Frederick William Beechey (1796-1856)
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- Explored the northern Alaska coast from Bering Strait (1825)
- Surveyed the coasts of South America (1835-1837)
- Edward Belcher (1799-1877)
- Surveyed on the expedition of Frederick William Beechey in Bering Strait (1825)
- Surveyed on the west coast of Africa and on the west coast of South America
- Surveyed the East Indies and the Philippines (1843-1847)
- Christian Bonington (1934- )
- First ascent of Mount Annapurna II (1960)
- First ascent of Mount Nuptse (1961)
- Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)
- With John Speke, he reached Lake Tanganyika (1858)
- Explored the Arabian peninsula and Somaliland
- Frederick Spencer Chapman (1907-1971)
- Explored Greenland, the Himalayas, and Malaysia (1930-1935)
- Francis Rawdon Chesney (1789-1872)
- Surveyed the Isthmus of Suez and the Euphrates Valley (1829)
- Richard Collinson (1811-1883)
- Sailed from Bering Strait to Coronation Gulf and Dease Strait to Victoria Island, where he explored (1851-1855)
- James Cook (1728-1779)
- Surveyed the St. Lawrence River (1759)
- Made three survey voyages to the South Pacific, including one to the North Pacific (1768-1779)
- Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham Fiennes (1944-????)
- Made the first surface journey around the world’s polar circumference (1979-1982)
- Walter Herbert (1934-????)
- First surface crossing by dog sledge of the Arctic Ocean from Alaska to Spitzbergen via the North Pole (1968-1969)
- John Hunt (1910-????)
- A leader of the successful Mount Everest expedition with Edmund Hillary, but not one who reached the summit (1953)
- Alexander Mackenzie (c1755-1820)
- First European to see the river named for him (1789)
- Crossed the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific coast in what is now British Columbia, making the first known crossing north of Mexico (1792-1793)
- John Moresby (1830-1922)
- First European to visit the harbour in New Guinea now known as Port Moresby
- Harry St. John Bridger Philby (1885-1960)
- First European to visit the southern provinces of Najd, Arabia (1917-1918)
- Frederick Courtney Selous (1851-1917)
- Made a pioneer journey to what are now Zambia and Zimbabwe
- John Hanning Speke (1827-1864)
- Joined Richard Burton on an African expedition in which they reached Lake Tanganyika (1858)
- First European to see Lake Victoria
- Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904)
- (John Rowlands)
- With David Livingstone, explored Lake Tanganyika (1871)
- Traced the course of the Congo River to the Atlantic Ocean (1884-1887)
- Charles Sturt (1795-1869)
- Charted the Murrumbidgee River to the estuary of the Murray River (1828)
- Crossed what is now known as the Sturt Desert (1844)
- Percy Molesworth Sykes (1867-1945)
- Surveyed much of the territory between Baghdad, the Caspian Sea, and the Hindu Kush Mountains (1914-1918)
- Joseph Thomson (1858-1895)
- First European to reach Lake Nyasa from the north (1879)
- Explored the Atlas Mountains (1885)
- James Weddell (1787-1834)
- Reached 75° S. and 35° W. in the Weddell Sea (1823)
