Your favourite explorer

[backpacker]

Shackleton
Scott
Magellan
Sir Francis Drake
Jacques Cousteau
Ranulph Fiennes
Dr Livingstone

There are so many from all different centuries! but these are the ones I have read books about........

 

[Imagedude]

Major Bill Tilman
Ford Explorer
Neil Armstrong
Captain James T. Kirk

 

[sandbender]

There are a few, here are a few...

Wilfred Thesiger

Patrick Leigh Fermor

Freya Stark

Eric Newby

Ibn Battuta

 

[21st century pict]

Alexander Ross
Megellan
Cook
Drake
Jacques Cousteau

As for modern explores hummm, you got me there.

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[Joonsy]

walter raleigh for introducing one of my favourite foods to great britain, the spud.

 

[Macaroon]

There are a few, here are a few...

Wilfred Thesiger

Patrick Leigh Fermor

Freya Stark

Eric Newby

Ibn Battuta

That'd just cover it for me, as well.

 

[Ruud]

Helge Ingstad for sure, true pioneer

 

[Stevie777]

Dont know if you can class John Muir as a explorer but he certainly has my admiration for his achievements. oh, and David Livingston. Slightly biased in my choices i know.

 

[Tengu]

Well, yes, I do have a few female favorites (apart from the Victorian Women Travelers (TM) who one friend of mine dismissed as being middle class.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia_Fiennes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_David-Néel

And how about a guy who went knowhere but still explored?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Waley

And foremost of the people of Sin, this guy had a ship which many an admiral might envy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_He

And what about this nameless fellow?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventio_Fortunata

And of course

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knud_Rasmussen

 

[Blundstoned Love]

Nitty Nora?

 

[tsitenha]

Pere Marquette
Louie Joliet
Sieur de La Vérendrye
Pierre-Esprit Radisson
Médard Chouart des Groseilliers
France, England, United States of America and Kanata, were benefited by these men.
Both sides of northern americas were trail blazed by these men, starting in the 1600, often by themselves only.

 

[Bigfoot]

Dr John Rae
Shackleton

The first two that came to my mind, also.

 

[Riven]

Captain James Cook. Has anyone wondered, Captain James Kirk? Having read his diaries of his voyages it put me in mind of a very early Star Trek on water.
No Spock on his voyages though. Shame.

 

[santaman2000]

Captain James Cook. Has anyone wondered, Captain James Kirk? Having read his diaries of his voyages it put me in mind of a very early Star Trek on water.
No Spock on his voyages though. Shame.

Yeah the writers have stated that the character was indeed deliberately based on Cook as was the name. James T Cook became James T Kirk.

 

[boatnosepanbow]

boatnose panbow - forest inhabitant extraordinaire!

 

[tsitenha]

I was just going to say that, you beat me to it boatnose panbow :You_Rock_

 

[Robson Valley]

Perhaps it depends upon where you are in the world and what civilization has stood to gain from the explorations.
Post Smallpox, the world did change with specific reference to the dirty scuts who happily spread it around.

I'll say, from a PacNW anthropological perspecive that Emily Carr trumps most. "Klee Wik" to the Haida.

 

[hog]

Frederick Courtney Selous.