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Born October 6, 1914 • Norway
Died April 18, 2002 (aged 87) • Italy

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Thor Heyerdahl
Kon-Tiki
Easter Island moai
Thor Heyerdahl.
Kon-Tiki raft en route to Tuamotu Archipelago
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Powell, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist
Karl Ernst, Ritter von Baer
Karl Ernst von Baer
Prussian-Estonian embryologist
Roy Chapman Andrews
Roy Chapman Andrews
American naturalist
Maximilian, prince zu Wied-Neuwied
German naturalist and explorer
Nansen, Fridtjof
Fridtjof Nansen
Norwegian explorer and scientist
Roald Amundsen
Roald Amundsen
Norwegian explorer
Erik the Red
Erik the Red
Norwegian explorer
Finn Ronne
American explorer
Lady Hester Stanhope
British noble
John McDouall Stuart
Australian explorer
Martin E. Johnson
American adventurer and photographer
Luis Vaez de Torres
Spanish navigator
Thomas Walker
American physician
Nathaniel P. Langford
American explorer and conservationist
Heinrich Harrer
explorer and writer
Juan Bermúdez
Spanish navigator
Antoine-Thomson d’Abbadie
French geographer
Arnaud-Michel d’Abbadie
French geographer
Robert Campbell
Canadian trader and explorer
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus
Italian explorer