Explorer

Francis DRAKE

English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era

1540 - 1596

Fletcher Christian

English seaman who led the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789

1764 - 1793

Edward SMITH

British naval officer, he was the captain of the RMS Titanic, and perished when the ship sank on its maiden voyage

1850 - 1912

James COOK

English explorer, navigator and cartographer

1728 - 1779

Ranulph FIENNES

English adventurer and holder of several endurance records

1944

Philip CARTERET

British naval officer and explorer who participated in two of the Royal Navy's circumnavigation expeditions in 1764-66 and 1766-69

1733 - 1796

Richard GRENVILLE

English Member of Parliament for Cornwall, Soldier, High Sheriff of County Cork, Armed Merchant Fleet Owner, Privateer, Sheriff of Cornwall, Colonizer, and explorer

1542 - 1591

John ROSS

British naval officer and Arctic explorer

1777 - 1856

James Clark ROSS

British naval officer and explorer remembered today for his exploration of the Arctic with his uncle Sir John Ross and Sir William Parry

1800 - 1862

Walter RALEIGH

English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer

1552 - 1618

Thomas CAVENDISH

English explorer and a privateer

1560 - 1592

Francis GALTON

English Victorian polymath, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician

1822 - 1911