa, Asia
1405–1433   Ma Huan   China, Asia S., India
1425–1433   Fei Hsin   China, Africa, Asia

Vikings, Norsemen and monks in the North Atlantic, Greenland and Russia, 563-1398

563  Saint Columba   North Atlantic, Faeroe Is., Scotland
565   Saint Brendan   North Atlantic, Scotland, Ireland
795–825   *Iceland: early voyages   North Atlantic, Iceland
820–950   *Swedish Vikings in Russia   Sweden, Russia
840   Rurik   Sweden, Russia
844–862   *Norsemen in the Mediterranean   Mediterranean, Spain, France
859–860   Askold   Sweden, Russia
860–861   Gardar Svarsson   North Atlantic, Iceland
890   Wulfstan   Baltic Sea, Norway
890–900   Othere   Arctic Ocean, Norway
900   Gunnbjorn Ulfsson   North Atlantic, Iceland, Greenland
913–944   Igor   Russia
978–979   Snaebjorn Galti   North Atlantic, Greenland
980–986   Eirik Raudi   North Atlantic, Iceland, Greenland
982   Ari Marsson   North America, Newfoundland, Canada
986   Bjarni Herjolfsson   North America, Iceland, Canada
1000–1001   Leif Eiriksson   North America, Greenland, Canada
1001   Thorvald Eiriksson   North America, Grenland, Canada
1003–1006   Thorfinn Karlsefni   North Atlantic, Labrador, Canada
1029   Gudleif Gudlaugson   North America, Newfoundland, Canada
1032   Uleb   Arctic Ocean, Russia
1120–1340   *Greenland: the Norse colony 1120-1360
1170   Madoc   North Atlantic, North America
1194   *Spitsbergen: early voyages
1347–1720   *Greenland: the Norse colony 1367-1720
1360   Nicholas of Lynne   North Atlantic, Scotland, Iceland
1380   Antonio & Nicolò Zeno   North Atlantic, Faeroe Is.
1398   Henry Sinclair   North Atlantic, North America

Arab and Persian travellers and geographers, 850-1500

700–1800   *Islamic Geographers, Arabic and Persian   Middle East, Asia, Africa
851   Sulaiman el Tagir   Asia S., Ceylon, China
873–891   Ahmad ibn abi Yaqub   Middle East, Africa, India
882–912   Ishaq bin Yahuda   Asia S., India, China
910–946   Abu ‘l Hassan al-Masudi   Middle East, Asia, Africa
921–922   Ahmad ibn Fadhlan   Asia W., Caspian Sea, Russia
943   Abul Kasem Mohammed ibn Hauqal   North Africa, Mali
950   Buzurg ibn Shahriyar   Indian Ocean, India, East Africa
950–980   Ali ibn Sultan al-Hasan   East Africa, Somalia, Tanzania
1015–1048   Abu ar-Rayhan Muhammad al-Biruni   Asia S., India, Afghanistan
1046–1052   Nasir-i Khusraw   Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
1095–1099   Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali   Iran, Iraq, Middle East
1110–1154   Abu Abdallah Mohammad ibn Idrisi   North Africa, Turkey, Mediterranean
1150   Ibn Fatima   Northwest Africa, Morocco
1183–1185   Abu Husain Mohammad ibn Jubair   North Africa, Middle East
1194–1223   Muhyi ad-Din Muhammad al-Arabi   Middle East, Turkey, Saudi Arabia
1200–1229   Yaqut   Middle East, Egypt, Iran
1219–1222   Kiu Ch’ang Chun   China, Mongolia, Central Asia
1226–1256   Muslih-Uddin Sa’di   Middle East, India, Iran
1324   Kankan Musa   Mali, Saudi Arabia
1325–1354   Abu Abdullah Mohammed ibn Batuta   North Africa, Africa, Asia
1348–1389   Saad al-Din Masud al-Taftazani   Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Iran
1349–1406   Abu Zaid ibn Khaldun   North Africa, Algeria, Morocco
1365–1405   Ali ibn Muhammad al-Jurjani   Iran, Uzbekistan, Middle East
1480–1484   Felix Fabri   Middle East, Egypt, Palestine
1498–1500   Ahmad ibn Majid   Indian Ocean, India, East Africa

European missions, merchants and travellers to China and Central Asia, 1237-1295

1237–1238   Julian of Hungary   Eastern Europe, Russia
1242–1254   Guillaume Boucher   Asia, Mongolia
1245–1247   Giovanni del Pian de Carpini   Central Asia, Mongolia
1247–1248   Friar Ascelin   Asia W., Turkey, Armenia
1249–1252   Andrew of Longjumeau   Central Asia, Mongolia
1251–1252   Philip de Toucy   Middle East, Turkey, Russia
1252–1255   William of Rubruck   Central Asia, Russia, Mongolia
1260–1270   Nicolò Polo   Central Asia, Russia, China
1270–1273   Jacob d’Ancona   Middle East, India, China
1271–1295   Marco Polo   Asia, China
1275–1280   Marco Polo (travels in China)   Asia, China

European missionaries and other wanderers to the East, 1102-1515

1102–1103   Sæwulf   Mediterranean, Greece, Palestine
1106–1107   Abbot Daniel   Middle East, Russia, Palestine
1144   Hugh of Jabala   Middle East, Palestine
1253–1256   Nicholas Hayton   Central Asia, Mongolia
1275–1332   Giovanni da Montecorvino   Asia, India, China
1278–1289   Rabban Bar Sauma   Central Asia, China, Middle East
1288–1302   Ricoldo da Monte di Croce   Middle East, Palestine, Iraq
1289–1291   Pietro di Lucolongo   Middle East, Persia, India
1302–1330   Father Jordanus   India, Iran
1308–1326   Andrew of Perugia   Asia, India, China
1310–1340   Francesco Balducci Pegolotti   Europe, China, Middle East
1316–1330   Odoric of Pordenone   Central Asia, India, China
1322–1356   John Mandeville   Middle East, (China, Asia)
1335–1338   Andrew the Frank   Central Asia, Russia, Mongolia
1338–1353   Giovanni dei Marignolli   Central Asia, India, China
1342   Domenico de Vilioni   Asia, Iran, China
1396–1427   Johann Schiltberger   Asia W., Turkey, Russia
1403–1406   Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo   Central Asia, Iran, Uzbekistan
1419–1444   Niccolò di Conti   Asia S., East Indies, India
1432   Bertrandon de La Brocquiere   Middle East, Palestine, Turkey
1442   Abd-ar-Razzak Samarqandi   Asia S., Arabia, India
1466–1472   Afanasii Nikitich Nikitin   Asia, Iran, India
1473–1477   Ambrogio Contarini   Middle East, Armenia, Iran
1494–1499   Girolamo di Santo Stefano   Sumatra, Myanmar
1496–1499   Arnold von Harff   Middle East, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
1500   Caterino Zeno   Middle East, Iran
1500   Martin Baumgarten   Middle East, Egypt, Syria
1502–1508   Lodovico di Varthema   Asia S., East Africa, Indonesia
1515   Johan van Schoorl   Mediterranean, Palestine, Palestine

The coastal exploration of West Africa and adjacent islands, 1291-1478

1291   Ugolino Vivaldi   Northwest Africa,
1300   *Genoese voyages to the Azores
1312   Lanzaroto Malocello   Canary Is.
1341   Angiolino di Taggia   Canary Is.
1344   Luis de La Cerda   Canary Is.
1346   Jayme Ferrer   Northwest Africa, North Atlantic E.
1370   Robert Machin   Madeira
1394–1460   *Henry the Navigator   West Africa, Portugal
1395   *Castile Company voyages to the Canary Islands
1401–1413     Anselme d’Ysalguier  West Africa, Mali
1402–1403   Gadifer de La Salle   Canary Is.
1402–1405   Jean de Bethencourt   Canary Is.
1415   João de Trasto   Northwest Africa, Canary Is.
1418–1420   João Goncalves   Northwest Africa, Madeira
1427   Diogo de Silves   Azores
1432   Joshua van der Berg   Azores
1433–1434   Gil Eannes   Northwest Africa, Western Sahara
1435   Gil Eannes   Northwest Africa, Western Sahara
1436   Afonso Goncalves Baldaya   Northwest Africa, Mauritania, Western Sahara
1440   Gonçalo Velho   Azores
1441–1443   Antão Goncalves   Northwest Africa, Western Sahara
1441–1443   Nuño Tristao   Northwest Africa, Western Sahara, Mauritania
1445   Lançarote Pessanha   Northwest Africa, Western Sahara, Mauritania
1445   Gonçalo da Sintra   Northwest Africa, Western Sahara, Mauritania
1445   Dinis Dias   West Africa, Mauritania, Senegal
1445–1446   Alvaro Fernandes   West Africa, Gambia
1445–1447   Antão Goncalves   Northwest Africa, Mauritania
1445–1447   João Fernandes   West Africa, Sahara, Mauritania
1446   Nuño Tristao   West Africa, Mauritania, Senegal
1446–1450   Antonio Malfante   North Africa, Algeria, Mali
1448   Vallarte   West Africa, Gambia, Senegal
1455   Alvise da Cadamosto   West Africa, Senegal, Gambia
1455   Antonio da Noli   Atlantic E., Cape Verde Is.
1456   Alvise da Cadamosto   West Africa, Gambia, Cape Verde Is.
1458   Diogo Gomes   West Africa, Cape Verde Is., Gambia
1461–1462   Diogo Afonso   West Africa, Mauritania, Cape Verde Is.
1462   Pero da Sintra   West Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone
1466   Estevão Afonso   West Africa, Senegal, Gambia
1466–1470   Jobst van Heurter   Azores
1469   Benedetto Dei   Middle East, Mali
1469–1474   Fernão Gomes   West Africa, Ghana, Nigeria
1478   Juan Rejon   Canary Is.

Portuguese voyages around the African coast and into the Indian Ocean, 1470-1525

1470–1471   João de Santarem   West Africa, Principe & São Tomé, Nigeria
1472   Fernão do Poo   West Africa, Cameroun, Fernando Po
1474   Lopo Goncalves   West Africa, Guinea, Gabon
1479–1481   Eustache de La Fosse   West Africa, Sierra Leone, Ghana
1480–1554   Muhiddin Piri Reis   Atlantic, Mediterranean
1481   Diogo de Azambuja   West Africa, Ghana
1481–1483   Pedro de Evora   East Africa, Guinea, Mali
1482–1484   Diogo Cão   Central Africa, Congo, Angola
1485–1486   Diogo Cão   West Africa, Congo, Namibia
1486   João Afonso de Aveiro   East Africa, Benin, Nigeria
1487–1488   Bartolomeu Dias   West Africa, South Africa
1487–1520   Pêro da Covilhão   East Africa, India, Ethiopia
1490   Pêro Vaz da Cunha   West Africa, Senegal, Brazil
1490–1491   Gonçalo de Sousa   Central Africa, Congo, Angola
1491–1492   Father Antonio   Central Africa, Congo, Angola
1497–1499   Vasco da Gama   South Africa, Africa, India
1498–1505   Duarte Pacheco Pereira   South Africa, Brazil, East Africa
1500   Diogo Dias   South America E., Somalia, Malagasy
1500   André Goncalves   South America E., Brazil
1500–1501   João da Nova   East Africa, Ascension I., St. Helena
1500–1501   Sancho de Toar   South America E., Brazil, Mozambique
1500–1501   Pedro Alvares Cabral   East Africa, India, Brazil
1501–1502   Priest Joseph   India
1501–1544   Lourenço Marques   East Africa, Malagasy, Mozambique
1502–1503   Vasco da Gama   East Africa, Mozambique, India
1505   Fernão Soares   East Africa, Madagascar, Malagasy
1505–1508   Lourenço de Almeida   India, Maldives, Sri Lanka
1505–1510   Francisco de Almeida   South Africa, East Africa, India
1506–1507   João Gomes   Ethiopia
1520–1526   Rui de Lima   Ethiopia
1524–1525   Vasco da Gama   East Africa, India

The Portuguese in India and the Red Sea, and early voyages to the East Indies, 1462-1596

1462–1514   Francesco Suriano   Middle East, Egypt, Palestine
1501–1516   Duarte Barbosa   East Africa, India
1502–1574   Damião de Goes   India
1503–1504   Afonso de Albuquerque   East Africa, India
1504   Lopo Soares de Meneses   India
1506–1507   Tristão da Cunha   Indian Ocean, India, Tristan da Cunha I.
1506–1510   Afonso de Albuquerque   East Africa, Iran, India
1507   Diogo Fernandes Pereira   Indian Ocean, Mauritius
1508–1509   Diogo Lopes de Sequeira   East Africa, India, Malaysia
1510   Jorge de Aguiar   Red Sea, India
1511–1512   Afonso de Albuquerque   East Indies, India, Malaysia
1513   Fernão Dias   Middle East, Red Sea
1513–1515   Afonso de Albuquerque   Middle East, Iran, India
1513–1517   Pêro de Mascarenhas   Indian Ocean, Chagos Arch., Réunion
1515–1517   Lopo Soares de Albergaria   Sudan, Red Sea
1515–1546   Fernão Lopes   South Atlantic, St. Helena
1516–1517   João de Coelho   India, Bengal
1517–1518   João de Silveira   India, Bengal, Maldives
1519–1529   Pedro Nunes   India
1520   Domingos Paes   India
1523–1528   Antonio Tenreiro   Middle East, Syria, Iraq
1528–1538   Fernão Lopes de Castanheda   Asia S., East Indies, India
1529–   Tavares de Sousa   Middle East, Persian Gulf, Iraq
1534–1568   Garcia da Orta   India,
1536–1540   António Galvao   East Indies, Moluccas, Indonesia
1540–1541   João de Castro   Sudan, Red Sea
1550–1557   Giovanni Battista Ramusio   Italy
1550–1572   Cristobal Acosta   India
1553–1570   Luís Vaz de Camoes   Cambodia, East Indies
1570–1590   Jorge de Lemos   India, Sumatra, Malaysia
1590–1596   Pedro Paez   Middle East, India, Yemen

Early voyages in the East Indies, to China and South-East Asia, 1503-1548

1503–1517   Giovanni di Empoli   East Indies, India, China
1505–1512   Francisco Serrao   East Indies, Moluccas, Indonesia
1509–1527   Duarte Coelho   South-East Asia, China, Thailand
1511   Antonio de Miranda de Azevedo   East Indies, Thailand
1511   Duarte Fernandes   East Indies, Thailand
1511   Ruy Nuñes da Cunha   East Indies, Myanmar
1511–1514   Francisco Rodrigues   East Indies, Indonesia
1511–1514   Antonio de Abreu   East Indies, Indonesia
1511–1540   Tomé Pires   East Indies, Java, China
1513–1547   Jorge Alvares   China, Japan
1515   Rafaello Perestrello   East Indies, China
1515–1517   Andrea Corsali   India, Red Sea
1516–1518   Fernão Peres de Andrade   East Indies, Malaysia, China
1548   Galeote Pereira   Thailand, China

The East Indies, South-East Asia and Japan, 1526-1613

1526–1527   Jorge de Meneses   East Indies, Borneo, New Guinea
1527   Estevão Dias   South Africa, India
1528   Jean and Raoul Parmentier   Indian Ocean, Sumatra, Indonesia
1537–1558   Fernão Mendes Pinto   East Indies, China, Japan
1540   António de Faria   East Indies, China, Vietnam
1542   Diogo (or Francisco) Zeimoto   East Indies, China, Japan
1544   Pero Diez   East Indies, China, Japan
1545   Ynigo Ortiz de Retes   New Guinea
1551   Diogo Soares de Mello   Myanmar
1551–1555   Duarte da Gama   China, Japan
1555–1557   Pierre Bonifer   Myanmar
1563–1581   Cesare di Federici   East Indies, Myanmar
1570   Juan de Salcedo   East Indies, Philippines
1571   Tristão Vaz de Veiga   Malaysia, Japan
1575–1580   Francisco de Sande   East Indies, Philippines
1579–1588   Gasparo Balbi   India, Bangla Desh
1580–1583   Gonzalo Ronquillo de Penalosa   East Indies, Borneo, Philippines
1581   Gabriel de Rivera   East Indies, Brunei, Borneo
1582–1599   Diogo Veloso   South-East Asia, Laos, Cambodia
1582–1600   *Taiwan: early encounters
1583–1588   Filippo Sassetti   India
1585   George La Mothe   South-East Asia, Vietnam
1592–1598   Christoval de Jacque   East Indies, Cambodia, Vietnam
1594–1603   Gabriel Quiroga de San Antonio   Sri Lanka, Cambodia
1600–1613   Filipe de Brito e Nicote   Myanmar

European missionaries in India, the East Indies and Japan, 1535-1693

1535–1547   Jordão de Freytas   East Indies, Moluccas
1541–1546   Francisco Xavier   India, East Indies
1542–1570   Cosme de Torres   East Indies, Japan
1547–1552   Francisco Xavier   China, Japan
1548–1569   Gaspar da Cruz   China, Myanmar, Cambodia
1548–1597   Luis Frois   India, Japan
1549–1567   Juan Fernandez   Japan
1552–1562   Balthasar Gago   Japan
1552–1643   Francisco Xavier   Japan
1554–1556   Melchior Nunes Barreto   India, Japan, China
1555–1569   Melchior Carneiro   India, China
1562–1585   Juan González de Mendoza   Central America, Philippines, China
1563–1565   Francisco Peres   South-East Asia, Macao, China
1567–1570   Juan Bautista Ribera   South-East Asia, India, China
1570–1582   Francisco Cabral   India, Japan
1574–1606   Alessandro Valignano   India, China, Japan
1577–1610   João Rodrigues   Japan
1578   Domingos Monteiro   Japan, Korea
1579–1583   Rudolfo Aquaviva   India
1579–1596   Antonio de Monserrate   India, Afghanistan, Yemen
1579–1619   Thomas Stephens   India
1582–1586   Nuño Rodrigues   Europe, Japan
1590–1597   Pedro Ordonez y Cevallos   Japan, Vietnam
1593   Gregorio de Cespedes   Japan, Korea
1593–1597   Pedro Bautista   Philippines, Japan
1595–1636   Diego Francisco Aduarte   South-East Asia, Philippines
1596–1597   Matias de Landecho   East Indies, Northwest Pacific, Japan
1598–1601   Francisco Fernandes   India, Myanmar, Bangla Desh
1602–1623   Girolamo degli Angeli   Hokkaido, Japan
1604–1656   Roberto de Nobili   India
1614–1633   Miguel Rangel   East Indies, Sunda Islands, Indonesia
1619–1638   Diego Collado   Philippines, Japan
1625–1634   Giordano Ansaloni   Philippines, Japan
1630–1634   Gonçalo da Silveira   Japan
1633–1637   Marcello Francesco Mastrilli   Philippines, Japan
1636–1651   Ephrem de Nevers   India
1640–1649   Juan de Palafox y Mendoza   Central America, Philippines, Mexico
1644–1647   Gonçalo de Siqueira de Sousa   Japan
1656–1665   Giuseppe di Santa Maria Sebastiani   India,
1671–1680   Pedro Cubero y Sebastian   India, East Indies
1673–1693   João de Britto   India

1542–1600   *Jesuit Missionaries in India 1542-1605
1546–1578  *Jesuit Missionaries in the Moluccas, 1546-1578  
1498–1558   *Franciscans & Dominicans in India, 1498-1558
1525–1548  *Franciscan Missionaries in Sulawesi, 1525-1548  
1567   *Dominican Missionaries in Thailand from 1567
1579–1703  *Franciscan Missionaries in China, 1579-1703  
1572–1632   *Augustinian Missionaries in India and Bengal  
1614–1700   *Anglican Missionaries in India  
1639–1692   *Theatine Missionaries in India and Borneo  

English trading voyages to Russia. The Muscovy Company, 1553-1591

1496   Grigiriy Istoma   Arctic Ocean, Russia
1553–1554   Richard Chancellor   Arctic Ocean, Russia
1553–1554   Hugh Willoughby   Arctic Ocean, Russia
1555–1556   Richard Chancellor   Arctic Ocean, Russia
1555–1556   George Killingworth   Russia
1556–1557   Stephen Burrough   Northern Europe, Arctic Ocean
1557–1560   Anthony Jenkinson   Central Asia, Russia, Uzbekistan
1561–1572   Anthony Jenkinson   Middle East, Iran
1563–1581   *The Muscovy Company   Russia, Iran
1568–1569   Thomas Randolfe   Russia
1573–1591   Jerome Horsey   Russia
1574–1575   William Burrough   Russia
1580   Arthur Pet   Arctic Ocean
1580–1581   Charles Jackman   Arctic Ocean

English trading voyages to the Mediterranean and the Middle East, 1506-1613

1506   Richard Guylforde   Middle East, Jordan, Palestine
1546–1555   Anthony Jenkinson   Europe, Middle East, Mediterranean
1551   Roger Bodenham   Mediterranean, Spain, Turkey
1580   William Harbourne   Middle East, Syria, Turkey
1581–1582   John Newberry   Middle East, Turkey, Iran
1581–1587   Laurence Aldersey   Middle East, Greece, Palestine
1583–1584   Thomas Sanders   Mediterranean, North Africa, Greece
1584–1602   John Sanderson   Middle East, Egypt, Turkey
1591–1601   Fynes Moryson   Middle East, Turkey, Syria
1593   George Goodley   Northwest Africa, Morocco
1598–1601   Anthony Sherley   Middle East, Russia, Iran
1598–1607   Thomas Sherley   Mediterranean, Turkey
1599–1600   Thomas Dallam   Mediterranean, Turkey
1599–1613   Robert Sherley   Middle East, Iran
Supplementary articles

1552–1616   Richard Hakluyt
1553–1576   Richard Eden
1577–1626   Samuel Purchas
1587–1598   Theodor de Bry
 

Other selected travellers in Russia, the Middle East and North Africa, 1483-1640

1483–1484   Bernhard von Breydenbach   Middle East, Egypt, Palestine
1494   Pietro Casola   Palestine, Palestine
1516–1526   Sigismund von Herberstein   Northern Europe, Arctic Ocean, Russia
1553–1556   Ali ibn Husain Sidi Ali Ra’is   Central Asia, India, Uzbekistan
1560–1567   Leonhard Thurneysser Zum Thurn   North Africa, Egypt, Middle East
1590–1591   Judar   West Africa, Morocco, Mali
1599–1600   Don Juan of Persia   Middle East, Iran, Russia
1600   Jeffry Kirby   Middle East, Syria, Palestine
1600   John Cartwright   Middle East, Syria, Iran
1601   Henry Timberlake   Middle East, Egypt, Palestine
1601–1609   Isaac Massa   Northern Europe, Arctic, Russia
1609–1629   William Lithgow   Europe, North Africa, Middle East
1627–1629   Thomas Herbert   Middle East, Iran
1629–1640   Edward Pocock   Middle East, Turkey, Syria
1637–1640   John Greaves   Egypt

English voyages to Guinea, the Atlantic, the Americas & Pacific, 1528-1621

1528–1532   William Hawkins   West Africa, Liberia, Brazil
1551–1552   Thomas Wyndham   West Africa, Morocco
1553   Thomas Wyndham   West Africa, Liberia, Nigeria
1554–1555   John Lok   West Africa, Liberia, Ghana
1555–1558   William Towerson   West Africa, Liberia, São Thomé
1556   Jérôme Baudet   West Africa, Guinea, Gabon
1569   George Pine   Indian Ocean, Antarctic
1577   Edmund Hogan   Northwest Africa, Morocco
1577–1586   Peter Corder   Argentina, Brazil
1580–1590   Alonso de Espinosa   Atlantic, Guatemala, Canary Is.
1580–1593   Abraham Cocke   South Atlantic, Brazil
1582   Francisco de Andrade   West Africa, Sierra Leone, Cape Verde Islands
1589–1590   John Chidley   Atlantic, West Africa, South America
1591   Richard Rainolds   West Africa, Senegal, Gambia
1591   Abraham Kendall   South Atlantic, St. Helena
1591   George Raymond   Atlantic, South Africa
1591–1593   John Davis   South America S., Falkland Is.
1591–1593   John Segar   South Atlantic, St. Helena
1591–1594   James Lancaster   South Africa, Indian Ocean, Malaysia
1591–1598   Anthony Knivet   Brazil, Angola
1592–1597   Benjamin Wood   East Indies, Mauritius, Venezuela
1594–1595   James Lancaster   Brazil
1618–1620   George Thompson   West Africa, Gambia
1620–1621   Richard Jobson   West Africa, Gambia

The English East India Company. English traders and travellers in Asia, 1583-1752

1583–1591   Ralph Fitch   Malaysia, India
1584–1585   John Newberry   Middle East, Iran, India
1586–1603   John Middleton   West Indies, Indonesia, Cuba
1598–1600   John (I) Davis   East Indies, Sumatra, Indonesia
1599–1614   John Mildenhall   Middle East, Iran, India
1600–1858   *English East India Company   East Indies, India
1601–1603   James Lancaster   South Africa, Sumatra, Indonesia
1601–1605   Edmund Scott   East Indies, Java, Indonesia
1601–1622   Gabriel Towerson   East Indies, Java, Indonesia
1604–1606   Henry Middleton   East Indies, Java, Indonesia
1604–1606   Edward Michelbourne   East Indies
1604–1606   Christopher Colthurst   East Indies, Banda Is.
1605–1612   Jean Mocquet   South America N.E., India, Middle East
1607–1608   David Middleton   East Indies, Java, Indonesia
1607–1611   Robert Covert   Middle East, Iran, India
1607–1611   William Finch   Asia S., Persia, India
1607–1612   William Hawkins   India
1607–1613   John Jourdain   Indian Ocean, Yemen, Indonesia
1607–1616   William Keeling   East Africa, India, Indonesia
1608–1667   Peter Mundy   South Africa, India, China
1609–1611   David Middleton   East Indies, Java, Indonesia
1610–1612   Henry Middleton   Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Yemen
1611   Nicholas Ufflet   India
1611   Thomas Aldworth   India, South Africa
1611–1612   Anthony Hippon   India, Indonesia
1611–1614   John Saris   Asia, South Arabia, Japan
1611–1614   Richard Steele   India
1611–1623   Richard Cocks   Asia, Vietnam, Japan
1612–1614   Thomas Best   India, Sumatra
1612–1616   Nicholas Withington   India
1613–1615   Thomas Samuel   Myanmar, Thailand
1613–1617   Thomas Coryate   Middle East, Iran, India
1614–1615   Nicholas Downton   East Indies, India, Indonesia
1615–1619   Thomas Roe   India,
1616–1618   Edward Connock   Middle East, Iran
1616–1620   Nathaniel Courthope   East Indies, Banda Is., Indonesia
1616–1637   Francisco Quaresmi   Middle East, Syria, Palestine
1616–1639   William Methwold   India
1617–1622   John (II) Davis   East Indies, Indian Ocean
1620   Henry Lord   India
1620–1638   Jean-Baptiste Tavernier   Europe, Turkey, Iran
1621–1626   John Weddell   Middle East, India, Iran
1636–1638   John Weddell   East Indies, Sumatra, China
1638–1668   Jean-Baptiste Tavernier   Middle East, Iran, India
1639   Francis Day   India, Madras
1640–1650   Richard Flecknoe   Europe, Turkey, Brazil
1647–1661   Robert Bargrave   Mediterranean, Turkey
1657–1680   Robert Knox (junior)   India, Sri Lanka
1668–1672   John Marshall   India, Bengal
1669–1688   Thomas Bowrey   East Indies, Bengal, India
1670–1679   John Covel   Middle East, Aegean, Turkey
1672   William Gifford   South-East Asia, Vietnam
1672–1682   John Fryer   Middle East, India
1678–1695   Joseph Pitts   Middle East, Algeria, Saudi Arabia
1682–1687   William Hedges   India, Bengal
1689–1692   John Ovington   India
1699–1701   Robert Douglas   China
1700–1701   William Daniel   Middle East, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
1702–1703   Allen Catchpole   East Indies, Indonesia, China
1714–1717   John Surman   India
1716–1718   Mary Wortley Montagu   Middle East, Europe, Turkey
1731–1734   Thomas Shaw   North Africa, Egypt, Middle East
1743–1745   Jonas Hanway   Middle East, Caspian Sea, Iran
1745   William Beawes   Middle East, India
1750   Bartholomew Plaisted   Middle East, India
1750–1752   Robert Wood   Middle East, Turkey, Syria
1751   John Carmichael   Middle East, India
  *British Travellers of the 18th century   Middle East, Africa, Asia

Travellers, merchants and voyagers, mainly in Asia, 1568-1700

1568–1632   Vincent Le Blanc   Africa, North America, Middle East
1580–1584   Prospero Alpini   North Africa, Egypt
1586–1601   Duarte Gomez Solis   India
1586–1605   Pedro Teixeira   India, Asia, Mexico
1601–1603   François Martin de Vitré   East Indies, Sumatra, Indonesia
1601–1611   François Pyrard de Laval   Indian Ocean, Maldives, Indonesia
1606–1607   Gaspar de Sao Bernardino   East Africa, Iraq, Middle East
1614–1624   Garcia da Silva y Figueroa   Persia, Iran
1614–1626   Pietro Della Valle   Middle East, Egypt, India
1616–1729   *Danish East India Company   India, Sri Lanka
1617   Hernando de Moraga   Middle East, Iran, Iraq
1620–1625   Heinrich von Poser   India, Iran
1622–1625   Jon Olafsson   South Africa, Indian Ocean, India
1629–1643   Sebastião Manrique   Myanmar, China
1632–1670   Evliya Çelebý   Middle East, Russia, Europe
1635–1639   Johann Albrecht von Mandelslo   Middle East, India, Sri Lanka
1647–1660   François de La Boullaye-Le-Gouz   Middle East, India, Iran
1647–1672   Jans Janszoon Struys   Asia S., Russia, Japan
1654–1670   François Bernier   India, Kashmir
1661–1685   Paul Rycaut   Middle East, Turkey
1663   Manoel Godinho   Syria, Iraq
1664–1761   Compagnie des Indes   India, Sri Lanka
1664–1667   Jean Thevenot   India, Middle East, Iran
1664–1679   Ange de Saint Joseph   Middle East, Turkey, Iran
1665–1670   Jean Chardin   Middle East, Iran
1668–1677   Gabriel Dellon   India
1669–1680   François Petis de La Croix   Middle East, Syria, Iran
1670–1676   Johann Michael Wansleben   Middle East, Turkey, Egypt
1670–1679   Antoine Galland   Middle East, Palestine, Turkey
1672–1674   Barthélemy Carré   India, Middle East
1674   Cornelis de Bruyn   Middle East, East Indies, Asia
1674–1706   François Martin   India
1675–1676   Jacob Spon   Mediterranean, Greece, Turkey
1675–1680   Jean Foy Vaillant   North Africa, Egypt, Middle East
1676–1682   Christoph Schweitzer   East Indies, Sri Lanka
1683–1693   Engelbert Kaempfer   East Indies, Japan
1684–1689   Jean-Baptiste Tavernier   Europe, India, Russia
1685–1690   Philippe Avril   Asia, Armenia, China
1686–1711   José Vaz   India, Sri Lanka
1698–1707   James Cunningham   China, Borneo, Vietnam

Travellers, merchants and voyagers, mainly in Asia, 1700-1800

1700   George Psalmanazar   Taiwan
1700–1702   Joseph Pitton de Tournefort   Middle East, Georgia, Armenia
1700–1730   António de Albuquerque Coelho   East Africa, China, East Indies
1705–1719   Bartholomew Ziegenbalg   India
1706–1740   Christoph Theodosius Walther   India
1715–1754   Joseph François Dupleix   India,
1720–1750   José Torrubia   South-East Asia, China, Philippines
1740   John Dean   Indian Ocean, Mozambique, Malagasy
1743   Father Galizia   Myanmar
1750–1798   Christian Friedrich Schwarz   India
1761–1767   Carsten Niebuhr   Middle East, India, Yemen
1765   Jemima Kindersley   South Africa, South Africa, India
1765–1783   James Forbes   India, Gujarat
1771–1779   William Marsden   East Indies, Sumatra
1774–1776   Thomas Forrest   East Indies, Borneo, New Guinea
1774–1790   Johann Philip Werdin   India
1783   Henry Wilson   East Indies, Palau Is.
1783–1797   Hsieh Ch’ing Kao   Europe, China
1784   Thomas Daniell   India
1790–1791   John Blankett   East Indies, Philippines, China
1790–1795   John Mcclure   East Indies, Palau Is, New Guinea
1792–1794   George Macartney   China
1793–1795   David Woodard   East Indies, Sulawesi
1793–1798   Guillaume Antoine Olivier   Middle East, Egypt, Iran
1794–1795   Isaak Titsing   China
1797–1803   John Barrow   South Africa, China, South Africa
1722–1744   *Ostend, or Austrian East India Company   India, Bengal
1731–1813   *Swedish East India Company   Asia, East Indies, China
1751–1756   *Prussian Asiatic Company   China

