Pages on Discoverers Web

Periods and regions (extensive)

• The first explorers
• Phoenicia and Carthage
• Greek explorers
• The Roman period
• Irish and Vikings
• The medieval period
• The African coast
• The Portuguese empire

Periods and regions (link collection only)

• North and Central America
• South America
• Asia
• Africa
• The Pacific and Australia
• The Polar Regions
• Non-western explorers

Pages on single explorers

• Juan Bautista de Anza (DG)
• Vasco Nuñez de Balboa (AE)
• Alexandr Baranov (RH)
• Heinrich Barth (LR)
• John Biscoe (AE)
• Olivier Brunel (AE + RH)
• Robert O'Hara Burke (AE)
• John Cabot (AE)
• Sebastian Cabot (GL)
• Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (AE)
• René-Auguste Caillié (AE)
• Diogo Cão (RH)
• Jacques Cartier (AE)
• Richard Chancellor (AE)
• Aleksei Chirikov (RH)
• Hugh Clapperton (LR)
• The Columbus links page
• Niccolo di Conti (RH)
• James Cook links page
• Simon de Cordes (AE)
• Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (AE)
• Francisco de Coronado (AE)
• Pero da Covilhão (RH)
• William Dampier (AE)
• Antoine de Bruni D'Entrecasteaux (LR)
• Semen Dezhnev (RH)
• Gil Eannes (RH)
• Luke Foxe (AE)
• Dionisio Alcala Galiano (RH)
• Robert Gray (AE)
• James Augustus Grant (AE)
• Juan de Grijalva (AE)
• Henry the Navigator (AE)
• Hamilton Hume (GL)
• Thomas James (AE)
• Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada (RH)
• Louis Jolliet (AE)
• Henry Kelsey (AE)
• Jean-François de Galoup, Comte de La Pérouse (AE + GL)
• Jacques Mahu (AE)
• Jacques Marquette (AE)
• Alvaro de Mendaña de Nehra (LR)
• Carsten Niebuhr (RH)
• Odorico of Pordenone (RH)
• Francisco de Orellana (RH)
• Juan Ponce de Léon (AE)
• William Penn (AE)
• Vicente Pinzon (RH)
• Nikolai Przhevalski (AE)
• Pytheas (AE)
• Matthijs Quast (AE)
• Pedro Fernandez de Quiros (RH)
• António Rapôso Tavares (RH)
• Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira (RH)
• John Hanning Speke (AE)
• Luis Vaez de Torres (RH)
• George Vancouver (AE)
• Cayetano Valdes and Dionisio Alcala Galiano (RH)
• Ludovico di Varthema (LR)
• Giovanni da Verrazzano (AE)
• James Weddell (RH)
• Hugh Willoughby (AE)
• William Wills (AE)

Pages on special subjects

• the Dutch in Formosa (AE + RH)
• the Astorians (AE)
• The Pundits (AE)
• the crossing of West Australia (AE)

• AE: André Engels
• DG: Don Garate
• GL: Gillian Lord
• RH: Ray Howgego