Famous Explorers #4

Name more explorers based on their achievements. Warning: hard

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Nationality

Explorer

first to climb Mount Everest solo and first without oxygen

20th

Italian

Reinhold Messner

regarded as the first to set foot on the Antarctic continent

19th

American

John Davis

led Antarctic expeditions, first at the South Magnetic Pole

20th

Australian

Douglas Mawson

travelled through the Ottoman Empire for over 40 years

17th

Ottoman

Evliya Çelebi

farthest humans who didn't leave Earth orbit (Gemini 11)

20th

American

Pete Conrad | Richard Gordon

polar explorer who charted the Antarctic coast

19th

British

James Clark Ross

possibly the first European to set foot on American land

10th

Norse

Snæbjörn Galti

first to fly solo around the world, discovered the jet stream

20th

American

Wiley Post

made an early attempt to find the Northwest Passage

17th

British

William Baffin

first to go around the world three times, also a naturalist

17th

British

William Dampier

travelled Asia, Africa, & America, also a famed translator

19th

British

Richard Francis Burton

first to explore today's US east coast, in French service

15th

Florentine

Giovanni da Verrazzano

polar aviator, first to fly to the South Pole

20th

American

Richard Byrd

first to sight and set foot on Antarctic land

19th

British

William Smith

made five journeys through Central Asia and China

19th

Russian

Nikolay Przhevalsky

led the first French and first scientific circumnavigation

18th

French

Louis Antoine de Bougainville

first to circumnavigate Australia, also coined the name

19th

British

Matthew Flinders

first to actually reach the North Pole via airship

20th

Italian

Umberto Nobile

explored the Russian arctic, later Governor of Alaska

19th

Russian

Ferdinand von Wrangel

modern explorer, first to cross Antarctica on foot

20th

British

Ranulph Fiennes

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