Dutch Voyages to the East and in the Pacific, 1566-1757

1566–1600   Dirck Gerritszoon Pomp   Asia E., South Shetland Is., Japan
1583–1592   Jan Huyghen van Linschoten   India,
1595–1597   Cornelis Houtman   East Indies, Java
1598–1599   Jacob Corneliszoon van Neck   East Indies, Java
1598–1600   Jacob van Heemskerk   East Indies, Banda Is.
1598–1600   Sebald de Weert   Atlantic, South America, Falkland Is.
1598–1600   Jacques Mahu   South America S., Japan, Pacific
1598–1600   Cornelis Houtman   Indian Ocean, Brazil, East Indies
1598–1600   Wybrand van Warwijck   Indian Ocean, Mauritius, East Indies
1598–1601   Olivier van Noort   Circumnavigation, Pacific, South America
1598–1620   William Adams   South America S., Pacific, Japan
1599–1610   Paulus van Caerden   East Indies, Sumatra
1600–1603   Jacob Corneliszoon van Neck   East Indies, China
1601–1604   Joris van Spilbergen   Indian Ocean, Sumatra, Sri Lanka
1601–1606   Steven van der Hagen   India, East Indies
1602   Wybrand van Warwijck   East Indies
1602   Sebald de Weert   Sri Lanka
1602–1798   *Dutch East India Company  
1602–1795   *Sri Lanka: the Dutch in Ceylon
1605–1608  Cornelis Matelief   East Indies, China
1607–1609   Pieter Willemszoon Verhoeff   East Indies, Japan
1607–1611   Johann Verken   East Indies
1607–1629   Jan Pieterszoon Coen   East Indies, Java
1607–1630   Pieter van den Broecke   India, Angola
1609–1611   Nicholas Puyck   Asia E., East Indies, Japan
1611–1615   Peter Floris   East Indies, Thailand
1611–1615   Lucas Antheuniss   Indian Ocean, Bengal, Thailand
1612–1633   *Dutch Missionaries in the East Indies   East Indies, Moluccas
1614–1617   Joris van Spilbergen   Circumnavigation, Argentina
1615–1617   Willem Cornelis Schouten   Circumnavigation, Pacific, New Guinea
1615–1617   Jacob Le Maire   Circumnavigation, Pacific, Argentina
1618–1625   Willem Ysbrantszoon Bontekoe   East Indies, China
1618–1644   David Pieterszoon de Vries   East Indies, America
1619–1673   François Caron   Taiwan, Japan
1621–1654   Dutch West India Company   West Indies, Brazil
1622–1628   Christoph Carl Fernberger   Circumnavigation, East Indies
1622–1662   *Taiwan: the Dutch in Formosa
1623–1625   Geen Huyghen Schapenham   Peru, Pacific
1623–1626   Jacques Le Hermite   Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
1623–1629   Piet Heyn   West Indies, Brazil
1625–1629   Jacob Gohl   Middle East, Syria, Iraq
1625–1659   Johann Jacob Saar   East Indies, India, Sri Lanka
1626–1641   Cornelis Corneliszoon Jol   Atlantic, West Indies, Angola
1626–1649   Jaques Joosten   South America E., Turkey, Brazil
1627–1631   Jacob de Bondt   East Indies, Java
1628–1637   Joost Schouten   East Indies, Thailand
1628–1682   Rijcklof Volckertszoon van Goens   East Indies, Java
1630–1641   Johan van Twist   India, Malaysia
1631–1647   Abraham Roger   India, Java
1632–1646   Johann Sigismund Wurffbain   East Indies, India
1634–1637   Hendrick Hagenaer   Asia S., Cambodia, Japan
1634–1642   Abel Janszoon Tasman   East Indies, Japan, Northwest Pacific
1636–1645   Anthony van Diemen   East Indies, India, Indonesia
1639   Matthijs Hendrickszoon Quast   Northwest Pacific, Philippines, Japan
1639–1687   Nikolaas de Graaf   Asia, America, Indonesia
1640–1672   Johann Nieuhof   East Indies, Brazil, India
1641–1650   Johann von der Behr   East Indies, Java, Sri Lanka
1642–1652   Caspar Schmalkalden   East Indies, Taiwan, Japan
1643   Maarten Gerritszoon Vries   Northwest Pacific, Japan, Kuril Is.
1643–1655   Caspar Schamberger   East Indies, Japan
1644–1650   Jürgen Andersen   East Indies, India
1644–1653   Johann Jacob Merklein   East Indies, Java
1652   Paul Alofszoon Rotman   China
1653–1669   Hendrick Hamel   East Indies, Korea
1655–1656   Pieter de Goyer   China, East Indies
1655–1663   Volquard Iversen   East Indies, Ceram
1656–1665   Philippus Baldaeus   India, Sri Lanka
1658–1665   Wouter Schouten   East Indies, Sri Lanka
1659–1668   Albrecht Herport   East Indies, Sri Lanka, Taiwan
1661   Schelling (shipwreck)   East Indies, Bengal, Bangla Desh
1667–1669   J. Corneliszoon Speelman   East Indies, Celebes, Sulawesi
1667–1682   David Tappen   East Indies, India, China
1669–1673   Frederick Bolling   East Indies, China
1669–1677   Johann Schreyer   South Africa, South Africa
1671   Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede Tot Drakestein   India
1672–1677   Paul Hermann   Sri Lanka
1677–1686   Daniel Parthey   Sri Lanka
1677–1689   Georg Meister   East Indies, Java, Japan
1680–1683   Elias Hesse   East Indies, Sumatra
1680–1685   Christoph Frick   South-East Asia, East Indies
1691–1698   Jacob Janssen de Roy   East Indies, Borneo
1752–1757   Johan Gideon Loten   East Indies, Sulawesi, Sri Lanka


The discovery of America. The voyages of Columbus and exploration of the Caribbean, 1470-1525

1470–1484   Christopher Columbus   North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Ghana
1492–1493   Christopher Columbus   West Indies, Cuba, Haiti
1492–1510   Juan de La Cosa   Central America, Colombia
1493–1494   Mosen Pedro de Margarit   West Indies, Dominican Republic
1493–1494   Bernardo Buil   West Indies, Dominican Republic
1493–1496   Christopher Columbus   West Indies, Puerto Rico, Jamaica
1493–1502   Antonio de Torres   West Indies, Dominican Republic
1494–1500   Bartolomeo Columbus   West Indies, Haiti, Dominican Republic
1495–1496   Juan de Aguado   West Indies, Dominican Republic
1496–1500   Francisco Roldan   West Indies, Dominican Republic, Haiti
1498   Alonso Sánchez de Carvajal   West Indies, Dominican Republic, Haiti
1498–1500   Christopher Columbus   West Indies, Trinidad, South America N.
1499–1500   Pero Alonso Nino   Cubagua, Venezuela
1499–1500   Alonzo de Hojeda   Haiti, Venezuela
1499–1501   Cristobal Guerra   Venezuela
1500   Francisco de Bobadilla   West Indies, Haiti, Dominican Republic
1500–1502   Rodrigo de Bastidas   Panama, Colombia
1502–1504   Diego Mendez   Central America, Jamaica, Dominican Republic
1502–1504   Christopher Columbus   Central America, Honduras, Panama
1502–1509   Nicolas de Ovando   West Indies, Haiti, Dominican Republic
1509–1526   Diego Columbus   West Indies, Dominican Republic
1514   Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdes   Central America, Dominican Republic West Indies
1525   Rodrigo de Bastidas   Colombia

Supplementary articles

1825   Martin Fernández Navarrete  
1511–1530   Peter Martyr  

Early voyages to Brazil, 1489-1514

1489   Jean Cousin   Guinea, Brazil
1492–1493   Martin Alonso Pinzón   Atlantic, Brazil, West Indies
1497–1498   Amerigo Vespucci   Brazil
1499–1500   Vicente Yánez Pinzón   Amazon, Brazil
1499–1501   Diego de Lepe   Brazil
1499–1505   Amerigo Vespucci   Venezuela, Brazil
1500–1501   Alonzo Velez de Mendoza   Brazil
1501–1502   Gonçalo Coelho   Brazil
1503–1505   Paulmier de Gonneville   Brazil
1503–1506   Gonçalo Coelho   Brazil
1503–1511   Fernão de Noronha   Brazil, Fernando Noronha I.
1514   Cristóbal de Haro   Brazil, Argentina

Early voyages to North America, 1337-1543

1337–1440   *Iceland: English voyages   North Atlantic, Greenland, Iceland
1452   Diogo de Teive   North Atlantic, Newfoundland, Azores
1472   João Vaz Corte-Real   North Atlantic, Canada
1472   Didrik Pining   North Atlantic, Greenland, Iceland
1480   John Lloyd   North Atlantic
1492–1501   João (II) Fernandes   North Atlantic, Iceland, Greenland
1494–1505   Hugh Eliot   North Atlantic, Canada
1494–1505   Robert Thorne   North Atlantic, Canada
1497   John Cabot   North America, Newfoundland, Canada
1498   John Cabot   North Atlantic
1500–1501   Gaspar Corte-Real   North Atlantic, Greenland, Canada
1502   Miguel Corte-Real   North Atlantic, Newfoundland, Canada
1505   Juan Bermudez   North Atlantic, Bermuda
1508–1509   Sebastian Cabot   North America, Canada, U.S.A.
1517   John Rastell   North Atlantic
1520–1521   João Alvares Fagundes   Nova Scotia, Canada
1524   Giovanni da Verrazzano   Canada, U.S.A.
1524–1525   Estevão Gomes   Maine, Canada
1527–1528   John Rut   West Indies, Canada
1534   Jacques Cartier   Canada
1535–1536   Jacques Cartier   Canada
1536   Richard Hore   Newfoundland
1541–1543   Jacques Cartier   Canada
1541–1544   Jean Fonteneau   Guinea, Canada
1542–1543   Jean-François de La Rocque de Roberval   Canada

The Spanish colonisation of Panama, Cuba, Jamaica and Puerto Rico, 1501-1570

1501–1502   Alonzo de Hojeda   Venezuela, Colombia
1502   Diego de Alvarado   West Indies, Dominican Republic
1502–1547   Bartolomé de Las Casas   Central America, Venezuela, Guatemala
1506–1511   Hernán Cortes   West Indies, Dominican Republic, Cuba
1508   Juan Ponce De Leon   West Indies, Puerto Rico
1508–1509   Sebastián de Ocampo   West Indies, Cuba
1509   Juan de Esquivel   West Indies, Jamaica
1509–1510   Alonzo de Hojeda   Central America, Colombia
1509–1511   Diego de Nicuesa   Central America, Colombia, Panama
1510   Martin Fernandez de Encisco   Central America, Colombia
1510–1514   Vasco Núñez de Balboa   Central America, Colombia, Panama
1510–1525   Pedro de Cordoba   West Indies, Dominican Republic
1511   Diego Velazquez de Cuellar   West Indies, Cuba
1514   Juan de Ayora   Central America, Colombia, Panama
1514–1517   Francisco de Becerra   Panama, Colombia
1514–1518   Juan de Quevedo   Central America, Colombia, Panama
1514–1526   Pedro Arias de Avila   Central America, Colombia, Panama
1514–1549   Domingo de Betanzos   West Indies, Guatemala, Mexico
1515   Andrés Garavito   Central America, Colombia, Panama
1516–1519   Gaspar de Espinoza   Central America, Panama
1524–1561   Pedro Angulo   Central America, Dominican Republic, Guatemala
1550–1570   Pedro de Betanzos   Central America, Nicaragua, Guatemala

Spanish coastal exploration in the Caribbean: Honduras to Carolina, 1508-1526

1508–1509   Vicente Yánez Pinzón   Central America, Belize, Honduras
1509–1523   Francisco de Garay   West Indies, Jamaica, Mexico
1512–1519   Jerónimo de Aguilar   Central America, Colombia, Mexico
1513   Juan Ponce de Leon   Florida, U.S.A.
1516   Diego Miruelo   Florida, U.S.A.
1517   Francisco Hernández de Cordoba   Central America, Florida, Mexico
1518   Juan de Grijalva   Central America, Mexico
1519   Alonso Álvarez Pineda   North America S., Texas, U.S.A.
1521   Juan Ponce de Leon   North America S.E., Florida, U.S.A.
1521   Francisco Gordillo   North America S.E., Carolina, U.S.A.
1521–1526   Pedro de Quexos   North America S.E., Carolina, U.S.A.
1521–1526   Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon   North America S.E., Carolina, U.S.A.
1526   Antonio de Montesinos   North America S.E., Georgia, U.S.A.

Voyages to Brazil and the Rio de la Plata, 1506-1529

1506–1516   Juan Díaz de Solis   Brazil, Uruguay
1508   Thomas Aubert   Brazil
1516–1525   Alejo Garcia   Brazil, Bolivia
1526   Diego Garcia   Argentina, Paraguay
1526–1529   Sebastian Cabot   Argentina, Paraguay
1527–1528   Giovanni da Verrazzano   Brazil
1528–1529   Francisco Cesar   Peru, Argentina

The first circumnavigations, 1519-1593

1519–1521   Ferdinand Magellan   Circumnavigation, Pacific, East Indies
1519–1524   Juan Sebastián del Cano   Circumnavigation, Indian Ocean, East Indies
1577–1580   Francis Drake   Circumnavigation, East Indies, South America
1586–1588   Thomas Cavendish   Circumnavigation, East Indies, South America
1591–1593   Thomas Cavendish   Atlantic, Ascension I., South America

English voyages in search of the North-West Passage to Asia, 1576-1587

1576   Martin Frobisher   Baffin I., Arctic Canada
1577   Martin Frobisher   Baffin I., Arctic Canada
1578–   Martin Frobisher   Baffin I., Arctic Canada
1578–1579   Humphrey Gilbert   North Atlantic
1583   Humphrey Gilbert   Newfoundland, Canada
1585   John Davis   Baffin I., Arctic Canada
1586   John Davis   Baffin I., Arctic Canada
1587   John Davis   Baffin I., Arctic Canada

Early colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America, 1545-1593

1545–1549   Luis Cancer de Barbastro   Central America, Florida, U.S.A.
1562   Jean Ribault   Florida, U.S.A.
1562–1563   Albert de La Pierria   Carolina, U.S.A.
1564–1565   René Goulaine de Laudonniere   Florida, U.S.A.
1565   Jean Ribault   Carolina, U.S.A.
1565–1574   Pedro Menendez de Aviles   Florida, U.S.A.
1567–1568   Dominique de Gourgues   Florida, U.S.A.
1574–1587   Simão Fernandes   North America N.E., Atlantic, U.S.A.
1584   Arthur Barlow   Carolina, U.S.A.
1584   Philip Amadas   Carolina, U.S.A.
1585   Richard Grenville   Carolina, U.S.A.
1585–1586   Ralph Lane   Carolina, U.S.A.
1585–1586   Thomas Hariot   Virginia, U.S.A.
1587   John White   Carolina, U.S.A.
1587–1684   *Franciscans And Jesuits in Georgia, 1570-1684
1588–1590  John White   Carolina, U.S.A.
1593   Francisco Pareja   Florida, U.S.A.

Spanish expeditions to Mexico and Central America, 1514-1573

1514–1522   Bernal Díaz del Castillo   Mexico
1514–1548   Francisco de Montejo (senior)   Yucatán, Mexico
1518–1519   Pedro de Alvarado   Mexico
1518–1522   Hernán Cortes   Mexico
1522–1523   Gil Gonzalez Avila   Panama, Nicaragua
1522–1525   Cristóbal de Olid   Mexico, Honduras
1523–1526   Pedro de Alvarado   Mexico, Guatemala
1524   Francisco Hernández de Cordoba   Panama, Nicaragua
1524–1526   Hernán Cortes   Guatemala, Honduras
1524–1568   Toribio de Benavente   Guatemala, Mexico
1528–1536   Nuño Beltrán de Guzman   Mexico
1528–1548   Juan de Zumarraga   Mexico
1529–1590   Bernardino de Sahagun   Mexico
1530–1565   Vasco de Quiroga   Mexico
1531–1532   Alonso López de Avila   Yucatán, Mexico
1532   Diego Hurtado de Mendoza   Mexico
1532–1546   Francisco de Montejo (junior)   Yucatán, Mexico
1533–1534   Diego Becerra   Mexico
1535   Jacobo de Testera   Yucatán, Mexico
1535–1536   Hernán Cortes   Baja California, Mexico
1535–1551   Antonio de Mendoza   Peru, Mexico
1539–1540   Francisco de Ulloa   Baja California, Mexico
1541–1556   Girolamo Benzoni   South America W., Nicaragua, Central America
1549–1579   Diego de Landa   Yucatán, Mexico
1552   Francisco López de Gomara   Spain
1554–1594   Juan de La Anunciacion   Mexico
1560   Francisco Cepeda   Guatemala, Mexico
1560–1573   Juan Vásquez de Coronado   Costa Rica
1611–1622   Agostin de Quiros   Yucatán, Mexico
1688   Diego López de Cogolludo   Mexico
Spanish and French expeditions into the interior of North America, 1527-1567

1527–1528   Pánfilo de Narvaez   Florida, U.S.A.
1527–1536   Estebanico   North America S., Mexico, U.S.A.
1527–1537   Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca   North America S., Texas, U.S.A.
1538–1542   Hernando de Soto   North America S., U.S.A.
1538–1542   Pedro de Calderon   North America S., U.S.A.
1539   Marcos de Niza   North America S.W., Arizona, U.S.A.
1539–1543   Diego Maldonado   Florida, U.S.A.
1545–1591   Juan de Ecija   North America S., Florida, Mexico
1559–1561   Tristan de Luna y Arellano   Alabama, U.S.A.
1564–1565   Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues   Georgia, U.S.A.
1564–1565   La Roche Ferriere   Florida, U.S.A.
1566–1567   Juan Pardo   Tennessee, U.S.A.
Spanish expeditions into the southwest of North America, 1539-1550

1539–1540  Melchor Diaz   North America S.W., Arizona, U.S.A.
1540   Hernando de Alarcon   North America S.W., Arizona, Mexico
1540   Hernando de Alvarado   North America S.W., New Mexico, U.S.A.
1540   Pedro de Tovar   North America S.W., Arizona, U.S.A.
1540   Garcia López de Cardenas   North America S.W., Arizona, U.S.A.
1540–1541   Tristan de Luna y Arellano   North America S.W., New Mexico, U.S.A.
1540–1542   Juan de Padilla   North America S.W., Kansas, U.S.A.
1540–1542   Luis de Escalona   North America S.W., New Mexico, U.S.A.
1540–1542   Francisco Vásquez de Coronado   North America S.W., Kansas, U.S.A.
1540–1550   Brother Sebastian   North America S.W., Kansas, U.S.A.
1540–1550   Brother Lucas   North America S.W., Kansas, U.S.A.
1540–1550   Andrés da Campo   North America S.W., Kansas, U.S.A.
1542–1543   Bartolomé Ferrelo   North America S.W., California, U.S.A.
1542–1543   Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo   North America S.W., California, U.S.A.

Spanish expeditions into New Mexico and along the Pacific Coast of North America, 1567-1640

1567–1590   Luis de Carvajal   North America S.W., Texas, Mexico
1581   Francisco Sanchez Chamuscado   North America S.W., New Mexico, U.S.A.
1582–1583   Antonio de Espejo   North America S.W., New Mexico, U.S.A.
1582–1584   Francisco Gali   Pacific, California, U.S.A.
1587   Pedro de Unamuno   North Pacific
1588   Lorenzo Ferrer Maldonado   North America N.W., Canada
1590   João da Gama   Asia E., Kuril Is., North Pacific
1590   Gaspar Castaño de Sosa   North America S.W., New Mexico, U.S.A.
1592   Juan de Fuca   North America W., Canada
1594–1599   Francisco Leyva de Bonilla   North America C., Kansas, U.S.A.
1595–1596   Sebastián Rodríguez Cermeno   North America W., California, U.S.A.
1597–1601   Juan de Onate   North America S.W., New Mexico, U.S.A.
1598   Juan de Zaldivar   North America S.W., New Mexico, U.S.A.
1602–1603   Martin de Aguilar   North America S.W., California, U.S.A.
1602–1603   Sebastián Vizcaino   North America W., California, U.S.A.
1604–1608   Juan de Onate   North America S.W., Arizona, U.S.A.
1608   Pedro de Peralta   North America S.W., New Mexico, U.S.A.
1611–1613   Sebastián Vizcaino   North Pacific, Mexico, Japan
1640   Bartolomé de Fonte   North America N.W., Canada

The Plymouth voyages: Guinea, the Caribbean and North America, 1540-1596

1540   John Phillips   West Indies, Brazil
1562–1563   John Hawkins   West Africa, West Indies
1564–1565   John Hawkins   West Africa, West Indies, Colombia
1566–1567   John Lovell   West Africa, Colombia
1566–1570   Francis Drake   West Africa, Colombia, Mexico
1567–1569   John Hawkins   West Africa, Colombia, Mexico
1567–1570   Jean Bontemps   West Indies, Colombia, Venezuela
1567–1582   Miles Philips   Central America, Honduras, Mexico
1568–1571   Paul (Robert) Blondel   West Africa, West Indies, Mexico
1568–1585   John Chilton   Central America, West Indies, Mexico
1571–1590   Job Hortop   Central America, Spain, Mexico
1577–1583   William (III) Hawkins   South America E.
1582   John Drake   South America, Argentina, Peru
1582–1583   Edward Fenton   South America E., Brazil
1582–1583   William (II) Hawkins   North Atlantic, Cape Verde Is., West Indies
1585–1586   Francis Drake   North Atlantic, North America E., West Indies
1593–1602   Richard Hawkins   South America S., Falkland Is.
1595–1596   Thomas Baskerville   West Indies, Colombia, Panama
1595–1596   Francis Drake   West Indies, Colombia, Panama

Adventurers, pirates and other travellers in the Caribbean, 1530-1800

1530–1573   Guillaume Le Testu   South America N.E., Brazil, Panama
1564–1590   Thomas Fenner   West Africa, West Indies, Atlantic
1572–1573   Francis Drake   Central America, Colombia, Panama
1572–1580   John Oxenham   Central America, Panama
1574   John Noble   Central America, Panama
1574–1575   Gilbert Horseley   Central America, Panama, Nicaragua
1576–1577   Andrew Barker   Central America, Panama, Honduras
1590–1591   Edward Glenham   North Atlantic, Northwest Africa, Azores
1590–1603   William Parker   Central America, Mexico, Panama
1591–1594   Henry May   West Indies, Bermuda
1622–1649   Thomas Warner   West Indies, Lesser Antilles, St. Kitts
1625–1626   Boudewijn Hendrikszoon   West Indies, Cuba, Puerto Rico
1625–1629   Henry Powell   Barbados
1625–1656   Thomas Gage   Central America, West Indies, Mexico
1630–1663   Abraham Blauvelt   West Indies, Honduras, Nicaragua
1631   William Rudyard   West Indies, Providence I., Colombia
1631–1632   Henry Colt   West Indies, St. Kitts, Trinidad
1638–1644   William Jackson   Central America, Providence I., West Indies
1642–1653   Jean Le Vasseur   West Indies, Tortuga, Haiti
1647   William Sayle   North Atlantic, Bermuda, Bahamas
1652–1679   Captain Pierre   Central America, Panama, Costa Rica
1654–1655   William (I) Penn   West Indies, Jamaica, Cayman Is
1656–1663   Christopher Myngs   Colombia, Jamaica
1663–1671   Henry Morgan   Central America, Jamaica, Panama
1666–1672   Alexander Olivier Esquemelin   West Indies, Panama, Haiti
1668   Jean-David (François) Nau   West Indies, Mexico, Nicaragua
1668–1675   George Cusack   North America E., Barbados, West Indies
1670   Lawrence Prince   West Indies, Colombia, Jamaica
1673–1677   Jacob Binckes   West Indies, Curaçao, Tobago
1684–1689   Raveneau de Lussan   Central America, West Indies, Pacific
1687–1689   Hans Sloane   West Indies, Madeira, Jamaica
1689–1695   Charles Plumier   East Indies, Central America
1689–1701   William Kidd   North America, Madagascar, West Indies
1693–1705   Jean-Baptiste Labat   West Indies, Guadeloupe, Martinique
1697–1741   Thomas Chalkley   North America, Barbados, West Indies
1698–1700   William (I) Paterson   Central America, Panama
1710–1720   Anne Bonny   West Indies, Jamaica, Bahamas
1716–1718   Edward Teach   West Indies
1719   Nathaniel Uring   West Indies, Jamaica, Belize
1719–1722   Bartholomew Roberts   West Indies, North America E., West Africa
1722–1723   George Lowther   West Indies, Cayman Is.
1731   John Cockburn   Central America, Honduras
1759–1795   Bryan Edwards   West Indies, Haiti, Jamaica
1634–1804   *Haiti: the French in Saint-Domingue  

The colonization of Brazil, 1509-1590

1512–1570   João Ramalho   Brazil
1516–1528   Cristovão de Jacques   Brazil
1530–1532   Pero Lopes de Sousa   Brazil
1531   Pêro Lobo   Brazil
1531–1533   Martim Afonso de Sousa   Brazil
1535–1547   Francisco Pereira Coutinho   Brazil
1537–1550   Duarte Coelho   Brazil
1539   João de Barros   Brazil
1549–1554   Tomé de Sousa   Brazil
1551–1556   André Thevet   Mediterranean, Brazil
1554–1555   Francisco de Espinoza   Brazil
1555–1567   Nicolas Durand de Villegagnon   Brazil
1557–1572   Mem de Sa   Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1590   Gabriel Soares de Sousa   Brazil
Early expeditions into the interior of South America, 1513-1592

1513  Francisco de Cordoba   Venezuela
1522   Pascual de Andagoya   Central America, Panama
1524–1525   Francisco Pizarro   Panama, Colombia
1524–1528   Diego de Almagro   Colombia, Peru
1526–1528   Bartolomé Ruiz de Andrade   Panama, Colombia
1526–1528   Francisco Pizarro   Ecuador, Peru
1527–1528   Juan de Ampues   Venezuela
1528–1530   Ambrose Ehinger   Venezuela
1529–1541   Vincent de Valverde   Peru
1530   Nuño de Guzman   Peru
1530–1531   Nikolaus Federmann   Venezuela
1530–1533   Francisco Pizarro   Ecuador, Peru
1530–1533   Hernando Pizarro   Peru
1531   Diego de Ordaz   Orinoco, Venezuela
1531–1533   Ambrose Ehinger   Venezuela, Colombia
1532   Hernando de Soto   Ecuador, Peru
1532–1534   Pedro de Heredia   Colombia
1538   Alonso de Mercadillo   Peru
1569–1592   Juan Martin   Orinoco, Venezuela

Expeditions in South America: Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Guiana and Amazonia, 1534-1647

1524   Juan Ruiz de Arce   Nicaragua, Peru
1524–1563   Diego García de Paredes   Peru, Venezuela
1526–1538   Pedro de Candia   Ecuador, Peru
1527–1534   Sebastián Moyano de Benalcazar   Peru, Ecuador
1529   Pedro Pizarro   Peru
1533–1559   Sebastian Garcilaso de La Vega   Ecuador, Peru
1534   Francisco Pizarro   Peru
1534–1535   Pedro de Alvarado   Peru, Ecuador
1534–1540   Gerónimo Dortal   Orinoco, Venezuela
1535   Juan Porcel   Peru
1535   Diego de Tapia   Ecuador, Colombia
1535   Diego de Sandoval   Ecuador, Colombia
1535   Alonso de Herrera   Orinoco, Venezuela
1535   Alonso de Alvarado   Amazon, Peru
1535–1536   Pedro Fernández de Lugo   Colombia
1535–1538   Georg Hohermuth   Venezuela, Colombia
1535–1550   Pedro de Cieza de Leon   Peru
1536   Juan Fernández de Alderete   Chile, Venezuela
1536   Aires da Cunha   Amazon, Brazil
1536–1538   Juan de Vadillo   Colombia
1536–1538   Sebastián Moyano de Benalcazar   Ecuador, Colombia
1536–1539   Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada   Colombia
1537–1539   Nikolaus Federmann   Venezuela, Colombia
1538–1545   Hernán Pérez de Quesada   Colombia
1539–1542   Gonzalo Pizarro   Peru, Ecuador
1540–1606   Juan de Pineda   Chile, Peru
1541–1542   Gaspar de Carvajal   Amazon, Brazil
1541–1542   Francisco de Orellana   Amazon, Brazil
1541–1546   Philip von Hutten   Venezuela, Colombia
1542–1551   Juan de Betanzos   Peru
1545   Diego Fernandez   Peru
1545–1546   Francisco de Orellana   Amazon, Brazil
1545–1559   Pedro de Ursua   Peru, Colombia
1546   Juan Pérez de Tolosa   Venezuela
1557–1559   Francisco Fajardo   Venezuela
1560   Fernando de Guzman   Amazon, Peru
1560   Pedro de Ursua   Amazon, Peru
1560–1561   Lope de Aguirre   Amazon, Brazil
1566   Martin de Poveda   Peru, Colombia
1566–1569   Pedro Malaver de Silva   Colombia, Venezuela
1567   Diego de Losada   Venezuela
1569–1572   Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada   Orinoco, Colombia
1570   Diego Fernandez de Serpa   Orinoco, Venezuela
1571   Alonso Pacheco   Venezuela
1571–1585   José de Acosta   Central America, Mexico, Peru
1572–1591   Domingos Fernandes Nobre   Brazil
1578   Antonio de Sepulveda   Lake Guatavita, Colombia
1581–1588   Antonio de Berrio   Colombia, Venezuela
1583–1589   Fernão Cardim   Brazil
1590–1598   Antonio de Berrio   Venezuela
1590–1622   Fernando de Berrio   Orinoco, Venezuela
1593   Domingo de Vera y Barguen   Orinoco, Venezuela
1593   John Burgh   Guyana, Venezuela
1593–1595   Jacob Whiddon   Trinidad, Venezuela
1594   Jacques Riffault   Brazil
1595   Amyas Preston   North Atlantic, Venezuela
1595   Robert Dudley   Orinoco, Venezuela
1595   Francis Sparrey   Orinoco, Venezuela
1595   Nicolas de Mastrillo   Peru
1595   Walter Ralegh   Orinoco, Venezuela
1595–1617   Hugh Goodwin   Orinoco, Venezuela
1595–1618   Lawrence Keymis   Guiana, Venezuela
1596–1597   Leonard Berry   Guiana, Venezuela
1597–1602   John Ley   Brazil, Guiana
1600–1616   Garcilaso de La Vega   Peru
1602–1614   Daniel de La Touche   French Guiana, Brazil
1603–1606   Pero Coelho de Sousa   Brazil
1604–1606   Charles Leigh   Guiana, Brazil
1604–1606   John Legat   Amazon, Brazil
1608–1609   Robert Thornton   Amazon, Brazil
1608–1609   William Davies   Amazon, Brazil
1609–1610   Robert Harcourt   Guiana, Brazil
1609–1616   Martim Soares Moreno   Brazil
1610–1611   Thomas Roe   Amazon, Brazil
1610–1614   Matthew Morton   Amazon, Brazil
1612   Thomas King   Amazon, Brazil
1614–1615   Pieter Lodewycx   Amazon, Brazil
1615–1616   Francisco Caldeira de Castello Branco   Amazon, Brazil
1615–1623   António Vicente Cochado   Amazon, Brazil
1616–1623   Pieter Adriaenszoon Ita   Amazon, Brazil
1617–1618   Walter Ralegh   Orinoco, Venezuela
1618–1639   Manuel Baptista Peres   Peru
1620–1621   Roger North   Amazon, Brazil
1620–1631   James Purcell   Amazon, Brazil
1620–1634   Bernard O’Brien   Amazon, Brazil
1623   Luís Aranha de Vasconselhos   Amazon, Brazil
1625–1626   Pedro de (II) Teixeira   Amazon, Brazil
1628   Robert Harcourt   Guiana, Surinam
1630–1662   João Fernandes Vieira   Brazil, Angola
1636–1647   Miguel de Ochogavia   Venezuela
1637–1644   Willem Piso   Brazil
1638–1639   Pedro de (II) Teixeira   Amazon, Brazil

Expeditions in South America: Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina, 1534-1621

1471   Tupac Yupanqui   Peru, Bolivia
1534–1535   Simon de Alcazaba   Patagonia, Argentina
1535–1536   Cristóbal de Molina   Peru, Chile
1535–1537   Pedro de Mendoza   Paraguay, Argentina
1535–1537   Diego de Almagro   Bolivia, Chile
1535–1553   Ulrich Schmidel   Argentina, Paraguay
1536–1537   Juan de Salazar   Asunción, Paraguay
1536–1537   Gonzalo de Mendoza   Paraguay
1536–1537   Juan de Saavedra   Valparaíso, Chile
1536–1537   Juan de Ayolas   Paraguay, Bolivia
1536–1545   Domingo Martínez de Irala   Paraguay
1537–1538   Leon Pancaldo   Argentina
1539   Pedro Anzures   Peru, Bolivia
1539–1540   Alonso (Francisco) de Camargo   Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
1540–1544   Pedro de Valdivia   Chile
1540–1548   Diego Centeno   Peru, Bolivia
1540–1557   Francisco de Villagra   Chile
1540–1563   Pedro de Villagra   Chile
1541–1544   Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca   Bolivia, Paraguay
1542   Juan Pérez de Guevara   Peru, Bolivia
1543–1544   Diego de Rojas   Bolivia, Argentina
1543–1544   Francisco de Mendoza   Bolivia, Argentina
1544   Giovanni Battista Pastene   Chile
1545–1550   Nuflo de Chavez   Paraguay, Bolivia
1547–1555   Hans Staden   Brazil
1547–1557   Domingo Martínez de Irala   Paraguay, Bolivia
1548   Alonzo de Mendoza   La Paz, Bolivia
1548–1551   Francisco de Aguirre   Chile, Argentina
1549–1553   Pedro de Valdivia   Chile
1549–1576   Alonso de Gongora Marmolejo   Chile
1550   Juan de Villagra   Chile, Argentina
1553–1557   Francisco de (II) Ulloa   Chile
1553–1566   Francisco de Aguirre   Chile, Argentina
1555–1562   Alonso de Ercilla y Zuniga   Chile
1556   Andrés Manso   Paraguay, Bolivia
1556–1560   Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza   Chile
1557–1558   Juan Fernandez Ladrillero   Tierra del Fuego, Chile
1558–1561   Nuflo de Chavez   Paraguay, Bolivia
1559   Pedro del Castillo   Chile, Argentina
1564   Diego Aleman   Bolivia
1567–1570   Juan Álvarez Maldonado   Peru, Bolivia
1568–1583   Juan de Garay   Bolivia, Argentina
1574   Juan Fernandez   Juan Fernandez Is., Chile
1574   Francisco de Toledo   Peru, Bolivia
1574–1583   Antonio de Quadramito   Argentina, Chile
1575–1593   Luis de Bolanos   Brazil, Paraguay
1577–1610   Thomas Fields   Brazil, Paraguay
1579–1580   Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa   Chile
1581–1586   Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa   Argentina, Chile
1581–1591   Alonso de Sotomayor   Chile
1582   Hernando de Lerma   Argentina
1582   Francisco de Hinojosa   Peru, Bolivia
1589–1618   Hernando Arias de Saavedra   Paraguay, Argentina
1593–1619   Luis de Valdivia   Chile
1595   Juan de Torres Palomino   Bolivia
1602   Juan Mendoza Mate de Luna   Bolivia
1618–1619   Bartolomé García de Nodal   Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
1620–1621   Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera   Argentina
1621   Diego Flores de Leon   Argentina, Chile

South America: explorers and travellers, 1553-1700

1553–1555   Juan de Azpilcueta   Brazil
1553–1596   José de Anchieta   Brazil
1554   Pedro Correia   Brazil
1554–1567   Manoel da Nobrega   Brazil
1568–1596   Blas Valera   Peru
1577–1605   Pedro de Anazco   Peru, Paraguay
1581   Juan de Atienza   Paraguay, Peru
1585–1621   Pablo José Arriaga   Peru
1587–1610   Manoel de Ortega   Brazil, Paraguay
1588–1653   John Almeida   Brazil
1589–1610   Francisco Solano   Argentina, Paraguay
1590–1630   Juan Romero   Argentina, Chile
1592   Sebastião Marinho   Goiás, Brazil
1596–1657   Bernabé Cobo   Peru, Bolivia
1598   Afonso Sardinha   Minas Gerais, Brazil
1600–1632   António de Araujo   Brazil
1602–1611   Rafael Ferrer   Peru, Ecuador
1607–1637   Antonio Ruíz de Montoya   Paraguay
1609–1610   Marciel de Lorenzana   Paraguay
1609–1610   Simon Maceta   Paraguay, Brazil
1609–1613   Vicente Griffi   Paraguay, Argentina
1609–1628   Roque González de Santa Cruz   Paraguay, Brazil
1612–1670   Ignacio de Arbieto   Peru
1613–1614   Pero Domingues   Goiás, Brazil
1618–1651   Alonso de Ovalle   Chile
1620   Luís Francisco Rodrigues   Central America, Peru, Colombia
1623   Martin Sanchez de Arzamendia   Paraguay
1623   Bento Maciel Parente   Amazon, Brazil
1628   Father Daddei   Colombia
1628–1636   António Rapôso Tavares   South America, Brazil
1628–1642   Fernando de Montesinos   Bolivia, Peru
1631   Jacobo Ransonnier   Paraguay, Brazil
1631–1632   Roger Fry   Amazon, Brazil
1632   Juan de Casarrubios   Colombia
1634–1635   Pedro de Pecador   Colombia, Ecuador
1635   Ignacio Martinez   Bolivia
1635–1637   Domingo de Brieva   Amazon, Brazil
1637   Lucas de La Cueva   Peru
1638–1639   Gaspar Osorio   Argentina
1639   Christoval de Acuna   Amazon, Brazil
1641   Juan Pastor   Argentina
1641–1643   Pedro de La Cruz   Peru
1642   Antonio Montezinos   Ecuador, Colombia
1643   Gaspar de Vera   Amazon, Peru
1644   Ignacio de Irarraga   Peru
1646   Father Santisteban   Patagonia, Argentina
1648–1650   Matias Abad   Colombia
1648–1652   António Rapôso Tavares   Amazon, Brazil
1650–1653   Diego de Rosales   Patagonia, Chile
1650–1661   Antonio Vieira   Amazon, Brazil
1658–1687   Manuel de Biedma   Peru
1659   Bartolomé Perez   Colombia
1663   Antonio de Monteverde   Venezuela, Colombia
1669–1671   John Narborough   Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
1670–1673   Nicolò Mascardi   Patagonia, Argentina
1674   Jean Grillet   Guiana, French Guiana
1674–1681   Fernão Dias Paes   Brazil
1675–1702   Cypriano Baraza   Bolivia
1676–1699   Edmond Halley   South Atlantic, St. Helena
1679–1682   Ignacio Fiol   Colombia, Venezuela
1682   Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva (the elder)   Goiás, Brazil
1682   Brás Mendes Pais   Mato Grosso, Brazil
1684–1723   Samuel Fritz   Amazon, Brazil
1685   Francisco de Figueroa   Peru
1687   Acarete du Biscay   Bolivia, Argentina
1690   António Ruiz de Arzao   Brazil
1691–1692   José de Arce   Bolivia
1693–1695   Agustin Zapata   Bolivia
1694–1695   José Cabarte   Venezuela
1695–1697   Jean-Baptiste de Gennes   Brazil, Argentina
1696–1722   Francisco Hervas   Paraguay, Bolivia
1697–1721   Felipe Suarez   Paraguay, Bolivia
1699–1700   Edmond Halley   Atlantic, Trinidade I.
1699–1701   Maria Sibylla Merian   Guiana, Surinam

