was an English explorer, later a farmer.

William Hilton Hovell (26 April 1786 9 November 1875) was an English explorer of Australia.

Thomas Wright Blakiston (27 December 1832 15 October 1891) was an English explorer and naturalist.

It was explored by John Rae (explorer) in 1847 and named for Sir George Simpson.

In 1875, the French explorer Victor Guérin visited the village, which he called Beit Djenn .

The sea was named after the Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman, who was the first recorded European to encounter New Zealand and Tasmania.

It was named by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen in 1905 for the Norwegian queen Maud of Wales.

In the same year of 1823, the river was named after Sir Thomas Brisbane, the then Governor of New South Wales.

1513 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.

The British explorer Captain James Cook later extensively navigated the Tasman Sea in the 1770s as part of his first voyage of exploration.

Curtailing what is commonly known as the Age of Exploration, British explorer James Cook would be one of the few explorers that would travel to that Southern region of the world.

The amazing Pathfinder mission that went in '97, and the MER Rover missions that are on Mars as we speak now and the European Space Agency's Mars Express, has taught us a number of amazing things.

1500 1814 In 1500, King Manuel I of Portugal sent Gaspar Corte Real to Greenland in search of a Northwest Passage to Asia which, according to the Treaty of Tordesillas, was part of Portugal's influence.

There was a character called the Third Stage Guild Navigator, which was a kind of giant, floating fetus creature that lived in a giant tank with this orange mist of psychedelic spice swirling around him, allowing him to bend space and time.

The recorded history of Haiti began on 5 December 1492 when the European navigator Christopher Columbus happened upon a large island in the region of the western Atlantic Ocean that later came to be known as the Caribbean.

He intended to found the colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River, but inaccurate maps and navigational errors caused his ships to anchor instead 400 miles (650 km) to the west, off the coast of Texas.

Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reached the Pacific Ocean in 1513 after crossing the Isthmus of Panama, and Juan Díaz de Solís died in Río de la Plata in 1516 while exploring South America in the service of Spain.

After Rowbotham's death, Lady Elizabeth Blount, wife of explorer Sir Walter de Sodington Blount, established a Universal Zetetic Society, whose objective was the propagation of knowledge related to Natural Cosmogony in confirmation of the Holy Scriptures, based on practical scientific investigation .

Explorer Ben Saunders wants you to go outside! Not because it s always pleasant and happy, but because that s where the meat of life is, the juice that we can suck out of our hours and days. Saunders next outdoor excursion? To try to be the first in the world to walk from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back again.