Famous Explorers #4

Name more explorers based on their achievements. Warning: hard

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Hint	c.	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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