William Baffin (1584-1622)
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- Explored Hudson Bay with Robert Bylot (1615)
- Explored Baffin Bay with Robert Bylot, reaching 77° 45′ N (1616)
- Frederick Marshman Bailey (1882-1967)
- Led an expedition to map the Tsangpo River in Tibet (1957)
- Samuel White Baker (1821-1893)
- First European to see Lake Albert Nyanza and to discover that the Nile River flowed through it (1864)
- George Bass (1771-1803)
- With Matthew Flinders, explored the coast of New South Wales and the strait between the Australian states of Tasmania and Victoria (1795-1798)
- Thomas Button (????-1634)
- Led expedition to find Henry Hudson (1612)
- With Robert Bylot, entered Hudson Strait and Hudson Bay (1612)
- Robert Bylot (fl. 1610-1616)
- Served on the voyages of William Baffin, Thomas Button, William Gibbons, and Henry Hudson
- Sailed past the north shore of Southampton (1615)
- With Baffin, made voyage around Baffin Bay (1616)
- Verney Lovett Cameron (1844-1894)
- Led a mission to find David Livingstone (1871)
- Explored Lake Tanganyika, plotting many rivers flowing into it and one out of it, then became the first European to cross tropical Africa from east to west (1873-1875)
- Philip Carteret (1733-1796)
- Discovered Pitcairn Island and the islands of the Tuamotu Archipelago and the strait separating New Britain and New Ireland (1767)
- Thomas Cavendish (1555-1592)
- Commanded the third circumnavigation of the world (1586)
- Hugh Clapperton (1788-1827)
- With Dixon Denham, crossed the Sahara Desert from Tripoli to Lake Chad (1823)
- Began a trip with his servant Richard Lander, who reached the mouth of the Niger River (1830)
- William Dampier (1652-1715)
- Circumnavigated the world three times (1667-1707)
- Rescued Alexander Selkirk, on whose life Robinson Crusoe is based (final trip)
- John Davis (1550-1605)
- Sailed into Baffin Bay while searching for the Nortwest Passage (1587)
- First European to see the Falkland Islands
- Dixon Denham (1785-1828)
- See: Hugh Clapperton
- Francis Drake (c1540-1580)
- First Englishman to circumnavigate the world (1577-1580)
- John Eyre (1815-1901)
- Explored central Australia (1840-1841)
- Matthew Flinders (1834-1861)
- With George Bass, explored the easter and southern coasts of Australia (1795)
- Circumnavigated Tasmania (1798-1799)
- Made several other exploration trips along the Australian coast (1801-1803)
- John Franklin (1786-1847)
- Commanded an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage from Atlantic to Pacific, during which he and his crew died (1845)
- Martin Frobisher (1535-1594)
- Made a voyage to Guinea, West Africa (1554)
- While searching for the Northwest Passage, visited Labrador, Frobisher Bay, and Baffin Island (1576-1578)
- William Gibbons (fl. 1612-1614)
- With Robert Bylot, made a voyage from the entrance of Hudson Strait down the Labrador coast (1614)
- Humphrey Gilbert (1539-1583)
- Landed in Newfoundland and claimed it for England
- Samuel Hearne (1745-1792)
- Explored the west coast of Hudson Bay, went inland to just south of Chesterfield Inlet to Dubawnt Lake (1769)
- Traveled from the mouth of the Churchill River to the mouth of the Coppermine River to Great Slave Lake and back again to Churchill (1770)
- William Hilton Hovell (1786-1875)
- With Hamilton Hume, traveled overland in Australia from near Sydney to Port Phillip (1824)
- Henry Hudson (c1565-c1611)
- Reached New York Bay and sailed up the river that nows bears his name (1609)
- Sailed into what are now Hudson Strait and Hudson Bay, being set adrift in the latter by his mutinous crew (1610)
- Richard Lander (1804-1834)
- A servant of Hugh Clapperton, traced the course of the Niger River with brother John (1830-1831)
- William Edward Parry (1790-1855)
- Sailed through Lancaster Sound to become discoverer of an entrance to the Northwest Passage (1821-1823)
- Explored the western Foxe basin (1821-1823)
- Led an expedition to prince Regent Inlet (1824-1825)
- Traveled by sledge boat from Spitsbergen to 82° 45′ N
- James Clark Ross (1800-1862)
- Discovered the magnetic North Pole (1831)
- Explored in Antarctica (1839)
- William Scoresby (1789-1857)
- Pioneered in the study of the Arctic
- Charted Greenland’s coast (1820s)
- Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912)
- Commanded two Antarctic expeditions, the first one with Ernest Shackleton (1901-1904; 1910-1912)
- Reached the South Pole (1912)
- Samuel Wallis (1728-1795)
- Traveled around Cape Horn to the Tuamotu Archipelago and discovered Tahiti (1767)
- Henry George Watkins (1907-1932)
- Made expeditions in Labrador and Greenland, which helped to open up an Arctic air route
