Travelers
Zebulon Pike
1779 - 1813
United States military officer and explorer
Helge Ingstad
30 December 1899 - 29 March 2001
Norwegian explorer
Henry Walter Bates
8 February 1825 - 16 February 1892
English naturalist, explorer, evolutionary biologist
Leif Ericson
c. 970 - c. 1020
Norse explorer, first European to land in North America
Samuel Baker
8 June 1821 - 30 December 1893
British explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer, and abolitionist
Vitus Bering
5 August 1681 - 8 December 1741
Danish explorer
Henry Morton Stanley
28 January 1841 - 10 May 1904
British/Welsh explorer; also Union United States Army soldier
Marco Polo
September 15, 1254 - January 9, 1324
Famous explorer
Knud Rasmussen
June 7, 1879 - December 21, 1933
Danish explorer and anthropologist
James Cook
27 October 1728 (O.S.) - 14 February 1779
British explorer, navigator and cartographer
Francis Drake
ca. 1540 - 27 January 1596
Privateer; circumnavigator of the world
Abel Tasman
1 January 1603. - 10 October 1659
Dutch explorer