Category
page 2Explorers of Asia
Pero Vaz de Caminha
Portuguese knight (c. 1450 – 1500)
Duarte Pacheco Pereira
Portuguese explorer
Boris Vilkitsky
Russian polar explorer (1885–1961)
Paulo da Gama
Portuguese explorer
Francisco Serrão
Portuguese explorer
Georg August Wallin
Finnish orientalist (1811–1852)
Jane Dieulafoy
French archaeologist, explorer and writer (1851–1916)
Yakov Sannikov
Russian explorer
Ivan Moskvitin
Russian explorer
Ella Maillart
Sportwomen, explorator, traveler and writer (1903–1997)
Ulrich Jasper Seetzen
German physician, naturalist, explorer and orientalist (1767-1811)
Gennady Nevelskoy
Russian navigator (1813-1876)
Nikolai Yadrintsev
Russian explorer (1842-1894)
Charles Montagu Doughty
British poet (1843-1926)
João de Castro
Portuguese explorer
Diogo Lopes de Sequeira
Governor of Portuguese India
Harriet Chalmers Adams
American explorer, writer and photographer (1875-1937)
Ernest Doudart de Lagrée
French explorer (1823–1868)
Mamiya Rinzō
Japanese explorer
Lourenço de Almeida
Portuguese explorer
Évariste Régis Huc
French Catholic missionary, one of the earliest explorers of Tibet (1813-1860)
Nicolau Coelho
Portuguese navigator and explorer (1460-1504)
Charles von Hügel
Austrian noble, army officer, diplomat, botanist, and explorer (1795–1870)
Joseph Halévy
French Orientalist (1827–1917)
Petachiah of Ratisbon
Czech rabbi
Shams al-Din al-Ansari al-Dimashqi
Syrian historian
Vasili Pronchishchev
Russian explorer
Maria Pronchishcheva
Russian explorer
Valentine Baker
British soldier (1827–1887)
Ivan Lyakhov
Russian merchant
John Whitehead
English explorer and naturalist (1860–1899)
William Gifford Palgrave
British Arabic scholar (1826–1888)
Anne Blunt
British musician and horse breeder (1837–1917)
Benedict of Poland
Polish explorer
Diogo Rodrigues
Portuguese explorer
Martin Spanberg
Danish-born Russian explorer
Fernão Pires de Andrade
Portuguese merchant/pharmacist/diplomat
Juan González de Mendoza
Spanish bishop
Dirck Gerritsz Pomp
Dutch explorer
Hippalus
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Adam Laxman
Finland-Swedish military officer and one of the first subjects of Imperial Russia to set foot in Japan
André de Longjumeau
Diplomat of the Holy See
Patrocles
Ancient Macedonian general and geographer
Danila Antsiferov
Russian explorer
Duarte Fernandes
Portuguese explorer
Sharif ul-Hāshim of Sulu
founder and 1st Sultan of Sulu
Hyecho
'''Hyech'o''' (; ; 704–787), was a Silla Buddhist monk and traveller active during Korea's Three Kingdoms period. He is primarily remembered for his account of his travels in medieval India, the .
Yakov Permyakov
Russian explorer
Bertram Thomas
Civil servant and explorer (1892–1950)
Ivan Fyodorov
Russian explorer
António de Saldanha
Portuguese explorer and diplomat
Ludwig Schwarz
Baltic German astronomer (1822-1894)
Jean Alfonse
Navigator, explorer and corsair
Mikhail Levashev
Russian explorer (1738-1774)
Mikhail Gvozdev
Russian geodesist
'Ali Akbar Khata'i
16th-century traveler and writer
Panagiotis Potagos
explorer
Laurence Waddell
British explorer (1854-1938)
Pyotr Krenitsyn
Russian explorer
Cornelis Gijsbert Gerrit Jan van Steenis
Dutch botanist and university teacher (1901-1986)