Find out more about the greatest 19th Century Explorers, including George Mallory, David Livingstone, Robert Falcon Scott, Alfred Russel Wallace and Roald Amundsen.
David Livingstone19 March 1813, British, Scottish
Explorer, Missionary
Kit Carson24 December 1809, American
Explorer & Soldier
Robert Falcon Scott06 June 1868, British
Explorer
Roald Amundsen16 July 1872, Norwegian
The first person to reach the South Pole
Alfred Russel Wallace08 January 1823, British
Naturalist, Explorer, Geographer, Anthropologist
Henry Morton Stanley28 January 1841, British, American, Welsh
Explorer
Richard Francis Burton19 March 1821, British
Translator
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
Douglas Mawson05 May 1882, Australian
Explorer, Geologist
John Hanning Speke04 May 1827, British
Discoverer of the source of the Nile
Sir Ernest Shackleton15 February 1874, British
Antarctic explorer
Sven Hedin19 February 1865, Swedish
Geographer, Explorer
Knud Rasmussen07 June 1879, Greenlander
Explorer
Nikolay Przhevalsky12 April 1839, Russian
Geographer, Explorer
Lawrence Hargrave29 January 1850, Australian
Inventor & Explorer
Ferdinand von Richthofen05 May 1833, German
Geographer, Traveler, Scientist
Francisco Moreno31 May 1852, Argentinian
Naturalist, Explorer, Anthropologist, Geographer
Henry Gannett24 August 1846, American
Geographers, Explorers
Richard E. Byrd25 October 1888, American
Explorer, Officer, Oceanographer, Aviator
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim04 June 1867, Finnish, Polish
Statesman, Explorer, Politician, Officer
Fridtjof Nansen10 October 1861, Norwegian
Zoologist, Polar explorer, Diplomat, Explorer,
Lawrence Oates17 March 1880, British
Explorer, Military personnel
James Clark Ross15 April 1800, British
Explorer
Auguste Piccard28 January 1884, Swiss
Physicist, Explorer, Balloonist, Privatdozent,
George Everest04 July 1790, British
Explorer, Geographer
Floyd Collins20 July 1887, American
Explorer
Frederick Russell Burnham11 May 1861, American
Explorer, Writer
William John McGee17 April 1853, American
Explorer, Anthropologist, University teacher
Peter Aufschnaiter02 November 1899, Nepalese
Explorer, Cartographer, Geographer, Rock climber
Joseph Dalton Hooker30 June 1817, British
Botanist, Explorer, Pteridologist, Bryologist
John Batman21 January 1801, Australian
Explorer, Farmer
Thomas Moran12 February 1837, American
Explorer, Painter
Vilhjalmur Stefansson03 November 1879, Canadian
Explorer
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Isabelle Eberhardt17 February 1877, Swiss
Explorer, Journalist, Writer
Frederick Cook10 June 1865, American
Explorer, Physician
Frank Hurley15 October 1885, Australian
Explorer, Photographer, War photographer,
William Henry Jackson04 April 1843, American
Painter, Photographer, Explorer, Artist,
Edward Adrian Wilson23 July 1872, British
Explorer, Ornithologist, Painter, Scientist
Umberto Nobile21 January 1885, Italian
Explorer, Aerospace engineer, Politician, Military
John Forrest22 August 1847, Australian
Explorer, Politician
Alexander Mackenzie1764 AD, British
Explorer
Xavier Mertz06 October 1882, Swiss
Explorer, Alpine skier