| |  | Dom Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira ((Sines or Vidigueira, Alentejo, Portugal, ca. either 1460 or 1469 - December 24, 1524 in Kochi, India)... |  | David Livingstone (19 March 1813 - 4 May 1873) was a Scottish Presbyterian pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and... |  | Mungo Park (September 11, 1771 - 1806) was a Scottish explorer of the African continent. |  | John Hanning Speke (May 4 1827 - September 15 1864) was an officer in the British Indian army, who made three voyages of exploration to Africa. In... |  | Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (March 19, 1821 - October 20, 1890) was a British explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist,... |  | Sir Henry Morton Stanley, also known in the Congo as "Bula Matari" (Breaker of Rocks or, alternatively, Sledge Hammer), born John Rowlands (January... |  | James Augustus Grant (April 11, 1827 - February 11, 1892) was a Scottish explorer of eastern equatorial Africa. Grant was born at Nairn in the... |  | Bartolomeu Dias (c. 1450 - May 29, 1500) was a Portuguese explorer who sailed around the the southern tip of Africa in 1488, the first European... |  | James Bruce (December 14, 1730 - April 27, 1794) was a Scottish traveller and travel writer who spent more than a dozen years in North Africa and... |  | Sir Samuel White Baker (8 June 1821 - 30 December, 1893) was an English explorer. | |
