Famous Explorers

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Exploration gets taught as a list of arrivals, which skips the interesting part: what it took, who paid, and what happened to the people already there. Draw a figure and read a proper account rather than a summary. Thirty explorers across maritime, polar, aerial and space exploration. Several of these expeditions were catastrophes that are remembered as triumphs, and a few of the most competent names here are ones most people have never heard.