explorer
C460
concept
An explorer is an individual who ventures into unknown or unfamiliar territories—physical, intellectual, or emotional—to discover, learn, and expand the boundaries of existing knowledge or experience.
Aliases (13)
- pioneer ×6
- Arctic explorer ×5
- adventurer ×4
- conquistador ×4
- polar explorer ×2
- Central Asia explorer ×1
- German explorer ×1
- discoverer ×1
- explorer of North America ×1
- explorer patron ×1
- explorers ×1
- gold prospectors ×1
- trailblazer ×1
Instances (142)
- Mendaña
- John Cabot
- Amerigo Vespucci
- Percy Fawcett
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Hernán Cortés ("conquistador")
- Merian C. Cooper
- Francisco Pizarro ("conquistador")
- Jan van Riebeeck
- Juan de Fuca
- Henry the Navigator ("explorer patron")
- Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac
- Nicolás de Ovando (as colonial authority in the region) ("conquistador")
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- James Winchester ("pioneer")
- Juan Sebastián Elcano
- John Muir
- Jacob Roggeveen
- Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada
- Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira
- Shirley Ann Jackson ("trailblazer")
- Peter Fleming ("adventurer")
- Abel Tasman
- Aurel Stein
- Pánfilo de Narváez
- Robert Bylot
- Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
- Juan Manuel de Ayala
- Thomas Button
- Kermit Roosevelt
- Juan Ponce de León
- Diego de Almagro
- Alexander von Humboldt
- Hernando de Soto
- Hendrik Brouwer
- Jacques Marquette
- Auguste Piccard
- Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville
- Kit Carson
- Samuel de Champlain
- Don Walsh
- Albert von Le Coq
- Auguste Chouteau ("pioneer")
- Pedro de Mendoza
- Otto von Kotzebue
- Robert E. Peary
- Edmund Hillary
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau
- Tenzing Norgay
- Robert Ballard
- Giovanni Battista Caviglia
- Louise Arner Boyd
- Thomas James
- Richard Chancellor
- Lysaker, Norway
- Willem Barentsz
- John Sutter ("pioneer")
- Hugh Willoughby
- Francis Drake
- Luke Foxe
- Miguel López de Legazpi
- James Cracknell ("adventurer")
- David Livingstone
- Absalom Lehman
- Charles Lindbergh
- George Vancouver
- John Smith
- Henry Hudson
- Meriwether Lewis
- Edward Whymper
- Ardito Desio
- William F. Raynolds
- Diogo de Azambuja
- forty-niners ("gold prospectors")
- Hiram Bingham
- Sir Ranulph Fiennes
- Jacques Piccard
- Pedro Fages
- Christopher Columbus
- James Cook
- Victor Vescovo
- Fridtjof Nansen
- Roald Amundsen ("polar explorer")
- William Smith
- William Baffin
- William Strachey ("explorer of North America")
- John Franklin ("Arctic explorer")
- Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut
- Vitus Bering
- Alexander Mackenzie
- Sue Hendrickson
- Zebulon Pike
- William Clark
- Fawcett
- Robert McClure
- Samuel Hearne
- Pedro Álvares Cabral
- Nathaniel Palmer
- Giovanni da Verrazzano
- Louis Jolliet
- Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza
- João da Nova
- Percival
- George Powell
- Wiley Post
- Pierre-Esprit Radisson
- Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
- William Gibbons
- Marco Polo
- Ioannis Phokas
- Vasco da Gama
- Tristán de Luna y Arellano
- Paweł Edmund Strzelecki
- Médard des Groseilliers
- Spanish conquistadors ("explorers")
- Apostolos Valerianos
- Ibn Battuta
- Luton Grammar School
- Carl von Martius
- Apostolos Ioannis Fokas
- Mary Brickell ("pioneer")
- Antonio Raimondi
- Eyre
- Thomas Mercer ("pioneer")
- Bartolomeu Dias
- Peter Simon Pallas
- Sven Hedin
- Congosto
- Conrad Will ("pioneer")