Sven Hedin

Sven Hedin

male, deceased (1952)
Geographer, uppsala, ExplorerofAsia, zoology, swedish, uppsala university…Member of the Swedish Academy, Central Asia, explorer, University of Wittenberg, Humboldt University of Berlin
Sven Anders Hedin (February 19, 1865 - November 26, 1952) was a Swedish explorer, geographer and geopolitician. Hedin was born in Stockholm....
Marco Polo

Marco Polo

male, deceased (1324)
silk road, explorer, Cathay, Adventurer, Exploration, Italian…Republic of Venice, ExplorerofAsia, The Travels of Marco Polo
Marco Polo (September 15 1254 - January 9 1324 at earliest but no later than June 1325) was a Venetian trader and explorer who gained fame for his...
Vasco da Gama

Vasco da Gama

male, deceased (1524)
Count of Vidigueira, dom, Portuguese, Age of Discovery, Portuguese explorer, kochi…explorer, Explorer of Africa, Portugal in the Age of Discovery, ExplorerofAsia
Dom Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira ((Sines or Vidigueira, Alentejo, Portugal, ca. either 1460 or 1469 - December 24, 1524 in Kochi, India)...

John Whitehead

male, deceased (1899)
ExplorerofAsia, Naturalist, British, Ornithologist, borneo, spanish-american war…explorer, The Explorations of Mount Kina-Balu
John Whitehead (June 30, 1860 - June 2, 1899) was an English explorer and naturalist. Whitehead travelled in Borneo between 1885 and 1888, where he...
Ibn Battuta

Ibn Battuta

male, deceased (1377)
berber, west africa, explorer, maldives, fiqh, Exploration…ExplorerofAsia, southeast asia, Explorer of Africa
Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta (Arabic: "' was a Berber Sunni Islamic scholar and jurisprudent from the Maliki Madhhab (a school of Fiqh, or...
Francis Younghusband

Francis Younghusband

male, deceased (1942)
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, explorer, British Army soldier, British Indian Army officer, far east, Central Asia…ExplorerofAsia
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband (31 May, 1863 - 31 July, 1942) was a British Army officer, explorer, and spiritualist. He is...
Vitus Bering

Vitus Bering

male, deceased (1741)
Russian of Danish descent, Great Northern War, ExplorerofAsia, Russian, peter the great, baltic…Russian and Soviet polar explorer, Explorer of North America, explorer
Vitus Jonassen Bering (also, less correctly, "Behring") (August 1681-December 19, 1741) was a Danish-born navigator in the service of the Russian...
Freya Stark

Freya Stark

female, deceased (1993)
31 Jan, ExplorerofAsia, Women travel writer, Explorer of Arabia, Asolo, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire…explorer, Order of the British Empire, Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Dame Freya Madeleine Stark, DBE (b. 31 Jan1893, Paris France - d. 9 May 1993, Asolo Italy) was a British travel writer. In between that time, she...
Zheng He

Zheng He

male, deceased (1433)
Ming Dynasty eunuchs, Islamic travel writer, buried at sea, diplomat, explorer, Explorer of Africa…Naval history of China, ExplorerofAsia
Zheng He (1371-1433), was a Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat and fleet admiral, who made the voyages collectively referred to as the travels of...
Wilfred Thesiger

Wilfred Thesiger

male, deceased (2003)
From Addis Ababa, Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford, Order of the British Empire, ExplorerofAsia, Old Etonian, addis ababa…explorer, Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, Explorer of Arabia
Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger, KBE, DSO, (3 June, 1910 - August 24, 2003) was a British explorer and travel writer born in Addis Ababa, the capital...