South America: explorers and travellers, 1700-1750

1700   João Gois de Araujo   Brazil
1705–1750   José Gumilla   Orinoco, Venezuela
1706–1731   Guillaume Detré   Amazon, Brazil
1707–1711   Louis Feuillet   Peru, Chile
1711–1714   Amédée François Frezier   Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
1714   Bartólomeu Rodrigues   Amazon, Brazil
1715   José de Arce   Paraguay, Bolivia
1716–1751   António Pires de Campos   Goiás, Brazil
1717–1725   Domenico Zipoli   Paraguay, Argentina
1718–1720   António Antunes Maciel   Mato Grosso, Brazil
1719   Pascoal Moreira Cabral   Brazil
1721   Gabriel Patino   Paraguay, Bolivia
1721–1724   Pierre Barrere   Guiana
1721–1753   Gabriel Malagrida   Brazil
1722   Francisco de Melo Palheta   Madeira R., Brazil
1722–1725   Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva (the younger)   Goiás, Brazil
1723–1730   Bruno Mauricio de Zabala   Montevideo, Uruguay
1726   Rodrigo César de Meneses   Mato Grosso, Brazil
1728–1729   João da Maia da Gama   India, Brazil
1728–1765   Martin Schmid   Bolivia
1729–1745   Ignacio Chome   Bolivia, Paraguay
1731–1767   Thomas Falkner   Argentina
1734   Artur & Fernão Pais de Barros   Brazil
1735–1739   Jorge Juan y Santacilla   Colombia, Ecuador
1735–1739   Antonio de Ulloa   Colombia, Ecuador
1735–1743   Charles-Marie de La Condamine   Ecuador
1735–1750   Louis Godin   Ecuador
1735–1771   Joseph Jussieu   Bolivia, Ecuador
1735–1773   Jean Godin des Odonais   Amazon, Ecuador
1736   Manuel Dias da Silva   Mato Grosso, Brazil
1736–1737   Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis   Northern Europe, Lapland, Finland
1736–1744   Pierre Bouguer   Colombia, Ecuador
1736–1745   Pedro Vincente Maldonado   Amazon, Ecuador
1740   Laurence Belfort   Venezuela, Brazil
1740–1753   Matias Strobel   Argentina
1741   Jaçinto São Paio Soares   Brazil
1742   Manoel Féliz de Lima   Amazon, Brazil
1742   Leonardo de Oliveira   Amazon, Brazil
1743–1745   Charles-Marie de La Condamine   Amazon, Brazil
1744   Francisco Xavier de Moraes   Orinoco, Venezuela
1745–1748   José Cardiel   Patagonia, Argentina
1745–1749   René Courte de La Blanchardiere   Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
1746–1767   Bernhardt Havestadt   Chile, Argentina
1748–1767   Martin Dobrizhoffer   Paraguay
1749   João de Sousa de Azevedo   Amazon, Brazil
1749–1750   José Gonçalves da Fonseca   Mato Grosso, Brazil


South America: explorers and travellers, 1750-1800

1751–1753   José Barnes   Patagonia, Argentina
1752   Agostinho Lourenco   Brazil
1754–1756   Pehr Lofling   Venezuela
1754–1758   Francisco Xavier de Mendonca Furtado   Amazon, Brazil
1756–1760   José de Iturriaga   Brazil, Venezuela
1760–1763   Antonio Guaspe   Bolivia
1760–1767   José Sanchez Labrador   Paraguay, Bolivia
1760–1808   José Celestino Bruno Mutis   Colombia
1761–1763   João de São Jose Queiroz   Amazon, Brazil
1763–1766   Louis-Antoine de Bougainville   South Atlantic, Falkland Is.
1765–1767   John Mcbride   South Atlantic, Falkland Is.
1767–1770   Luís António de Sousa   Brazil
1768–1769   Francisco Machado   Chile
1769–1773   Isabela Godin Des Odonais   Amazon, Ecuador
1770   Pedro Mancilla   Chile
1771   Captain Stott   South Atlantic, Falkland Is.
1772–1777   John Gabriel Stedman   Guiana, Surinam
1772–1780   Charles Nicolas Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt   Middle East, French Guiana
1774   António Luíz Tavares Lisboa   Brazil
1774–1775   Francisco Xavier Ribeiro de Sampaio   Amazon, Brazil
1775–1776   João de Godois Pinto da Silveira   Goiás, Brazil
1779   Norberto Fernandez   Patagonia, Chile
1779–1783   Basilio Villarino   Patagonia, Argentina
1780–1781   Ricardo Franco de Almeida Serra   Guiana, Brazil
1780–1785   Joseph Dombey   Chile, Peru
1780–1788   Hipólito Ruiz Lopez   Peru
1781   Francisco Antonio Rebelo   Minas Gerais, Brazil
1781–1809   Ricardo Franco de Almeida Serra   Brazil
1782   Antonio de Viedma   Patagonia, Argentina
1783–1791   Francisco Menendez   Patagonia, Argentina
1783–1793   Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira   Amazon, Brazil
1784–1801   Manuel Féliz de Azara   Argentina, Paraguay
1785   Francisco José Maria de Lacerda e Almeida   Colombia Brazil
1786–1790   Francisco Hurtado   Chile
1786–1794   Lazaro de Ribera y Espinosa   Chile, Bolivia
1786–1800   Ambrose Maria François Palisot de Beauvois   West Africa, Haiti, Nigeria
1787   Manoel da Gama Lobo d’Almada   Guiana, Brazil
1793–1800   Thaddeus Peregrinus Haenke   Peru, Bolivia
1798   Francisco Gonzalez   Patagonia, Argentina
1799–1800   Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt   Orinoco, Venezuela
1799–1804   Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland   Venezuela, Argentina
1800–1804   Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt   Mexico, Colombia

The colonisation of Siberia: the Cossack expeditions and later travellers, 1558-1766

1566–1568   Jakov Stroganov   Siberia, Russia
1558   *Stroganov family   Siberia, Russia
1585–1660   *Cossack expansion into Siberia  
1640   *Cossacks on the Taymyr Peninsula
1579–1584  Yermak   Siberia, Russia
1610   Kondratiy Kurochkin   Siberia, Arctic Ocean, Russia
1618   Ivan Petlin   Central Asia, Siberia, China
1623   Penda   Siberia, Russia
1628–1655   Vasily Yermolayev Bugor   Siberia, Russia
1632–1653   Petr Beketov   Siberia, Russia
1633–1642   Ivan Rebrov   Siberia, Arctic Ocean, Russia
1637–1642   Yelisey Buza   Siberia, Russia
1639   Ivan Moskvitin   Siberia, Russia
1640   Dmitry Zyrian   Siberia, Russia
1641–1659   Mikhail Vasil’yev Stadukhin   Siberia, Russia
1643   Kurbat Ivanov   Siberia, Lake Baikal, Russia
1643–1646   Vasily Danilovich Poyarkov   Siberia, Russia
1647–1648   Fedot Alexeyev   Siberia, Kamchatka, Russia
1647–1649   Semen Ivanov Dezhnev   Siberia, Bering Strait, Russia
1647–1652   Timofey Buldakov   Siberia, Russia
1648–1653   Yerofey Pavlovich Khabarov   Siberia, Russia
1652–1653   Onufrey Stepanov   Siberia, Russia
1654–1656   Fyodor Isakovich Baykov   Central Asia, Siberia, China
1655   Yuri Vyitka   Siberia, Medvezh’i Islands, Russia
1675–1676   Nikolai Gavrilovich Milescu-Spafary   Asia, Russia, China
1692–1695   Evert Ysbrandszoon Ides   Asia, Siberia, China
1696–1707   Vladimir Atlasov   Siberia, Kamchatka, Russia
1714–1716   Kuzma Sokolov   Siberia, Kamchatka, Russia
1743   Ivan Khimkov   Arctic Ocean, Spitsbergen
1765–1766   Vasiliy Yakovlevich Chichagov   Arctic Ocean, Spitsbergen

The exploration of Siberia, 1700-1793

1600–1800   *Russian Travellers in Central Asia   Caspian Sea, Uzbekistan
1709–1730   *Swedish Travellers in Russia and Siberia
1700–1713  Ivan Kozyrevsky   Asia N.E., Kuril Is., Russia
1709–1734   Johan Gustav Renat   Central Asia, Kirghizstan, China
1712–1713   Merkuriy Vaghin   Siberia, New Siberian Is., Russia
1715–1738   John Bell   Asia, Iran, China
1719–1722   Fyodor Luzhin   Siberia, Kuril Is., Russia
1719–1727   Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt   Siberia, Russia
1719–1728   Filip Johan Tabbert von Strahlenberg   Siberia, Russia
1725–1730   Vitus Jonassen Bering   Siberia, Kamchatka, Russia
1732   Mikhail Spiridonovich Gvozdev   Siberia, Bering Strait, Russia
1733–1741   Sven Larsson Waxell   Siberia, Kamchatka, Russia
1733–1741   Vitus Jonassen Bering   Siberia, Kamchatka, Russia
1733–1742   Georg Wilhelm Steller   Siberia, Kamchatka, Russia
1733–1743   Gerhard Friedrich Muller   Siberia, Russia
1733–1743   Johann Georg Gmelin   Siberia, Russia
1734–1735   Stepan Voynovich Muraviev   Siberia, Russia
1734–1737   Dmitry L. Ovtsvyn   Siberia, Ob R., Russia
1735   Petr Lassenius   Siberia, Bering Strait, Russia
1735–1736   Vasily Pronchishchev   Siberia, Taymyr, Russia
1735–1742   Semen I. Chelyuskin   Siberia, Taymyr, Russia
1736–1737   Stepan Malygin   Siberia, Kara Sea, Russia
1736–1741   Dmitry Ya. Laptev   Siberia, Arctic Ocean, Russia
1736–1741   Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov   Siberia, Kamchatka, Russia
1738–1739   Martin Spanberg   Asia N.E., Kuril Is., Russia
1738–1740   Dmitriy Sterlegov   Siberia, Taymyr, Russia
1738–1742   Fedor Minin   Siberia, Taymyr, Russia
1739–1742   Nikifor Chekin   Siberia, Taymyr, Russia
1739–1742   Khariton Prokop’yevich Laptev   Siberia, Taymyr, Russia
1740–1741   Aleksei Ilich Chirikov   Siberia, Kamchatka, Alaska
1741   Vitus Jonassen Bering   North Pacific, Russia, Alaska
1760–1762   Savva Loshkin   Arctic Ocean, Novaya Zemlya, Russia
1761   Jean Chappé D’Auteroche   Siberia, California, Russia
1762–1764   Nikita Shalaurov   Siberia, Arctic Ocean, Russia
1768–1769   Fedor Rozmyslov   Arctic Ocean, Novaya Zemlya, Russia
1768–1774   Peter Simon Pallas   Siberia, Russia
1770–1773   Ivan Lyakhov   Siberia, New Siberian Is., Russia
1773–1773   Johann Gottlieb Georgi   Siberia, Russia
1785–1793   Joseph Billings   Siberia, Russia
1787–1788   John Ledyard   Siberia, Russia
1787–1790   Gavriil Andreyevich Sarychev   Siberia, Russia

Early missions across the Himalayas and into Tibet, 1595-1632

1595–1617   Jerónimo Xavier   India, Kashmir
1600–1651   Paulo da Trindade   China, India
1602–1607   Isaac   Central Asia, Pakistan, China
1602–1607   Bento de Goes   India, Afghanistan, China
1624–1630   António de Andrade   India, Tibet
1626–1630   Estevão Cacella   India, Tibet
1626–1631   João Cabral   Bengal, Tibet
1631–1632   Francisco de Azevado   Tibet, India

Missions and missionaries in China and Tibet, 1564-1800

1564–1578  Martin de Rada   South-East Asia, Philippines, China
1578–1583   Michele de Ruggiero   Malaysia, China
1578–1610   Matteo Ricci   China, Malaysia
1596–1618   Diego de Pantoja   China
1606–1607   João (III) Fernandes   China
1609–1628   Nicolas Trigault   China
1613–1637   Alvarez de Semedo   China
1616–1673   Domingo Fernández Navarrete   China
1618–1630   Johann Terrenz Schreck   China
1619–1666   Johann Adam Schall Von Bell   China
1633–1664   Juan Bautista Morales   China
1634–1677   Gabriel de Magalhaes   China
1637–1665   Francesco Brancati   China
1639–1668   Heinrich Roth   India
1640–1661   Martino Martini   China, India
1646–1662   Michal Piotr Boym   China
1648–1682   Luigi Buglio   China
1656–1682   Philippe Couplet   China
1657–1670   Adrien Greslon   China
1661–1664   Johann Grueber   China, India, Tibet
1666–1688   Ferdinand Verbiest   China
1666–1712   Francisco de Sousa   India
1677–1685   Antoine Thomas   China, Thailand
1680–1736   José Suarez   China
1685–1707   Jean-François Gerbillion   China
1685–1732   Joachim Bouvet   China
1687–1709   Claude de Visdelou   China, India
1696–1709   Caspar Kastner   China
1698–1736   Joseph Henri Marie de Premare   China
1698–1738   Jean-Baptiste Regis   China
1701–1748   Joseph Anne Marie Moyria de Mailla   China
1703–1710   Charles-Thomas Maillard de Tournon   China
1705–1743   Xavier Ehrenbert Friedel   China
1707–1745   *Capuchin Missionaries in Tibet, 1707-1745
1710–1723  Matteo Ripa   China
1712–1745   Francisco Orazio Olivieri della Penna   Central Asia, India, Tibet
1713–1728   Ippolito Desideri   Central Asia, Kashmir, Tibet
1714–1717   Emmanuel Freyre   Central Asia, Kashmir, Tibet
1715–1746   Ignaz Kogler   China
1717–1745   Samuel van der Putte   China, Tibet
1722–1759   Antoine de Gaubil   China
1750–1793   Jean Joseph Marie Amiot   China
1758–1780   Pierre-Martial Cibot   China

British and French expeditions to Tibet, Kashmir and the Hindu Kush, 1688-1792

1688–1723   Alexander Hamilton   India, East Indies
1767   Captain Kinloch   India, Nepal
1773   Claude Martin   India, Bhutan
1774–1775   George Bogle   Bhutan, Tibet
1775–1790   James Rennell   India, Bangla Desh
1782–1784   George Forster   Afghanistan, India
1783–1784   Samuel Turner   Bhutan, Tibet
1792   William Kirkpatrick   India, Nepal

The exploration of South-East Asia, 1615-1800

1615   Father Carvalho   China, Vietnam
1616–1622   Cristoforo Borri   China, Vietnam
1619–1640   Alexandre de Rhodes   China, Vietnam
1640–1653   Alexandre de Rhodes   Iran, Vietnam
1640–1689   Constantine Phaulkon   Thailand
1641–1642   Gerrit van Wuysthof   Vietnam, Laos
1642–1647   Giovanni Maria Leria   Vietnam, Laos
1658–1684   François Pallu   Thailand
1661–1693   François Deydier   Thailand, Vietnam
1662–1665   Louis Chevreuil   Cambodia, Vietnam
1681–1685   Nicolas Gervaise   East Indies, Thailand, Sulawesi
1685–1686   François Timoléon de Choisy   Thailand
1685–1694   Guy Tachard   India, Thailand
1686–1692   Marcel Le Blanc   China, Thailand
1687   Alexandre de Chaumont   Thailand
1695–1696   Edward Fleetwood   India, Myanmar
1695–1705   Juan Antonio Arnedo   China, Vietnam
1755   George Baker   India, Myanmar
1757   Thomas Lester   India, Myanmar
1765–1799   Pierre-Joseph-George Pigneau de Behaine   Thailand, Vietnam
1778   Charles Chapman   Vietnam
1788   Archibald Blair   India, Indian Ocean, Andaman & Nicobar Is
1792–1793   William Hunter   India, Myanmar
1795   Michael Symes   India, Myanmar
1795   Francis Hamilton Buchanan   India, Bengal, Myanmar
1796–1798   Hiram Cox   Myanmar

West Africa: European forts and trading posts, 1592-1753

1592   Bernard Ericks   Guinea, Ghana
1598   François Le Fort   Principe, Guinea
1618   Paul Imbert   Mali
1637–1638   Thomas Lambert   Senegal
1649–1660   Henrick Carloff   Guinea, Ghana
1651   James Courland   Gambia
1661–1662   John Vermuyden   Gambia
1661–1664   Robert Holmes   North America, Gambia
1678–1682   Jean Barbot   Guinea
1681–1689   Cornelius Hodges   Gambia
1687–1700   André Brue   Senegal
1698   Robert Ford   Sierra Leone
1721–1723   John Atkins   Guinea, Gabon
1723–1724   Bartholomew Stibbs   Gambia
1730–1743   Francis Moore   Gambia, U.S.A.
1750–1753   Michel Adanson   Gambia, Senegal

French discovery and settlement in the Indian and Southern Oceans, 1619-1800

1619–1622   Augustin de Beaulieu   East Indies, Sumatra, Malagasy
1636–1650   Robert Hunt   Indian Ocean, Providence I., Malagasy
1640–1647   Walter Hamond   Indian Ocean, Malagasy
1643–1644   Jacques Prony   Indian Ocean, Reunion
1689–1698   François Leguat   Indian Ocean, Réunion, Rodriguez I.
1690   François Maximilien Misson   Indian Ocean, Malagasy
1690–1696   Henry Avery   Indian Ocean, Réunion, Red Sea
1692–1696   Thomas Tew   Indian Ocean, Madagascar, Malagasy
1692–1709   Nathaniel North   Indian Ocean, Malagasy
1694–1699   Dirk Chivers   Indian Ocean
1701–1716   Robert Drury   Indian Ocean, Malagasy
1708–1713   Jean de La Roque   Red Sea, Yemen
1715   Guillaume Dufresne   Indian Ocean, Mauritius
1731   Charles Gough   South Atlantic, Gough I.
1735–1748   Bertrand François de La Bourdonnais   Indian Ocean, Mauritius, Réunion
1738–1739   Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier   South Atlantic, Bouvet I.
1741–1744   Lazare Picault   Indian Ocean, Seychelles
1750   Jean-Baptiste d’Apres de Mannevillette   East Indies, Africa
1760–1769   Alexandre Guillaume Pingré   Indian Ocean, Haiti, Rodriguez I.
1767–1777   Pierre Marie François de Pages   Circumnavigation, Asia S., North America S.
1769–1770   Jean-François-Marie de Surville   Pacific, New Zealand, Solomon Is.
1771–1772   Yves-Joseph Trémairec de Kerguelen   Southern Ocean, Indian Ocean, Kerguelen I.
1771–1773   Julien-Marie Crozet   Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean, Crozet Is.
1771–1773   Marc-Joseph Marion-Dufresne   Indian Ocean, Tasmania, New Zealand
1771–1776   Jean-Charles de Borda   North Atlantic, Canary Is., Azores
1772   Louis François Alléno de Saint-Allouarn   Western Australia, Kerguelen I.
1773–1774   Yves-Joseph Trémairec de Kerguelen   Southern Ocean, Indian Ocean, Kerguelen
1773–1786   Mauritius Augustus de Byenowski   Indian Ocean, Siberia, Malagasy
1779–1781   Francisco Antonio Mourelle   North America N.W., Pacific, Tuvalu
1790–1802   Louis-Marie-Aubert du Petit Thouars   Indian Ocean, Madagascar, Mauritius
1792   Pierre François Peron   Indian Ocean, Amsterdam I.

Voyages in the Pacific, 1525-1732

1525–1527   García Jofre de Loaisa   Pacific, South America, East Indies
1527–1529   Álvaro de Saavedra Ceron   Pacific, Philippines, East Indies
1530–1594   Domingo de Salazar   Central America, Florida, Philippines
1535   Tomás de Berlanga   Pacific E., Ecuador, Galapagos Is.
1537–1540   Hernando de Grijalva   Pacific, New Guinea
1542–1546   Ruy López de Villalobos   Pacific, Mexico, Philippines
1542–1555   Juan Gaetano   Pacific, Philippines, Hawaii
1543   Bernardo de La Torre   Pacific, Philippines
1564–1571   Miguel López de Legazpi   East Indies, North Pacific, Philippines
1565   Alonso de Arellano   Pacific, Mexico
1565   Andrés de Urdaneta   Pacific, Philippines
1567–1569   Álvaro de Mendana de Neira   Pacific, Solomon Is.
1567–1569   Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa   Pacific, Solomon Is.
1567–1569   Hernando Gallego   Pacific, Solomon Is.
1579–1587   Alonzo Sanchez   Central America, Philippines, China
1581–1609   Pierre Olivier Malherbe de Vitré   Circumnavigation, India, China
1588–1621   Hernando de Los Rios Coronel   South-East Asia, Cambodia, Philippines
1594–1602   Francesco Carletti   Circumnavigation, Japan, America
1594–1603   Antonio de Morga   East Indies, Ecuador, Philippines
1595   Álvaro de Mendana de Neira   Pacific, Marquesas Is., Santa Cruz Is.
1595–1596   Pedro Fernández de Quiros   Pacific, Philippines, Marquesas Is.
1605–1606   Pedro Fernández de Quiros   Pacific, Vanuatu, Tuamotu Is.
1606–1607   Luis Váez de Torres   Pacific W., Philippines, New Guinea
1632–1642   Franchoys Jacobszoon Visscher   East Indies, Pacific W., Japan
1642–1643   Hendrik Brouwer   Pacific, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
1662–1672   Diego Luis de Sanvitores   Pacific, Guam, Mariana Is.
1668–1678   William Dampier   Central America, Mexico, Jamaica
1670   Edward Melton   West Indies, Middle East, East Indies
1670–1708   Charles Le Gobien   China, Mariana Is., Philippines
1675   Antoine de La Roché   South Atlantic, South Georgia
1679–1682   Bartholomew Sharp   Pacific, Central America, South America W.
1679–1682   William Dampier   Central America, South America W.
1680–1687   Lionel Wafer   Central America, Antarctic, Pacific
1680–1703   John Bowen   Indian Ocean, East Africa, Madagascar
1683–1686   William Ambrose Cowley   Pacific, Galapagos Is., Falkland Is.
1683–1686   Charles Swan   Pacific, Mexico, Philippines
1683–1698   Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri   Circumnavigation, India, China
1685–1687   Edward Davis   Pacific, San Felix I., San Ambrosio I.
1686–1688   John Read   Pacific, East Indies, Madagascar
1689–1690   John Strong   South America, Juan Fernandez Is., Falkland Is.
1698–1701   Gouin de Beauchesne   South America S.W., Pacific E.
1699–1701   William Dampier   Australia N.W., New Guinea, Australia
1703–1711   Alexander Selkirk   Circumnavigation, Juan Fernandez Is., Pacific
1703–1711   William Dampier   Circumnavigation, Juan Fernandez Is., Pacific
1708–1711   Woodes Rogers   Circumnavigation, Pacific
1718–1732   Woodes Rogers   West Indies, Bahamas

Pacific voyages and circumnavigations, 1707-1800

1707–1711   Nicolas de Frondat   Circumnavigation, Pacific N.
1711   Martin de Chassiron   Pacific, Clipperton Island
1719–1722   George Shelvocke   Circumnavigation, Pacific
1721–1724   Jacob Roggeveen   Circumnavigation, Easter I., Pacific
1731–1732   Juan Antonio Cantova   Pacific, Caroline Is.
1740–1743   John Bulkeley   Chile, Patagonia
1740–1743   John Byron   Chile
1740–1744   George Anson   Circumnavigation, South America S., Pacific
1740–1746   Alexander Campbell   South America S., Argentina, Chile
1752–1765   Alexander Dalrymple   East Indies, India, Pacific W.
1757–1767   James Cook   North America N.E., Newfoundland, Canada
1763–1771   Charles Green   Circumnavigation, Barbados
1764–1766   John Byron   Circumnavigation, Falkland Is., Pacific
1764–1780   John Gore   Pacific, Tahiti, Circumnavigation
1765–1787   Anders Sparrman   China, Senegal, South Africa
1766–1768   Samuel Wallis   Circumnavigation, Tahiti, Pacific
1766–1769   Louis-Antoine de Bougainville   Circumnavigation, Pacific
1766–1769   Philip Carteret   Circumnavigation, Pitcairn I., Pacific
1766–1772   Joseph Banks   Circumnavigation, Iceland, Pacific
1768–1771   James Cook   Circumnavigation, Australia E., Pacific
1768–1775   James Magra   Pacific, Northwest Africa, Circumnavigation
1768–1775   William Wales   Circumnavigation, Canada, Pacific
1770–1771   Felipe Gonzalez y Haedo   Pacific S., Chile, Easter I.
1772   Dionisio de Boenechea   Pacific, Easter I., Tahiti
1772–1774   Tobias Furneaux   Circumnavigation, Tasmania, Pacific
1772–1775   James Cook   Circumnavigation, Pacific, Southern Ocean
1772–1775   Johann Georg Adam Reinhold Forster   Circumnavigation, Pacific
1772–1790   William Hodges   Pacific, India, Circumnavigation
1776–1779   James Cook   North America N.W., Hawaii, Pacific
1776–1779   Charles Clerke   Pacific, North America NW, Arctic Ocean
1776–1804   William Roxburgh   India
1782–1789   Patrick Russell   India, Syria
1785–1786   Antonio de Cordoba   South America S., Chile, Argentina
1785–1788   Jean-François de Galaup de La Perouse   North America N.W., Sakhalin I., Pacific
1787–1788   Jean-Baptiste Barthélémy de Lesseps   Siberia, Kamchatka, Russia
1787–1788   Carl Bernhard Wadstrom   West Africa, Senegal, Sierra Leone
1787–1790   Fletcher Christian   Pacific S., Tahiti, Pitcairn I.
1787–1790   William Bligh   Pacific
1788–1789   John Henry Cox   North America N.W., Tahiti, Pacific
1788–1789   John Hunter   Circumnavigation, Australia
1788–1800   Ciriaco Cevallos   South America, Pacific, Gulf of Mexico
1789   Edward Riou   South Africa, Antarctic, Indian Ocean
1789–1792   Dionisio Alcalà Galiano   North America N.W., British Columbia, Canada
1789–1794   José de Bustamente   Pacific, North America, South America
1789–1794   Alessandro Malaspina   South America, Pacific, North America N.W.
1789–1794   José de Espinosa   Pacific, North America
1789–1794   Antonio de Tova   Pacific, North America, South America
1789–1815   Fabio Ala Ponzone   Pacific, Gulf of Mexico
1790–1792   Jacinto Caamano   North America N.W., Alaska, Canada
1790–1792   Etienne Marchand   Circumnavigation, Marquesas Is., Pacific
1790–1792   Edward Edwards   Pacific S., Ducie I., Tahiti
1791   Richard Hergest   Pacific, Marquesas Is., Hawaii
1791   William Bryant   New South Wales, Australia
1791–1792   Matthew Weatherhead   Pacific, Tasmania, Tahiti
1791–1793   Joseph-Antoine Bruni d’Entrecasteaux   Pacific W., New Caledonia
1791–1793   William Bligh   Pacific S., West Indies, Tahiti
1791–1795   George Vancouver   North America N.W., Australia S.W., Canada
1792   Cayetano Valdes   North America N.W., Alaska, Canada
1792   Adam Laxman   Asia E., Japan
1792–1793   James Hanson   Pacific, Tahiti, New Zealand
1794–1798   Thomas Muir   Circumnavigation, Australia, North America N.W.
1795–1798   William Robert Broughton   North America N.W., Pacific, Korea
1796–1798   James Wilson   Pacific, Tahiti, Tonga
1807–1808   Mayhew Folger   Pacific S., Antarctic, Pitcairn I.
1826–1828   Peter Dillon   Pacific W., Santa Cruz Is., Vanikoro I.

Expeditions of the disciples of Linnaeus, 1746-1792

  Carl Linnaeus   Northern Europe, Lapland, Sweden
1746   Christopher Tarnstrom   Vietnam
1747–1751   Pehr Kalm   North America E., Canada, U.S.A.
1749–1752   Fredrik Hasselquist   Palestine, Turkey
1750   João de Loureiro   Vietnam
1750–1752   Pehr Osbeck   China
1752–1761   Carl Fredrik Adler   East Indies, Java
1760   David Pontin   China, India
1761–1763   Peter Forsskal   Egypt, Yemen
1768–1771   Daniel Carl Solander   Circumnavigation, Iceland, Australia
1768–1773   Johan Peter Falck   Siberia, Russia
1770–1779   Carl Peter Thunberg   South-East Asia, South Africa, Japan
1771–1786   Henry Smeathman   Sierra Leone
1772–1795   Francis Masson   South Africa
1773   Andreas Henricsson Berlin   Sierra Leone
1773–1776   Goran Rothman   Libya
1773–1785   Johann Gerhard Konig   India, Thailand
1783–1788   Olof Swartz   West Indies, Jamaica
1792   Adam Afzelius   Sierra Leone

Voyages to Spitsbergen, the North Atlantic and Greenland, 1562-1800

1562–1565   Philips Winterkoning   Arctic Ocean, Norway, Russia
1563–1583   Olivier Brunel   Arctic Ocean, Novaya Zemlya, Russia
1584–1585   Olivier Brunel   Arctic Ocean, Barents Sea, Russia
1588–1595   François de La Dale   Arctic Ocean, Russia
1594–1594   Willem Barents   Arctic Ocean, Novaya Zemlya, Russia
1594–1595   Jan Huyghen van Linschoten   Arctic Ocean, Russia
1594–1595   Cornelis Nay   Arctic Ocean, Russia
1595   Willem Barents   Arctic Ocean, Russia
1596–1597   Willem Barents   Arctic Ocean, Spitsbergen, Novaya Zemlya
1596–1597   Jan Corneliszoon Rijp   Arctic Ocean, Spitsbergen
1596–1597   Jacob van Heemskerk   Arctic Ocean, Spitsbergen, Novaya Zemlya
1598   Olof Andersson Myanmarn   Northern Europe, Sweden
1603–1605   Stephen Bennett   Arctic Ocean, Lapland, Bear I.
1605–1608   Thomas Welden   Arctic Ocean, Lapland, Bear I.
1607   Henry Hudson   Arctic Ocean, Spitsbergen, Greenland
1608   Henry Hudson   Arctic Ocean, Novaya Zemlya, Russia
1609   Thomas Marmaduke   Arctic Ocean, Spitsbergen
1609   Melchior van den Kerckoven   Arctic Ocean, Novaya Zemlya, Russia
1609   Henry Hudson   Arctic Ocean, North America E., U.S.A.
1610–1612   Jonas Poole   Arctic Ocean, Greenland, Spitsbergen
1613   Benjamin Joseph   Arctic Ocean, Spitsbergen
1614   Robert Fotherby   Arctic Ocean, Spitsbergen
1614   Joris Carolus   Arctic Ocean, Jan Mayen I., Spitsbergen
1676   John Wood   Arctic Ocean, Novaya Zemlya, Russia
1721–1740   Hans & Poul Hansen Egede   North Atlantic, Greenland
1723   Greenland trading companies   North Atlantic, Greenland
1773   Constantine John Phipps   Arctic Ocean, Spitsbergen
1777   Walter Young   North Atlantic, Greenland
1779–1823   William Scoresby (the elder)   Arctic Ocean, Greenland
1786–1787   Poul Lowenorn   North Atlantic, Arctic Ocean, Greenland

Voyages to Arctic Canada and the search for the North-West Passage, 1579-1656

1579–1618   Richard Whitbourne   Newfoundland, Canada
1602   George Waymouth   Labrador, Canada
1605–1606   Godske Lindenau   North Atlantic, Greenland
1606   John Knight   Labrador, Canada
1607   Karsten Richardisen   North Atlantic, Greenland
1608–1612   John Guy   Newfoundland, Canada
1609–1620   Jens Munk   Hudson Bay, Canada
1610–1611   Henry Hudson   Hudson Bay, Canada
1612   James Hall   North Atlantic, Greenland
1612–1613   Thomas Button   Hudson Bay, Canada
1612–1615   William Baffin   Arctic Ocean, Spitsbergen
1614   William Gibbons   Labrador, Canada
1615   Joris Carolus   Greenland, Canada
1615   Robert Bylot   Canada
1615–1623   William Baffin   Greenland, Middle East
1616   Robert Bylot   Greenland, Canada
1616–1619   William Vaughan   Newfoundland, Canada
1616–1629   John Mason   Newfoundland, Canada
1619   William Hawkridge   Hudson Bay, Canada
1621–1625   Edward Winne   Newfoundland, Canada
1631   Luke Foxe   Hudson Bay, Canada
1631–1632   Thomas James   Hudson Bay, Canada
1652–1653   David Urbanus Danell   North Atlantic, Greenland
1656   Nicholas Tunes   North Atlantic, Greenland

English and French voyages to North America, 1580-1694

1580   John Walker   Maine, U.S.A.
1583   Etienne Bellenger   Maine, U.S.A.
1598   Troïlus de Mesgouez de La Roche   Sable Island, Canada
1600   Pierre de Chauvin de Tonnetuit   Canada
1602   Bartholomew Gosnold   Massachusetts, U.S.A.
1603   Martin Pring   Massachusetts, U.S.A.
1603   Samuel de Champlain   Canada
1603–1620   François Pontgravé   Canada
1604–   Jean de Biencourt   Nova Scotia, Canada
1604–1605   Pierre de Guast   Nova Scotia, Canada
1604–1605   Samuel de Champlain   Nova Scotia, Canada
1604–1606   Marc Lescarbot   Nova Scotia, Canada
1605   George Waymouth   Maine, U.S.A.
1606   Thomas Hanham   Maine, U.S.A.
1606–1607   Henry Challons   West Indies
1606–1627   Louis He   Quebec, Canada
1607   George Popham   Maine, U.S.A.
1608–1609   Samuel de Champlain   Quebec, Canada
1608–1633   Etienne Brulé   Great Lakes, Canada
1609   Charles de Saint-Etienne de La Tour   Nova Scotia, Canada
1610–1613   Samuel de Champlain   Quebec, Canada
1611   Edward Harlow   New England, U.S.A.
1611–1613   Pierre Biard   Maine, U.S.A.
1611–1632   Ennemond Massé   Maine, Canada
1614–1617   John Smith   Maine, U.S.A.
1615–1616   Samuel de Champlain   Ontario, Canada
1615–1620   Jean Dolbeau   Quebec, Canada
1615–1621   Denis Jamay   Quebec, Canada
1615–1629   Joseph Le Caron   Ontario, Canada
1620   Pilgrim Fathers   Massachusetts, U.S.A.
1631–1636   Roger Williams   Rhode Island, U.S.A.
1631–1650   Charles de Menou d’Aulnay   Nova Scotia, Canada
1632   Nicholas Denys   Canada
1632–1635   Isaac de Razilly   Nova Scotia, Canada
1635–1690   François-Joseph Le Mercier   West Indies, Canada
1641–1673   Jeanne Mance   Quebec, Canada
1667–1677   Jean Pierron   Canada
1668–1669   Sieur de Groseilliers   Quebec, Canada
1671–1672   Charles Albanel   North America, Quebec, Canada
1671–1697   François Crepieul   Quebec, Canada
1672–1698   Louis de Frontenac   North America, Canada
1679   Louis Jolliet   Quebec, Canada
1685–1689   Marquis de Denonville   Canada
1686   Pierre de Troyes   Hudson Bay, Canada
1694   Louis Jolliet   Labrador, Canada

The European colonization of North America, 1590-1646

1590–1608   Christopher Newport   Virginia, U.S.A.
1602   Samuel Mace   North Carolina, U.S.A.
1603   Bartholomew Gilbert   Virginia, U.S.A.
1606–1609   John Smith   Virginia, U.S.A.
1609–1610   George Somers   Virginia, Bermuda
1609–1623   Henry Spelman   Virginia, U.S.A.
1613–1614   Adriaen Block   New York, U.S.A.
1615–1616   Cornelis Hendricksen   Delaware, U.S.A.
1621   Daniel Gookin   Virginia, U.S.A.
1624   Cornelis Jacobson Mey   New York, U.S.A.
1633–1643   Andrew White   Maryland, U.S.A.
1633–1646   Leonard Calvert   Maryland, U.S.A.

