Find out more about the greatest 19th Century Explorers, including George Mallory, David Livingstone, Robert Falcon Scott, Alfred Russel Wallace and Roald Amundsen.
Roald Amundsen16 July 1872, Norwegian
The first person to reach the South Pole
Robert Falcon Scott06 June 1868, British
Explorer
David Livingstone19 March 1813, British, Scottish
Explorer, Missionary
Kit Carson24 December 1809, American
Explorer & Soldier
Henry Morton Stanley28 January 1841, British, American, Welsh
Explorer
Alfred Russel Wallace08 January 1823, British
Naturalist, Explorer, Geographer, Anthropologist
Richard Francis Burton19 March 1821, British
Translator
Fridtjof Nansen10 October 1861, Norwegian
Explorer
Douglas Mawson05 May 1882, Australian
Explorer, Geologist
Matthew Henson08 August 1866, American
First African-American to explore the North Pole
Robert Peary06 May 1856, American
Explorer
John Wesley Powell24 March 1834, American
Explorer, Geologist
John Hanning Speke04 May 1827, British
Discoverer of the source of the Nile
Sven Hedin19 February 1865, Swedish
Geographer, Explorer
Knud Rasmussen07 June 1879, Greenlander
Explorer
Nikolay Przhevalsky12 April 1839, Russian
Geographer, Explorer
Ferdinand von Richthofen05 May 1833, German
Geographer, Traveler, Scientist
Lawrence Hargrave29 January 1850, Australian
Inventor & Explorer
Sir Ernest Shackleton15 February 1874, British
Antarctic explorer
Francisco Moreno31 May 1852, Argentinian
Naturalist, Explorer, Anthropologist, Geographer
Henry Gannett24 August 1846, American
Geographers, Explorers
Hugh Glass1783 AD, American
Hunter
Richard E. Byrd25 October 1888, American
Naval officer
John C. Frémont21 January 1813, American
Former Governor of California
Jim Bridger17 March 1804, American
Mountaineer
Peter Aufschnaiter02 November 1899, Nepalese
Explorer, Cartographer, Geographer, Rock climber
Floyd Collins20 July 1887, American
Explorer
Lavr Kornilov30 August 1870, Kazakh, Russian
Explorer
John Colter1774 AD, American
Military Personnel
Auguste Piccard28 January 1884, Swiss
Physicist, Explorer, Balloonist, Privatdozent,
Joshua Slocum20 February 1844, Canadian
Seaman
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James Clark Ross15 April 1800, British
Explorer
Frederick Russell Burnham11 May 1861, American
Explorer, Writer
William John McGee17 April 1853, American
Explorer, Anthropologist, University teacher
John Batman21 January 1801, Australian
Explorer, Farmer
Joseph Dalton Hooker30 June 1817, British
Botanist
Vilhjalmur Stefansson03 November 1879, Canadian
Explorer
Matthew Fontaine Maury14 January 1806, American
Astronomer
Freya Stark31 January 1893, French, Italian, British
Explorer
George Grey14 April 1812, New Zealander, British
Politician
Frederick Cook10 June 1865, American
Explorer
Thomas Moran12 February 1837, American
Explorer, Painter
Isabelle Eberhardt17 February 1877, Swiss
Explorer, Journalist, Writer
Edward Adrian Wilson23 July 1872, British
Explorer, Ornithologist, Painter, Scientist
Frederick Selous31 December 1851, British
Explorer
Charles Wilkes03 April 1798, American
Naval Officer
Adolphus Greely27 March 1844, American
Army Officer
Mary Kingsley13 October 1862, British
Writer
Roy Chapman Andrews26 January 1884, American
Explorer
Frank Hurley15 October 1885, Australian
Explorer, Photographer, War photographer,
Mike Fink1770 AD, American
Frontiersman
John Forrest22 August 1847, Australian
Politician
Edward Whymper27 April 1840, British
Mountaineer
Francis Younghusband31 May 1863, British
Army Officer
Edward John Eyre05 August 1815, British
Explorer
Austen Henry Layard05 March 1817, British
Archaeologist
Umberto Nobile21 January 1885, Italian
Explorer, Aerospace engineer, Politician, Military
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza26 January 1852, French, Italian
Explorer
John Oxley1784 AD, British
Explorer
Alexander Burnes16 May 1805, British
Explorer
William Henry Jackson04 April 1843, American
Painter, Photographer, Explorer, Artist,
William Beebe29 July 1877, American
Ornithologist
Carl Peters27 September 1856, German
Explorer
Cândido Rondon05 May 1865, Brazilian
Explorer
Edward Bransfield1785 AD, Irish
Explorer
Peter Skene Ogden12 February 1790, British
Explorer
Henry Walter Bates08 February 1825, British
Naturalist
Edward John Trelawny13 November 1792, British
Biographer
Adam Johann von Krusenstern10 October 1770, Estonian
Explorer
David Fairchild07 April 1869, American
Botanist
Hubert Wilkins31 October 1888, Australian
Explorer
Heinrich Barth16 February 1821, German
Explorer
Charles Francis Hall1821 AD, American
Explorer
Benjamin Bonneville14 April 1796, French
Officer
Otto Schmidt30 September 1891, Russian
Scientist
Otto von Kotzebue30 December 1787, German, Estonian, Russian
Navigator
Harry Johnston12 June 1858, British
Botanist
Clarence King06 January 1842, American
Clarence Rivers King
Lincoln Ellsworth12 May 1880, American
Explorer
Xavier Mertz06 October 1882, Swiss
Explorer, Alpine skier
Ralph Alger Bagnold03 April 1896, British
Explorer
Robert McClure28 January 1807, Irish, British
Explorer
Henri Mouhot15 May 1826, French
Naturalist
Hamilton Hume19 June 1797, Australian
Explorer
Alexander Gordon Laing27 December 1794, British
Explorer
Nathaniel Palmer08 August 1799, American
Hunter
Edward Belcher27 February 1799, Canadian, British
Naval officer
Edgeworth David28 January 1858, Australian
Geologist
George W. De Long22 August 1844, American
Navy officer
James Weddell24 August 1787, British
Navigator
Isaac Israel Hayes05 March 1832, American
Explorer
Carsten Niebuhr17 March 1733, German
Mathematician
Johannes Rebmann16 January 1820, German
Missionary
Manuel Lisa08 September 1772, Spanish, American
Explorer