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Explorers who disappeared and whose bodies have not been found. Pages in category "Lost explorers" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.
Portuguese rescue mission to search for lost explorer Gaspar Corte-Real. Knight expedition: James Knight: 1721 Marble Island (Canadian Arctic) British expedition to discover the Northwest Passage. Lapérouse expedition: Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse: 1788 Victoria Strait (Oceana)
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 March 2025. Leif Erikson (c. 970 – c. 1020) was a famous Norse explorer who is credited for being the first European to set foot on American soil. Explorers are listed below with their common names, countries of origin (modern and former), centuries of activity and main areas of exploration. Marco ...
This list of Arctic expeditions is a timeline of historic Arctic exploration and explorers of ... to search for the lost Eastern Settlement, ... British explorer, ...
Bellingshausen and Lazarev became the first explorers to see and officially discover Alexander Island and Peter I Island in Antarctica in 21–28 January 1821. 1820 – Edward Bransfield with William Smith as his pilot – on 30 January 1820, sight Trinity Peninsula ( 63°37′S 58°20′W / 63.617°S 58.333°W / -63.617; -58
Tilman, an English mountaineer and explorer renowned for his sailing voyages and climbings of the Himalayan mountains, was invited as a crew member on the En Avant in 1977, with the final destination being Smith Island. However, the boat was presumably lost at sea near the Falkland Islands, with everybody on board perishing. [233] October 1977
The exact number of people in the "Lost Colony" is disputed. [7]: 232 Hakluyt's Principal Navigations provides a list of 119 individuals who "safely arrived in Virginia" and remained there as of August 1587. [8] The list is not credited, but was presumably compiled by White, given his unique familiarity with the matter.
This is a list of explorers, trappers, guides, and other frontiersmen known as "Mountain Men". Mountain men are most associated with trapping for beaver from 1807 to the 1840s in the Rocky Mountains of the United States. Most moved on to other endeavors, but a few of them followed or adopted the mountain man life style into the 20th century.