Colonial expansion in North America, 1620-1700

1620–1631   Edward Winslow   Connecticut, U.S.A.
1623–1625   Nicholas Viel   Ontario, Canada
1623–1629   Gabriel Sagard   Ontario, Canada
1625–1629   Joseph de La Roche Daillon   Canada
1625–1649   Jean de Brebeuf   Ontario, Canada
1626–1638   Charles Lalemant   North America N., Canada
1630   Walter Neale   Maine, U.S.A.
1630–1650   William Pynchon   Connecticut, U.S.A.
1632–1634   Paul Le Jeune   Quebec, Canada
1632–1646   Johann Friedrich Spassvogel   Georgia, U.S.A.
1633   John Oldham   Massachusetts, U.S.A.
1633–1642   Jean Nicolet   Wisconsin, U.S.A.
1635   Simon Willard   Massachusetts, U.S.A.
1636–1648   Charles Huault de Montmagny   Canada
1636–1662   Paul Ragueneau   Ontario, Canada
1637–1643   Charles Raymbault   Ontario, Canada
1637–1646   Isaac Jogues   Ontario, Canada
1638–1665   Jérôme Lalemant   Canada
1639   Madeleine de La Pettrie   Quebec, Canada
1639–1672   Marie Guyard   Canada
1640–1667   Pierre Boucher   Quebec, Canada
1642   Arendt van Curler   New York, U.S.A.
1642   Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve   Montreal, Canada
1642   Darby Field   Maine, U.S.A.
1646–1649   Gabriel Lalemant   Canada
1647   Jean de Quen   Quebec, Canada
1650   Edward Bland   Virginia, U.S.A.
1650–1673   Abraham Wood   Virginia, U.S.A.
1652   Jonathan Ince   New Hampshire, U.S.A.
1652–1654   Pierre Esprit Radisson   New York, U.S.A.
1654   Simon Le Moyne   New York, U.S.A.
1659–1660   (Sieur de) Groseilliers   Great Lakes, Canada
1659–1661   René Menard   Wisconsin, U.S.A.
1661   Luis de Rojas   Georgia, U.S.A.
1662–1663   William Hilton   North Carolina, U.S.A.
1668–1694   Pierre Millet   New York, U.S.A.
1669–1709   Jacques & Jean de Lamberville   Canada, U.S.A.
1670   John Lederer   Virginia, U.S.A.
1670–1685   Henry Woodward   South Carolina, U.S.A.
1671   Thomas Batts   West Virginia, U.S.A.
1673   James Needham   North Carolina, U.S.A.
1673–1674   Gabriel Arthur   Georgia, U.S.A.
1678   John Banister   Virginia, U.S.A.
1682   Cadwallader Jones   Virginia, U.S.A.

The Great Lakes and the Discovery of the Mississippi, 1634-1700

1634–1652   Jacques Buteux   Canada
1636–1649   Charles Garnier   Canada
1639–1657   Joseph Anthony de La Riviere Poncet   Martinique, Canada
1639–1693   Pierre-Joseph Chaumonot   U.S.A., Canada
1640–1650   Francesco Giuseppe Bressani   U.S.A., Canada
1643–1649   Noël Chabanel   Canada
1647–1692   Pierre Bailloquet   Canada
1655–1670   Claude Dablon   Ontario, Canada
1662–1728   Julien Garnier   New York, Canada
1663–1680   Pierre Raffeix   Quebec, Canada
1665–1689   Claude Jean Allouez   Wisconsin, U.S.A.
1666–1712   Jacques Bruyas   U.S.A., Canada
1668–1671   Jean Pere   Great Lakes, Canada
1668–1675   Jacques Marquette   Michigan, U.S.A.
1668–1698   Nicolas Perrot   Wisconsin, U.S.A.
1669   René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle   Ontario, Canada
1669–1670   Francois Dollier de Casson   Great Lakes, Canada
1670–1715   François Vaillant de Gueslis   U.S.A., Canada
1671   Simon-François Daumont de Saint-Lusson   Ontario, Canada
1672–1674   Louis Jolliet   Mississippi, U.S.A.
1674–1723   Pierre Cholonec   Canada
1676–   Mary Rowlandson   New Hampshire, U.S.A.
1678–1680   Louis Hennepin   Mississippi, U.S.A.
1678–1683   René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle   Mississippi, U.S.A.
1678–1700   Henri de Tonty   Mississippi, U.S.A.
1679–1680   Michel Accault   Minnesota, U.S.A.
1679–1689   Daniel Greysolon Dulhut   Minnesota, U.S.A.
1683   James Graham   Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
1684–1714   François Dauphin de La Forest   Great Lakes, Canada
1688–1689   Jacques de Noyon   Minnesota, U.S.A.
1734–1780   François Picquet   U.S.A., Canada

Exploration of North America to the east of the Rocky Mountains, 1641-1700

1641–1670   Charles Le Moyne (the elder)   Quebec, Canada
1680–1740   Charles, Antoine & Joseph Le Moyne   Louisiana, Canada
1681   Mathieu Sagean   Nebraska, U.S.A.
1681–1701   William (II) Penn   Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
1683–1692   Louis-Armand de Lom D’Arce de Lahontan   Great Lakes Canada
1683–1702   Pierre-Charles Le Sueur   Minnesota, U.S.A.
1684–1687   René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle   Texas, U.S.A.
1684–1687   Henri Joutel   Texas, U.S.A.
1684–1720   Jean L’Archeveque   Texas, U.S.A.
1685–1687   Joannes Roseboom   Great Lakes, U.S.A.
1686–1691   Juan Enriquez Barroto   Texas, U.S.A.
1690   Maurice Mathews   South Carolina, U.S.A.
1690–1700   Jean Couture   Tennessee, U.S.A.
1690–1707   Jean-François Buisson de Saint-Cosme   Mississippi, U.S.A.
1692   Arnout Cornelissen Viele   Ohio, U.S.A.
1694–1736   Pierre Lagrené   Canada
1694–1755   Joseph Aubery   Canada
1695   Laureano de Torres y Ayala   Florida, U.S.A.
1696–1697   Jonathan Dickinson   Florida, U.S.A.
1697–1700   Samuel York   New York, U.S.A.
1698   Thomas Welch   Mississippi, U.S.A.
1698–1699   Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville   Louisiana, U.S.A.
1699   Captain Bond   Louisiana, U.S.A.
1699–1728   Jean-Baptiste Chardon   U.S.A., Canada
1700   Wolfgang William Romer   New York, U.S.A.
1700   Jacques Gravier   Mississippi, U.S.A.
1700–1701   John Lawson   Carolina, U.S.A.
1700–1702   Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville   Louisiana, U.S.A.

Exploration of North America to the east of the Rocky Mountains, 1701-1750

1656–1705   John Taylor   West Indies, U.S.A.
1697–1743   Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville   Louisiana, U.S.A.
1700–1728   Pierre Sidrac Dugue de Boisbriant   Louisiana, U.S.A.
1701   Antoine Laumet de la Mothe Cadillac   Michigan, U.S.A.
1702   Thomas Nairne   Florida, U.S.A.
1708   *German Settlers in North America   New York, U.S.A.
1708–1776   Cadwallader Colden   New York, U.S.A.
1710–1716   Alexander Spotswood   Virginia, U.S.A.
1711   John Lawson   Virginia, U.S.A.
1711–1717   Joseph-François Lafitau   Canada
1712–1726   Mark Catesby   Carolina, U.S.A.
1712–1758   Johann Conrad Weiser   Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
1713–1715   Pryce Hughes   Mississippi, U.S.A.
1713–1736   Jean Pierre Purry   Western Australia, Java, South Carolina
1716–1741   Pierre de Lauzon   Canada
1725   Tobias Fitch   Carolina, U.S.A.
1725–1726   George Chicken   Carolina, U.S.A.
1727   James Le Tort   New York, U.S.A.
1728   William Byrd   Virginia, U.S.A.
1728–1751   Armand de La Richardie   Michigan, U.S.A.
1729   Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Lery   U.S.A.
1729–1730   Alexander Cuming   Carolina, U.S.A.
1732   Francois-Marie Bissot de Vincennes   Illinois, U.S.A.
1732–1738   James Edward Oglethorpe   Georgia, U.S.A.
1732–1742   John Peter Salling   U.S.A.
1735   *Moravian Church in North America   North Carolina, U.S.A.
1735–1762   Antoine-Simon Maillard   Nova Scotia, Canada
1735–1775   James Adair   U.S.A.
1736–1743   Christian Gottlieb Priber   Tennessee, U.S.A.
1736–1808   David Zeisberger   Ohio, U.S.A.
1740   William Johnson   New York, U.S.A.
1741–1742   Antoine Bonnefoy   Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
1741–1751   George Croghan   U.S.A.
1742–1744   John Howard   Virginia, U.S.A.
1742–1767   Christian Frederick Post   Ohio, U.S.A.
1743   John Bartram   New York, U.S.A.
1744   Robert Lade   Africa, Asia, U.S.A.
1748–1749   Thomas Walker   Tennessee, U.S.A.
1748–1771   John Findley   Kentucky, U.S.A.
1749   Pierre-Joseph Celoron de Blainville   Ohio, U.S.A.
1750   Louis-Joseph Le Loutre   Nova Scotia, Canada
1750–1753   Christopher Gist   Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Exploration of North America to the east of the Rocky Mountains, 1751 – 1800

1751–1772   Jean Bernard Bossu   Louisiana, U.S.A.
1752   Johann Christian Erhardt   Labrador, Canada
1754   James McBride   Ohio, U.S.A.
1754–1813   Johann Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder   Ohio, U.S.A.
1755   Mary Ingles   Kentucky, U.S.A.
1755–1758   Luigi Castiglioni   U.S.A.
1757–1759   William Bonar   Alabama, U.S.A.
1757–1773   William de Brahm   North America S.E., Georgia, U.S.A.
1760–1763   Thomas Hutchins   Ohio, U.S.A.
1760–1766   Robert Rogers   Great Lakes, Canada
1760–1771   John Stuart   Kentucky, U.S.A.
1760–1826   Timothée Demonbruen   Tennessee, U.S.A.
1761–1762   Henry Timberlake   U.S.A.
1763   Joseph-Louis Ainse   Great Lakes, Canada
1763–1764   Henry Bouquet   Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
1764–1766   Philip Pittman   Mississippi, U.S.A.
1764–1771   Jens Haven   Labrador, Canada
1765   George Croghan   Ohio, U.S.A.
1765   Henry Scraggins   Tennessee, U.S.A.
1765–1766   John Bartram   Georgia, U.S.A.
1766   Harry Gordon   Ohio, U.S.A.
1766   James Smith   Tennessee, U.S.A.
1766–1767   Jonathan Carver   Wisconsin, U.S.A.
1766–1768   Antonio de Ulloa   Louisiana, U.S.A.
1767–1768   Benjamin Cutbird   U.S.A.
1768–1791   Pierre Gibault   Indiana, U.S.A.
1769–1773   Daniel Boone   Kentucky, U.S.A.
1769–1775   Kasper Mansker   Tennessee, U.S.A.
1770–1786   George Cartwright   Labrador, Canada
1771–1776   Bernard Romans   Florida, U.S.A.
1773–1777   William Bartram   Southeastern U.S.A.
1775–1780   Richard Henderson   Kentucky, U.S.A.
1778–1779   George Rogers Clark   Ohio, U.S.A.
1779   James Robertson   Tennessee, U.S.A.
1779–1800   Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable   Illinois, U.S.A.
1783–1819   James Aird   Mississippi, U.S.A.
1783–1821   Jean Baptiste Perrault   Wisconsin, U.S.A.
1785–1797   André Michaux   Iran, U.S.A.
1790   Samuel Maclay   Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
1795–1796   Georges Henri Victor Collot   U.S.A.

Exploration of North America to the west of the Mississippi, 1572-1700

1572–1618   Pedro Diaz   Central America, Mexico
1578–1604   Agustin Davila Padilla   Central America, Dominican Republic, Mexico
1604–1620   Andrés Pérez de Ribas   Mexico
1610–1666   Horacio Carochi   Central America, Mexico
1615   Juan de Iturbe   Mexico
1625   Alonso de Benavides   New Mexico, U.S.A.
1625–1632   Juan de Salas   Texas, U.S.A.
1629–1664   Juan Ramirez   New Mexico, U.S.A.
1650   Hernán Martin   Texas, U.S.A.
1654   Diego de Guadalajara   Texas, U.S.A.
1662   Garcia de San Francisco   Texas, U.S.A.
1662   Diego Dionisio de Penalosa   Nebraska, U.S.A.
1664–1680   Lucas Maldonado   New Mexico, U.S.A.
1665   Fernando de Azcué   Texas, U.S.A.
1670–1680   Francisco de Ayeta   New Mexico, U.S.A.
1675   Fernando del Bosque   Texas, U.S.A.
1684   Juan Domínguez de Mendoza   Texas, U.S.A.
1685   Alonzo de Leon   Texas, U.S.A.
1686–1689   Andrés de Pez y Malzarraga   Texas, U.S.A.
1687–1702   Eusebio Francisco Kino   Arizona, U.S.A.
1688–1716   Agostin Quintana   Central America, Mexico
1689   Alonzo de Leon   Texas, U.S.A.
1689–1691   Damian Massanet   Texas, U.S.A.
1691   Domingo Teran de Los Rios   North America S., Texas, U.S.A.
1692–1696   Diego de Vargas   New Mexico, U.S.A.
1697–1717   Juan Maria Salvatierra   Mexico

Exploration west of the Mississippi, in Mexico and Central America, 1700-1800

1688–1715   Diego Ramon   Texas, U.S.A.
1706   Francisco Cuervo y Valdes   New Mexico, U.S.A.
1706   Juan de Uribarri   Colorado, U.S.A.
1706–1724   Etienne Veniard de Bourgmont   Missouri, U.S.A.
1709   Pedro de Aguirre   Texas, U.S.A.
1714   Louis Juchereau de St Denis   Texas, U.S.A.
1716–1719   Louis Juchereau de St Denis   Texas, U.S.A.
1716–1722   Antonio Margil   Texas, U.S.A.
1718–1719   Martin de Alarcon   Texas, U.S.A.
1718–1723   Jean-Baptiste Bénard de La Harpe   Oklahoma, U.S.A.
1718–1727   Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz   Mississippi, U.S.A.
1719   Claude Charles du Tisné   Arkansas, U.S.A.
1720   Spanish Caravan to Nebraska   Nebraska, U.S.A.
1720   Pedro de Villasur   Nebraska, U.S.A.
1720–1722   Marques de Aguayo   Texas, U.S.A.
1720–1723   Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix   Mississippi, U.S.A.
1723   Philippe Renault   Missouri, U.S.A.
1724–1729   Pedro de Rivera y Villalon   New Mexico, Mexico
1727   Marie-Madelaine Hachard   Louisiana, U.S.A.
1731–1767   Francesco Saverio Clavigero   Central America, Mexico
1732–1758   Fernando Consag   Mexico
1735–1779   Athanase de Mezieres   Texas, U.S.A.
1737   José Arlegui   Central America, Mexico
1739   Paul & Pierre Antoine Mallet   Nebraska, U.S.A.
1747–1750   José de Escandon   Texas, Mexico
1749–1768   Johann Jacob Baegert   Mexico
1757–1759   Diego Ortiz Parilla   Texas, U.S.A.
1763   René Auguste Chouteau   Missouri, U.S.A.
1763–1764   Pierre Laclede   Missouri, U.S.A.
1765   Juan Maria de Rivera   Colorado, U.S.A.
1766–1768   Nicolas de Lafora   Mexico, U.S.A.
1766–1768   Marqués de Rubi   Mexico, U.S.A.
1768–1769   George Taylor   Canada, U.S.A.
1769–1770   Gaspar de Portola   California, U.S.A.
1769–1784   Junipero Serra   California, U.S.A.
1770   Gaspar de Portola   California, U.S.A.
1770–1806   Francisco Dumetz   California, U.S.A.
1771–1776   Francisco Tomas Garces   Arizona, U.S.A.
1773–1774   John Rowzée Peyton   New Mexico, U.S.A.
1773–1785   Francisco Palou   California, U.S.A.
1774–1776   Juan Bautista de Anza   California, U.S.A.
1775   Juan Manuel de Ayala   California, U.S.A.
1776   Silvestre de Velez de Escalante   North America W., Utah, U.S.A.
1777   George Gauld   Texas, U.S.A.
1778–1779   Juan Bautista de Anza   New Mexico, U.S.A.
1781   José Vicente Feliz   California, U.S.A.
1784–1789   Sigismond Mathias Quasdanovich   West Indies, Cuba, Guiana
1786–1793   Pierre Vial   New Mexico, U.S.A.
1787–1788   José Mares   Texas, U.S.A.
1787–1823   José Francisco de Paula Senan   California, U.S.A.
1788–1792   Martín de Sesse y Lacasta   Central America, Mexico
1790–1804   José Mariano Mocino   Central America, Canada N.W., Mexico
1790–1812   Esteban Tapis   California, U.S.A.
1791–1801   Philip Nolan   Texas, U.S.A.
1792–1797   John Evans   North Dakota, U.S.A.
1794–1796   Jean Baptiste Trudeau   South Dakota, U.S.A.
1796   Ebenezer Dorr   California, U.S.A.
1796–1823   Mariano Payeras   California, U.S.A.
1796–1833   José Viader   California, U.S.A.

The exploration of Canada, 1690-1800

1690–1692   Henry Kelsey   Saskatchewan, Canada
1694–1714   Nicholas Jeremie   Hudson Bay, Canada
1715–1716   William Stuart   Mackenzie, Canada
1719–1720   James Knight   Hudson Bay, Canada
1722   John Scroggs   Hudson Bay, Canada
1724–1738   Emmanuel Crespel   Anticosti I., Canada
1726–1737   Pierre Gaultier de Varenne de La Verendrye   Manitoba, Canada
1727–1751   William Coats   Hudson Bay, Canada
1729–1730   Claude Le Beau   Canada
1734–1755   Jacques Legardeur de St Pierre   Manitoba, Canada
1737   James Napper   Hudson Bay, Canada
1738–1744   Pierre Gaultier de Varennes de La Verendrye   South Dakota, U.S.A.
1740–1765   Claude-Godefroi Coquart   Canada
1741–1742   Christopher Middleton   Hudson Bay, Canada
1742   Joseph La France   Manitoba, Canada
1746–1747   Francis Smith   Hudson Bay, Canada
1746–1747   William Moor   Hudson Bay, Canada
1750–1751   Joseph Bernard Chabert   Newfoundland, Canada
1751–1771   Joseph-Claude Boucher de Niverville   Alberta, Canada
1753–1754   Charles Swaine   Canada
1754–1755   Anthony Henday   Alberta, Canada
1761–1776   Alexander Henry   Saskatchewan, Canada
1762   William Christopher   Hudson Bay, Canada
1766–1769   William Tomison   Manitoba, Canada
1766–1783   James Finlay   Saskatchewan, Canada
1767   William Pink   Alberta, Canada
1767–1790   Peter Pangman   Saskatchewan, Canada
1768–1788   John Long   Canada
1769–1770   Samuel Hearne   Manitoba, Canada
1769–1776   Joseph Frobisher   Alberta, Canada
1770–1772   Samuel Hearne   Mackenzie, Canada
1770–1788   Charles Patterson   Minnesota, U.S.A.
1772–1773   Matthew Cocking   Saskatchewan, Canada
1774   Samuel Hearne   Saskatchewan, Canada
1776   Richard Pickersgill   North Atlantic, Greenland
1778–1787   Peter Pond   Alberta, Canada
1778–1791   Philip Turnor   Saskatchewan, Canada
1780–1810   Pierre Dorion   Illinois, U.S.A.
1785–1789   Laurent Leroux   Mackenzie, Canada
1789   Alexander Mackenzie   Mackenzie, Canada
1790–1791   Charles Duncan   Hudson Bay, Canada
1791–1804   Charles Chaboillier   North Dakota, U.S.A.
1792–1793   Alexander Mackenzie   British Columbia, Canada
1797–1826   David Thompson   British Columbia, Canada

Voyages to Alaska and the North Pacific coast of America, 1743-1800

1743–1779   *Aleutian Islands: early Russian voyages   North Pacific, Alaska
1763–1768   Ivan Sind   Siberia, Kamchatka, Russia
1768   William Peters   Siberia, Kamchatka, Russia
1769   Petr Kuz’mich Krenitsyn   North Pacific, Aleutian Is., Alaska
1774   Juan Perez   North America N.W., Queen Charlotte Is., Canada
1775   Juan Fancisco de la Bodega y Quadra   North America N.W., Alaska
1775   Bruno de Hezeta   North America N.W., Columbia R., U.S.A.
1779   Ignacio de Arteaga   North America N.W., Canada, Alaska
1783   Potap K. Zaikov   North America N.W., Alaska, Alaska
1783–1795   Grigorii Ivanovich Shelikhov   Siberia, Alaska
1785–1786   James Hanna   North America N.W., Vancouver I., Canada
1785–1787   James Charles Stuart Strange   North America N.W., India, Canada
1785–1788   Nathaniel Portlock   North America N.W., Canada, Alaska
1785–1788   George Dixon   North America N.W., Canada, Alaska
1786–1789   John Meares   North America N.W., Alaska, Canada
1786–1795   Archibald Menzies   Circumnavigation, North America N.W., Canada
1787–1792   Charles William Barkley   North America N.W., Vancouver I., Canada
1787–1794   John Kendrick   North America N.W., China, Canada
1788–1789   Esteban José Martinez   North America N.W., Canada, Alaska
1788–1793   Robert Gray   North America N.W., Columbia R., Canada
1789–1790   Simon Metcalfe   North Pacific, Hawaii
1789–1797   James Colnett   North America N.W., Vancouver I., Canada
1789–1835   John Young   North Pacific, Hawaii
1790–1795   Alexandr Andreivich Baranov   North Pacific, Aleutian Is., Alaska
1792   Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra   North America N.W., Vancouver I. Canada
1792–1794   James Baker   North America N.W., Columbia R., U.S.A.
1792–1837   Francisco de Paula Marin   Pacific, Hawaii
1794–1799   Archimandrake Ivassov   Siberia, Alaska
1799–1804   Alexandr Andreivich Baranov   North America N.W., Hawaii, Alaska

Ethiopia: traders, Portuguese embassies and Jesuit missionaries, 1300-1702

1300   William Adam   Indian Ocean, Socotra, Ethiopia
1407–1447   Pietro Rombulo   Ethiopia
1470–1790   *Franciscan Missionaries in Ethiopia, 1470-1790   Ethiopia
1482   Gregorio Bicini   Ethiopia
1507–1520   Matthew the Armenian   Portugal, Ethiopia
1520–1527   Francisco Alvares   Ethiopia
1520–1535   João Bermudes   Ethiopia
1528–1543   Mohammed Ahmad Gran   Ethiopia
1540–1542   Estevão da Gama   Red Sea, Ethiopia
1541–1542   Cristóvão da Gama   Ethiopia
1557–1577   Andre de Oviedo   Ethiopia
1603–1622   Pedro Paez   Blue Nile, Ethiopia
1604–1628   Francesco degli Angeli   Ethiopia
1605–1634   Luis de Azevedo   Ethiopia
1613–1614   Antonio (II) Fernandes   Blue Nile, Ethiopia
1621–1624   Jerónimo Lobo   East Africa, India, Somalia
1625–1633   Manoel de Almeida   Ethiopia
1625–1634   Afonso Mendes   Ethiopia
1625–1636   Jerónimo Lobo   South Africa, Ethiopia
1698–1701   Charles Jacques Poncet   Egypt, Ethiopia
1701–1702   Theodor Krump   Egypt, Sudan

The exploration of the African interior south of Equator, 1501-1600

1501–1520   Antonio (I) Fernandes   Zimbabwe, Mozambique
1503–1511   Antonio de Saldanha   Zanzibar, Mozambique
1505   Pedro de Anaya   Mozambique
1505   Martin Fernández de Figueroa   Mozambique
1510–1526   Manuel Pacheco   Congo, Angola
1510–1526   Balthazar de Castro   Congo, Angola
1520   Gregorio de Quadra   Congo
1542–1616   Diogo do Couto   India
1552   São Joao (shipwreck)   South Africa
1554–1575   Manoel de Mesquito Perestrelo   South Africa
1559–1560   Paulo Dias   Angola
1560–1561   Gonçalo da Silveira   Zimbabwe, Mozambique
1569–1573   Francisco Barreto   Mozambique
1573–1577   Vasco Fernandes Homem   Zimbabwe, Mozambique
1574–1589   Paulo Dias   Angola
1574–1612   Balthasar Barreira   Angola
1575–1580   Diogo de Sousa de Meneses   Mozambique
1578–1589   Duarte Lopez   Congo, Angola
1585   Santiago (shipwreck)   South Africa
1586–1597   João dos Santos   India, Mozambique
1589   São Thome (shipwreck)   South Africa, Mozambique
1589–1610   Andrew Battell   Brazil, Angola
1591–1606   Aleixo de Abreu   Brazil, Angola
1593   Nuno Velho Pereira   South Africa
1600   Pieter Brandt   Congo, Angola

The exploration of the African interior south of Equator, 1600 – 1700

1607   Balthasar Rebello de Aragao   Angola
1611–1613   Samuel Braun   Congo
1613   Witte Leeuw (shipwreck)   South Atlantic, St. Helena
1614–1663   Salvador Correia de Sa e Benevides   Angola, Brazil
1616   Gaspar Bocarro   Malawi, Mozambique
1616   Diogo Simoes Madeira   Malawi, Mozambique
1617   Manuel Cerveira Pereira   Angola
1622   São João Batista (shipwreck)   South Africa, Mozambique
1627   Luís Mariano   Malawi, Mozambique
1641   Cornelis Corneliszoon Jol   Angola
1647   Atalaia (shipwreck)   Mozambique, South Africa
1649   Father Bonaventura   Congo
1650   Jan van Herder   Angola, Congo
1650–1658   Bartolomeu de Vasconcellos   Angola
1652–1662   Jan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck   South Africa
1655   Jan Wintervogel   South Africa
1655   Willem Muller   South Africa
1657   Girolamo de Montesarchio   Congo
1657   Abraham Gabbema   South Africa
1658   Jan van Harwarden   South Africa
1659   Christiaen Janssen   South Africa
1660   Giovanni Antonio Cavazzi da Montecuccolo   Angola
1660–1661   Jan Danckaert   South Africa
1661   Pieter van Meerhoff   South Africa
1661–1662   Pieter Everaert   South Africa
1661–1663   Pieter van Cruijthoff   South Africa
1666–1672   Dionigi da Palacenza Carli   Angola, Congo
1668–1669   Jeronimus Croese   South Africa
1670   Gerrit Gerrits(zoon) Ridder Muys   Namibia, South Africa
1670   Francisco de Murca   Angola
1677   Willem van Dieden   Namibia, South Africa
1685   Simon van der Stel   South Africa
1685–1690   Stavenisse & Noord (shipwrecks)   Mozambique, South Africa
1688–1705   António Coelho Guerreiro   East Indies, Timor
1689   Isaq Schrijver   South Africa
1693   Daniel Stillman   South Africa W.

The exploration of northern Africa, 1507-1800

1507–1520   Leo Africanus   North Africa, Sahara, Morocco
1631–1638   Francis Knight   Algeria
1737–1738   Frederik Ludvig Norden   Egypt
1737–1743   Richard Pococke   Nile, Egypt
1752–1753   Václav Prutky   Middle East, Ethiopia
1755–1789   Olaudah Equiano   North Atlantic, West Africa, West Indies
1764–1766   Yonannes Tovmacean   Ethiopia
1768–1774   James Bruce   Nile, Ethiopia
1776–1781   Nicolas Savary   Egypt
1783–1785   Constantin-François Chasseboeuf, de Volney   Middle East, Egypt, Palestine
1788   John Ledyard   Egypt
1788–1789   Simon Lucas   Morocco, Libya
1790–1791   Daniel Houghton   Gambia, Mali
1792–1813   William George Browne   Iran, Sudan
1795–1797   Mungo Park   Mali
1797–1799   Joseph Frendenburgh   North Africa, Middle East, Libya
1797–1800   Friedrich Konrad Hornemann   North Africa, Libya, Niger
1798–1800   Dominique Vivant Denon   Egypt

The exploration of southern Africa, 1701-1800

1701–1702   Meresteyn (shipwreck)   South Africa
1704–1713   Peter Kolb   South Africa
1705   Johannes Starrenburg   South Africa
1713   Bennebroeck (shipwreck)   South Africa
1724   Johannes Rhenius   South Africa
1730   Pieter de Bruyn   Namibia
1736   Hermanus Hubner   South Africa
1738   Willem van Wyk   Namibia
1751–1754   Nicholas Louis de La Caille   Indian Ocean, South Africa
1752   August Beutler   South Africa
1753   Bredenhof (shipwreck)   South Africa
1755–1756   Doddington (shipwreck)   South Africa
1760   Jacobus Coetsee   Namibia, South Africa
1761–1762   Hendrik Hop   Namibia
1777–1779   William (II) Paterson   South Africa
1777–1779   Robert Jacob Gordon   South Africa
1778   Joachim van Plattenberg   South Africa
1778–1779   Hendrik Jacob Wikar   South Africa
1778–1791   Jacob van Reenen   South Africa
1780–1785   François Le Vaillant   South Africa W., Namibia
1782–1783   Grosvenor (shipwreck)   South Africa
1785–1793   Guilliam Visagie   South AfricaW., Namibia
1786   Thomas Boldwen Thompson   South Africa W., Namibia
1791–1792   Willem van Reenen   South Africa W., Namibia
1792   Winterton (shipwreck)   Indian Ocean, Malagasy
1795–1796   T. Alexander   South AfricaW., Namibia
1798–1811   Johannes Theodorus van Kemp   South Africa

Exploration in Central Africa, 1769-1800

1769–1776   Jean-Vincent Morice   Tanzania
1783–1793   Manuel Galvão da Silva   Zimbabwe, Mozambique
1783–1808   Joaquim José da Silva   Angola
1790   Pedro da Trinidade   Mozambique
1793   François Duminy   Namibia
1796–1798   Gonçalo Caetano Pereira   Mozambique, Zambia
1798   Francisco José Maria de Lacerda e Almeida   Mozambique, Zambia

Early voyages to Australia, 1605-1700

1500–1600   *Australia: early speculative voyages
1605–1606  Willem Jansz   Queensland
1605–1606   Jan Lodewycx   East Indies, New Guinea, Australia
1611   Hendrik Brouwer   Indian Ocean, Western Australia
1616   Dirck Hartog   Western Australia
1618   Lenaert Jacobszoon   Western Australia
1618   Haevick Claeszoon   Western Australia
1619   Frederick Houtman   Western Australia
1619   Jacob Dedel   Western Australia
1621   John Brooke   Western Australia
1622   Leeuwin (ship)   Western Australia
1623   Jan Cartensz   Queensland
1623   Willem Joosten van Coolsteerdt   Australia N., Queensland
1626–1629   Pieter A. Nuyts   Taiwan, Australia
1628   Gerrit Frederikszoon de Witt   Western Australia
1628–1629   François Pelsaert   Western Australia
1636   Pieter Pieterszoon   Australia N.
1636   Gerrit Thomasz Pool   East Indies, New Guinea

Voyages in Australasia and the discovery of New Zealand, 1642-1756

1642–1643   Abel Janszoon Tasman   Australia S.E., Tasmania, New Zealand
1644   Abel Janszoon Tasman   Australia N.E., Northern Territory
1648   Leeuwerik (ship)   Western Australia
1655–1658   Vergulde Draeck (shipwreck)   Western Australia
1658   Jacob Pieterszoon Pereboom   Western Australia
1678   Jan van der Wall   Western Australia
1683–1691   William Dampier   Circumnavigation, Australia N.W., Pacific
1696–1697   Willem Hesselszoon de Vlamingh   Western Australia
1705   Maarten van Delft   Australia N.
1712   Zuytdorp (shipwreck)   Western Australia
1727   Zeewijk (shipwreck)   Western Australia
1756   Jean Etienne Gonzal   Australia N.E., Queensland

British settlement and inland exploration in Australia, 1786-1800

1786–1794   John White   New South Wales
1787–1788   Arthur Phillip   New South Wales
1788   Philip Gidley King   Norfolk I.
1789–1791   William Dawes   New South Wales
1789–1791   Watkin Tench   New South Wales
1794   Henry Hacking   New South Wales
1794–1801   William Paterson   New South Wales
1795   Matthew Everingham   New South Wales
1795–1796   George Bass   New South Wales
1797   Guy Hamilton   Australia S.E., Victoria
1797–1798   George Bass   Australia S.E., Victoria
1798   John Wilson   New South Wales
1798–1799   Matthew Flinders   Australia S.E., Tasmania
1799   Matthew Flinders   New South Wales
1799   William Reed   Australia S.E., Tasmania


