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Died 1777 • Durham • England
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John Smith
British explorer
Oxley, John
John Oxley
British explorer
Evans, George William
George William Evans
English surveyor and explorer
George Vancouver
George Vancouver
British explorer
Matthew Flinders
Matthew Flinders
British navigator
Beche, Sir Henry Thomas De La
Sir Henry Thomas De La Beche
British geologist
George Bass
British explorer
Sir Edward Belcher
British admiral
Edward Bransfield
British explorer
Frémont, John C.
John C. Frémont
American explorer, military officer, and politician
Powell, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist
Dumont d'Urville, engraving by Émile Lassalle after Maurin
Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d’Urville
French explorer
Robert Fitzroy
British scientist
Chesney, detail from a painting over a photograph; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Francis Rawdon Chesney
British explorer
King, Clarence
Clarence King
American geologist
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
American geologist
Becker, George Ferdinand
George Ferdinand Becker
American geologist
Mitchell, Sir Thomas Livingstone
Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
British explorer
Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden
American geologist
Sir John Richardson
Scottish surgeon and explorer