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- Charles Albanel (1616-1696), Canada
- Diego de Almagro
- Pedro de Alvarado
- Roald Amundsen, (1872-1928), Norwegian, first at the South Pole, first to navigate the Northwest Passage in a single ship
- Roy Chapman Andrews, (1884-1960), US explorer
- Neil ArmstrongAstronaut Profile Selection Date: 1962 Position:Commander Retirement Date: 1969 Time in Space:8/14:10 Missions Gemini 8, Apollo 11 Neil Alden Armstrong (born August 5, 1930) is an American test pilot, astronaut, and the first person to walk on the Moon.
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- Pierre Savorgan de Brazza italian explorer naturalized french. French CongoCongo is the name of two countries in Central Africa: Republic of the Congo sometimes known as "Congo-Brazzaville", the smaller one in the west, marked green on the map. A former French colony; see: French Equatorial Africa. Democratic Republic of the Con's founder.
- Vasco Núñez de BalboaVasco Nunez de Balboa (ca. 1475 January 21, 1519) was a Spanish conquistador who founded the colony of Darien in Panama, the oldest still-existing European settlement in mainland America, and became the first European to see the Pacific Ocean. Balboa sail, (c. 1475Events August 29 Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England. First book printed in English, by William Caxton in Bruges. Births February 25 Edward, Earl of Warwick, later last male member of the House of York. March 6 Michelangelo Buo- 1519Events March 4 Hernan Cortes lands in Mexico. June 28 Charles I of Spain becomes Emperor of Holy Roman Empire as Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (ruled until 1556). September 20 Ferdinand Magellan leaves Europe to circumnavigate the world. November 8 Hernan), SpanishThe Kingdom of Spain is a country located in the southwest of Europe. It shares the Iberian Peninsula with Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra. To the northeast, along the Pyrenees mountain range, it borders France and the tiny principality of Andorra. It inc, first to sight the Pacific OceanFor other meanings of pacific see pacific (disambiguation). The Pacific Ocean (from the Spanish Pacifico meaning peaceful is the world's largest body of water. It encompasses a third of the Earth's surface, having an area of 179. 7 million km² (69. 4 mill, founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent.
- William Baffin, ( 1584- 1622)
- Samuel Baker, Africa
- Heinrich Barth ( 1821- 1865), Northern and Central Africa
- Willem Barents, ( 1550?- 1597), Dutch, died on Novaya Zemlya Northeast Passage
- George Bass - Australian explorer
- Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta, ( 1304?- 1377?), Moroccan Berber Muslim, visited Mecca several times, travelled to Central Asia, East Africa, China, Tombouctou and other places
- Nicolas Baudin - 18th century French explorer, mapped the West Australian coastline.
- Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian explorer
- Moric Benovsky, Slovak
- Vitus Bering
- Vittorio Bottego (1860,1897), italian explorer of the Giuba region in north-east Africa
- Saint Brendan - Irish abbot who sailed the Atlantic Ocean
- James Bruce
- Richard Francis Burton, ( 1821- 1890), looking for the source of the Nile, discovered Lake Tanganyika
- Richard E. Byrd, ( 1888- 1957), flew over South Pole