Supplementary article

  Fictitious Voyages: fabulous travel literature to 1800

Volume 2: 1800-1850


The interior and coastal exploration of Australia, 1800-1830

1791–1806  Eber Bunker   Tasmania
1800   George Suttor   New South Wales
1800–1801   James Grant   Victoria
1800–1801   Jean Baptiste Bory de St Vincent   Indian Ocean
1800–1803   François Auguste Peron   Australia
1800–1803   Nicolas Thomas Baudin   Australia
1800–1803   Henri-Louis de Saulses de Freycinet   Australia, West Indies, Indian Ocean
1800–1803   Jacques-Félix-Emmanuel Hamelin   Australia,
1800–1804   Pierre-Bernard Milius   Australia, Indian Ocean, French Guiana
1800–1813   John William Lewin   New South Wales
1800–1817   Francis Luis Barrallier   New South Wales, West Indies
1800–1822   William Lawson   New South Wales
1800–1838   Charles Baudin   Australia, Mexico
1801   Samuel Ward Flinders   Australia
1801–1802   John Murray   Victoria, Melbourne
1801–1803   Matthew Flinders   Australia,
1801–1803   Robert Merrick Fowler   Australia
1801–1804   George Caley   New South Wales, West Indies
1801–1805   Robert Brown   Australia
1801–1805   Ferdinand Lucas Bauer   Australia
1801–1808   William Westall   Australia, China, India
1802–1822   George William Evans   Tasmania, New South Wales
1803   John Bowen   Tasmania,
1803–1805   James Hingston Tuckey   Victoria
1803–1835   William Buckley   Victoria, Tasmania
1804–1821   Charles Throsby   New South Wales
1807   Thomas Laycock   Tasmania,
1807–1822   Alexander Berry   New South Wales
1809–1822   Lachlan Macquarie   New South Wales, Tasmania
1811–1813   Gregory Blaxland   New South Wales
1813   William Charles Wentworth   New South Wales
1814–1822   Joseph Lycett   New South Wales, Tasmania
1814–1825   Hamilton Hume   New South Wales, Victoria
1814–1830   Allan Cunningham   New South Wales, Brazil
1816–1828   Charles Fraser   New South Wales, Western Australia
1817–1818   John Joseph William Molesworth Oxley   New South Wales
1817–1822   Phillip Parker King   Australia
1820–1823   Joseph Wild   Canberra, New South Wales
1823   John Joseph William Molesworth Oxley   Queensland
1823–1824   William Hilton Hovell   New South Wales, Victoria
1824–1835   John Helder Wedge   Tasmania, Victoria
1825–1827   Edmund Lockyer   Queensland, Western Australia
1826–1827   Jörgen Jorgensen   Tasmania, Iceland, Australia
1826–1830   Patrick Logan   Brisbane, Queensland
1827–1831   Henry Hellyer   Tasmania,
1827–1837   James Stirling   Western Australia, Perth
1828–1829   Charles Sturt   Darling River, New South Wales
1828–1836   George Bennett   Pacific, New South Wales
1829–1830   Charles Sturt   Murray River, New South Wales, South Australia
1829–1839   George Augustus Robinson   Tasmania
1829–1849   John Septimus Roe   Indian Ocean, Western Australia

The interior and coastal exploration of Australia, 1830 – 1850

1831–1832   Thomas Livingstone Mitchell   New South Wales
1831–1841   James Backhouse   Australia, South Africa
1833–1835   Richard Cunningham   New South Wales
1833–1851   Conrad Martens   Australia, Pacific
1833–1855   James Sprent   Tasmania,
1834   Edward Henty   Victoria, Tasmania
1834–1838   John Ireland   Australia, Torres Strait
1835   John Batman   Melbourne, Victoria
1835–1836   Thomas Livingstone Mitchell   New South Wales
1836   William Light   South Australia, Adelaide
1837–1839   George Grey   Western Australia, South Africa, New Zealand
1837–1839   Edward John Eyre   New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia
1837–1840   John Clements Wickham   Australia
1837–1852   Johann Menge   South Australia,
1838   Joseph Hawdon   Victoria, South Australia
1839–1841   Edward John Eyre   South Australia, Western Australia
1839–1847   Daniel Bunce   Tasmania, Victoria, Queensland
1840–1848   John Skinner Prout   New South Wales, Tasmania
1841–1842   John Lort Stokes   Australia
1841–1845   Francis Price Blackwood   Queensland, Great Barrier Reef, New Guinea
1842–1851   Oswald Walters Brierly   Australia, New Guinea
1843–1848   Friedrich Wilhem Ludwig Leichhardt   Queensland, Northern Territory
1843–1851   George French Angas   South Australia, Victoria, New Zealand
1844–1846   Charles Sturt   South Australia, New South Wales
1845–1846   Thomas Livingstone Mitchell   New South Wales, Queensland
1845–1900   Rosendo Salvado   Western Australia
1846–1850   Owen Stanley   Australia, New Guinea
1847–1848   Edmund Besley Court Kennedy   Queensland
1847–1876   Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich Müller   Victoria
1851–1879   George Fife Angas   South Australia

Significant English, French and Russian voyages in the Pacific, 1800-1850

1803–1806   Iurii Fedorovich Lisyansky   Pacific,
1803–1806   Ivan Fedorovich Krusenstern   Easter Island, Japan, Alaska
1806–1808   Joseph-César de Bourayne   Philippines, Mexico, North Pacific
1815–1818   Otto von Kotzebue   Pacific, Hawaii, Alaska
1816–1819   Camille de Roquefeuil   Circumnavigation, North America N.W.
1817–1818   Vasilii Mikhailovich Golovnin   Circumnavigation, Alaska, Hawaii
1817–1820   Louis-Claude de Saulses de Freycinet   Circumnavigation, Hawaii, Australia
1821–1829   Fedor Petrovich Litke   Novaya Zemlya, Bering Strait, Alaska
1822–1825   Louis-Isidore Duperrey   Circumnavigation, Pacific
1823–1826   Otto von Kotzebue   North Pacific, Hawaii, Alaska
1824–1826   Hyacinthe-Yves-Philippe Potentien de Bougainville   Australia, Vietnam Circumnavigation
1825–1828   Frederick William Beechey   Pacific, Arctic, Alaska
1826–1829   Auguste Bernard Duhaut-Cilly   Circumnavigation, California, Hawaii
1826–1829   Jules Sébastien César Dumont D’Urville   New Zealand, Pacific W.
1828–1829   Legoarant de Tromelin   Pacific, Hawaii, Fanning Island
1830–1832   Cyrille Pierre Théodore Laplace   East Indies, Vietnam, Pacific
1831–1836   Robert Fitzroy   South America, Galapagos Is, Circumnavigation
1835–1854   Edward Belcher   Circumnavigation, East Indies, Arctic
1835–1861   Andrew Sinclair   Pacific, America, New Zealand
1836–1837   Auguste Nicolas Vaillant   Circumnavigation, Hawaii, South-East Asia
1836–1839   Abel Aubert Dupetit-Thouars   Circumnavigation, Tahiti, Pacific
1837–1839   Jean-Baptiste Médée Cécille   South Pacific, New Zealand, Tahiti
1837–1840   Cyrille Pierre Théodore Laplace   India, Arabia, Pacific
1837–1840   Jules Sébastien César Dumont D’Urville   Antarctica, Pacific, East Indies
1838–1842   Charles Wilkes   Circumnavigation, Antarctica, Pacific
1845   François Leconte   Pacific, New Caledonia
1845–1847   Steen Anderson Bille   Circumnavigation, Nicobar Is., Hawaii

Voyagers, missionaries and traders in the Pacific and Southern Oceans, 1800-1830

1790–1807   Amasa Delano   Circumnavigation, East Indies, Pacific
1792–1816   Richard Jeffrey Cleveland   Pacific, North America N.W., Hawaii
1794–1848   Lewis Rees   Hawaii
1795–1803   John Myers   Pacific, North America N.W.
1797–1830   Edmund Fanning   Pacific, Antarctica
1799–1804   William Moulton   Pacific, Juan Fernandez Is., South America W.
1799–1804   John Turnbull   Pacific,
1799–1838   William Nevens   Pacific, Hawaii
1799–1850   George Coggeshall   Atlantic, Pacific
1802–1805   John Rodgers Jewitt   Canada W.
1804–1872   Joseph Lawrence   Atlantic, Pacific
1805–1808   Samuel Patterson   Pacific, North America N.W.
1806–1810   William Mariner   Tonga
1806–1812   Archibald Campbell   North Pacific, Alaska, Hawaii
1807–1808   Mayhew Folger   Pitcairn Island
1807–1826   George Little   Pacific
1808–1836   Paul Cuffee (senior & junior)   Pacific
1809–1877   Gurdon L. Allyn   Pacific, Atlantic
1812–1822   Charles H. Barnard   Falkland Islands, Hawaii, South Shetland Is
1813–1814   David Porter   Pacific, Galapagos Is., Marquesas
1813–1815   Thomas Staines   South America, Pacific, Pitcairn Island
1813–1825   Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev   Circumnavigation, Antarctica, Northwest Pacific
1815–1828   Nathaniel Ames   East Indies, Pacific
1816–1824   John L. Melvin   Circumnavigation, Hawaii, Peru
1816–1839   John Williams   Pacific, Tahiti, Samoa
1816–1859   William Ellis   Tahiti, Hawaii, Malagasy
1818–1834   John Downes   Sumatra, Pacific, Hawaii
1819–1821   George Pollard   Atlantic, Pacific, Henderson Island
1820   Charles Medyett Goodridge   Southern Ocean
1820–1841   Hiram Bingham   Hawaii
1821–1822   Gilbert Farquhar Mathison   Pacific,
1822–1830   Charles Samuel Stewart   Pacific, Hawaii
1822–1839   Benjamin Morrell   Southern Ocean, Bouvet Island, Pacific
1824–1826   George Anson Byron   Pacific, Hawaii
1824–1844   Reuben Delano   Pacific, Atlantic
1824–1847   Hiram Paulding   Peru, Japan, Pacific
1824–1877   Henry Augustus Pierce   Hawaii, California
1825–1826   John Percival   Pacific, Hawaii, Marshall Islands
1826–1828   Peter Dillon   Pacific W., Santa Cruz Is
1826–1829   Jacobus Boelen   Circumnavigation, Hawaii, South America
1826–1830   William Bolton Finch   Circumnavigation, Hawaii, Tahiti
1827–1837   Alexis Bachelot   Hawaii
1828–1843   John Slade   Pacific, Hawaii, Uvea
1829–1832   William Waldegrave   Pacific,
1829–1833   James Oliver   Fiji, Pacific, Hawaii
1830–1832   Franz Julius Ferdinand Meyen   Circumnavigation, Hawaii, South America

Voyagers, missionaries and traders in the Pacific and Southern Oceans, 1830-1850

1830–1850   Fiji: Wesleyan missionaries
1831–1832  Thomas Beale   Pacific
1832–1836   John Coulter   Pacific, California, Tahiti
1832–1837   William Torrey   Marquesas, Hawaii, Pacific
1833–1836   Alexander Seammell Wadsworth   Circumnavigation, Guam, Fiji
1833–1836   Frederick Debell Bennett   Pacific, Caroline Island, Hawaii
1833–1837   Daniel Wheeler   Pacific, Tahiti, Hawaii
1833–1838   John W. Gould   South America
1833–1882   Titus Coan   Hawaii, Patagonia
1834–1836   Richard Henry Dana   California, Pacific E.
1837–1849   Edward Lucett   Pacific, Tahiti, Hawaii
1838–1840   George Campbell Read   Sumatra, Hawaii, Pacific
1838–1845   Maximilien René Radiguet   Pacific, Marquesas, South America
1838–1849   James Jackson Jarves   Hawaii
1839–1840   Francis Allyn Olmsted   Hawaii
1839–1846   Samuel Snow   Tasmania, Pacific, Hawaii
1839–1848   Augustin Lucas   South America, Pacific, Australia
1840–1842   Henry Theodore Cheever   Pacific, Hawaii
1840–1844   Herman Melville   Pacific
1840–1844   Lawrence Kearny   East Indies, Hawaii, Circumnavigation
1840–1854   Henry Augustus Wise   Pacific, South America, Mexico
1840–1866   Andrew Cheyne   Pacific, Caroline Islands, Palau Islands
1841–1844   Hatsutaro   Japan, Pacific, Mexico
1841–1851   Manjiro Nakahama   Japan, United States, Pacific
1842–1849   Samuel Chenery Damon   Hawaii, Oregon, California
1843–1853   Anne-Gabrielle de Poilloüe de St Mars   Pacific, California
1844–1848   George Francis Seymour   Pacific,
1845   Jean Baptiste Epalle   Solomon Islands
1845–1849   Walter Colton   California, Hawaii
1845–1860   Albert W. Hicks   Pacific
1846–1848   Thomas Spencer   Hawaii, Gilbert Islands, Ellice Islands
1847–1848   Thomas Welcome Roys   Bering Strait, Pacific, Alaska
1848–1850   Jean Alexandre Paulin Niboyet   Pacific
1848–1858   J.C. Mullett   Pacific
1849–1852   George Coffin   Circumnavigation, Pacific, California
1849–1859   Thomas Robinson Warren   Pacific, China, South America
1850   George Newell   Circumnavigation, California, Hawaii
1850–1852   James F. Munger   Pacific, Arctic

Voyages to Antarctica and the high Southern Ocean, 1800-1850

1775–1850   *Enderby Company voyages in the Southern Ocean   Southern Ocean
1818–1849   James Clark Ross   Arctic, Antarctic
1819–1820   Joseph Herring   Antarctica, South Shetland Is
1819–1820   William Smith   Antarctica, South Shetland Is
1819–1820   James P. Sheffield   Antarctica, South Shetland Is
1819–1821   Faddei Faddeevich Bellingshausen   Antarctica, Pacific, South Sandwich Is
1819–1822   Nathaniel Brown Palmer   Antarctica, South Shetland Is, South Orkney Is
1819–1824   James Weddell   Antarctica, South Orkney Is, South Shetland Is
1820–1822   John Davis   Antarctica, South Shetland Is
1822–1833   Matthew Brisbane   Antarctica, Tierra del Fuego, Falkland Is
1827–1831   Henry Foster   Antarctica, Arctic, North America N.W.
1829–1834   Jeremiah N. Reynolds   Antarctica
1830–1833   John Biscoe   Antarctica
1833–1834   Peter Kemp   Antarctica, Kerguelen & Crozet, Heard Island
1838–1839   John Balleny   Balleny Islands, Campbell Island, Antarctica
1839–1858   David Lyall   Antarctica, New Zealand, North America
1844–1852   Thomas E. L. Moore   Antarctica, Arctic

Voyages to Kamchatka, Alaska and Russian America, 1800-1850

1800–1850   *Russian American Company   Alaska, Oregon, California
1803–1807   Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov   California, Alaska
1807–1814   Vasilii Mikhailovich Golovnin   Kamchatka, Alaska, Japan
1823–1868   Ioann Veniaminov   Alaska, Siberia
1833   Mikhail Dmitrievich Tebenkov   Alaska
1833–1836   Andrei Glazunov   Alaska
1842–1844   Lavrentii A. Zagoskin   Alaska, Yukon River

The exploration of New Zealand, 1800-1850

1792–1840   *New Zealand: early visitors, sealers and whalers  
1839   *New Zealand Company: arrival and settlement  
1839–1845   *New Zealand Company: exploration of North Island  
1841–1850   *New Zealand Company: exploration of South Island
1793–1837  Samuel Marsden   New Zealand, Australia
1809   John Thompson   New Zealand
1820   Richard Alexander Cruise   Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand
1822–1845   Henry Williams   New Zealand
1822–1848   John Hobbs   New Zealand, Tonga
1823   John Marmon   New Zealand
1824–1871   James Busby   New Zealand, New South Wales
1825–1867   William Williams   New Zealand
1827–1853   Charles Philippe Hippolyte de Thierry   New Zealand, Hawaii, Panama
1829–1844   Alfred Nesbit Brown   New Zealand
1830–1850   Joel Samuel Polack   New Zealand, California
1830–1851   Thomas Chapman   New Zealand
1833–1842   Alfred Domett   North America, Jamaica, New Zealand
1835–1873   Richard Taylor   New Zealand
1836–1868   Jean Baptiste François Pompallier   New Zealand, Oceania
1837   Edward Gibbon Wakefield   New Zealand, South Australia
1837–1848   Samuel McDonald Martin   New Zealand, British Guiana
1838–1847   John Carne Bidwill   New Zealand, Australia
1838–1847   William Colenso   New Zealand
1838–1849   Octavius Hadfield   New Zealand
1838–1864   James Coutts Crawford   New Zealand, Australia
1839–1840   James Buller   New Zealand
1839–1841   Johann Karl Ernst Dieffenbach   New Zealand
1839–1842   William Hobson   New Zealand, Auckland
1839–1844   Edward Jerningham Wakefield   New Zealand,
1839–1846   Charles Heaphy   New Zealand
1839–1851   William Deans   New Zealand
1839–1854   Charles Henry Kettle   New Zealand
1839–1857   William Mein Smith   New Zealand, Wellington
1840–1863   Elizabeth Sinclair   New Zealand, Hawaii
1840–1874   David Rough   New Zealand
1840–1880   Frederic Alonzo Carrington   New Zealand, New Plymouth
1841–1844   Frederick Tuckett   New Zealand, Dunedin
1841–1844   David Monro   New Zealand
1841–1845   Samuel Charles Brees   New Zealand
1841–1848   Thomas Brunner   New Zealand
1841–1874   George Augustus Selwyn   New Zealand, Melanesia
1843–1844   Edward Shortland   New Zealand
1843–1846   William Fox   New Zealand
1843–1851   John Lort Stokes   New Zealand
1848   Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell   New Zealand

Independent world travellers and circumnavigators, 1800-1850

1839   Alexander Marjoribanks   New Zealand, Australia, America
1794–1803   Peter Good   Australia, India
1800–1824   Jean-Baptiste Leschenault de La Tour   Australia, Java, India
1800–1837   Charles-Alexandre Lesueur   Australia, North America
1814–1821   Georg Anton Scheffer   Hawaii, Russia, Brazil
1815–1823   Basil Hall   Asia E., Korea, America
1815–1831   Augustus Earle   South America, Tristan da Cunha, Australia
1815–1839   Charles Joseph Latrobe   United States, Mexico, Australia
1816–1841   William Swainson   Brazil, New Zealand, Australia
1817–1853   Norman Mcleod   Cape Breton Island, South Australia, New Zealand
1818   James F. O’Connell   Australia, Pacific, China
1819–1845   James Holman   Europe, Russia, Circumnavigation
1822–1830   Gabriel Lafond de Lurcy   Pacific
1822–1842   Francisco Michelena y Rojas   Asia, America, Europe
1828–1862   William Jackson Barry   Australia, New Zealand, California
1829–1833   Théodore Marie Pavie   North America, South America, Asia
1830–1838   Johann Lhotsky   Victoria, Tasmania, South America
1831–1837   Karl Alexander Anselm Freiherr von Hugel   Middle East, Asia, Australia
1831–1857   Gaetano Osculati   South America, Middle East
1834–1843   Paul Edmund de Strzelecki   America, Pacific, Australia
1835–1837   William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger   Circumnavigation, Muscat Thailand
1836–1840   Auguste Borget   Circumnavigation, China
1837–1868   Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Gerstäcker   California, South America Circumnavigation
1839–1851   Joseph Dalton Hooker   Antarctica, Bengal, Sikkim
1842–1858   Ida Laura Pfeiffer   Palestine, Iceland, Circumnavigations
1842–1870   John Ross Browne   Palestine, Pacific, United States W.
1844–1846   Gustaf Vilhelm Johan von Düben   Africa, East Indies, China
1844–1847   Eugène Delessert   Canada, California
1848–1850   Robert Elwes   South America, Pacific, Asia S.
1849–1853   John Williamson Palmer   California, Hawaii, Asia

Voyages and travellers in the East Indies and South-East Asia, 1800-1850

1803–1822   John Crawfurd   Malaya, Thailand
1807–1818   Herman Willem Daendels   East Indies, Java, West Africa
1808–1824   Thomas Stamford Raffles   Singapore, Java, Sumatra
1812–1826   James Low   Malaya, Thailand
1812–1850   Adorinam Judson   Myanmar
1813–1831   John Anderson   Malaya, Sumatra
1817–1818   Achille de Kergariou   Vietnam
1818–1833   Charles Moses Endicott   Sumatra
1819–1823   George Finlayson   Ceylon, Thailand, Vietnam
1826–1839   John Crawfurd   Myanmar
1827–1836   Jacob Tomlin   Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand
1829–1838   David Richardson   Myanmar, Thailand
1829–1845   David Abeel   Thailand, East Indies, China
1830–1851   John Taylor Jones   Thailand, Myanmar
1834–1845   Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn   Java
1834–1873   Dan Beach Bradley   Thailand
1835   Howard Malcom   Myanmar, India, China
1835–1836   S.F. Hannay   Myanmar
1836–1837   T.E. Mcleod   Myanmar, Thailand
1838–1841   Charles William Meredith Van de Velde   East Indies
1838–1863   James Brooke   Sarawak, Brunei, Borneo
1840–1871   Karl Benjamin Hermann von Rosenberg   East Indies
1841–1851   Henry Keppel   East Indies, Borneo, Circumnavigation
1842–1847   George Rodney Mundy   East Indies, Borneo
1847–1851   Robert Burns   Sarawak, Brunei, Borneo
1800–1850   *Vietnam: Europeans in Indo-China  

The Indian Ocean, coastal West Africa, the islands, and Madagascar, 1800-1850

1787–1798   Nicolas Thomas Baudin   Indian Ocean, West Indies
1802–1810   Charles Mathieu Isadore Decaen   Indian Ocean, Mauritius
1810–1814   James Prior   Indian Ocean, East Africa, East Indies
1812–1854   John Clunies-Ross   Cocos Islands, Christmas Island
1815–1826   James Hastie   Malagasy
1819–1820   René-Marie Decaen   Kergeulen Island
1826–1831   Robert Lyall   Malagasy, Russia
1826–1875   James Cameron   Malagasy
1827–1836   Edmund Quincy Roberts   Zanzibar, Muscat, Thailand
1827–1878   Jean Laborde   Malagasy, India
1835–1840   Johann Wilhelm Helfer   Andaman Islands, Middle East, Malaysia
1800–1850   *Andaman & Nicobar: European encounters and settlements
1800–1850   *Madagascar: historical overview, 1800-50
1800–1850  *Comoros: historical overview to 1850  

Visitors to China and Japan, 1800-1850

1807–1834   Robert Morrison   China, Malaysia, Singapore
1813–1848   John Francis Davis   China, Hong Kong
1816–1817   William Pitt Amherst   China
1817–1856   Walter Henry Medhurst   Java, China
1822–1830   Phillip Franz von Siebold   Japan
1825–1841   George Tradescant Lay   Pacific, China
1826–1851   Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff   China, Java, Thailand
1829–1861   Elijah Cole Bridgman   China
1833–1876   Samuel Wells Williams   China
1833–1884   William Dean   Hong Kong, China, Thailand
1834–1857   Peter Parker   China
1835–1840   Jean-Gabriel Perboyre   China
1835–1861   Jehu Lewis Shuck   China, California
1839–1852   Évariste Régis Huc   China, Tibet
1839–1859   Benjamin Hobson   China
1843–1862   Robert Fortune   China, Japan
1848–1853   Benjamin Lincoln Ball   China, Circumnavigation
  *Japan: European Contacts (1800-1850)
  *Hong Kong: history of the British colony to 1850
  *China: European Contacts historical overview  

Surveyors, scientists, missionaries and travellers in the Indian peninsula, 1800-1850

1783–1821   Colin Mackenzie   India
1793–1834   William Carey   India
1796–1823   William Lambton   India, Canada
1807–1808   Robert Hyde Colebrooke   India
1807–1847   Nathaniel Wallich   India Bengal
1809   Mountstuart Elphinstone   Pakistan, Afghanistan, India
1815–1841   John Davy   Sri Lanka, Mediterranean
1815–1855   Daniel Poor   Sri Lanka, India
1818–1843   George Everest   India, Nepal
  *India: lesser European travellers, 1800-50


Travellers in the Indian borderlands, the mountains and Afghanistan, 1800-1850

1806–1817  Thomas Manning   Tibet, China
1808–1812   Hyder Jung Hearsey   India, Tibet
1808–1818   William Spencer Webb   India, Nepal, Ganges
1812   William Moorcroft   Tibet, India
1816–1835   George William Traill   India,
1817–1830   Alexander Haughton Campbell Gardiner   Central Asia, Afghanistan, Kashmir
1817–1832   Alexander Gerard   India
1819–1825   William Moorcroft   Kashmir, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan
1819–1842   Alexander Csoma de Körös   Tibet, Kashmir, Bengal
1821–1842   Charles Masson   Afghanistan, India
1822–1844   Joseph Wolff   Middle East, Central Asia, Kashmir
1823–1841   Josiah Harlan   Afghanistan, Pakistan, India
1825–1828   Richard Wilcox   Assam, Brahmaputra, Myanmar
1828–1832   Victor Venceslas Jacquemont   India, Kashmir
1829–1842   Arthur Conolly   Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan
1830–1841   Alexander Burnes   Central Asia, Afghanistan, India
1832–1839   Godfrey Thomas Vigne   Kashmir, Afghanistan, Pakistan
1834–1836   John Henderson   Kashmir, Pakistan, India
1837–1838   John Wood   Afghanistan, India, Amu Darya
1847–1848   Thomas Thomson   Kashmir, Pakistan, India

Travellers in Russia, Siberia and Central Asia, 1800-1850

1805–1809   Heinrich Julius Klaproth   Russia, Caucasus, China
1808–1809   Mamiya Rinzo   Siberia, Sakhalin I.
1808–1810   Matvey Matveyevich Hedenström   New Siberian Islands,
1819   Nikolai (I) Muraviev   Uzbekistan, Georgia
1820–1823   John Dundas Cochrane   Siberia, Kamchatka
1821–1823   Pyotr Fedorovich Anzhu   New Siberian Islands,
1822–1835   Ferdinand Petr von Wrangel   Arctic, Wrangel I., Alaska
1828–1830   Christopher Hansteen   Siberia
1828–1830   Georg Adolf Erman   Siberia, Circumnavigation
1829   Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt   Russia, Siberia
1831–1839   Ivan Viktorovich Vitkevich   Afghanistan, Uzbekistan
1837–1862   Karl Ernst von Baer   Novaya Zemlya, Baltic Sea, Caspian Sea
1842–1844   Petr Alexandrovich Chikhachev   Siberia, Turkey, North Africa
1842–1845   Aleksandr Fedorovich Middendorf   Siberia
1842–1849   Matias Aleksanteri Castrén   Finland, Russia, Siberia
1847–1861   Nikolai (II) Muraviev   Siberia, Sakhalin I., Amur River
1848–1855   Thomas Witlam Atkinson   Russia, Siberia

The European exploration of Iran and Iraq, 1800-1850

1799–1810   John Malcolm   Iran, India
1803–1820   Claudius James Rich   Iraq, Turkey, Palestine
1804–1841   Robert Ker Porter   Iran, Russia, Venezuela
1807–1809   Claude Mathieu de Gardane   Iran
1807–1811   Harford Jones-Brydges   Iran
1807–1817   James Justinian Morier   Iran
1808–1830   John Macdonald Kinneir   Iran, Turkey
1810–1812   Henry Pottinger   Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan
1813–1823   James Baillie Fraser   India, Iran
1817   Moritz von Kotzebue   Iran
1827–1855   Henry Creswicke Rawlinson   Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan
1830–1837   Francis Rawdon Chesney   Iraq, Egypt, Syria
1837–1842   Eldred Pottinger   Afghanistan
1837–1843   Paul-Émile Botta   Iraq, Yemen, Egypt
1839–1851   Austen Henry Layard   Iraq, Iran, Turkey
1845–1846   Joseph Pierre Ferrier   Afghanistan, Iran

European exploration of the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf, 1800-1850

1802–1807   Domingo Badía y Leblich   Morocco, Mecca, Palestine
1802–1811   Ulrich Jasper Seetzen   Palestine, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
1805–1828   Giovanni Finati   Saudi Arabia, Mecca, Egypt
1819–1820   George Forster Sadleir   Saudi Arabia
1834–1836   James Raymond Wellsted   Oman, Aden, Yemen
1843–1849   Yrjö Aukusti Wallin   Saudi Arabia, Mecca, Palestine
  *Persian Gulf: British maritime surveys   Persian Gulf

Travellers in Egypt, Palestine and neighbouring regions, 1800-1850

1795–1845   James Silk Buckingham   Middle East, India, America
1815–1823   Giovanni Battista Belzoni   Egypt, Nigeria
1820–1829   Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg   Egypt, Sudan, Siberia
1826–1828   Léon Emmanuel Simon Joseph de Laborde   Egypt, Jordan, Petra
1829–1841   Thomas Fletcher Waghorn   Egypt
1834–1836   John Lloyd Stephens   Egypt, Jordan, Palestine
1837   Edward Robinson   Palestine, Jordan
1847–1848   William Francis Lynch   Palestine, Jordan, Dead Sea
  *Egypt & The Holy Land: archaeologists, tourists & diplomats  

Expeditions in Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya and Tanzania, 1800-1850

1802–1827    Henry Salt   Egypt, Ethiopia
1809–1817   Johann Ludwig Burckhardt   Sudan, Egypt, Mecca
1815–1822   Frédéric Cailliaud   Sudan, Egypt
1816–1827   George Bethune English   Sudan, Egypt
1822–1826   William Fitzwilliam Wentworth Owen   Africa, Kenya, Namibia
1826–1836   Samuel Gobat   Ethiopia
1837–1853   Johann Ludwig Krapf   Kenya, Ethiopia
1838–1848   Antoine Thomson d’ Abbadie   Ethiopia
1841   Ferdinand Werne   Sudan
1841–1843   Charles Tilstone Beke   Ethiopia
1842–1846   Mansfield Parkyns   Ethiopia,
1842–1846   Karl Richard Lepsius   Egypt, Sudan
1844–1845   Eugène Maizan   Tanzania
1845–1865   John Petherick   Sudan, Egypt
1847–1858   Ignaz Knoblecher   Sudan
1850   George Melly   Egypt, Sudan
  *Ethiopia: European travellers, 1800-1850  

The exploration of West Africa and the Sahara, 1800-1850

1804–1805   Henry Nicholls   Nigeria, Niger R.
1805–1806   Mungo Park   West Africa, Niger R.
1810–1814   Benjamin Rose   Mauritania, Mali, Morocco
1815–1817   James Riley   Western Sahara, Morocco
1817–1819   Joseph Ritchie   Libya
1818–1819   Gaspard Théodore Mollien   Senegal, Guinea, Colombia
1821   Brian O’Beirne   Guinea, Sierra Leone
1821–1825   Dixon Denham   Sahara, Nigeria, Chad
1821–1825   Hugh Clapperton   Sahara, Nigeria, Libya
1822   Alexander Gordon Laing   Sierra Leone, Niger R.
1825–1826   Alexander Gordon Laing   Libya, Algeria, Mali
1825–1827   Hugh Clapperton   Nigeria
1825–1828   Richard Lemon Lander   Nigeria
1827–1828   René-Auguste Caillié   Senegal, Mali, Sahara
1829–1854   John Beecroft   Nigeria, Fernando Po
1830–1831   Richard Lemon Lander   Nigeria, Niger R.
1832–1834   MacGregor Laird   Nigeria, Niger R.
1834–1836   John Davidson   Morocco, Sahara
1841   Henry Dundas Trotter   Nigeria, Niger R.
1845–1846   James Richardson   Libya
  *West Africa: European settlement & exploration   West Africa

The exploration of Africa south of the equator, and the islands of the Atlantic, 1800-1850

1798–1811   John Theodosius Van Der Kemp   South Africa
1801–1802   Pieter Jan Truter   South Africa
1802–1806   Martin Hinrich Karl Lichtenstein   South Africa
1808–1809   Andrew Cowan   South Africa, Botswana
1810–1838   Allen Francis Gardiner   South Africa, Durban
1811–1815   William John Burchell   South Africa
1812–1814   John Campbell   South Africa
1816   James Hingston Tuckey   Congo
1817–1870   Robert Moffat   South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe
1818–1821   John Campbell   South Africa
1820   George Waddington   Egypt, Sudan
1823–1836   George Thompson   South Africa, West Africa
1824–1862   James Edward Alexander   Namibia, Canada, India
1826–1837   Jean Baptiste Douville   Congo, Brazil
1834–1836   Andrew Smith   South Africa
1835–1838   Louis Johannes Tregardt   South Africa, Mozambique
1836–1841   William Cornwallis Harris   South Africa, Ethiopia, India
1838–1839   Karel Tregardt   Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia
1838–1856   Johan August Wahlberg   South Africa, Namibia, Botswana
1840–1852   David Livingstone   South Africa, Botswana, Zambia
1844–1851   William Cotton Oswell   South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe
1845–1853   António Francisco Ferreira da Silva Porto   Angola, Zambia
  *South Africa: lesser travellers & plant collectors
  *Namibia: missionary activity, 1800-1850
  *Namibia coastal surveys and trade, 1800-1850
  *Tristan da Cunha: residents and visitors, 1800-1850
  *Saint Helena: residents and visitors, 1800-1850
  *Ascension Island: residents and visitors, 1800-1850
  *Central Africa: Portuguese expeditions   Angola, Congo, Zambia

Travel and exploration in northern South America, 1800-1830

1801–1804   François Raymond Depons   Venezuela, Haiti
1801–1804   François Raymond Joseph de Pons   Venezuela
1804–1824   Charles Waterton   Guyana, Brazil, North America
1805–1811   John Mawe   Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay
1807–1836   Guy Thomas Marlière   Brazil
1808–1823   Maria Graham   India, Brazil, Chile
1809–1820   Henry Koster   Brazil
1809–1850   Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege   Brazil
1811   Antonio dos Reis   Brazil
1811–1830   Simón Bolívar   Venezuela, Colombia, Peru
1814–1823   Francisco de Paula Ribeiro   Brazil
1814–1825   Georg Wilhelm Freyriess   Brazil
1815–1817   Maximilian Alexander Philipp zu Wied-Neuwied   Brazil
1816–1821   Auguste de Saint-Hilaire   Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay
1816–1821   Nicolas Antoine Taunay   Brazil
1816–1831   Jean-Baptiste Debret   Brazil
1817–1820   Karl Friedrich Philipp von Martius   Brazil, Amazon
1817–1820   Johann Baptist Ritter von Spix   Brazil, Amazon
1817–1821   Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl   Brazil
1817–1835   Johann von Natterer   Brazil, Amazon
1819   Oliver Hazard Perry   Venezuela, Orinoco River
1819–1821   Alexander Caldcleugh   Brazil, Argentina, Chile
1820   José Bonifácio   Brazil
1821–1847   Johann Moritz Rugendas   South America, Mexico
1821–1858   William Miller   Peru, Bolivia, Hawaii
1821–1876   William Hadfield   Brazil
1822–1831   Jean-Baptiste Boussingault   Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia
1822–1832   Mariano Eduardo Rivero y Ustariz   Peru, Colombia, Chile
1825–1829   Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff   Brazil, Pacific
1825–1830   William John Burchell   Brazil
1825–1839   Carl August Gosselman   South America, Colombia
1825–1857   João Henrique de Wilkens de Mattos   Brazil, Amazonia
1825–1880   Peter Wilhelm Lund   Brazil
1826–1838   Joseph Barclay Pentland   Bolivia, Peru
1826–1843   Alcide Dessalines d’ Orbigny   Argentina, Bolivia, Venezuela
1826–1859   Juan Bautista Agustín Codazzi   Venezuela, Colombia
1827–1828   Henry Lister Maw   Peru, Brazil, Amazon
1827–1832   Eduard Friedrich Poeppig   Chile, Peru, Brazil
1828–1829   Robert Walsh   Brazil, Turkey

