| | | Captain James Cook FRS RN (27 October 1728 (O.S.) – 14 February 1779) was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer. Ultimately rising to th... | | Woodes Rogers, was an English privateer and later the first royal governor of the Bahamas. While at Cabo San Lucas in Baja California Sur, Mexico,... | | Dame Ellen Patricia MacArthur, DBE (born July 8, 1976) is an English sailor from Whatstandwell near Matlock in Derbyshire, now based in Cowes, on... | | Sir Francis Chichester (September 17 1901 - August 26 1972), aviator and sailor, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for becoming the first person... | | James Stephen Fossett (born April 22, 1944, in Jackson, Tennessee) is a American aviator and adventurer known for his appetite to set world... | | Sir William Robert Pat "Robin" Knox-Johnston, CBE, RD and bar (born 17 March 1939) was the first man to perform a single-handed non-stop... | | Vice-Admiral The Honourable John Byron RN (November 8, 1723 - April 10, 1786) was a British vice-admiral. He was known as "Foul-weather Jack"... | | Francis Joyon (born May 28, 1956) is a professional sailboat racer and yachtsman. In February 2004 Breton Francis Joyon became the fastest world... | | Brian Jones is an English balloonist. Brian Jones, along with Bertrand Piccard, co-piloted the first successful uninterrupted circumnavigation of... | | Dr. Bertrand Piccard (born March 1, 1958) is a Swiss psychiatrist and balloonist. He was born in Lausanne, Vaud canton. His grandfather Auguste... | |