Find out more about the greatest 17th Century Explorers, including John Rolfe, Henry Hudson, Samuel de Champlain, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle and Abel Tasman.
Henry Hudson1565 AD, British
Navigator and Explorer
Samuel de Champlain13 August 1574, French
Explorer
Abel Tasman1603 AD, Dutch
Navigator
John Smith06 January 1580, British
Explorer
Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye17 November 1685, Canadian, French
An explorer
Jacob Roggeveen01 February 1659, Dutch
Explorer who discovered Easter Island
John Rolfe
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle21 November 1643, French
Explorer
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu15 May 1689
Explorer, Poet, Writer, Playwright
William Dampier05 September 1651, British
explorer
Richard Hakluyt1553 AD, British
Writer
Willem Janszoon1570 AD, Dutch
Navigator
Christopher Newport30 November 1561, British
explorer
Pierre-Esprit Radisson1636 AD, Canadian, French
Fur Trader
Louis Jolliet
Luís Vaz de TorresJean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville23 February 1680, Canadian, French
Explorer
Jean Nicolet1598 AD, French
Explorer
Bartholomew Gosnold
Giuseppe Castiglione19 July 1688, Italian
painter, missionary, draughtsperson, engraver
George Anson, Baron Anson23 April 1697, British
First Lord of the Admiralty
Étienne BrûléFrench
Evliya ÇelebiTurkish
Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville16 July 1661, Canadian, French
Soldier