List of maritime explorers
Ocean explorers

List of maritime explorers

Section Title: Ocean explorers
Table Section Text: None

Nationality	Sailed for	Name	First voyage of exploration	Last voyage of exploration	Arctic	North Atlantic	Indian	Pacific	South Atlantic	Southern

Portuguese	Portugal	de Abreu, António	1507	1512

Portuguese	Portugal	de Albuquerque, Afonso	1503

Portuguese	Portugal	de Alenquer,Pêro	1487	1488

Portuguese	Portugal	de Almeida, Francisco

Portuguese	Portugal	Álvares, Jorge

Portuguese	Portugal	de Azambuja, Diogo

Portuguese	Portugal	de Barcelos, Pêro

Newfoundlander	United States	Bartlett, Robert

Estonian	Russia	von Bellingshausen, Fabian Gottlieb	*

Danish	Russia	Bering, Vitus	*

French	France	de Bougainville, Louis Antoine

English	Britain	Byron, John

Italian	England	Cabot, John

Italian	England and Aragon	Cabot, Sebastian

Portuguese	Portugal	Cabral, Pedro Álvares

Portuguese	Spain	Cabrilho, João Rodrígues

Venetian	Portugal	Cadamosto. Alvise

Portuguese	Portugal	Caminha, Álvaro

Portuguese	Portugal	de Caminha, Pêro Vaz

Portuguese	Portugal	Cão,Diogo

French	France	Cartier, Jacques	1534

English	England	Cavendish, Thomas	1586-88

French	France	de Champlain, Samuel

Portuguese	Portugal	Coelho, Gonçalo

Portuguese	Portugal	Coelho, Nicolau

Italian	Spain	Columbus, Christopher

English	Britain	Cook, James	1768–71	1776–79	3	1

Portuguese	Portugal	Corte-Real, Gaspar

Portuguese	Portugal	Corte-Real, Miguel

Portuguese	Portugal	da Cunha, Tristão

English	England	Dampier, William

English	England and Netherlands	Davis, John

Russian	Russia	Dezhnev, Semyon	*

Portuguese	Portugal	Dias, Bartolomeu

Portuguese	Portugal	Dias, Dinis

Portuguese	Portugal	Dias, Diogo

Portuguese	Portugal	Dias, Pêro

Portuguese	Portugal	do Pó, Fernão

English	England	Drake,Francis	1577–81	1577–81	1	1	1

Portuguese	Portugal	Eanes, Gil

Norwegian	Norse	Erik the Red

Icelandic	Norse	Ericson, Leif

Portuguese	Portugal	Escobar, Pedro

Portuguese	Portugal	Fernandes, Álvaro

English	Britain	Flinders, Matthew

English	England	Frobisher, Martin

Portuguese	Portugal	da Gama, Estêvão

Portuguese	Portugal	da Gama, Paulo

Portuguese	Portugal	da Gama, Vasco	1497-99	1524

English	England and Ireland	Gilbert, Humphrey

Russian	Russia	Golovnin, Vasily	*

Portuguese	Portugal	Gonçalves, André

Portuguese	Portugal	Gonçalves, Antão

Portuguese	Portugal	Gonçalves, Lopes

Portuguese	Portugal	Grego, João

English	England	Hudson, Henry

Portuguese	Portugal	Infante, João

Baltic German	Russia	von Kotzebue, Otto	*

Baltic German	Russia and Britain	Kruzenshtern, Ivan Fedorovich	*

French	France	de Lapérouse,Jean François de Galaup,comte

Portuguese	Portugal and England	Lavrador, João Fernandes

Russian	Russia and Britain	Lazarev, Mikhail Petrovich	*

Portuguese	Portugal	de Lemos, Gaspar

Russian	Russia	Litke, Fyodor Petrovich	*

Portuguese	Spain and Portugal	Magellan, Ferdinand

Dutch	Netherlands	le Maire, Jacob

Portuguese	Portugal	Martins, Álvaro

Portuguese	Portugal	Mascarenhas, Pedro

Spanish	Spain	de Mendaña, Álvaro	1567-69

Genoese	Portugal	Noli, António

Portuguese	Portugal	de Noronha, Fernão

Galician	Portugal	da Nova, João

French	France	Paulmyer, Binot

Portuguese	Portugal	Pereira, Duarte Pacheco

Portuguese	Portugal	Perestrelo, Bartolomeu

German	Denmark and Hamburg	Pining, Didrik

Portuguese	Portugal	Pinto, Fernão Mendes

Portuguese	Portugal	Pires, Luís

Portuguese	Spain	de Queirós, Pedro Fernandes

Portuguese	Portugal	Rodrigues, Diogo

Portuguese	Portugal	de Santarém, João

Dutch	Netherlands	Schouten, Willem

Irish	Britain	Shackleton, Ernest

Portuguese	Portugal	Silves, Diogo

Portuguese	Portugal	de Sintra, Pedro

Portuguese	Spain	Soromenho, Sebastião Rodrígues

Portuguese	Portugal	de Sousa, Martim Afonso

Dutch	Netherlands	Tasman, Abel

Portuguese	Portugal	Teixeira, Tristão Vaz

Portuguese or Spanish (Galician)	Spain	de Torres, Luis Váez

Portuguese	Portugal	Tristão, Nuno

English	Britain	Vancouver, George

Portuguese	Portugal	Vaz Corte-Real, João

Portuguese	Portugal	Velho, Gonçalo

Italian	France	da Verrazzano, Giovanni

Italian	Spain and Portugal	Vespucci, Amerigo

English	Britain	Wallis, Samuel

Baltic German	Russia	Wrangel, Ferdinand Petrovich	*

Portuguese	Portugal	Zarco, João Gonçalves

Chinese	China (Three Kingdoms Period of China)	Kang Tai	300

Chinese	China (Three Kingdoms Period of China)	Zhu Ying	300

Chinese	China（Yuen Dynasty）	Wang Dayuan	1330

Chinese	China（Ming Dynasty）	Zheng He	1405	1431

Chinese	China（Ming Dynasty）	Ma Huan	1413

Chinese	China（Ming Dynasty）	Fei Xin	1409

Sentence(s)

Abel Janszoon Tasman was a Dutch maritime explorer.

final_sentence: Abel Janszoon Tasman was a Dutch maritime explorer.