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Introduction

This is a list of notable maritime explorers throughout the history of Humanity.

Purpose of the list

The purpose of the list is to enable the reader to navigate between Wikipedia entries of diverse maritime explorers from a central encyclopedic point of reference.

Definition

A maritime explorer is the noted leader of the expedition (External Link

) which primarily depends on a naval vessel mode of transportation to reach previously unknown or less known parts of the planet's maritime and coastal regions.
Some explorers combined expeditionary roles with naturalist studies and scientific research, means of establishing communication with other populations, commercial trade, and military missions such as establishment of colonies.

List scope

Necessarily the list can only relate to individuals and their missions which used watercraft for much of their duration. Maritime exploration hasn't diminished in importance with the emergence of the aircraft, and remains an important part of contemporary scientific research.
Although human maritime exploration is very ancient, only explorers known in recorded histories of their cultures are noted here. As such they represent three global maritime regions (in English alphabetic order): the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and their sub-regional seas as points of origin of the exploration missions.

Notability criteria

The list includes explorers which had contributed, and continue to contribute to human knowledge of the planet's geography, weather, biodiversity, human cultures, the expansion of trade, or established communication between diverse populations.
Although many maritime explorers also used force as part of their missions, these are not considered as a reason for exclusion from the list because it represents a subjective contemporary view of the use of force.

Ocean explorers

Name,	First voyage of exploration	Last voyage of exploration	Indian	Pacific	South Atlantic	Southern
de Abreu, António
de Albuquerque, Afonso
de Alenquer,Pêro
de Almeida, Francisco
Álvares, Jorge
de Azambuja, Diogo
de Barcelos, Pêro
Bartlett, Robert
von Bellingshausen, Fabian Gottlieb				*
Bering, Vitus				*
de Bougainville, Louis Antoine
Byron, John
Cabot, John
Cabot, Sebastian
Cabral, Pedro Álvares
Cabrilho, João Rodrígues
Cadamosto. Alvise
Caminha, Álvaro
de Caminha, Pêro Vaz
Cão,Diogo
Cartier, Jacques
Cavendish, Thomas
de Champlain, Samuel
Coelho, Gonçalo
Coelho, Nicolau
Columbus, Christopher
Cook, James	1768–71	1776–79		3		1
Corte-Real, Gaspar
Corte-Real, Miguel
da Cunha, Tristão
Dampier, William
Davis, John
Dezhnev, Semyon				*
Dias, Bartolomeu
Dias, Dinis
Dias, Diogo
Dias, Pêro
do Pó, Fernão
Drake,Francis	1577–81	1577–81	1	1	1
Eanes, Gil
Ericson, Leif
Escobar, Pedro
Fernandes, António
Frobisher, Martin
da Gama, Estêvão
da Gama, Paulo
da Gama, Vasco
Gilbert, Humfry
Golovnin, Vasily				*
Gonçalves, André
Gonçalves, Antão
Gonçalves, Lopes
Grego, João
He, Zheng				*
Hudson, Henry
Infante, João
von Kotzebue, Otto				*
Kruzenshtern, Ivan Fedorovich				*
Lavrador, João Fernandes
Lazarev, Mikhail Petrovich				*
de Lemos, Gaspar
Litke, Fyodor Petrovich				*
Magellan, Ferdinand
le Maire, Jacob
Martins, Álvaro
Mascarenhas, Pedro
de Mendaña, Álvaro
Noli, António
de Noronha, Fernão
da Nova, João
Paulmyer, Binot
Pereira, Duarte Pacheco
Perestrelo, Bartolomeu
Pining, Didrik
Pinto, Fernão Mendes
Pires, Luís
de Queirós, Pedro Fernandes
Rodrigues, Diogo
de Santarém, João
Schouten, Willem
Silves, Diogo
de Sintra, Pedro
de Sousa, Martim Afonso
Tasman, Abel
Teixeira, Tristão Vaz
de Torres, Luis Váez
Tristão, Nuno
Vancouver, George
Vaz Corte-Real, João
Velho, Gonçalo
da Verrazzano, Giovanni
Vespucci, Amerigo
Wallis, Samuel
Wrangel, Ferdinand Petrovich				*
Zarco, João Gonçalves

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