Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)
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1
Marco Polo (1254-1324)
2
John Smith (1580-1631)
3
James Cook (1728-1779)
4
Jessica Watson, 31
5
Daniel Boone (1734-1820)
6
Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521)
7
Henry Hudson (1565-1611)
8
Hernando Cortés (1485-1547)
9
Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512)
10
Samuel De Champlain (1574-1635)
11
Vasco da Gama (1460-1524)
12
Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922)
13
Stephen Austin (1793-1863)
14
Jacques Cartier (1491-1557)
15
William Clark (1770-1838)
16
Francis Drake (1540-1596)
17
Jedediah Smith (1799-1831)
18
John Cabot
19
David Livingstone (1813-1873)
20
Joseph Banks (1743-1820)
21
Jim Bowie (1796-1836)
22
Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809)
23
St. George Littledale (1851-1931)
24
Annie Edson Taylor (1838-1921)
25
Hernando Desoto (1496-1542)
26
William Kidd (1645-1701)
27
Matthew Henson (1866-1955)
28
Calamity Jane (1852-1903)
29
Ed Stafford, 49
30
Robert Ballard, 82
31
James Oglethorpe (1696-1785)
32
Jan van Riebeeck (1619-1677)
33
Roald Amundsen (1872-1928)
34
John Henry Mears (1878-1956)
35
Robert De la Salle (1643-1687)
36
Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002)
37
William Lewis Herndon (1813-1857)
38
John Franklin (1786-1847)
39
Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912)
40
Bartolomeu Dias
41
Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)
42
Matthew Flinders (1774-1814)
43
Arthur Phillip (1738-1814)
44
Abel Tasman (1603-1659)
45
Jacques Piccard (1922-2008)
46
George Bass (1771-1803)
47
George Percy (1580-1632)
48
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