Vasily Golovnin

Vasily Golovnin

male, deceased (1831)
Vasily Mikhailovich Golovnin (4.8(19).1776 — 6.29.(7.11).1831), Russian navigator, Vice Admiral, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sc...
Elmer Bendiner

Elmer Bendiner

male, deceased (2001)
Elmer Bendiner (1916-2001) was a notable American writer and journalist. He married his wife Esther in 1941 and served as a B-17 Flying Fortress...

Gennady Nevelskoy

male, deceased (1876)
Gennady Ivanovich Nevelskoy (in Drakino, now in Soligalichsky District, Kostroma Oblast - in St. Petersburg) was a Russian navigator. In 1848...
Semion Chelyuskin

Semion Chelyuskin

male
Chelyuskin, Semion Ivanovich, Russian polar explorer, naval officer. Chelyuskin graduated from the Navigation School in Moscow. He first became a...

Francisco de Eliza

male
Francisco de Eliza was a Spanish navigator and explorer. In 1790 the Viceroy of Mexico, Juan Vicente de Güemes Padilla Horcasitas y Aguayo, 2nd C...
Georgy Sedov

Georgy Sedov

male, deceased (1914)
Georgy Yakovlevich Sedov (April 23 (May 5), 1877 - February 20 (March 5), 1914) was a Russian Arctic explorer. Born in the village of Krivaya Kosa...
Cornelis Jol

Cornelis Jol

male, deceased (1641)
Cornelis Corneliszoon Jol (Scheveningen, The Netherlands 1597 - São Tomé, October 31 1641), nicknamed "Houtebeen" ("pegleg") was an admiral in th...

José María Narváez

male
José María Narváez was a Spanish explorer and navigator whose main field of action was the Pacific Northwest. He discovered Point Grey (modern day...
Diogo Soares

Diogo Soares

male
Diogo Soares was a 16th century Portuguese navigator and explorer. He visited Madagascar in 1543 and named the northern coastal town of...

Jean-François-Marie de Surville

male, deceased (1770)
Jean-François-Marie de Surville was a French trader and navigator. In 1767 de Surville set sail in his ship, the "St Jean Baptiste" to India to t...