Travel and exploration in northern South America, 1830 – 1850

1832–1834   John Hawkshaw   Venezuela
1832–1846   José de Santos Inocentes   Brazil, Guyana
1832–1850   William Gore Ouseley   Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay
1834–1835   William Smyth   Peru, Brazil
1835–1843   Robert Hermann Schomburgk   Guyana, West Indies, Dominican Republic
1836–1849   George Gardner   Brazil, Ceylon
1837–1840   Daniel Parish Kidder   Brazil
1838–1860   Johann Jakob von Tschudi   Peru, Chile
1840–1849   Moritz Richard Schomburgk   Guyana, South Australia
1842–1843   Heinrich Wilhelm Adalbert von Preussen   Brazil, Xingu R.
1843–1847   François de Castelnau   Brazil, Bolivia, Peru
1844–1852   Alfred Russel Wallace   Brazil, Amazon
1844–1854   Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten   Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador
1845–1852   John Henry Elliott   Brazil
1846   William Henry Edwards   Brazil, Amazon
1846–1851   Virgil von Helmreichen zu Brunnfeld   Brazil, Paraguay
1847–1857   Teófilo Benedito Otoni   Brazil
1848–1859   Henry Walter Bates   Brazil, Amazon
1848–1868   Karl Ferdinand Appun   Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil
1849–1864   Richard Spruce   Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador
1851–1852   William Lewis Herndon   Peru, Brazil

Travel and exploration in southern South America, 1800-1850

1818–1838   John Miers   Chile, Argentina, Brazil
1825   Francis Bond Head   Argentina, Chile, Canada
1826–1830   Phillip Parker King   Chile, Argentina
1827   Charles Brand   Argentina, Chile
1837   Platon Alexandrovich Chikhachev   Chile, Argentina
1838–1851   Allen Francis Gardiner   Chile, Patagonia
1849–1852   James Melville Gilliss   Chile
  *Falkland Islands   Falkland Islands,

Travellers and colonists in Central America, 1800-1850

1811–1824   Gregor Macgregor   Honduras, Venezuela, Colombia
1821–1842   Frederick Catherwood   Egypt, Central America
1822–1830   Joel Roberts Poinsett   Mexico
1829–1850   Carl Nebel   Mexico
1830–1842   Daniel Thomas Egerton   Mexico
1839–1842   John Lloyd Stephens   Central America, Mexico, Yucatán
1846–1850   Pierre Marie Arthur Morelet   Central America
1847–1852   Eugène Louis Gabriel Ferry de Bellemare   Mexico, California
  *Central America and the Mosquito Coast   Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua
  *Panama Canal & Railroad   Panama, Colombia, Nicaragua

The exploration of Arctic Canada and the search for the North-West passage, 1800-1850

1817–1826   George Francis Lyon   Hudson Bay, Libya, Mexico
1818   John Ross   Baffin Bay
1818–1823   Edward Sabine   Arctic, Atlantic
1819–1820   William Edward Parry   Arctic Canada, Melville Island
1819–1822   John Franklin   Arctic Canada
1821–1823   William Edward Parry   Hudson Bay
1824–1825   William Edward Parry   Arctic Canada
1825–1827   John Franklin   Arctic Canada
1829–1833   John Ross   Arctic Canada
1833–1854   John Rae   Arctic Canada, Victoria Island
1836–1837   George Back   Hudson Bay
1836–1839   Peter Warren Dease   Arctic Canada, Alaska
1845   John Franklin   Arctic Canada
1845–1854   Henry Kellett   Pacific, Arctic
1848–1849   John Richardson   Arctic Canada
1848–1857   *John Franklin (search expeditions)   Arctic Canada
1850–1854   Robert John le Mesurier Mcclure   Arctic Canada, Banks Island
1850–1854   Richard Collinson   Arctic Canada

Voyages to the North Atlantic and Svalbard, and assaults on the North Pole, 1800-1850

1806–1813   Carl Ludwig Giesecke   Greenland
1806–1856   William Scoresby   Greenland, North Atlantic, Australia
1818   David Buchan   Greenland Sea, Newfoundland
1827   William Edward Parry   Svalbard, North Pole, Australia
1835–1840   Joseph-Paul Gaimard   North Atlantic, Svalbard, Iceland

The exploration of the Canadian interior, Oregon and Washington, 1800-1850

1799–1807   George Heriot   Canada
1802–1840   Alexander Roderick Mcleod   California, Oregon, Mackenzie
1805–1809   Simon Fraser   British Columbia, Fraser River
1805–1827   Pierre Bostonais   Alberta, British Columbia
1805–1841   Samuel Black   British Columbia, Alberta, Washington
1810–1822   Donald Mackenzie   Oregon, Idaho, Washington
1810–1825   Alexander Ross   Oregon, Idaho, Montana
1811–1849   John Tod   British Columbia
1812–1844   Archibald Mcdonald   Manitoba, Washington, British Columbia
1816–1820   Auguste Jean Marie Bachelot de La Pylaie   Newfoundland
1816–1854   John Mcloughlin   Oregon
1817–1857   Donald Manson   British Columbia
1820–1856   George Simpson   Canada, North Pacific, Siberia
1822–1827   William Eppes Cormack   Newfoundland
1823–1834   David Douglas   Oregon, California, Hawaii
1825–1835   Thomas Drummond   British Columbia, Texas
1825–1863   James Douglas   British Columbia
1831–1857   James Anderson   Canada
1833–1835   George Back   Arctic Canada, Back River
1839–1844   John Henry Lefroy   Canada, St Helena
1842–1869   William Edmond Logan   Canada
1844–1878   James Green Stewart   British Columbia, Yukon
1845–1846   Henry James Warre   Rocky Mountains, Oregon
1845–1848   Paul Kane   Canada, Oregon, Washington
  *Labrador: missionaries and traders
  *Yukon: early explorations and discoveries  

The exploration of the American West, 1800-1825

1793–1838   Touissant Charbonneau   Montana, Kansas, North Dakota
1796–1821   Moses Austin   Texas, Missouri
1799–1811   Freidrich Traugott Pursch   United States
1802–1824   James Pursley   New Mexico, Missouri
1803–1810   John Colter   Montana, Wyoming
1803–1810   George Drouillard   Montana
1804–1805   William Dunbar   Louisiana, Arkansas
1804–1805   Meriwether Lewis   Missouri River, Rocky Mountains, Columbia River
1804–1830   William Clark   Missouri, Wisconsin, Rocky Mountains
1805–1806   Zebulon Montgomery Pike   Mississippi River
1806   Meriwether Lewis   Columbia River, Rocky Mountains, Missouri River
1806   Thomas Freeman   Louisiana, Texas, Red River
1806   John Linnaeus Edward Whitridge Shecut   South Carolina
1806–1807   Zebulon Montgomery Pike   Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico
1807   Jeremy Pinch   Washington
1807–1814   Alexander Wilson   United States
1807–1820   Manuel Lisa   Montana
1807–1838   Auguste Pierre Chouteau   Missouri River
1809–1810   Reuben Smith   New Mexico
1809–1816   John Bradbury   Missouri River
1810–1817   Wilson Price Hunt   Oregon
1811–1818   Henry Marie Brackenridge   Louisiana, Missouri River, South America
1812–1826   James Baird   New Mexico
1815–1817   Jules Demun   Colorado New Mexico
1815–1840   Timothy Flint   Missouri, Arkansas Louisiana
1816   Stephen Elliott   South Carolina, Georgia
1817–1818   James Biddle   Oregon
1817–1819   John Goldie   Canada, New York, Pennsylvania
1817–1849   Etienne Provost   Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico
1818   Joseph Chapman   California
1818–1824   Thomas Say   United States
1818–1824   Henry Atkinson   Missouri River
1818–1832   Henry Rowe Schoolcraft   Arkansas, Mississippi River, Michigan
1818–1835   Thomas Nuttall   Oklahoma, Oregon, Hawaii
1818–1842   Titian Ramsay Peale   United States, Antarctica
1819–1820   Stephen Harriman Long   Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma
1819–1821   David Meriwether   New Mexico
1819–1834   Henry Leavenworth   Minnesota, Kansas, South Dakota
1819–1836   Stephen Fuller Austin   Texas
1819–1847   Stephen Watts Kearny   Minnesota, New Mexico, California
1819–1867   Joseph Reddeford Walker   Nevada, California, Arizona
1820–1821   Jacques Laramee   Wyoming
1820–1822   Jedidiah Morse   United States
1820–1843   John James Laforest Audubon   United States
1821   Thomas James   Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico
1821–1822   William Becknell   Kansas, New Mexico
1821–1822   Hugh Glenn   Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico
1821–1873   Pierre-Jean de Smet   Montana, Idaho, Oregon
1822–1827   William Henry Ashley   Rocky Mountains, Idaho, Utah
1822–1831   Jedediah Strong Smith   Utah, California, Oregon
1822–1831   William Wolfskill   Utah, New Mexico, California
1822–1837   Ewing Young   Arizona, California, Oregon
1822–1868   James Bridger   Wyoming, Utah
1823–1840   Jason Lee   Oregon, Idaho
1823–1861   John Work   Oregon, Washington, Idaho
1823–1854   Thomas Fitzpatrick   United States, West, Rocky Mountains
1824–1830   Peter Skene Ogden   Oregon, Idaho, Nevada
1825–1828   Sylvester Pattie   Arizona, New Mexico
1825–1832   Cerán St Vrain   Colorado, New Mexico

The exploration of the American West, 1826 – 1850

1826–1868   Christopher Houston Carson   United States
1827–1830   Joshua Pilcher   Colorado, Montana
1830–1858   George Catlin   United States, South America
1831–1850   Josiah Gregg   Kansas, Oklahoma, Mexico
1832–1834   Washington Irving   Arkansas, Oklahoma
1832–1834   Maximilian Alexander Philipp zu Wied-Neuwied   United States, Missouri River, Montana
1832–1835   Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth   Idaho, Washington, Oregon
1832–1835   Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville   Idaho, Oregon
1832–1843   William Drummond Stewart   Wyoming, Oregon
1834–1835   Henry Dodge   Kansas, Oklahoma, Wisconsin
1834–1836   John Kirk Townsend   Rocky Mountains, Oregon, Hawaii
1834–1837   Samuel Parker   Oregon
1836–1840   Joseph Nicolas Nicollet   Mississippi River
1836–1845   Elijah White   Oregon, Hawaii, U.S.A.
1837–1838   Alfred Jacob Miller   Wyoming
1838–1847   François Norbert Blanchet   Oregon
1839   John Augustus Sutter   California
1839–1840   Thomas Jefferson Farnham   Oregon, California, Hawaii
1839–1847   Frederick Adolph Wislizenus   Wyoming, Mexico
1839–1873   Gustavus Hines   Oregon, Hawaii, Circumnavigation
1840–   Joel Pickens Walker   Oregon, California
1840–1842   Eugène Duflot De Mofras   Mexico, California, Oregon
1840–1874   Josiah Dwight Whitney   Great Lakes, Iowa, Wisconsin
1841   John Bidwell   California, Nevada
1841   Hugh Mcleod   Texas, Mew Mexico
1842   John Charles Fremont   Wyoming
1843   Peter Hardeman Burnett   Oregon, California
1843–1844   John Charles Fremont   Utah, Oregon, California
1844   Elisha Stevens   California, Nevada
1844–1857   William Helmsley Emory   Arizona, California
1845–1847   John Charles Fremont   Colorado, Utah, California
1846   Francis Parkman   Wyoming, Colorado
1846–1847   George Donner   California, Nevada
1846–1847   Brigham Young   Utah
1846–1848   George Frederick Augustus Ruxton   Mexico, New Mexico, Colorado
1848–1854   John Charles Fremont   Colorado, California
1849–1850   Howard Stansbury   Utah, Wyoming
1849–1850   William Shaw   California, Pacific
1849–1851   Linville John Hall   California
1849–1851   William Lewis Manly   Death Valley, California
  *United States east of the Mississippi   United States
  *California: visitors, settlers and prospectors   California
  *Iowa: early history and settlement   Iowa


Volume 3: 1850-1940: the oceans, islands and polar regions


Oceanic voyages, hydrographic surveys and scientific excursions, 1850-1920


1844–1871   Charles Wright   North Pacific, Nicaragua, Texas
1845–1864   Berthold Carl Seemann   Fiji, Central America, South America
1847–1876   Georg Emil Gustav Freiherr von Schleinitz   Circumnavigation, Kergeulen Island
1851–1853   Carl Johan Alfred Skogman   Circumnavigation
1851–1853   Christian Adolf Virgin   Circumnavigation, Galapagos Is
1851–1861   Henry Mangles Denham   Pacific, S.W., Fiji, Australia
1851–1861   Alexander Wylly Habersham   North Pacific, East Indies
1852–1858   Evfimy Vasilievich Putyatin   Korea, Japan, Siberia
1853–1856   Cadwalader Ringgold   North Pacific, Japan
1854–1860   James Madison Alden   California, Washington, British Columbia
1856–1863   George Henry Richards   British Columbia
1856–1869   Richard Charles Mayne   Patagonia, British Columbia, New Zealand
1857–1859   Bernhard Freiherr von Wüllerstorf-Urbair   Circumnavigation
1857–1899   Thomas Crapo   Pacific, Atlantic
1859–1902   Alexander Emanuel Agassiz   Atlantic, Pacific, South America
1865–1868   Enrico Hillyer Giglioli   Circumnavigation
1867–1869   Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh   Australia, India
1868–1876   Thomas Henry Tizard   Circumnavigation, Red Sea
1868–1876   John Murray   Circumnavigation, Arctic
1868–1876   Charles Wyville Thomson   Circumnavigation, North Atlantic
1869–1901   Edward Horace Man   Andaman Is, Nicobar Is
1872–1874   George E. Belknap   Pacific, Panama, Hawaii
1872–1876   George Strong Nares   Circumnavigation, Australia, Suez Canal
1872–1880   William James Lloyd Wharton   Africa, E., Patagonia
1872–1887   John Fiot Lee Pearse Maclear   Circumnavigation, Australia, N., Patagonia
1874–1889   Stephen Joseph Perry   Kergeulen Island, Madagascar, French Guiana
1880–1883   John George Boulton   Newfoundland, Labrador, Great Lakes
1882–1885   Giuseppe Palumbo   Circumnavigation, Galapagos Is
1884–1905   William James Stewart   Great Lakes
1886–1901   Stepan Osipovich Makarov   Circumnavigation, Arctic
1888–1892   Alfred William Alcock   Indian Ocean
1893–1923   Frederick Anderson   Great Lakes, Hudson Bay
1897–1902   Franz Boas   British Columbia, Alaska, Siberia
1898–1899   Carl Chun   Southern Ocean, Bouvet I, Indian Ocean
1900–1914   Fridtjof Nansen   Atlantic, Arctic, Siberia
1902–1906   Michael John Nicoll   Circumnavigation, West Indies, Indian Ocean
1903–1909   Douglas Mawson   Vanuatu, Antarctica
1903–1910   John Franklin Parry   British Columbia
1903–1934   Charles William Beebe   Asia, South America, Atlantic
1906–1937   Henri Dalpe Parizeau   British Columbia, Hudson Bay, Great Lakes
1907–1914   Raymond Rallier Du Baty   Kerguelen Island
1907–1926   Robert James Fraser   Great Lakes, Hudson Bay
1908–1911   Hamburg South Sea Expdn   New Guinea, Marshall Is, Caroline Is
1909–1930   Roy Chapman Andrews   Philippines, China, Mongolia
1915–1935   Frank Clifford Goulding Smith   Hudson Bay
1917–1945   Walter King Willis   British Columbia
  *Amsterdam & St Paul Is
  *Andaman Islands
  *Ascension Island
  *Auckland Islands
  *Campbell Island
  *Chatham Islands, Antipodes & Bounty Islands
  *Cocos Islands  
  *Crozet Islands
  *Falkland Islands
  *Fernando De Noronha I.
  *Heard Island  
  *Kerguelen Island
  *Macquarie Island
  *Maldive Islands
  *Mauritius   Chagos Archipelago
  *Nicobar Is
  *Prince Edward Islands   Marion I
  *Réunion
  *Saint Helena
  *Seychelles
  *Socotra
  *South Georgia   South Sandwich Is
  *Sri Lanka
  *Trindade & Martin Vaz Is.
  *Tristan Da Cunha   Inaccessible I, Nightingale I
  *Canada: hydrographic surveys
  *Korea & the Sea of Japan: Russian coastal surveys   Korea, Siberia
  *Atlantic & Pacific: small boat crossings  
  *Telegraph Cables: submarine and overland


Travellers and missionaries in the Pacific, the Pacific islands and New Caledonia, 1850-1920

1834–1875  Edgar Wakeman   Pacific, California
1837–1865   Louis Thiercelin   Pacific, New Zealand, Tahiti
1842–1861   George Turner   Samoa, Vanuatu, New Guinea
1846–1872   John Geddie   New Hebrides, (Vanuatu)
1848–1873   Louis François de Pourtalès   Atlantic, Florida
1849–1851   Benjamin Boyd   Australia, California, Solomon Is
1849–1858   Thomas Robinson Warren   Pacific, South America, California
1849–1869   Alfred Friedrich Tetens   Pacific, Micronesia, Melanesia
1850–1857   Alonzo D. Sampson   North Pacific, Hawaii, Australia
1851–1861   Hamada Hikozo   North Pacific, Japan, United States
1851–1890   Luther Halsey Gulick   Micronesia, China, Japan
1852–1855   Charles Lyman Newhall   Pacific
1855–1871   John Coleridge Patteson   Vanuatu, Solomon Is
1856–1859   Edward Southwell Sotheby   Circumnavigation, Peru, India
1856–1859   Daniel Weston Hall   North Pacific, Siberia
1856–1877   William Henry Hayes   Pacific, New Zealand
1857–1861   Edward Winder Johnson   North Pacific, Japan, China
1858   Josiah Nickerson Knowles   Pitcairn I.
1858–1881   John Gibson Paton   New Hebrides, (Vanuatu)
1859–1873   Heinrich Wawra Von Fernsee   Circumnavigations, Brazil
1860–1880   George Brown   Melanesia, Samoa
1863–1866   Jules Garnier   New Caledonia
1865–1874   Alfred Thomas Saville   French Polynesia, Society Is
1867–1868   Johan Adolf Ekelöf   Pacific
1869–1870   Geoffrey Thomas Phipps Hornby   Circumnavigation
1869–1870   Robert Chamblet Adams   Circumnavigation
1869–1896   Jan Stanislaw Kubary   Micronesia, New Guinea
1871–1909   George Lewis Becke   Pacific, Micronesia, Samoa
1873   C.F. Wood   Pacific
1873–1875   James Graham Goodenough   Melanesia, Santa Cruz Is
1874–1877   Anatole Andreas von Hügel   Pacific, Fiji
1874–1899   Thomas Frederick Cheeseman   New Zealand, Kermadec Is, Cook Is
1895–1924   Frank Burnett   Pacific
1900–1911   Henry Bryant Bigelow   Maldives, Pacific Ocean
1901–1904   John Claus Voss   Pacific
1901–1926   Lewis Ransome Freeman   Pacific, Great Lakes, United States
1906–1932   John Macmillan Brown   Pacific
1907–1913   Walter Reginald Brook Oliver   New Zealand, Kermadec Is, Lord Howe I.
1907–1935   Martin & Osa Johnson   Solomon Is, Vanuatu, Africa, E.
1914–1915   Katherine Maria Routledge   Easter I., Kenya
1914–1919   Ralph Stock   Pacific
1921–1923   Walter E. Traprock   Filbert Is, North Pole, Sahara
  *Clipperton Island
  *Cook Islands
  *Easter Island   Salas y Gómez
  *Fiji
  *French Polynesia   Tahiti
  *Galapagos Islands
  *Hawaii: historical overview
  *Hawaii: visitors and residents
*Hawaii: natural history expeditions
  *Juan Fernández Islands
  *Kermadec Islands  
  *Lord Howe Island
  *Micronesia   Marshall Is, Caroline Is, Marianas Is
  *New Caledonia
  *Norfolk Island
  *Pitcairn Island   Henderson I., Ducie I.
  *Samoa
  *Solomon Islands   Santa Cruz Is
  *Tonga
  *Tuvalu & Kiribati   Ellice Is, Gilbert Is, Tokelau Is
  *Vanuatu   New Hebrides
  *Wallis And Futuna Is  

World travellers, missionaries and tourists, 1850-1870

1830–1857   William Parker Snow   Patagonia, Arctic, Australia
1840–1860   John Guy Vassar   World tours
1844–1864   Eduard Hildebrandt   World tour, Brazil
1846–1861   Robert Lindsey   World tours, United States, Australia
1846–1868   Gustavus Ferdinand von Tempsky   Central America, Australia, New Zealand
1848–1883   Spenser Buckingham St John   Sarawak, Haiti, Peru
1849–1890   Henry John Coke   United States, Hawaii, Middle East
1850   Stephen C. Massett   California, Australia
1850–1853   John Davies Mereweather   Australia, Asia
1850–1865   Julius Lucius Brenchley   United States, Pacific, Hawaii
1850–1875   Clements Robert Markham   Arctic, South America, India
1850–1880   Alonzo P. Demilt   California, Australia, South America
1850–1887   Manfredo Camperio   Africa, Australia, India
1851–1852   F.C. Jaski   Circumnavigation, California, Hawaii
1851–1863   Jules Remy   South America, Hawaii, Utah
1851–1888   Laurence Oliphant   Asia, America, Palestine
1851–1896   Philipp Wilhelm Adolf Bastian   World tours
1852–1855   C.M. Welles   World tour
1852–1877   Carl Axel Egerström   World tour, California, Australia
1852–1884   Charles Chiniquy   Canada, United States, Australia
1852–1892   George Francis Train   World tours, Australia
1853   George Washington Peck   World tour, Australia, Peru
1854–1901   Isabella Lucy Bird   Asia, America, China
1855–1880   Eugene Anthony Vetromile   World tour, Maine, Holy Land
1856–1884   Henry Ronald H. Douglas Maciver   New Guinea, America, India
1858–1877   Anthony Trollope   Egypt, Australia, Central America
1859–1866   Raphael Pumpelly   World tour, China, Central Asia
1860–1862   Henry Willis Baxley   South America, California, Hawaii
1860–1880   Samuel Pasfield Oliver   Madagascar, Indian Ocean, Nicaragua
1860–1893   John James Aubertin   Brazil, World tours
1860–1894   Joshua Slocum   Pacific, South America
1861–1900   Mark Twain   World tour, Hawaii, United States W.
1862–1893   Herbert Maundrell   Malagasy, Mauritius, Japan
1864–1889   Father Damien   Hawaii
1865–1867   Ludovic de Beauvoir   World tour
1865–1903   Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin   Tahiti, Marquesas, Panama
1865–1913   James Martin Peebles   World tours
1866–1910   Sinclair Thomson Duncan   World tours, Australia, North America
1867–1908   Lucy Elizabeth Seaman Bainbridge   World tours, Middle East
1868–1870   Enrico Besana   World tour
1868–1873   H. Bland   World tour
1868–1890   Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming   Fiji, Pacific, China
1869–1872   Charles James Mathews   World tour
1869–1883   Frank Thomas Bullen   World cruises
1869–1887   Anna Brassey   Circumnavigation, Mediterranean, India
1869–1903   Pierre Loti   Asia SE, Turkey, Tahiti
1870–1874   Marie Thérese Yelverton   World tour, California, Cambodia
1870–1882   Alphonse Louis Pinart   Alaska, Easter I., United States
1870–1888   Reinhold Philipp Johann von Anrep-Elmpt   World tours, Hawaii, Australia
1870–1894   Frank Vincent   Asia SE, India, South America


World travellers, missionaries and tourists, 1871 – 1925

1871–1878   Januarius Aloysius Macgahan   Arctic, Asia, C., Bulgaria
1871–1883   Daniel Edward Bandmann   World tours
1871–1884   Joseph Alexander von Hübner   World tours
1871–1885   Marianne North   World tours
1872–1875   William Perry Fogg   World tour, Middle East
1873–1920   William Temple Hornaday   World tours, North America, Africa
1874–1887   James Anthony Froude   World tour, South Africa, West Indies
1875–1877   Philip Phillips   World tour
1875–1894   Joseph Conrad   East Indies, Congo, West Indies
1877–1892   Francis Henry Hill Guillemard   Asia, E., South Africa, Morocco
1878–1894   Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson   United States, Pacific, Samoa
1878–1913   Henry Ogg Forbes   New Guinea, East Indies, Socotra
1879–1886   Richard Tangye   World tours, Australia, Egypt
1879–1901   George Prince of Wales   World tours
1880   Timothy Coop   World tour
1880–1882   Charles J. Lambert   Circumnavigation
1880–1886   Ernest Michel   World tours, Canada
1881   David Laamea Kalakaua   World tour, Asia, Europe
1882–1890   Maturin Murray Ballou   World tours
1883–1931   Fritz Sarasin   Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, New Caledonia
1884–1886   Thomas Stevens   World tour
1884–1894   Ethel Gwendoline Vincent   World tour, China, South America
1884–1899   Marcel Monnier   Côte d’Ivoire, Asia, South America
1885–1886   George Edward Mason   World tour
1885–1924   Lee Meriwether   Hawaii, Europe, Mediterranean
1885–1925   Karl Immanuel Eberhard von Goebel   Australia, New Zealand, Java
1887–1889   James Cumming Dewar   World cruise, Pacific
1887–1912   Henry Nicholas Ridley   Fernando Noronha I., Singapore
1887–1919   David Peck Todd   Japan, South America, Africa
1887–1923   William Louis Abbott   Asia, SE, Kashmir, West Indies
1888–1891   Baden Fletcher Smyth Baden-Powell   Australia, Pacific, New Guinea
1889–1890   Nellie Bly   World tour, Mexico
1889–1890   Elizabeth Bisland   World tour
1889–1913   Jessie A. Ackermann   World tours
1891–1892   George Fyfe   World cruise
1893–1895   Hugh Reginald Haweis   World tour
1893–1914   Francis Edward Clark   World tour, Middle East
1893–1940   Margaret Elizabeth Fountaine   World travels
1894–1896   Thomas De Witt Talmage   World tour
1894–1896   Archibald Maclean   World tour
1895–1898   Joshua Slocum   Circumnavigation
1896–1901   John Foster Fraser   World tour, Siberia
1897–1916   John Griffith London   Pacific, Yukon, Asia, E.
1898–1899   Mary Stuart Boyd   World tour
1902–1918   Victor Segalen   Circumnavigation, Tahiti, China
1903   James Willis Sayre   World tour
1916–1925   Thomas Drake   Alaska, Caribbean
  *World Travellers, 1850-1900


Expeditions to the Arctic, Greenland, and the Arctic islands, 1850-1900

1843–1851  Elisha Kent Kane   China, Africa, Arctic
1846–1860   John Franklin search expeditions   Arctic Canada
1850   Charles Codrington Forsyth   Arctic Canada
1850–1851   Edwin Jesse De Haven   Arctic Canada
1850–1851   William Penny   Arctic Canada
1850–1851   Horatio Thomas Austin   Arctic Canada
1850–1851   John Ross   Arctic Canada
1850–1854   Sherard Osborn   Arctic Canada, China
1850–1854   Robert John le Mesurier McClure   Arctic Canada
1850–1854   Richard Collinson   Arctic Canada
1851–1852   William Kennedy   Arctic Canada
1852–1854   Edward Belcher   Arctic Canada
1852–1854   Edward Augustus Inglefield   Arctic Canada
1853–1854   John Rae   Arctic Canada
1853–1855   Elisha Kent Kane   Arctic Canada, Greenland
1855–1878   August Heinrich Petermann   Arctic
1857–1859   Francis Leopold McClintock   Arctic Canada
1857–1861   Otto Martin Torell   Svalbard, Greenland, Iceland
1858–1873   Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld   Svalbard, Greenland, Arctic Ocean
1860–1861   Isaac Palestine Hayes   Arctic, Greenland, Ellesmere I.
1860–1869   Charles Francis Hall   Arctic Canada
1863–1874   Elling Carlsen   Svalbard, Novaya Zemlya, Franz Josef Land
1865–1867   Nils Fredrik Rønnbeck   Franz Josef Land, Svalbard
1869–1870   Carl Koldewey   Greenland
1869–1895   Edvard Holm Johannessen   Novaya Zemlya, Svalbard
1870–1899   Alfred Gabriel Nathorst   Svalbard, Greenland
1871   Carl Weyprecht   Arctic Ocean, Svalbard, Novaya Zemlya
1871–1873   Charles Francis Hall   Arctic Canada, Greenland
1871–1882   Benjamin Leigh Smith   Franz Josef Land, Spitsbergen
1871–1886   Albert Hastings Markham   Arctic, Pacific
1872–1874   Carl Weyprecht   Franz Josef Land
1875–1876   Allen William Young   Arctic Canada
1875–1878   Laurens Reinhart Koolemans Beynen   Arctic, Barents Sea, Canada, N.
1875–1879   George Strong Nares   Arctic, Greenland, Patagonia
1875–1880   Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld   Siberia, Arctic Ocean
1877–1885   Jens Arnold Diderich Jensen   Greenland
1879–1881   George Washington De Long   Arctic, Siberia
1880–1887   William Henry Gilder   Arctic, Siberia, Canada
1881–1884   Adolphus Washington Greely   Arctic Canada, Ellesmere I.
1881–1889   Fridtjof Nansen   Greenland, Greenland Sea
1883   Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld   Greenland
1883–1885   Gustav Frederik Holm   Greenland
1883–1893   Thomas Vilhelm Garde   Greenland
1885–1902   Eduard Vasil’yevich Toll   New Siberian Is, Siberia
1886–1892   Robert Edwin Peary   Arctic, Greenland, Nicaragua
1891–1892   Johan Alfred Björling   Greenland, Ellesmere I.
1891–1893   Erich Dagobert von Drygalski   Greenland
1891–1906   Frederick Albert Cook   Arctic, Alaska, Greenland
1892   Axel Hamberg   Svalbard
1893–1894   Fridtjof Nansen   Arctic Ocean
1893–1897   Robert Edwin Peary   Arctic, Greenland
1893–1909   Walter Wellman   Svalbard, Franz Josef Land
1894–1897   Frederick George Jackson   Franz Josef Land
1894–1906   Russell Williams Porter   Franz Josef Land, Greenland
1895–1896   Fridtjof Nansen   Arctic Ocean, Franz Josef Land, Svalbard
1895–1929   Luigi Amadeo, Duke of Abruzzi   Franz Josef Land, Kashmir, Alaska, Uganda
1896–1897   Salomon August Andrée   Arctic, Svalbard
1896–1910   Theodor Eduard Julius Lerner   Svalbard
1897–1926   Robert Abram Bartlett   Arctic Canada, North Pole
1898–1902   Otto Neumann Knoph Sverdrup   Arctic Canada, Ellesmere I.
1898–1902   Robert Edwin Peary   Arctic Canada, Greenland
1900   Gustaf Isak Kolthoff   Svalbard, Greenland
1900–1950   Ejnar Mikkelsen   Arctic, Greenland, Alaska


Expeditions to the Arctic, Greenland, and the Arctic islands, 1901 – 1940

1901–1902   Evelyn Briggs Baldwin   Franz Josef Land
1901–1909   Adrien Victor Joseph de Gerlache de Gomery   Arctic, Greenland, Persian Gulf
1901–1914   Ernest de Koven Leffingwell   Alaska, Arctic, North Pole
1902–1908   Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen   Greenland
1902–1917   Thorild Wulff   Greenland, Svalbard, China & Japan
1902–1933   Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen   Greenland
1903–1905   Anthony Fiala   Franz Josef Land
1903–1906   Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen   Arctic Canada
1904–1909   Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans   Greenland, Svalbard, Arctic
1904–1925   Joseph-Elzéar Bernier   Arctic Canada
1905–1906   Robert Edwin Peary   Arctic Canada, Ellesmere I.
1906–1912   Vilhjalmur Stefansson   Arctic Canada
1906–1930   Alfred Lothar Wegener   Greenland
1907–1909   Frederick Albert Cook   Arctic Canada
1908–1909   Robert Edwin Peary   Arctic, North Pole
1908–1954   Donald Baxter Macmillan   Arctic Canada, Greenland
1909–1913   Alfred de Quervain   Greenland
1910–1925   Oscar Wisting   Arctic Ocean, Antarctica
1910–1931   Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich von Zeppelin   Circumnavigation, Franz Josef Land, Svalbard
1911   John Tilghman Rowland   Arctic Canada, Baffin Island
1912   Vladimir Aleksandrovich Rusanov   Svalbard, Kara Sea, Novaya Zemlya
1912–1913   Johan Peter Koch   Greenland
1912–1914   Georgi Yakovlevich Sedov   Franz Josef Land, Novaya Zemlya, Siberia
1912–1914   Georgi Lvovich Brusilov   Kara Sea, Franz Josef Land
1913–1918   Vilhjalmur Stefansson   Arctic, Canada N., Wrangel I.
1914   Jan Iosifovich Nagórski   Novaya Zemlya
1914–1937   James Mann Wordie   Greenland, Baffin Island, Antarctica
1916–1959   Lauge Koch   Greenland
1918–1928   Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen   Arctic
1921–1929   Alfred Herbert Joy   Arctic, Canada N, Queen Elizabeth Is
1924–1955   Louise Arner Boyd   Spitsbergen, Greenland, North Pole
1925–1930   Hans Kurt Erich Krüger   Arctic, Canada, N, Greenland
1925–1930   Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen   Arctic, Antarctic
1925–1931   Lincoln Ellsworth   Arctic
1926   Richard Evelyn Byrd   Arctic, North Pole
1926–1928   Umberto Nobile   Arctic
1926–1935   Georgi Alekseyevich Ushakov   Severnaya Zemlya, Wrangel I., Arctic Ocean
1927–1933   Henry George Watkins   Greenland, Svalbard, Labrador
1928–1931   Parker Dresser Cramer   Greenland, Antarctica, Alaska
1930–1934   Martin Alexander Lindsay   Greenland
1932   Wolfgang von Gronau   Greenland, Aerial circumnavigat
1932–1935   Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton   Ellesmere Island, Canada N, Sarawak
1934–1976   Paul-Emile Victor   Greenland, Antarctica
1937–1938   Ivan Dmitriyevich Papanin   Arctic, North Pole
  *Arctic Exploration: historical overview
  *Spitsbergen   Svalbard
  *Novaya Zemlya
  *Jan Mayen Island
  *Greenland: historical overview
  *Franz Josef Land  
  *Northern Sea Route: the Northeast Passage   Siberia


Expeditions to the Antarctic, 1850-1940
  *Antarctic Exploration: historical overview
1843–1853  Mercator Cooper   Antarctica, Japan
1872–1894   Eduard Dallmann   Antarctica, Siberia, New Guinea
1892–1893   Dundee Antarctic Expedition   Antarctica
1892–1904   William Speirs Bruce   Antarctica, Svalbard, Franz Josef Land
1892–1924   Carl Anton Larsen   Antarctica
1893–1895   Henryk Johan Bull   Antarctica
1897–1899   Adrien Victor Joseph de Gerlache de Gomery   Antarctica
1898–1900   Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink   Antarctica
1901–1902   Robert Falcon Scott   Antarctica
1901–1903   Nils Otto Gustaf Nordenskjöld   Antarctica
1901–1903   Erich Dagobert von Drygalski   Antarctica
1902–1904   Robert Falcon Scott   Antarctica
1903–1905   Jean Baptiste Étienne Auguste Charcot   Antarctica
1907–1908   Ernest Henry Shackleton   Antarctica
1908–1909   Ernest Henry Shackleton   Antarctica
1908–1910   Jean Baptiste Étienne Auguste Charcot   Antarctica, Greenland
1910–1911   Robert Falcon Scott   Antarctica
1910–1912   Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen   Antarctica
1910–1912   Nobu Shirase   Antarctica
1910–1912   Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen   Antarctica
1910–1913   Robert Falcon Scott   Antarctica
1911–1912   Robert Falcon Scott   Antarctica
1911–1912   Douglas Mawson   Antarctica
1911–1912   Wilhelm Filchner   Antarctica
1911–1913   Robert Falcon Scott   Antarctica
1911–1914   Douglas Mawson   Antarctica
1913–1939   George Hubert Wilkins   Antarctica, Arctic
1914–1917   Ernest Henry Shackleton   Antarctica
1917–1919   Ernest Henry Shackleton   South America, Spitsbergen, Russia
1920–1922   John Lachlan Cope   Antarctica
1921–1922   Ernest Henry Shackleton   Antarctica
1928–1935   Richard Evelyn Byrd   Antarctica, South Pole
1929–1931   Douglas Mawson   Antarctica
1933–1939   Lincoln Ellsworth   Antarctica
1934–1937   John Riddoch Rymill   Antarctica, Greenland
1938–1939   Alfred Ritscher   Antarctica


