Category
page 1Explorers of Alaska
James Cook
British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728–1779)
Vitus Bering
Danish-born Russian explorer (1681-1741)
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)
George Vancouver
English naval explorer (1757–1798)
Knud Rasmussen
Danish explorer and anthropologist
Georg Wilhelm Steller
Explorer and zoologist famous for discovering Steller's Sea Lion
Otto von Kotzebue
Baltic German explorer (1787–1846)
Grigory Shelikhov
Russian explorer
Aleksei Chirikov
Russian explorer
Alessandro Malaspina of Mulazzo
Spanish explorer (1754–1810)
William Healey Dall
American malacologist, palaeontologist and explorer (1845 – 1927)
Robert Gray
American merchant sea captain
Ejnar Mikkelsen
Danish explorer and writer
Frederick Schwatka
American writer (1849–1892)
Robert Kennicott
American zoologist (1835-1866)
John Webber
English artist (1753-1791)
Edward Henry Harriman
American financier and railroad magnate (1848–1909)
Francisco Antonio Mourelle
Spanish explorer (1750-1820)
Ivan Fyodorov
Russian explorer
Gavril Sarychev
Russian admiral
Frederick Whymper
British explorer
Gavriil Pribylov
Russian explorer
Pyotr Krenitsyn
Russian explorer
Joseph Billings
British-Russian explorer
Mikhail Levashev
Russian explorer (1738-1774)
Mikhail Gvozdev
Russian geodesist
Gerasim Izmailov
Russian explorer
José María Narváez
Spanish naval officer, explorer, and navigator
Arvid Adolf Etholén
Finnish explorer (1799-1876)
Bruno de Heceta
Spanish explorer
Salvador Fidalgo
Spanish explorer
Ludwig von Hagemeister
Baltic German explorer (1780-1833)
Francisco de Eliza
Spanish explorer
Evstratii Delarov
American fur trader
Gonzalo López de Haro
Spanish explorer
Jacinto Caamaño
Spanish explorer (1759–1829)
Henry Tureman Allen
(1859-1930) United States Army general
Mikhail Tebenkov
Russian admiral-explorer
John Gore
British American sailor
George Dixon
English explorer
Juan Carrasco
Spanish explorer
Ed Schieffelin
prospector who discovered the Tombstone mining district (1847–1897)
Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh
American explorer and artist (1853–1935)
Nathaniel Portlock
British ship's captain
James Colnett
British Royal Navy officer, an explorer, and maritime fur trader
Bernard R. Hubbard
American geologist, explorer, and Jesuit priest (1888–1962)
Potap Kuzmich Zaikov
Russian explorer
Jack McQuesten
known as the 'father of the Yukon' - a grubstaker for prospectors