18th-century explorers

missionary to Greenland, Lutheran pastor (1686-1758)

Swedish explorer, orientalist, naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus (1732-1763)

Finland-Swedish military officer and one of the first subjects of Imperial Russia to set foot in Japan

Sudeten botanist, traveller, ethnographer, cartographer and doctor

Portuguese explorer

American fur trader

naturalist and explorer in Brazil (1756-1815)

Jesuit missionary

Paulista explorer (1672-1740)

Finnish explorer

thumb|Engraving of Wynee, a Native of Owyhee, one of the Sandwich Islands by a member of John Meares's crew thumb|Engraving of Tianna, a Prince of Atooi, who traveled with Wynee during the last leg of her journey home and was beside her at her death Wynee, also spelled Winee or Winée, was the first Native Hawaiian from the Hawaiian Islands to travel abroad on a Western ship. She traveled to British Columbia and China before dying on the voyage home to Hawaii.