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Italian explorer, mountain climber, geologist and cartographer [5] Alf Howard: 1906–2010: 104: Australian explorer, scientist and educator [6] Helge Ingstad: 1899–2001: 101: Norwegian explorer [7] Jean Malaurie: 1922–2024: 101: French explorer and anthropologist [8] Dame Freya Stark: 1893–1993: 100: British explorer and travel writer [9 ...
John Colter (c.1770–1775 – May 7, 1812 or November 22, 1813) was a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806). Though party to one of the more famous expeditions in history, Colter is best remembered for explorations he made during the winter of 1807–1808, when he became the first known person of European descent to enter the region which later became Yellowstone National ...
Paul-Henri Nargeolet was among five people who died when the Titan submersible imploded during a voyage to the famed Titanic wreck site in the North Atlantic in June 2023.
Shackleton, preparing for his fourth journey to the Antarctic, died of a heart attack aboard the Quest on Jan 5, 1922, near the remo Canadian-led team finds ship that polar explorer Shackleton died on
John Cabot (Italian: Giovanni Caboto [dʒoˈvanni kaˈbɔːto]; c. 1450 – c. 1499) [2] was an Italian [2] [3] navigator and explorer.His 1497 voyage to the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII, King of England is the earliest known European exploration of coastal North America since the Norse visits to Vinland in the eleventh century.
The family of a French explorer who died in the Titan submersible implosion seeks $50 million in wrongful death lawsuit.
In 1854, the explorer John Rae found himself at the centre of one of the great controversies of the nineteenth century – the fate of the Franklin expedition. With the British hoping to be first in the race to discover the Northwest Passage, the news Rae brought of starvation and cannibalism among final survivors set off a firestorm that would eclipse his own incredible accomplishments.