Portuguese nobleman who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope, the southern tip of Africa, in 1488, the first European known to do so since ancient times.
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Bartolomeu Dias
Commemorated ati
Dias statue
Dias rests his right hand on a cross which tops what appears to be a lighthou...
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Robert Ferrier
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
Bungaree
Or Boongaree. Aboriginal Australian from the Kuringgai people of the Broken Bay area north of Sydney. Known as an explorer, entertainer, and Aboriginal community leader. Worked with Flinders as as...
Francis Pocock
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
George Kinnaird
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
John McDouall Stuart
Australian explorer. Born Scotland. Trained as a civil engineer and aged 23 emigrated to Australia where 1858 - 62 he made 6 expeditions into the interior searching out new pastures and surveying ...
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