The exploration of New Zealand, 1850-1900

  New Zealand 1-9 (regional articles)  
  New Zealand 10: Stewart Island   Stewart I.
1845–1851   Charles Henry Kettle   New Zealand
1847–1855   Frederick Aloysius Weld   New Zealand
1850–1852   John Robert Godley   New Zealand
1851–1855   George Rhodes   New Zealand
1852   Edward Jollie   New Zealand
1852–1887   John Rochfort   New Zealand
1853   Nathanael Chalmers   New Zealand
1853–1855   James Mackenzie   New Zealand
1855   Michael John Burke   New Zealand
1855–1856   John Barton Arundel Acland   New Zealand
1855–1880   Stephenson Percy Smith   New Zealand, Niue, Kermadec Is
1856–1860   John Turnbull Thomson   New Zealand
1856–1864   John Buchanan   New Zealand
1857   Leonard Harper   New Zealand
1857–1860   James Mackay   New Zealand
1857–1860   Christian Gottlieb Ferdinand von Hochstetter   New Zealand
1858–1863   Johann Franz Julius von Haast   New Zealand
1860   William Thomas Locke Travers   New Zealand
1860–1861   Samuel Butler   New Zealand
1860–1884   Arthur Dudley Dobson   New Zealand
1860–1884   Edward Dobson   New Zealand
1860–1896   John Holland Baker   New Zealand
1861–1864   Thomas Gabriel Read   New Zealand
1861–1864   James Mckerrow   New Zealand
1862–1863   James Hector   New Zealand, Canada
1862–1864   James Coutts Crawford   New Zealand
1863   Patrick Quirk Caples   New Zealand
1863–1864   Alphonse J. Barrington   New Zealand
1863–1890   Alexander Mckay   New Zealand
1865–1891   Gerhard Mueller   New Zealand
1867–1894   Thomas Kirk   New Zealand, Stewart I.
1868–1900   Charles Edward Douglas   New Zealand
1870–1890   Alfred Henry Burton   New Zealand
1876–1888   William Henry Skinner   New Zealand
1877–1880   Donald Sutherland   New Zealand
1877–1889   Andreas Reischek   New Zealand
1877–1903   Thomas Noel Brodrick   New Zealand
1881–1909   Samuel Horatio Moreton   New Zealand
1883–1891   Laurence Cussen   New Zealand
1885–1908   Leonard Cockayne   New Zealand
1887–1909   Henry Douglas Morpeth Haszard   New Zealand, Niue, Kermadec Is
1890–1926   Arthur Paul Harper   New Zealand
1878–1884   Henry Ling Roth   Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand

Other travellers and circumnavigators, 1877-1940

1877–1879   Charles Maries   Japan, China
1881–1893   Carl Alfred Bock   Thailand, China
1891–1895   Otto Ehrenfried Ehlers   Myanmar, Vietnam, New Guinea
1893–1920   George Ernest Morrison   China, Myanmar
1898–1924   Johan Gunnar Andersson   Bear Island, Antarctica, Svalbard
1900–1940   Wilhelm Filchner   Central Asia, Tibet, Nepal
1903–1904   Raphael Pumpelly   Turkmenistan
1856–1857   Perry McDonough Collins   Siberia
1895–1902   Vladimir Ilich Jochelson   Siberia
1900   Vladimir Germanovich Bogoras   Siberia
1896–1899   Harlan Ingersol Smith   British Columbia
1860–1899   William Henry Brewer   California, Alaska, Greenland
1850–1859   Moritz Freidrich Wagner   Central America, Ecuador, Middle East
1850–1860   Dora Hort   Nicaragua, Tahiti
1851–1890   Adolphe Boucard   United States, Central America, South America
1852–1864   Bedford Clapperton Trevelyan Pim   Central America, Nicaragua, Arctic Canada
1852–1872   Karl Ritter von Scherzer   Central America, Asia E., Circumnavigation
1875–1885   Max Joseph August Heinrich Hans Buchner   Angola, New Zealand, Hawaii
1876–1910   Carl Sophus Lumholtz   Australia, Mexico
1884–1902   Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall   Mexico
1890–1905   Carl Vilhelm Hartman   Mexico, Central America
1862–1866   Luis Hernández Pinzón y Álvares   South America, Amazon
1865–1866   Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz   Brazil
1870–1879   John Whetham Boddam-Whetham   Guyana, Pacific, California
1901–1955   Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg   Patagonia, Antarctica, Juan Fernández Is


Travellers in Madagascar, 1863-1920

1863–1916   James Sibree   Madagascar, India
1877–1905   Joseph Simon Galliéni   Madagascar, Africa, W., Vietnam
1906–1921   Walter Alexander Kaudern   Madagascar, Sulawesi
  *Comoros
  *Madagascar   Malagasy

The exploration of New Guinea, 1861-1940
 
  *New Guinea: the British colony   Papua
  *New Guinea: the German colony   Papua, Kaiser-Wilhelmsland
  *New Guinea: the Dutch colony   Irian Jaya, West Papua
  *New Guinea: Roman Catholic missions
1861–1905     William George Lawes  New Guinea, Niue
1865–1930   Johann Flierl   New Guinea
1866–1901   James Chalmers   New Guinea, Cook Is
1868–1876   Sidney Spencer Broomfield   New Guinea, Mozambique
1870–1883   Nikolai Nikolayevich Miklouho-Maclay   New Guinea, Easter I.
1871–1874   John Moresby   New Guinea
1872–1877   Luigi Maria d’Albertis   New Guinea
1875   William John Macleay   New Guinea, Queensland
1876–1898   Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch   New Guinea, Pacific, Central Asia
1882–1883   George Ernest Morrison   New Guinea, Australia
1883–1886   Harry Scott   New Guinea, Murray I.
1885   Henry Charles Everill   New Guinea
1885–1892   John William Lindt   New Guinea, Vanuatu, Fji, Australia
1886–1888   John Douglas   New Guinea
1888–1898   William Macgregor   New Guinea
1889–1891   Albert Alexander Maclaren   New Guinea
1893–1917   John Henry Holmes   New Guinea
1898–1899   Alfred Cort Haddon   New Guinea, Murray Is, Sarawak
1900–1935   William James Viritahitemauvai Saville   New Guinea
1904–1934   Beatrice Grimshaw   New Guinea, Pacific
1910–1913   Alexander Frederick Richmond Wollaston   New Guinea, West Papua
1911   Miles Staniforth Cater Smith   New Guinea
1926–1928   Charles Henry Karius   New Guinea
1931–1935   Jack Gordon Hides   New Guinea
1936   Anton Hendrikus Colijn   New Guinea, Irian Jaya

Voyages in Indonesia and the islands of the East Indies, 1850-1940
 
  *Borneo: Kalimantan
  *Borneo: Sarawak, Sabah and Brunei  
  *Borneo: missionaries in the British colonies   Borneo, Sarawak, Sabah
  *Sulawesi   Celebes
  *Sumatra
1841–1864  August Hardeland   Borneo, South Africa
1846–1880   Pieter Johannes Veth   East Indies, Sumatra
1865–1878   Odoardo Beccari   New Guinea, Borneo, Sumatra
1867–1901   Rogier Diederik Marius Verbeek   Sumatra, Krakatau, East Indies
1877   Johannes Schouw Santvoort   Sumatra
1878–1880   Carl Alfred Bock   Borneo, Sumatra
1881–1900   Max Wilhelm Carl Weber   East Indies, South Africa, Barents Sea
1893–1894   Gustaaf Adolf Frederik Molengraaff   Borneo
1893–1899   Anton Willem Nieuwenhuis   Borneo
1898–1937   Wijnand Otto Jan Nieuwenkamp   Bali, Indonesia
1905–1914   Lilian Suzette Gibbs   Borneo, New Guinea, Fiji
1913–1917   Carl Sophus Lumholtz   Borneo

Aviation and pioneer aviators

1850–1940   *Aviation: balloons, dirigibles & airships  
1903–1940   *Aviation: aeroplanes and pioneer aviators
1883–1922  Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho   Africa, Timor, Brazil
1918–1924   Archibald Stuart Maclaren   India, Asia, Kamchatka
1919   Ross Macpherson Smith   Asia, Australia
1920   Arturo Ferrarin   Japan, India, China
1920   Pierre Van Ryneveld   South Africa
1922   Norman Macmillan   Asia, India, Myanmar
1924   Frederick L. Martin   Aerocircumnavigation
1924   Georges Edme Charles Marie Pelletier D’Oisy   China, Japan


Volume 3: 1850-1940: continental exploration


Explorers in Bolivia, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay and Amazonia, 1850-1900

1825–1860   William Bollaert   South America, Texas
1838–1866   Johann Jakob von Tschudi   Brazil, Peru, Argentina
1842–1860   Paul Marcoy   Peru, Brazil, Amazon
1846–1875   Rafael de Taggia   Brazil, R. Tocantins, R. Araguaia
1850–1860   Hermann Burmeister   Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay
1851–1852   William Lewis Herndon   Peru, Brazil
1851–1869   Antonio Raimondi   Peru
1852–1853   Charles Blachford Mansfield   Paraguay
1853–1856   Thomas Jefferson Page   Paraguay, Argentina
1854–1869   William Chandless   Brazil, Amazonia, United States
1854–1888   Ernst Wilhelm Middendorf   Peru, Bolivia
1856–1860   David Forbes   Bolivia, Chile, Peru
1856–1867   Franz Keller-Leuzinger   Brazil
1857–1879   George Earl Church   Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina
1858–1859   Robert Christian Berthold Avé-Lallement   Brazil, Amazon
1858–1859   François Auguste Biard   Brazil
1858–1861   Antonio Gonçalves Dias   Brazil, Amazon
1860–1880   Michael George Mulhall   Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil
1861   Thomas Woodbine Hinchliff   World travels, South America
1862   Frederico José de Santa-Anna Nery   Brazil, Amazon
1862–1880   José Vieira Couto de Magalhães   Brazil
1864–1865   Aureliano Candido Tavares Bastos   Brazil, Amazon
1864–1878   Gustav Wallis   Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil
1864–1886   Mariano Felipe Paz Soldán   Peru, Argentina
1865–1866   Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz   Brazil
1865–1878   Charles Frederick Hartt   Brazil
1865–1891   Emilia Serrano De Wilson   South America, Ecuador, Mexico
1866–1911   Henry Alexander Wickham   South America, Australia, Central America
1867–1877   James Orton   Ecuador, Brazil, Bolivia
1868–1877   Alfons Stübel   Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
1868–1890   João Barbosa Rodrigues   Brazil, Amazon
1869–1890   António Rodrigues Pereira Labre   Brazil, R. Purus
1870–1887   Herbert Huntington Smith   Brazil, Amazon
1871–1882   John Ball   South America, Morocco
1873–1875   James William Helenus Trail   Brazil, Amazon
1874–1904   Carl Ernst Otto Kuntze   World travels, South America
1875–1910   Therese von Bayern   South America, United States
1875–1925   Hans Heinrich Bruning   Peru
1876–1885   Charles Wiener   Peru, Bolivia, Chile
1877–1903   Adolph(e) Francis Alphonse Bandelier   Peru, Bolivia, United States, SW
1879–1882   Edwin Ruthven Heath   Bolivia, Peru, Brazil
1879–1890   Ermanno Stradelli   Brazil, R. Negro
1879–1898   Karl von den Steinen   Brazil, R. Xingu, Marquesas
1879–1909   Edward Whymper   Ecuador, Canada
1880–1910   William Eleroy Curtis   South America, Asia
1880–1915   Hermann von Ihering   Brazil, Argentina
1881–1899   Henri Anatole Coudreau   French Guiana, Brazil, Amazonia
1883–1885   Émile Arthur Thouar   Argentina, Paraguay, R. Pilcomayo
1883–1929   Moisés Santiago Bertoni   Paraguay
1884–1906   Paul Max Alexander Ehrenreich   Brazil, Asia, North America
1885–1922   Henry Hurd Rusby   Bolivia
1886–1921   John Augustine Zahm   South America, Hawaii, Palestine
1888–1902   Guido Boggiani   Paraguay
1890–1930   William Singer Barclay   South America
1890–1930   Wilfrid Barbrooke Grubb   Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina
1890–1938   Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon   Brazil
1892–1903   Max Uhle   Peru, Bolivia, Argentina
1893–1895   Terêncio Antonio de Lima   Brazil, R. Branco
1894–1897   Edward Arthur Fitzgerald   Argentina, Mt Aconcagua
1894–1901   Fritz W. Up De Graff   Ecuador, Brazil, Amazon
1895–1899   Hermann Meyer   Brazil, R. Xingu
1895–1907   Émil August Goeldi   Brazil, Amazon, Amapá
1896–1911   Marie Robinson Wright   South America, Mexico
1896–1932   Nils Erland Herbert Nordenskiöld   South America
1897–1911   Annie Smith Peck   Peru, Bolivia, Mexico
1897–1918   Joseph Nelson Rose   South America, Mexico, West Indies
1899   William Edmund Leach   Argentina, R. Bermejo, R. Pilcomayo
1900–1909   Ernst Heinrich Georg Ule   Brazil, Amazon
1900–1925   Harriet Chalmers Adams   South America
1900–1929   Alberto Vojtech Fric   Brazil, Paraguay
1900–1946   Arthur Posnansky   Bolivia


Explorers in Bolivia, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay and Amazonia, 1901 – 1940

1901–1906   Paul Rivet   Ecuador, Colombia
1901–1925   Alexander Hamilton Rice   Brazil, Venezuela, Canal Casiquiare
1901–1926   Max Schmidt   Brazil, Paraguay
1901–1928   August Weberbauer   Peru, Cameroun
1903   Georges de Créqui-Montfort   Peru, Bolivia, Chile
1903–1907   Cecil Herbert Prodgers   Bolivia, Peru
1904–1905   J. Delebecque   Ecuador, Peru, Brazil
1904–1905   Euclides da Cunha   Brazil
1904–1930   Charles Wellington Furlong   Guyana, Bolivia, Tierra del Fuego, Africa
1905–1912   Theodor Carl Julius Herzog   Bolivia, Sri Lanka
1905–1926   Constant Tastevin   Brazil, Amazonia
1905–1929   Maria Emilie Snethlage   Brazil, Amazon
1905–1933   Frederick Walker   South America, United States, Central America
1905–1945   Curt Unkel   Brazil, Amazonia
1906–1909   Percy Harrison Fawcett   Bolivia, Brazil
1906–1913   William Curtis Farabee   Peru, Brazil, Guyana
1906–1915   Hiram Bingham   Peru, Venezuela, Colombia
1907–1913   Carlos Chagas   Brazil, Amazon, Minas Geraes
1907–1913   Isaiah Bowman   Peru
1908–1909   Thomas Whiffen   Brazil, Colombia
1909–1910   Henry Major Tomlinson   Brazil, Amazon
1910   Roger David Casement   Brazil, R. Putumayo
1910   Frank Michler Chapman   Ecuador, Colombia, Peru
1910–1912   Algot Lange   Brazil, Amazon
1910–1914   Percy Harrison Fawcett   Bolivia, Brazil
1910–1930   Carlotta Joaquina Maury   Brazil, Venezuela, Dominican Republic
1910–1931   Charles William Domville-Fife   South America, Amazon, Sudan
1911–1916   Leo Edward Miller   South America
1913–1914   Theodore Roosevelt   Brazil
1915–1945   Adolfo Ducke   Brazil, Amazon
1919–1933   Edward Wilber Berry   Bolivia, Peru, Venezuela
1920   Kenneth George Grubb   Brazil, Amazon
1920–1925   Percy Harrison Fawcett   Brazil
1920–1940   William N. Merryman   Brazil, Ecuador, Amazonia
1921–1929   Gordon Macreagh   Bolivia, Brazil, Ethiopia
1922–1950   Alfred Métraux   South America, Easter I., Haiti
1923–1934   Emil Heinrich Snethlage   Brazil, Amazon, Maranhão
1924–1963   Friedrich Ahlfeld   Bolivia, Africa, Asia
1925–1937   Aimé Félix Tschiffely   South America, Patagonia, Central America
1925–1938   Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia   South America, Mexico, Alaska
1926–1930   Henri Michaux   Ecuador, Asia, South Africa
1926–1938   Carl Troll   South America, Africa, Himalaya
1927   Roberto M. Gerstmann   Chile, Bolivia, Colombia
1927–1955   Percy Harrison Fawcett   Brazil
1932–1950   Wendell Clark Bennett   Bolivia, Peru, Colombia
1935–1937   Eric Erskine Loch   Ecuador
  *South America: travellers, collectors & tourists

Explorers in Guiana, Colombia and Venezuela, 1850- 1940

1840–1879  William Henry Brett   Guyana
1848–1868   Karl Ferdinand Appun   Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil
1850–1940   historical overview Surinam   Surinam
1852–1857   Jean Jacques Élisée Reclus   Colombia, United States
1855–1859   Francisco Michelena y Rojas   Venezuela, Brasil
1860–1862   Charles Saffray   Colombia
1867–1874   Benedikt Roezl   South America, Mexico
1870–1934   Felipe Aguerrevere   Venezuela, Peru, Chile
1875   Édouard François André   Colombia
1876–1882   Jules Nicolas Crevaux   French Guiana, Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia
1880–1890   Alfred Hettner   South America, Colombia
1884   Everard Ferdinand Im Thurn   Guyana, Mt Roraima
1884–1898   Jean Chaffanjon   Venezuela, Orinoco, Asia, C.
1884–1909   Wilhelm Friedrich Sievers   Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador
1892–1925   Alfredo Jahn   Venezuela
1895–1907   Richard Harding Davis   Venezuela, Central America, Congo
1898–1924   Theodor Koch-Grünberg   Brazil, Venezuela
1903–1907   Claudius Henricus de Goeje   Surinam
1907–1916   Cecil Clementi   Guyana, China
1921–1948   George Henry Hamilton Tate   Guyana, New Guinea, West Africa
1922–1950   Ellsworth Paine Killip   Colombia, Peru
1927–1951   Félix Cardona Puig   Venezuela, Angel Falls
1929–1947   William Andrew Archer   South America, Colombia, United States W.

Explorers in Argentina, Patagonia and Chile, 1850-1940

1836–1852   Bernardo Eunom Philippi   Chile
1847–1883   Luis Piedra Buena   Patagonia
1848–1851   Allen Francis Gardiner   Tierra del Fuego
1853–1854   Rodulfo Amando Philippi   Chile, Atacama Desert
1855–1861   Auguste M. Guinnard   Argentina, Chile
1856–1857   Francisco Adolfo Fonck   Chile
1856–1898   Thomas Bridges   Tierra del Fuego
1858–1876   Orélie-Antoine de Tounens   Chile, Patagonia
1862–1863   Guillermo Eloy Cox   Chile, Patagonia
1865–1866   George Claraz   Patagonia
1869–1870   George Chaworth Musters   Patagonia
1870–1873   Enrique Simpson   Chile
1870–1884   Antonio Oneto   Patagonia
1870–1923   Santiago Roth   Argentina, Patagonia
1872–1908   Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg   Argentina, Bolivia
1873–1902   Francisco Josué Pascasio Moreno   Patagonia
1876–1883   José Christiano Junior   Argentina
1877–1884   Carlos María Moyano   Patagonia
1878–1881   Florence Caroline Dixie   Patagonia, South Africa
1878–1897   Ramón Lista   Patagonia, R. Pilcomayo
1880–1892   Eduardo O’Connor   Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego
1882–1883   Louis Ferdinand Martial   Tierra del Fuego, Chile, Argentina
1884–1901   Carlos V. Burmeister   Patagonia
1885–1886   Luis Jorge Fontana   Patagonia
1885–1931   Carlos Ameghino   Patagonia, Argentina
1886–1893   Julio Popper   Tierra del Fuego
1886–1916   José Fagnano   Tierra del Fuego
1887–1888   Silvano Agustín del Castillo   Patagonia
1889–1897   Clemente Onelli   Patagonia
1893–1902   Hans Steffen   Chile, Argentina, Patagonia
1896–1899   John Bell Hatcher   Patagonia
1897–1930   Robert Lehmann-Nitsche   Argentina
1910–1957   Alberto Maria de Agostini   Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego
1914–1931   Gunther Plüschow   Tierra del Fuego, China
1916–1935   Martin Gusinde   Chile, Tierra del Fuego, Congo
  *Patagonia: historical overview
  *Patagonia: the Welsh colony  
Selected travellers and archaeologists in Central America, 1850-1940

1845–1865   Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg   Mexico, Guatemala, Canada
1849–1868   Ephraim George Squier   Central America, Peru
1852–1878   Thomas Belt   Nicaragua, Australia, Russia, U.S.A.
1856–1857   Hermann Wendland   Central America
1857–1875   Osbert Salvin   Guatemala, Belize
1857–1886   Claude Joseph Désiré Charnay   Mexico, South America, Madagascar
1862–1885   Augustus Le Plongeon   Mexico, Peru
1867–1909   Teobert Maler   Mexico
1869–1897   Heinrich Franz Alexander von Eggers   West Indies, Venezuela, Ecuador
1872–1907   Alfred Percival Maudslay   Guatemala, Mexico
1885–1926   Edward Herbert Thompson   Mexico
1887–1910   Eduard Georg Seler   Mexico
1887–1950   Henri-François Pittier   Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela
1890–1905   Carl Vilhelm Hartman   Costa Rica, Mexico
1902–1910   Alfred Marston Tozzer   Mexico
1907–1939   Walter Lehmann   Central America, South America
1909–1940   Sylvanus Griswold Morley   Mexico
1913–1924   Frederick Albert Mitchell-Hedges   Central America

Exploration and surveying in the United States, 1850-1900

1844–1857   William Helmsley Emory   Arizona, California, New Mexico
1847–1854   Jules Marcou   United States
1847–1865   Josiah Dwight Whitney   United States, California
1848–1855   John Pope   Texas, Minnesota
1849–1853   John Williams Gunnison   Kansas, Colorado, Utah
1849–1853   George Horatio Derby   California, Arizona
1849–1855   Robert Stockton Williamson   California
1849–1856   Randolph Barnes Marcy   Texas, Oklahoma
1849–1858   Francis Theodore Bryan   Texas, Kansas, Florida
1850–1853   John Russell Bartlett   New Mexico, Arizona
1850–1895   George Davidson   California, Alaska
1851   Lorenzo Sitgreaves   Arizona
1851–1858   Heinrich Balduin Möllhausen   United States
1851–1869   John Grubb Parke   Arizona, New Mexico, Washington
1853–1854   Edward Griffin Beckwith   Utah, Nevada, California
1853–1854   Amiel Weeks Whipple   Texas, New Mexico, Arizona
1853–1857   Isaac Ingalls Stevens   Washington, Idaho, Montana
1853–1862   John Mullan   Washinton, Idaho, Montana
1853–1865   George Clinton Swallow   Missouri, Kansas
1853–1878   Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden   Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado
1854–1856   St George Gore   Montana
1855   Henry Larcom Abbot   Oregon, California
1855–1857   Gouverneur Kemble Warren   Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota
1857–1858   Joseph Christmas Ives   Arizona, Colorado R.
1857–1859   Edward Fitzgerald Beale   Arizona, New Mexico, California
1857–1873   James Stuart   Montana
1857–1875   Archibald Campbell   United States, Canada
1858–1859   James Hervey Simpson   Nevada, Utah
1858–1860   Benjamin Franklin Shumard   Texas
1859   John Navarre Macomb   Utah, Colorado, New Mexico
1859–1860   William Franklin Raynolds   Wyoming
1863–1873   Clarence King   California, Nevada, Utah
1867–1872   John Wesley Powell   Utah, Arizona, Colorado
1867–1903   John Muir   California, Alaska
1868–1875   Othniel Charles Marsh   Dakota
1868–1878   George Montague Wheeler   United States, S.W.
1869   David E. Folsom   Wyoming, Yellowstone
1870   Henry Dana Washburn   Wyoming, Yellowstone
1871–1905   Grove Karl Gilbert   Utah, California
1872–1916   William Henry Holmes   United States, Central America
1875–1890   Clarence Edward Dutton   Arizona, Utah, California
1876–1931   Charles Hazelius Sternberg   United States, Canada
1877–1886   Albert Samuel Gatschet   United States
1879–1925   Charles Doolittle Walcott   United States, Canada
1880–1930   Alice Eastwood   California, Colorado, Alaska
1881–1893   Alice Cunningham Fletcher   United States
1884–1894   Charles Fletcher Lummis   New Mexico, Arizona, California
1897–1930   Barnum Brown   United States, Canada, Myanmar
1901–1908   Annie Montague Alexander   United States, Alaska

Exploration and surveying in Canada and Alaska, 1850-1890

1844–1859   James Hunter   Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories
1845–1855   James Green Stewart   Northwest Territories, Yukon
1849–1916   Albert Lacombe   Alberta, Saskatchewan
1852–1864   Pierre-Henri Grollier   Northwest Territories
1852–1884   Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn   Canada, Australia
1854–1900   *Alaska: coastal surveys, 1854-1900  
1860–1900   *Alaska: inland exploration, 1860-1900
1855  James Anderson   Northwest Territories, Nunavut
1857–1860   John Palliser   Canada
1857–1861   Henry Youle Hind   Manitoba, Labrador
1858–1863   Henry Spencer Palmer   British Columbia
1859–1860   James Carnegie   Alberta
1859–1866   Robert Kennicott   Alaska, Yukon
1862–1864   William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam   Alberta, British Columbia
1862–1882   Émile Fortuné Stanislas Joseph Petitot   Northwest Territories
1863–1876   George Millward Mcdougall   Alberta
1865–1899   William Healey Dall   Alaska
1865–1906   William Carpenter Bompas   Northwest Territories, Yukon
1869   Charles Walker Raymond   Alaska
1869–1897   Robert Bell   Hudson Bay, Baffin I.
1870–1873   William Francis Butler   Canada
1871–1885   Sandford Fleming   Canada
1872–1887   George Mercer Dawson   British Columbia, Yukon
1872–1890   Henry Wood Elliott   Alaska, Pribilof Is
1872–1910   John Macoun   Canada
1873–1875   George Arthur French   Sasakatchewan, Alberta
1874–1884   Lucien McShan Turner   Alaska, Quebec
1875–1910   William Ogilvie   Yukon, Alberta
1876–1880   Pierre Zacharie Lacasse   Labrador, Quebec
1877–1907   Edward William Nelson   Alaska, California, Mexico
1878–1891   Frederick Gustavus Schwatka   Alaska
1881–1883   John Murdoch   Alaska
1882–1908   Clive Phillips-Wolley   British Columbia
1884–1886   Andrew Robertson Gordon   Hudson Bay
1884–1900   Henry Roger Ashwell Pocock   United States
1884–1904   Albert Peter Low   Quebec, Nunavut
1888–1901   Keish, and the Klondike gold rush   Yukon
1889–1894   Warburton Mayer Pike   Northwest Territories, Yukon


Exploration and surveying in Canada and Alaska, 1890 – 1940

1892–1894   Joseph Burr Tyrrell   Manitoba, Nunavut
1892–1894   Frank Russell   Northwest Territories
1892–1909   Wilfred Thomason Grenfell   Labrador, Newfoundland
1893–1901   Walter Dwight Wilcox   Alberta, British Columbia
1894–1895   Charles Constantine   Yukon
1897–1917   John Douglas Moodie   Nunavut, Yukon
1899   Edward Henry Harriman   Alaska
1899–1901   David Theophilus Hanbury   Northwest Territories, Nunavut
1900–1907   Reginald Aldworth Daly   Labrador
1900–1934   Edward Alexander Preble   Alaska
1902–1930   Morrison Parsons Bridgland   Alberta, British Columbia
1903–1905   Leonidas & Mina Benson Hubbard   Labrador
1908   Agnes Deans Cameron   Northwest Territories, Alberta
1908–1927   John Hornby   Northwest Territories
1910–1921   Robert Joseph Flaherty   Quebec, Hudson Bay
1911–1912   Thomas William Wilby   United States
1915–1916   Charles Dearing Lanauze   Northwest Territories
1916–1918   Francis H. French   Nunavut, Northwest Territories
1922–1936   Alf Erling Porsild   Alaska, Greenland
1924–1925   H.L. Fraser   Northwest Territories
1924–1929   Thierry Mallet   Manitoba, Nunavut
1926   Clara Coltman Vyvyan   Northwest Territories, Alaska
1929–1935   Andrew Bahr   Alaska, Northwest Territories

Explorers and travellers in West Africa, the Sahara and Egypt, 1850-1890

1843–1876   Alfred Saker   Cameroon
1850   Filippo da Segni   Sahara, Libya, Nigeria
1850   Léopold Panet   Mauritania
1850–1855   Heinrich Barth   Sahara, Lake Chad, Mali
1853–1856   Eduard Vogel   Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad
1854–1864   William Balfour Baikie   Nigeria
1857–1861   Henri Duveyrier   Sahara, Algeria, Tunisia
1857–1880   John Hawley Glover   Nigeria, Ghana, Newfoundland
1859–1866   Eugène Abdon Mage   Mauritania, Senegal, Mali
1860–1862   Alioun-Sal   Mauritania
1860–1863   Karl Moritz von Beurmann   Sahara, Libya, Sudan
1860–1879   Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs   Sahara, Libya, Egypt
1862–1874   William Winwood Reade   Sierra Leone, Ghana, Angola
1868–1888   Gottlob Adolf Krause   Ghana, Burkina, Libya
1869–1874   Marie-Joseph Bonnat   Ghana
1869–1875   Gustav Nachtigal   Sahara, Chad
1872–1886   Paul Soleillet   Sahara, Djibouti, Ethiopia
1875–1877   Erwin von Bary   Sahara, Niger, Libya
1875–1887   Heinrich Oskar Lenz   Sahara, Gabon, Congo
1876–1915   Mary Mitchell Slessor   Nigeria
1877–1900   George Dashwood Goldie   Nigeria
1878–1885   Josef Chavanne   Sahara, Angola
1879   Josua Zweifel   R. Niger, Sierra Leone, Guinea
1879–1881   Joseph Simon Gallieni   Mali, Senegal
1879–1885   Maurizio Buonfanti   Sahara, West Africa, South America
1879–1886   Eduard Robert Flegel   Nigeria
1879–1887   Johann Büttikofer   Liberia
1880–1881   Isidore Antoine Michel Derrien   Senegal, Mali
1880–1881   Paul François Xavier Flatters   Sahara, Algeria
1880–1883   Jean Marie Bayol   Guinea, Senegal, Mali
1880–1900   Fernand Foureau   Sahara, Algeria, Chad
1883–1916   Charles Eugène de Foucauld   Morocco, Algeria, Sahara
1884–1897   Eugen Zintgraff   Cameroon, Angola
1886   Julio Cervera   Western Sahara
1887   Camille Douls   Sahara, Western Sahara, Morocco
1887–1888   Jules Plat   Guinea
1887–1889   Marcel Treich-Laplène   Côte D’Ivoire
1887–1889   Louis Gustave Binger   Côte D’Ivoire, Burkina, Ghana
1888–1893   Pierre Louis Archinard   Mali, Guinea
1889–1894   Ernst Curt von Morgen   Cameroon
1890–1892   Parfait-Louis Monteil   West Africa, Burkina, Nigeria
1890–1893   Louis Alexandre Antoine Mizon   Nigeria


Explorers and travellers in West Africa, the Sahara and Egypt, 1891 – 1940

1891–1892   Jean Dybowski   Central African Rep
1891–1901   Prosper Augustin Hacquard   Algeria, Mali, Burkina
1892–1893   Casimir Léon Maistre   Central African Rep, Chad, Nigeria
1893–1902   Otto Karl Siegfried Passarge   Cameroon, Namibia, Venezuela
1895–1898   Louis Edgard de Trentinian   Senegal, Mali
1895–1902   Émile Gentil   Chad, Central African Rep
1895–1902   Georges Matthieu Destenave   Burkina Faso, Chad
1896–1903   Émile Auguste Léon Hourst   R. Niger, R. Yangtze
1899–1904   Auguste Chevalier   Chad, Central African Rep.
1899–1904   Isabelle Wilhelmine Marie Eberhardt   Algeria
1900–1931   Frederick William Hugh Migeod   West Africa, East Africa
1901–1903   Eugène Armand Lenfant   Nigeria, Chad
1901–1920   Henri Laperrine   Sahara, Algeria, Mali
1904–1905   Captain Flye Sainte Marie   Sahara, Algeria
1904–1909   Hermann Karl Wilhelm Kumm   Nigeria, Sudan
1904–1910   Boyd Alexander   Chad, Nigeria, Bioko
1904–1933   Leo Frobenius   Africa
1906   Hanns Vischer   Sahara, Nigeria
1906–1917   Jean Tilho   Sahara, Chad, Niger
1906–1930   Hans Hermann Schomburgk   Africa, Togo, Liberia
1907–1911   Adolf Friedrich von Mecklenburg   Central Africa
1909–1912   Georges Reynard de Gironcourt   Mali, Niger, Nigeria
1920–1921   Rosita Forbes   Libya
1920–1923   Ahmed Hassanein   Libya, Egypt, Sudan
1922–1925   Georges-Marie Haardt   Sahara, Africa
1922–1936   Théodore André Monod   Sahara, West Africa
1924–1969   Carl Gösta Moberg   Africa, Guiana, Alaska
1926   Dorothy Rachel Melissa Mills   West Africa, Liberia
1926–1935   László Ede Almásy   Egypt
1927–1931   Knud Holmboe   North Africa
1927–1938   Ralph Alger Bagnold   Egypt, Libya, Sudan
  *Egypt & Libya: exploration of the Great Sand Sea  
  *Central African Republic  

