Discoverers Web: The Pacific & Australia
Explorers of the Pacific and Australia
Polynesian voyages: See non-western explorers
The 16th century
- Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães)
- Garcia Jofre de Loaysa (in German)
- Alvaro de Saavedra (in German)
- Hernando de Grijalva (in German)
- Ruy Lopez de Villalobos
- Miguel López de Legazpi (in German)
- Andrés de Urdaneta
- alternative site
- site in German
- History of the Galapagos from 1535 till 1832 (Fray Tomás de Berlanga, Ambrose Cowley, James Colnett)
- Sir Francis Drake
- alternative sites: 1, 2, 3
- attack on the silver train, 1573
- Circumnavigation
Drake site - various pages on Drake-related subjects.
- The controversity: Where did Drake stay in California?
- Thomas Cavendish
- alternative site (in German)
- Alvaro de Mendaña de Nehra
- Japan on maps from the 15th - 17th century.
- Pedro Fernandez de Quiros
- Luis Vaez de Torres
The Dutch
- See also below: the Australian coast
- Jacob Le Maire & Willem Schouten
- alternative site (in German)
- Isaac LeMaire's fight to find credit for his son's discovery
- Abel Janszoon Tasman
- Alternative sites: 1, 2
- site in Dutch
- Het Abel Tasman kabinet
The eighteenth and nineteenth century
- Easter Island: European discovery
- Jacob Roggeveen (in German)
- George Anson
- alternative site (in German)
- John Byron (in German)
- Samuel Wallis (in German)
- Philip Carteret (in German)
- Louis-Antoine de Bougainville
- Jean Francois Marie de Surville (in German)
- Marion Du Fresne (in German)
- Felipe Francisco Gonzalez (in German)
- James Cook
- Now has his own link page, also containing people around him like Joseph Banks and Tobias Furneaux
- Domingo de Boenéchea
- Francisco Antonio Maurelle
- Jean-François de Galoup, Comte de La Pérouse
- William Bligh
- Antoine Raymond Joseph de Bruni D'Entrecasteaux
- Peter Dillon (in German)
- FitzRoy and Darwin: see South America
- Wilkes, D'Urville, J.C. Ross: see the southern seas
- Early Australian exploration and Colonization
- extensive bibliography
- Anthology - with quotes from the diaries of several explorers, especially Flinders
- map of Dutch discoveries
- Dutch discoveries (general)
- The Discovery of Van Diemen's Lan (Tasmania)
- Willem Jansz
- Dirk Hartog
- alternative site
pewter plate
- The Zeewulf
- Frederick de Houtman
- Discovery of the Houtman Abrolhos
- alternative site
- the Leeuwin
- Jan Carstensz
- François Thijssen
- alternative site
- the Vyanen
- François Pelsaert
- alternative site
- the Batavia story
- Gerrit Pool
- Abel Tasman: see Dutch discoverers of the Pacific
- Willem de Vlamingh (in Dutch)
- alternative site
- yet another site
- William Dampier
- alternative site (in German)
- George Bass
- alternative site
- Matthew Flinders
- Phillip Parker King
Australian inland
- Arthur Phillip
- Exploration of the Blue Mountains
- John Wilson
- Francis Barrallier
- Gregory Blaxland
- alternative site
- Blaxland, Lawson & Wentworth
- George Evans
- John Oxley
- Hamilton Hume
- Hume and Hovell
- Hume and Hovell
- Allan Cunningham
- alternative site
- Charles Sturt
- Thomas Mitchell
- alternative site
- Edward John Eyre
- alternative site
- Ludwig Leichhardt
- Augustus Charles Gregory
- Edmund Kennedy
- alternative site
- John McDouall Stuart
John McDouall Stuart
- alternative site
- John McDouall Stuart Society
- Robert O'Hara Burke & William John Wills
- alternative site
- Crossing West Australia (Giles, Warburton, Gosse)
- John Forrest
- alternative site