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Born April 30, 1770 • London • England
Died February 10, 1857 (aged 86) • Canada
Title page of Richard Hakluyt's The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation
Richard Hakluyt
British geographer
Aaron Arrowsmith, engraving by T.A. Dean after a portrait by H.W. Pickersgill
Aaron Arrowsmith
British geographer and cartographer
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Muḥammad al-Idrīsī
Arab geographer
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Leopold, Baron von Buch
German geologist
George Vancouver
George Vancouver
British explorer
James Rennell
James Rennell
British geographer
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Douglas Freshfield
British explorer
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Lady Hester Stanhope
British noble
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Sir Richard Burton
Sir Richard Burton
British scholar and explorer
British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist
Francis Galton
Francis Galton
British scientist
Sir John Franklin
Sir John Franklin
English explorer
George Mallory
George Mallory
British explorer and mountaineer
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
British botanist
John Hanning Speke
John Hanning Speke
British explorer
Robert Falcon Scott
Robert Falcon Scott
English officer and explorer
Edward Whymper
Edward Whymper
British mountaineer and artist
Oxley, John
John Oxley
British explorer
Evans, George William
George William Evans
English surveyor and explorer

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