List of maritime explorers

Seafarers are people, groups, or peoples whose lives are characterized mainly by the seafaring.

Known sailors

Kolaios of Samos, sailed in the 7th century BC for the first time beyond Gibraltar
Hanno, Carthaginian, explored around 470 BC, the Central African coast
Himilkon, Carthaginians, explored around 480 BC Kingdom
Pytheas, Greek, drove between 330 BC and 310 BC to the Arctic Circle ( Thule)
Erik the Red, Norse, populated Greenland 985
Leif Eriksson, Northern man, by 1000 the first discovery of America ( " Vinland " )
Freydis Eriksdottir, Icelander, 1000
Ugolino de Vivaldo and Vadino, Italians, the brothers tried in 1291 to sail around Africa and the first to reach Malabar

Pedro Álvares Cabral, Portuguese, "discovered" Brazil in 1500 and contributed in a travel four continents: America, Africa, Asia, Europe
Afonso de Albuquerque, Portuguese, conquered and defended from 1503 to 1515 the eastern sea route to India for Portugal
Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese, began in 1519 as first a circumnavigation and explored the Pacific
Juan Sebastián Elcano, Basque, he succeeded in 1519-1522, with continuation of the expedition of Magellan first scheduling the circumnavigation of the Earth
João Álvares Fagundes, Portuguese, explored in the 1520s the eastern coast of Canada
Giovanni da Verrazano, Italians, sought in 1524 near the Hudson River to the Northwest Passage
Jacques Cartier, a Frenchman, in 1534 explored the St. Lawrence Gulf and in 1535 the St. Lawrence River
Richard Chancellor, English, reached in 1553 in search of the Northeast Passage, the Dwinabucht in the White Sea
Martin Frobisher, English, discovered in 1576 in search of the Northwest Passage named after him Frobisher Bay
Sir Francis Drake, British, privateers and later explorers, the first English circumnavigator 1577-1580
John Davis, English, explored Since 1585 the polar seas and coasts and discovered the Falkland Islands
Juan de Fuca, Greek, sailed in the 1590s the Pacific Ocean from Mexico to the Canadian Coast today for the Spaniards
Willem Barents, Dutch, 1594-1596 explored the Northeast Passage in the Barents Sea named after him

Luiz Vaez de Torres, origin unclear, explored 1606, the archipelagos of the South Sea and the southern coast of New Guinea
Henry Hudson, Englishman, explored 1607-1611 multiply the Northwest Passage
Jacob Le Maire, Dutch, circled and named Willem Cornelisz Schouten 1616 Cape Horn and discovered the Tonga Islands
Abel Tasman, the Dutch, discovered in 1642 Tasmania and the South Island of New Zealand, and in 1643 the Tonga and Fiji Islands
Semyon Deschnjow, Russian, went through in 1648 as first the Bering Strait, and proved that Asia is not associated with America

Jean -Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, French, Antarctica trip in 1738, discovered the Bouvet Island
Vitus Bering, Dane, 1741-1742 discovered the sea route from Kamchatka to Alaska
George Anson, a British admiral and circumnavigator, 1740-1744 charted large areas of the Pacific, such as the Marianas
Louis Antoine de Bougainville, the first Frenchman to sail around 1766-1769 the earth
James Cook, English, undertook 1768-1779 three extensive research trips around the world
John Paul Jones, Scot, fought in the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783) and is considered the "Father of the U.S. Navy"
Jean -François de La Pérouse, French, 1785-1788 explored much of the Pacific

Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, German - Balt, sighted in 1820 as the first Antarctic
Fyodor Litke, Russian explorers, explored in the 1820s, the Pacific islands
William Edward Parry, British, sailed 1819-1827 large parts of the Northwest Passage
James Clark Ross, British, 1818-1836 undertook a number of expeditions to the Arctic and the Antarctic cruises 1839-1843
John Franklin, British, was a polar explorer, who died in 1847 in search of the Northwest Passage
Robert John Le Mesurier McClure, British, discovered in 1850 the Northwest Passage
John Rae, Scot, explored 1846-1854 Canadian territories
Francis Leopold McClintock, British, explored in the 1850s, the Canadian- Arctic islands
Joshua Slocum, Canadian, sailed around 1895-1898 as the first man to the earth only

Roald Amundsen, Norwegian, durchschiffte 1903-1906 as first the Northwest Passage
Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian, sailed in 1947 on the raft Kon-Tiki from South America to Tahiti, and in 1970 with the papyrus boat Ra II from Morocco to Barbados

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