Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)
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Marco Polo (1254-1324)
2
John Smith (1580-1631)
3
James Cook (1728-1779)
4
Jessica Watson, 31
5
Daniel Boone (1734-1820)
6
Henry Hudson (1565-1611)
7
Hernando Cortés (1485-1547)
8
Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521)
9
Francis Drake (1540-1596)
10
Jacques Cartier (1491-1557)
11
Samuel De Champlain (1574-1635)
12
Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922)
13
Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512)
14
William Clark (1770-1838)
15
John Cabot
16
Vasco da Gama (1460-1524)
17
Hernando Desoto (1496-1542)
18
Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809)
19
Stephen Austin (1793-1863)
20
Annie Edson Taylor (1838-1921)
21
Calamity Jane (1852-1903)
22
Matthew Henson (1866-1955)
23
Matthew Flinders (1774-1814)
24
Joseph Banks (1743-1820)
25
Robert Ballard, 82
26
Jim Bowie (1796-1836)
27
John Franklin (1786-1847)
28
Jedediah Smith (1799-1831)
29
St. George Littledale (1851-1931)
30
James Oglethorpe (1696-1785)
31
William Kidd (1645-1701)
32
Abel Tasman (1603-1659)
33
Bartolomeu Dias
34
Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)
35
Roald Amundsen (1872-1928)
36
Arthur Phillip (1738-1814)
37
Robert De la Salle (1643-1687)
38
Percy Fawcett (1867-1925)
39
Naomi Uemura
40
John Henry Mears (1878-1956)
41
Dirk Hartog (1580-1621)
42
John C Fremont (1813-1890)
43
Louis Jolliet (1645-1700)
44
Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912)
45
George Everest (1790-1866)
46
Alexander Mackenzie (1764-1820)
47
Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002)
48
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