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Christopher Columbus was an explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa,…
Captain John Smith was an English adventurer and soldier, and one of the founders of the…
Hiram Bingham III was an American academic, explorer and politician. He rediscovered the Inca…
Europe + Africa + Middle East
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Jan van Riebeeck was a Dutch navigator and colonial administrator who arrived in Cape Town in…
John Hanning Speke was an officer in the British Indian Army who made three exploratory…
Asia + Oceania
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Abel Janszoon Tasman was a Dutch seafarer and explorer best known for his voyages of 1642 and…
Sir Marc Aurel Stein KCIE, FBA, was a Hungarian archaeologist, mainly concerned with exploring…