Joseph René Bellot (1826-1853)
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- Explored in the Arctic, reaching the strait named after him, and dying in a search for explorer John Franklin (1852-1853)
- Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729-1811)
- First French circumnavigation of the world and the first systemmatic observations of longitude (1766-1769)
- Étienne Brulé (1592-1632)
- Traveled with Samuel de Champlain to the New World and settled at Québec (1608)
- Explored the Great Lakes and traveled as far south as Chesapeake Bay (1615-1622)
- René Caillié (1799-1838)
- Traveled from the mouth of the River Nuñez to the Niger River and to Timbuktu (1827-1828)
- Jacques Cartier (1491-1557)
- First European to sail up the St. Lawrence River, and also named the site for Montréal (1534)
- Paul Belloni du Chaillu (1835-1903)
- Explored West Africa (1855-1859)
- Samuel de Champlain (1567-1635)
- Began the exploration of Canada (1603)
- Founded and named Québec (1608)
- Médard Chouart Des Groseilliers (????-????)
- See: Pierre-Esprit Radisson
- Alexandra David-Neel (1868-1969)
- First European woman to enter Lhasa, Tibet
- Ernest-Marc-Louis de Gonzague Dudart de Lagrée (1823-1868)
- Explored Cambodia and the Mekong River (1863)
- Daniel Duluth (1636-1710)
- Claimed the upper Mississippi region and Lake Superior for France (c1678)
- Henri Duveyrier (1840-1892)
- Explored the northern Sahara Desert (1859)
- Made later exploration trips to the Sahara Desert
- Louis Hennepin (1640-1701)
- Explored the Great Lakes with La Salle (1678-1679)
- Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701-1774)
- Traveled the length of the Amazon River from Peru to the Atlantic Ocean (1743)
- First scientific account of the Amazon River
- René Robert Cavelier La Salle (1643-1687)
- Explored the Mississippi down to its mouth and founded Louisiana (1682)
- Could not find the river’s mouth when he returned with colonists
- Pierre Gaultier de Varennes La Vérendrye (1685-1749)
- Explored Western Canada
- Made a trip on foot and on horseback to the area of the Black Hills in South Dakota (1742-1743)
- Jacques Marquette (1637-1675)
- Explored the upper lakes of the St. Lawrence River (1666)
- With Louis Joliet, charted the course of the Mississippi River (1669)
- Jean Nicollet de Bellesborne (c1598-1642)
- Explored the Straits of Mackinac and the northern shores of Lake Michigan as far as Green Bay (1634)
- First white man to explore the area of the WisconsinRiver to the Illinois River
- Auguste Pavie (1847-1925)
- Made an extensive survey of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam (1881-1895)
- Pierre-Esprit Radisson (c1640-1710)
- With Médard Chouart Des Groseilliers, explored the area south and west of Lake Superior (1659-1660)
- Jean Dumont d’Urville (1780-1842)
- Sailed around Cape Horn on a voyage to study terrestrial magnetism, and reached Adélie Land in Antarctica (1838-1840)