Explorers and travellers in East Africa, Ethiopia, Sudan and Eritrea, 1850-1890

1841–1882   Hormuzd Rassam   Ethiopia, Iraq, Yemen
1846–1879   Guglielmo Massaja   Ethiopia
1847–1862   Pierre-Henri Stanislas d’ Escayrac de Lauture   Sudan, China
1847–1876   Alfred Edmund Brehm   Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia
1850–1861   Alfred Peney   Sudan, Uganda
1850–1868   Ethiopia the British expedition (1867-68)   Ethiopia
1850–1876   Martin Theodor von Heuglin   Sudan, Ethiopia, Arctic
1852–1862   Karl Franz Binder   Sudan, Ethiopia
1852–1875   Johann Albert Werner Munzinger   Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti
1853–1862   Giovanni Beltrame   Sudan, Ethiopia
1854–1859   John Hanning Speke   Somalia, Tanzania, L. Victoria
1855–1863   Franz Morlang   Sudan
1856   Johannes Chrysostomos Joseph Mitterrutzner   Sudan
1856–1869   Alexine Tinne   Sudan, Egypt, Sahara
1856–1876   Carlo Piaggia   Sudan, Uganda
1857–1859   Richard Francis Burton   Tanzania, L. Tanganyika
1857–1881   Daniele Comboni   Sudan
1858–1864   Eugène de Pruyssenaere   Sudan
1858–1871   Henry Morton Stanley   United States, Mediterranean, Ethiopia
1859–1860   Adalbert von Barnim   Sudan
1859–1861   Wilhelm von Harnier   Sudan
1859–1872   Giovanni Miani   Sudan, Congo
1859–1882   Orazio Antinori   Ethiopia, Sudan
1860–1863   John Hanning Speke   Tanzania, Uganda, Sudan
1860–1865   Karl Klaus von der Decken   Tanzania, Mt Kilimanjaro, Somalia
1860–1866   Guillaume Lejean   Sudan, Ethiopia, India
1861–1874   Samuel White Baker   Sudan, Uganda
1865–1868   Richard Brenner   Somalia, Kenya
1868–1870   Joseph Halévy   Ethiopia, Yemen
1868–1871   Georg August Schweinfurth   Sudan, Congo
1869–1875   Gustav Adolf Haggenmacher   Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan
1869–1878   John Boden Thomson   Tanzania, Zimbabwe
1869–1883   Papagiotis Potagos   Asia, Central Africa
1869–1883   Ernst Marno   Sudan, Ethiopia
1874–1875   Charles Chaillé-Long   Sudan, Uganda, Somalia
1874–1881   Romolo Gessi   Sudan, Uganda, Ethiopia
1874–1914   Rudolf Carl Slatin   Sudan
1876–1886   Wilhelm Junker   Sudan, Congo, Uganda
1876–1886   Gustav Adolf Fischer   Kenya, Tanzania
1876–1889   Emin Pasha   Sudan, Uganda
1876–1890   Alexander Murdoch Mackay   Uganda, Tanzania
1877–1880   Richard Buchta   Sudan, Uganda
1877–1881   Pellegrino Matteucci   Ethiopia, Sudan, Chad
1877–1890   Frank Linsly James   Sudan
1877–1896   Antonio Cecchi   Ethiopia, Somalia
1878–1881   Charles William Pearson   Uganda
1878–1883   Anton Stecker   Ethiopia, Libya
1878–1884   Gustavo Bianchi   Ethiopia
1878–1890   Siméon Lourdel   Uganda, Tanzania
1879–1881   Giuseppe Maria Giulietti   Ethiopia, Eritrea
1879–1890   Gaetano Casati   Sudan, Congo, Uganda
1879–1891   Harry Hamilton Johnston   Africa, Mt Kilimanjaro
1880–1884   Paul Reichard   Tanzania, Congo
1880–1889   Luigi Pennazzi   Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia
1880–1891   Arthur Rimbaud   Ethiopia
1881–1883   Juan Maria Schuver   Ethiopia, Sudan
1881–1911   Hans Meyer   Tanzania, Rwanda, Mt Kilimanjaro, South America
1881–1914   Frederick Stanley Arnot   Congo, Angola, Katanga
1882–1883   William Hicks   Sudan
1882–1885   James Hannington   Uganda
1882–1891   Joseph Thomson   Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia
1882–1893   Robert Pickering Ashe   Uganda, Tanzania
1882–1895   Augusto Franzoj   Ethiopia
1884–1885   Philipp Viktor Paulitschke   Ethiopia, Somalia
1884–1892   Joachim Friedrich von Pfeil   Tanzania, New Guinea, Namibia
1884–1896   Leopoldo Traversi   Ethiopia
1884–1905   Karl Friedrich Hubert Peters   Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique
1885–1889   Jules Borelli   Ethiopia
1885–1893   Oscar Baumann   Tanzania, Burundi, Congo
1885–1903   Luigi Robecchi Bricchetti   Somalia, Ethiopia, Egypt
1886–1895   Sámuel Teleki   Kenya, Tanzania, L. Turkana
1887–1890   Henry Morton Stanley   Congo, Uganda, Tanzania
1888–1901   Franz Ludwig Stuhlmann   Tanzania, Congo, East Indies
1888–1916   Frederick John Dealtry Lugard   Malawi, Uganda, Nigeria
1890–1891   Enrico Baudi di Vesme   Ethiopia, Somalia
1890–1892   Emin Pasha   Tanzania, Uganda, Congo
1890–1895   George Francis Scott Elliot   Uganda, Africa, Madagascar
1890–1897   Ugo Ferrandi   Somalia
1890–1904   Arthur H. Neumann   Kenya
1890–1905   Auguste Amand Aimé Achte   Uganda
1890–1906   Bror Yngve Sjöstedt   Tanzania, Cameroon, Mt Kilimajaro
1890–1911   Alfred Robert Tucker   Uganda


Explorers and travellers in East Africa, Ethiopia, Sudan and Eritrea, 1891 – 1940

1891   Frederick George Dundas   Somalia, Kenya
1891–1893   Eugenio Ruspoli   Somalia, Ethiopia
1891–1897   Vittorio Bottego   Ethiopia
1891–1901   Carlo von Erlanger   Ethiopia, Somalia, North Africa
1891–1904   Mary French Sheldon   Kenya, Tanzania, Congo
1893–1894   Ernst Karl Hoyos-Sprinzenstein   Somalia
1895–1900   Nikolai Stepanovich Leont’ev   Ethiopia
1899   Halford John Mackinder   Kenya
1899–1903   Archibald Edward Butter   Ethiopia, Kenya
1899–1905   James Jonathan Harrison   Ethiopia, Kenya, Congo
1899–1932   James Sutherland   Africa
1900–1902   Robert du Bourg du Bozas   Ethiopia, Sudan, Congo
1900–1910   Emil Torday   Congo
1900–1922   Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell   Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia
1901–1919   Chauncy Hugh Stigand   East Africa, Sudan
1903–1905   Ernesto Cordella   Congo
1904–1912   Rudolf Grauer   Rwanda, Burundi, Congo
1905–1924   Delia Julia Akeley   Kenya, Congo
1907–1940   Kenyon Vickers Painter   Tanzania
1909–1910   Theodore Roosevelt   Kenya, Uganda, Sudan
1913–1914   Cherry Kearton   Kenya, Uganda, Congo
1919–1920   Paulo Eugenio Maria Vinassa De Regny   Eritrea
1924–1925   Chaplin Court Treatt   Africa
1927–1938   Zsigmond Széchenyi   Africa
1928   Ludovico Marcello Mariano Nesbitt   Ethiopia, Eritrea, Venezuela
1928–1929   Raimondo Arnoldo Ulderigo Franchetti   Eritrea, Ethiopia
  *Uganda: exploration of the Ruwenzori Mountains   Uganda, Congo
  *Djibouti  
  *Africa lesser travellers, hunters & tourists  

Explorers and travellers in South and Central Africa, 1850-1890

1842–1872   Carl Hugo Hahn   Namibia
1845–1860   Candido José da Costa Cardoso   Mozambique, Malawi
1848–1861   László Magyar   Angola, Congo
1848–1873   John Thomas Baines   South Africa, Australia
1850–1852   Francis Galton   Namibia
1850–1867   Carl Johan Andersson   Namibia, Botswana
1850–1876   Frederick Thomas (Joseph) Green   Namibia
1851–1861   William Charles Baldwin   South Africa, Zambia, Botswana
1852–1856   David Livingstone   Zambia, Angola, Mozambique
1853–1863   Freidrich Martin Josef Welwitsch   Angola, Namibia
1856–1866   Paul Belloni Du Chaillu   Gabon
1857–1897   José de Anchieta   Angola, Cape Verde Is
1857–1904   Jean-François Coillard   Lesotho, Zambia
1858–1860   Albrecht Roscher   Mozambique, L. Nyasa, East Africa
1858–1863   Richard Thornton   Mozambique, Malawi, Mt Kilimanjaro
1858–1864   David Livingstone   Mozambique, Malawi, Zambezi
1858–1884   John Mackenzie   Botswana, South Africa
1858–1887   John Kirk   Mozambique, Zambezi, Zanzibar
1859–1875   Robert Bruce Napoleon Walker   Gabon
1860–1884   William Coates Palgrave   Namibia
1862–1867   Edward Daniel Young   Malawi, Mozambique
1863–1874   Gustav Theodor Fritsch   South Africa, Iran
1864–1871   William Finaughty   Zimbabwe, Botswana
1864–1873   Carl Mauch   Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana
1865–1871   David Livingstone   Zambia, Congo, Tanzania
1866–1883   Ture Johan Gustaf Een   Namibia
1866–1894   Axel Wilhelm Eriksson   Namibia
1868–1875   St Vincent Whitehead Erskine   South Africa, Mozambique
1869–1870   Eduard Mohr   Zimbabwe
1870–1877   James Frederick Elton   Mozambique, Tanzania
1871–1872   Henry Morton Stanley   Tanzania
1871–1873   David Livingstone   Tanzania, Zambia
1871–1917   Frederick Courteney Selous   Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania
1872–1874   W.J. Grandy   Angola, Congo
1872–1875   Verney Lovett Cameron   Tanzania, Congo, Angola
1872–1883   Richard Paul Güssfeldt   Angola, Middle East, South America
1872–1887   Emil Holub   Botswana, Zambia, South Africa
1872–1889   Antoine-Alfred Marche   Gabon, Philippines
1873–1875   Francis Oates   Zimbabwe, Botswana
1874–1884   Henry Morton Stanley   Tanzania, Uganda, Congo
1874–1884   Paul Pogge   Angola, Congo
1875–1876   Edward Daniel Young   Malawi, L. Nyasa
1875–1898   Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza   Gabon, Congo
1875–1906   George Grenfell   Congo, Cameroon
1875–1927   Robert Laws   Malawi, L. Nyasa
1877–1886   Hermenegildo Capelo   Angola, Mozambique
1877–1889   Alexandre Alberto de la Rocha Serpa Pinto   Angola, Zambia, Mozambique
1877–1921   Prosper-Philippe Augouard   Congo, Central African Rep
1878–1885   Max Buchner   Angola, Congo, Cameroon
1879–1881   Joseph Thomson   Tanzania, Congo, Mozambique
1879–1885   William Percival Johnson   Malawi, Mozambique, L. Nyasa
1880–1896   Hermann Wilhelm Leopold Ludwig von Wissmann   Angola, Congo, Tanzania
1882–1896   Dragutin Lerman   Congo
1883–1903   Roger David Casement   Congo
1885   William Leonard Hunt   Botswana, Namibia
1887–1891   Paul Crampel   Gabon, Central African Rep, Chad
1887–1892   William Grant Stairs   Congo, Katanga, Uganda
1889–1890   Alfred Louis Fourneau   Gabon
1889–1907   Charles François Alexandre Lemaire   Congo
1890–1910   Abel Chapman   Africa


Explorers and travellers in South and Central Africa, 1891 – 1940

1892–1915   William Charles Willoughby   Botswana
1893–1895   Mary Henrietta Kingsley   Gabon, Nigeria, Congo
1893–1895   Jean-Gaston Vanderheym   Ethiopia, Djibouti
1893–1908   Georg Hartmann   Namibia
1895–1907   Samuel Phillips Verner   Congo
1896–1899   Jean-Baptiste Marchand   Sudan, Congo, Ethiopia
1896–1900   Ewart Scott Grogan   Africa
1897–1898   Christian Louis Marie de Bonchamps   Ethiopia
1898–1932   Cuthbert Christy   Congo, Uganda, West Africa
1901   Colin Harding   Zambia
1903–1905   Leonhard Sigmund Schultze-Jena   Namibia
1903–1912   Franz Seiner   Namibia, Botswana
1904–1905   Mary Hall   Africa
1904–1926   Arnold Wienholt Hodson   Botswana, Ethiopia
1907–1909   Paul Graetz   Africa
1909–1915   Herbert Lang   Congo
1911–1912   Eric von Rosen   Zambia
1911–1912   Frank Hulme Melland   Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda
1913–1965   Albert Schweitzer   Gabon
1927–1938   Lidio Cipriani   Africa, India
1928   B.E.H. Clifford   Botswana
1928–1929   Ronald Austin Monson   Africa
1930–1945   Emily Hahn   Congo, China

European travellers in Arabia and the Middle East, 1850-1940

1852–1871   Heinrich von Maltzan   Mecca, North Africa, Yemen
1855–1863   Joseph Arthur de Gobineau   Iran
1855–1891   Henry Baker Tristram   Algeria, Palestine, Japan
1858   Nikolai Vladimirovich Khanykov   Iran, Afghanistan
1861–1872   Frederic John Goldsmid   Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan
1862–1863   William Gifford Palgrave   Saudi Arabia, Syria
1862–1865   Patrick Stewart   Iran, India, Pakistan
1862–1869   Hermann Bicknell   Saudi Arabia, Mecca, Iran
1864   Carlo Claudio Camillo Guarmani   Saudi Arabia
1865   Lewis Pelly   Saudi Arabia
1865–1866   Augustus Henry Mounsey   Iran
1869–1875   Adolfo Rivadeneyra   Iran, Iraq, Syria
1875–1879   Wilfrid Scawen Blunt   Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq
1876–1878   Charles Montagu Doughty   Saudi Arabia
1876–1891   Ernest Ayscoghe Floyer   Iran, Pakistan, Egypt
1877–1878   John Fryer Thomas Keane   Saudi Arabia, Mecca
1877–1880   Renzo Manzoni   Yemen
1880–1886   Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy   Iran
1882–1894   Eduard Glaser   Yemen
1883–1884   Julius Euting   Saudi Arabia, Syria
1884   Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje   Saudi Arabia, Mecca, Indonesia
1885–1912   Jacques Jean Marie de Morgan   Iran, Iraq, Egypt
1887–1888   Edward Granville Browne   Iran
1887–1895   Walter Burton Harris   Yemen, Morocco, Iraq
1888–1893   Leo Hirsch   Yemen, Somalia
1890–1910   Jules Claudin Gervais-Courtellemont   Saudi Arabia, Mecca
1892–1915   Percy Molesworth Sykes   Iran, Pakistan, China, W.
1892–1926   Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell   Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Turkey
1893   Eduard Nolde   Saudi Arabia
1893–1909   Hermann Burchardt   Yemen, Middle East, Egypt
1895–1914   Alois Musil   Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria
1896–1913   George Wyman Bury   Yemen
1905–1917   Gerard Evelyn Leachman   Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Tibet
1908–1911   Arthur John Byng Wavell   Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Mecca
1910–1915   William Henry Irvine Shakespear   Saudi Arabia
1912–1933   Evelyn Cobbold   Saudi Arabia, Egypt
1914   Countess D. Malmignati   Saudi Arabia, Syria
1917–1939   Harry St John Bridger Philby   Saudi Arabia
1921–1933   Robert Ernest Cheesman   Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia
1922–1932   Leopold Weiss   Saudi Arabia, Mecca, Middle East
1924–1925   Eldon Rutter   Saudi Arabia, Mecca
1926–1931   Bertram Sidney Thomas   Oman, Saudi Arabia, U.A.E.
1929–1935   Mildmay Thomas Boscawen   Yemen
1929–1980   Freya Madeline Stark   Iran, Yemen, Iraq
1930–1950   Wilfred Patrick Thesiger   Ethiopia, Sahara, Saudi Arabia
1931–1944   Daniël van der Meulen   Yemen
1934–1940   William Harold Ingrams   Yemen

Travellers, missionaries and explorers in China, South and South-East Asia, 1850-1940

1847–1867   Paul Hubert Perny   China
1849–1859   John Bowring   Thailand, China
1849–1873   Charles Émile Bouillevaux   Cambodia, Vietnam
1850–1854   Nicolas Michel Krick   Assam, China
1850–1870   Alexander Alekseyevich Tatarinov   China
1853–1905   James Hudson Taylor   China
1855–1890   Alexander Williamson   China
1855–1913   Auguste Desgodins   China, Sikkim, Kashmir
1856–1869   Robert Swinhoe   Taiwan
1857–1858   D.O. King   Cambodia, Thailand
1858–1861   Alexandre Henri Mouhot   Thailand, Cambodia, Laos
1859–1862   Friedrich Albrecht zu Eulenberg   China, Japan, Thailand
1859–1869   Alexander Michie   China, Siberia
1860–1868   Clement Williams   Myanmar
1862–1874   Jean Pierre Armand David   China
1865–1872   John Thomson   Cambodia, China, Vietnam
1866   Marie Joseph Francis Garnier   Cambodia, Laos, China
1866–1879   Thomas Lowden Bullock   Taiwan
1866–1882   Louis Delaporte   Cambodia
1866–1883   Emil Vasil’evich Bretschneider   China
1867–1895   Jean Marie Delavay   China
1867–1903   Paul-Guillaume Farges   China
1868   Edward Bosc Sladen   Myanmar, China
1868–1869   Thomas Thornville Cooper   China, Myanmar, Assam
1868–1872   Ferdinand von Richthofen   China
1870–1873   Jean Dupuis   Vietnam, China
1870–1888   Etienne François Aymonier   Cambodia, Laos, Thailand
1871–1903   Auguste Jean Marie Pavie   Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia
1873–1915   Urbain Jean Faurie   Japan, Taiwan, Sakhalin
1874–1875   Augustus Raymond Margary   China, Myanmar
1875–1877   François-Jules Harmand   Vietnam, Cambodia
1876–1877   William John Gill   China
1876–1878   Edward Colborne Baber   China
1877–1879   Charles Maries   China, Japan
1877–1880   Béla Széchenyi   China
1878–1893   James Mccarthy   Thailand, Laos
1882   Archibald Ross Colquhoun   China, Myanmar
1884–1900   Augustine Henry   China
1885–1905   Jean André Soulié   China, Tibet
1886–1900   James George Scott   Myanmar
1886–1915   Samuel Pollard   China
1887–1898   Archibald John Little   China
1887–1910   Antwerp Edgar Pratt   China, New Guinea
1889–1900   Charles Eudes Bonin   China, Vietnam, Mongolia
1891–1896   Herbert Warrington Smyth   Thailand
1895–1896   Henri-Philippe Marie d’Orléans   China, Vietnam
1899–1911   Ernest Henry Wilson   China
1904–1912   Isabella Robertson Christie   Asia
1904–1932   George Forrest   China
1905–1918   Frank Nicholas Meyer   China, Central Asia
1909–1950   Francis Kingdon Ward   China, Myanmar, Tibet
1910–1923   George Edward Pereira   China, Tibet
1913   Beatrix Bulstrode   Mongolia
1913–1918   Heinrich Handel-Mazzetti   China
1914–1920   Reginald John Farrer   China, Myanmar
1914–1928   Walther Stötzner   China
1920–1949   Joseph Francis Charles Rock   China, Tibet
  *Malaya: British exploration of peninsular Malaysia  

Travellers in Russia and Siberia, 1850-1940

1853–1864   Karl Ivanovich Maximowicz   Siberia, China, Japan
1855–1859   Gustav Ferdinand Richard Radde   Russia, Siberia, Caucasus
1863–1864   Petr Alexeyevich Kropotkin   Siberia, China
1865–1886   George Kennan   Russia, Siberia
1875–1877   Henry Seebohm   Siberia
1886–1898   Vladimir Afanasevich Obruchev   Siberia, Turkmenistan, China
1889–1904   Vladimir Germanovich Bogoras   Russia, Siberia
1891   Kate Marsden   Siberia
1895–1902   Vladimir Ilich Jochelson   Russia, Siberia
1920–1959   Sten Bergman   Kamchatka, Kuril Is, Korea, New Guinea

Explorers, travellers, mountaineers and archaeologists in Central Asia and Tibet, 1850-1890

1850–1868   Edmund Smyth   Tibet, India
1854–1857   Schlagintweit brothers   India, Tibet, China
1855–1865   William Henry Johnson   Kashmir, China
1855–1873   Thomas George Montgomerie   Kashmir, India
1856–1857   Petr Petrovich Semenov   Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan
1856–1877   Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen   Kashmir, Bhutan, Assam
1859–1862   Catherine Fanny de Bourboulon   China, Mongolia, Siberia
1859–1904   Raphael Pumpelly   China, Central Asia, Turkmenistan
1860–1891   Vasilii Vasil’evich Radlov   Central Asia, Siberia, Mongolia
1861–1864   Ármin Vámbéry   Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
1864–1875   Nain Singh   Tibet
1865–1902   Thomas Hungerford Holdich   India, Afghanistan, South America
1867–1873   Mirza Shuja   Afghanistan, Tajikistan, China
1867–1889   Ney Elias   Mongolia, Kashmir, Myanmar
1868–1870   George J.W. Hayward   Kashmir, China
1868–1875   Robert Barkley Shaw   China, Kashmir
1869–1871   Alexei Pavlovich Fedchenko   Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan
1870–1888   Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalskii   China, Tibet, Mongolia
1870–1890   James Gilmour   Mongolia
1871–1873   Hari Ram   Nepal, Tibet
1871–1882   Kishen Singh   Tibet, China
1873–1904   Agvan Dorzhiev   Tibet
1874–1880   Ivan Vasil’evich Mushketov   Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
1875   Elizabeth Sara Mazuchelli   Sikkim
1875–1876   Frederick Gustavus Burnaby   Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan
1876–1885   Johann Albert von Regel   China, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan
1876–1890   Mikhail Vasil’evich Pevtsov   China, Tibet
1876–1893   Grigorii Nikolaevich Potanin   China, Mongolia
1878–1884   Kinthup   Tibet
1879–1882   Sarat Chandra Das   Tibet
1880–1889   Henry Lansdell   Central Asia, Siberia, Tibet
1882–1890   Pierre Gabriel Édouard Bonvalot   Central Asia, Tibet, China
1883   William Watts Macnair   Afghanistan, Pakistan
1883   William Woodman Graham   Himalaya, Nepal, India
1884–1891   Grigorii Efimovich Grum-Grzhimailo   Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, China
1884–1908   Annie Royle Taylor   Tibet, China
1885–1887   Arthur Douglas Carey   China, Tibet
1885–1902   Sven Anders Hedin   China, Tibet
1886–1894   Francis Edward Younghusband   China, Kashmir, Tajikistan
1887   Nikolai Aleksandrovich Notovich   Kashmir
1888–1890   Bronislaw Ludvigovich Grombchevskii   Tajikistan, Kashmir, China
1888–1892   William Woodville Rockhill   Tibet, China
1888–1895   George Nathaniel Curzon   Kashmir, Afghanistan, Central Asia
1889–1891   George Scott Robertson   Kashmir, Afghanistan
1889–1892   Hamilton Bower   Tibet, China
1890–1918   George Macartney   China


Explorers, travellers, mountaineers and archaeologists in Central Asia and Tibet, 1891 – 1940

1891–1894   Jules Léon Dutreuil De Rhins   Tibet
1891–1895   St George R. Littledale   Tibet, China, Tajikistan
1891–1904   James Ronald Leslie Macdonald   Tibet, Kenya, Uganda
1892–1893   Charles Adolphus Murray   China, Russia
1892–1924   Charles Granville Bruce   Himalaya, Mt Everest
1893–1895   Vsevolod Ivanovich Roborovskii   China
1895–1898   Susie Carson Rijnhart   Tibet, China
1896   Montagu Sinclair Wellby   Tibet, China
1896–1897   Henry Hugh Peter Deasy   Kashmir, Tibet, China
1896–1924   Ole Olufsen   Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, North Africa
1898   Dmitrii Aleksandrovich Klements   China
1898–1899   Karl Josef Futterer   China
1898–1907   Charles Henry Dudley Ryder   Tibet, China, India
1899–1902   Gombozhab Tsebekovich Tsybikov   Tibet, China, Mongolia
1899–1903   Ekai Kawaguchi   Tibet, Nepal
1899–1926   Petr Kuzmich Kozlov   China, Mongolia
1900–1937   Giotto Dainelli   Kashmir, Eritrea, Ethiopia
1900–1943   Aurel Stein   China
1901–1936   Alice Mildred Cable   China
1902–1907   Albert Grünwedel   China
1902–1914   Kozui Otani   China
1903–1904   Francis Edward Younghusband   Tibet
1903–1914   Filippo de Filippi   Kashmir, Central Asia
1904–1912   Alexander Douglas Mitchell Carruthers   Central Asia, Saudi Arabia, Uganda
1904–1914   Frederick Marshman Bailey   Tibet, China
1906–1909   Paul Pelliot   China
1906–1909   Jacques Bacot   Tibet, China
1906–1935   Sven Anders Hedin   Tibet, China
1907–1921   Alexander Mitchell Kellas   Himalaya, Sikkim, Kumaon
1909–1915   Sergei Fedorovich Oldenburg   China
1911–1912   Harold Frank Wallace   China
1911–1946   Alexandra David-Neel   China, Tibet, Sikkim
1913–1924   John Baptist Lucius Noel   Mt Everest, Tibet
1916–1925   Gustav Krist   Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan
1919–1936   Eric Teichman   China
1921   Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury   Mt Everest, Tibet
1923–1925   Langdon Warner   China
1923–1928   Emil Trinkler   Afghanistan, Tibet, China
1923–1952   Marco Pallis   Tibet, India
1925–1928   Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh   Asia, India, Tibet
1926–1955   Giuseppe Tucci   Tibet, Kashmir, Nepal
1927–1950   Reginald Charles Francis Schomberg   China, Kashmir
1930–1937   Frederick Spencer Chapman   Tibet, Greenland
1930–1951   Ella Kini Maillart   Asia
1931–1932   Georges-Marie Haardt   Asia
1931–1939   Ernst Schäfer   China, Tibet
1932–1934   Willy Merkl   Kashmir, Nanga Parbat
1933–1936   Ronald John Henry Kaulback   Tibet, Assam, Myanmar
1937   Aina Cederblom   Tibet

The exploration of Australia, 1850-1860

1846–1848   Augustus Charles Gregory   Western Australia
1849–1858   Johann Wilhelm Theodor Ludwig Blandowski   Victoria, New South Wales
1851   Edward Hammond Hargraves   New South Wales
1851–1853   Francis Cadell   South Australia, Murray River
1852–1858   William Ridley   New South Wales, Queensland
1852–1863   Kenneth Brown   Western Australia
1852–1871   Richard Daintree   Queensland
1852–1876   Robert Brough Smyth   Victoria
1853–1856   Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich Mueller   Australia
1853–1860   Henry Butler Stoney   Tasmania, Victoria, New Zealand
1854   Robert Austin   Western Australia
1855–1856   Augustus Charles Gregory   Northern Territory, Queensland
1855–1887   Julian Edmund Tenison-Woods   Australia, South-East Asia
1856–1858   Benjamin Herschel Babbage   South Australia
1856–1862   William Landsborough   Queensland
1857   Arthur Henry Freeling   South Australia
1857   Stephen Hack   South Australia
1857–1858   Samuel Parry   South Australia
1857–1861   Francis Thomas Gregory   Western Australia
1857–1866   Peter Egerton Warburton   South Australia
1857–1869   George Woodroffe Goyder   South Australia, Northern Territory
1857–1874   Johann Ludwig Gerard Krefft   Australia
1858   Augustus Charles Gregory   Queensland, South Australia
1858–1859   John McDouall Stuart   South Australia
1859–1862   Alfred William Howitt   Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia
1859–1872   James Smith   Tasmania
1859–1873   George Augustus Frederick Elphinstone Dalrymple   Queensland
1859–1896   Nathaniel Buchanan   Queensland, Northern Territory, Kimberley
1860–1861   Robert O’Hara Burke   Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland
1860–1861   Robert O’Hara Burke   Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland
1860–1862   John McDouall Stuart   South Australia, Northern Territory


The exploration of Australia, 1861-1880

1861–1862   Frederick Walker   Queensland
1861–1862   John Mckinlay   South Australia, Queensland
1861–1891   Charles Smith Wilkinson   New South Wales, Victoria
1861–1898   Frederick Manson Bailey   Queensland
1862–1885   Patrick Durack   Queensland, Western Australia, Kimberley
1862–1897   Reginald Augustus Frederick Murray   Victoria
1863   Walter Padbury   Western Australia
1863–1865   Robert Towns   Queensland
1863–1866   Charles Cooke Hunt   Western Australia
1863–1872   Amalie Dietrich   Queensland
1863–1898   Louis de Rougemont   Northern Territory, Western Australia
1863–1903   Robert Christison   Queensland
1864   John Graham Macdonald   Queensland
1864   Frederick Kennedy Panter   Western Australia, Kimberley
1864–1865   Frank Lascelles Jardine   Queensland
1864–1865   Boyle Travers Finniss   Northern Territory
1864–1866   Duncan Mcintyre   Queensland
1864–1866   Frederick Howard   Northern Territory
1865   Robert John Sholl   Western Australia
1865   Maitland Brown   Western Australia
1865–1866   Edward Timothy Hooley   Western Australia
1865–1866   John Mckinlay   Northern Territory
1865–1911   Henry Yorke Lyell Brown   Australia
1867   James Nash   Queensland
1867–1868   Francis Cadell   Northern Territory
1867–1894   Ralph Tate   Australia, Central America
1869–1870   John Forrest   Western Australia, South Australia
1869–1900   William Vincent Legge   Tasmania, Sri Lanka
1870–1871   John Ross   South Australia, Northern Territory
1870–1872   Charles Todd   South Australia, Northern Territory
1871–1879   Alexander Forrest   Western Australia
1871–1882   William Whitfield Mills   Northern Territory, Western Australia
1872   William Hann   Queensland
1872   Ernest Giles   Northern Territory
1872–1874   Peter Egerton Warburton   Northern Territory, Western Australia
1873   William Christie Gosse   Northern Territory
1873–1875   Ernest Giles   Northern Territory, Western Australia, South Australia
1873–1890   James Venture Mulligan   Queensland
1873–1920   Marian Ellis Rowan   Australia, New Zealand
1874   John Forrest   Western Australia, South Australia
1874–1875   John William Lewis   South Australia, Lake Eyre
1874–1890   George Renison Bell   Tasmania
1874–1900   Thomas Bather Moore   Tasmania
1875   Ernest Giles   South Australia
1875   Ernest Giles   South Australia, Western Australia
1876   William Oswald Hodgkinson   Queensland
1876–1882   Ernest Giles   Western Australia, Northern Territory, South Australia
1876–1907   Robert Logan Jack   Queensland, China, Western Australia
1876–1910   Carl Sophus Lumholtz   Australia, Mexico
1878–1884   Ernest Favenc   Queensland, Northern Territory
1878–1914   Henry Vere Barclay   Northern Territory
1879–1884   Augustus Poeppel   South Australia, Queensland
1880–1895   Charles George Alexander Winnecke   Northern Territory
1880–1895   William Henry James Carr-Boyd   Western Australia, Kimberley
1880–1932   Leonard Rodway   Tasmania


The exploration of Australia, 1881-1940

1881–1909   Charles Chewings   Northern Territory
1883   Charles Rasp   New South Wales
1883–1888   David Lindsay   Northern Territory, Arnhem Land
1883–1932   Lawrence Allen Wells   Western Australia, Northern Territory, South Australia
1885–1888   Walter Wilson Froggatt   Queensland, New Guinea, Kimberley
1887–1922   Samuel Albert White   Australia
1888   Matthew Gibney   Western Australia, Kimberley
1889   William Henry Tietkens   Northern Territory
1889–1906   Archibald Meston   Queensland
1890–1902   Charles Hedley   Australia, New Guinea, Tuvalu
1891   David Lindsay   South Australia, Western Australia
1891–1893   Richard Wolfgang Semon   Queensland, New Guinea
1891–1894   Edward Charles Stirling   South Australia, Northern Territory
1892   Arthur Wellesley Bayley   Western Australia
1892–1902   Francis James Gillen   Northern Territory, Queensland
1893   Patrick Hannan   Western Australia
1894–1897   David Wynford Carnegie   Western Australia
1894–1930   Walter Edmund Roth   Queensland, Guyana
1896–1906   Frank Hugh Hann   Western Australia, Kimberley
1897–1900   Allan A. Davidson   Northern Territory
1897–1931   Lewis Hubert Lasseter   Northern Territory
1901   Frederick Slade Drake-Brockman   Western Australia, Kimberley
1901–1902   Richard Thelwell Maurice   South Australia, Northern Territory
1901–1910   Alfred Wernam Canning   Western Australia
1903–1928   Herbert Basedow   Australia
1905–1906   Frank Rees George   Northern Territory
1910   John Stuart Love   Northern Territory, Arnhem Land
1910–1926   Eric Georg Mjöberg   Australia, Sumatra, Borneo
1914–1916   Theodore Ernest Day   Northern Territory
1923   John Campbell Miles   Queensland, Mount Isa
1923–1928   Jean de Lancourt   Australia
1923–1967   Michael Terry   Australia
1926–1937   Donald George Mackay   Northern Territory, Western Australia
1928–1967   Donald Fergusson Thomson   Northern Territory, Arnhem Land, Queensland
1929–1939   Cecil Thomas Madigan   Northern Territory, South Australia, Simpson Desert
1932–1974   Theodor George Henry Strehlow   Northern Territory
1936   Edmund Albert Colson   Northern Territory, Simpson Desert

Travellers in the interiors of several continents, 1850-1940

1842–1855   Richard Francis Burton   India, Saudi Arabia, Somalia
1844–1874   Bayard Taylor   Africa, Asia, United States
1851–1873   Thomas Joseph Hutchinson   West Africa, Argentina, Peru
1853–1868   Frederic Edwin Church   South America, Labrador, Middle East
1854–1886   William Simpson   Ethiopia, Asia, United States
1857–1870   Alfred Grandidier   South America, Madagascar, Sri Lanka
1859–1869   Richard Francis Burton   United States, West Africa, Brazil
1867–1880   George Alfred Henty   Africa, Asia, North America
1869–1882   Richard Francis Burton   India, Saudi Arabia, Ghana
1870–1874   Joseph Beal Steere   South America, Taiwan, Indonesia
1871–1912   James Ricalton   World travels
1872–1918   Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg   World travels
1877–1883   Edmond O’donovan   Turkmenistan, Sudan
1879–1889   Hugo Zöller   Cameroon, New Guinea, South America
1880–1897   Wilhelm Joest   Asia, Africa, Guyana
1882–1896   Antoine de Morès   United States, Vietnam, North Africa
1883–1920   Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate   Baja California, Argentina, World tours
1886–1950   Elias Burton Holmes   World travels
1889–1897   James Theodore & Mabel Virginia Anna Bent   Arabia, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia
1890–1905   Julius Mendes Price   Siberia, Western Australia, Yukon
1890–1913   Arnold Henry Savage Landor   Tibet, Asia, Africa, South America
1890–1923   Frank George Carpenter   World travels
1891–1900   William Martin Conway   Pakistan, Svalbard, Argentina, Bolivia
1891–1932   John Walter Gregory   Africa, America, Australia, China, Svalbard
1893–1913   Eduard Ernst Karl Maria Wickenburg   South America, Asia, Africa, E.
1894–1941   Walter Willis Granger   Egypt, United States, Mongolia
1898–1926   Edmund Heller   Africa, Asia, N. & S. America
1899–1913   Mirko & Stjepan Seljan   Ethiopia, South America
1900–1911   Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard   Patagonia, Labrador
1900–1927   Oscar Terry Crosby   Africa, Central Asia
1901–1909   Rudolf Pöch   Namibia, Botswana, New Guinea
1903–1940   Blair Niles   South America, Mexico, Asia
1904–1938   Gertrude Emily Benham   World travels
1906–1929   Albert Spear Hitchcock   United States, South America, Asia, E.
1906–1932   Charles Wendell Townsend   Labrador, South America, World tour
1908–1914   Mary Eliza Bakewell Gaunt   West Africa, China
1908–1942   Harry Alverson Franck   World travels
1912–1928   Carveth Wells   Uganda, Malaysia
1914–1929   Richard William George Hingston   India, Tibet, Guyana
1920–1940   Violet Olivia Cressy-Marcks   World travels
1922–1926   William Montgomery Mcgovern   Tibet, Brazil
1929–1980   Ardito Desio   Libya, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Tibet, Antarctica
1930–1962   Hans Helfritz   World travels, Yemen
1932–1935   Robert Peter Fleming   Brazil, Central Asia, China