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Home › Culture › Travel › Explorers › British

British





Frederick William Beechey (1796-1856)

  • 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)




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