Famous explorers
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2,387 people
John Ross
1777
– 1856
· Age 79
Deceased
Samuel Wallis
1728
– 1795
· Age 66
Deceased
Egill Skallagrímsson
0910
– 0990
· Age 80
Deceased
Grigory Potanin
1835
– 1920
· Age 85
Deceased
Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie
1810
– 1897
· Age 87
Deceased
Adam Olearius
1603
– 1671
· Age 67
Deceased
Fernão Mendes Pinto
1509
– 1583
· Age 74
Deceased
Pedro Fernandes de Queirós
1565
– 1614
· Age 49
Deceased
Lincoln Ellsworth
1880
– 1951
· Age 71
Deceased
Joel Asaph Allen
1838
– 1921
· Age 83
Deceased
Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski
1878
– 1945
· Age 66
Deceased
Friedrich Benjamin von Lütke
1797
– 1882
· Age 84
Deceased
Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall
1774
– 1856
· Age 82
Deceased
Tristão da Cunha
1460
– 1540
· Age 80
Deceased
Alexander von Middendorff
1815
– 1894
· Age 78
Deceased
Wilhelm Peters
1815
– 1883
· Age 67
Deceased
Pedro de Mendoza
1487
– 1537
· Age 50
Deceased
Jean-Baptiste Charcot
1867
– 1936
· Age 69
Deceased
Oleg Novitskiy
1971
· Age 54
Alive
Ludwig Leichhardt
1813
– 1848
· Age 34
Deceased
Wilhelm Filchner
1877
– 1957
· Age 79
Deceased
Salomon August Andrée
1854
– 1897
· Age 42
Deceased
Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel
1784
– 1863
· Age 78
Deceased
Lachlan Macquarie
1762
– 1824
· Age 62
Deceased
Bertrand Piccard
1958
· Age 68
Alive
Source: Wikidata Q11900058