Geographers
Explore the lives and contributions of prominent geographers throughout history, from ancient cartographers to modern-day explorers. Get insights into their discoveries, theories, and how they shaped our understanding of the world.
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Knud Rasmussen
 DenmarkDanish ethnographer and explorer of Greenland and Arctic America.
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Guido Ravennas
 ItalyItalian geographer and historian of the early Middle Ages
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Richard Hartshorn
 USAAmerican geographer, founder of behavioral geography.
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Vasil Kynchev
 BulgariaBulgarian geographer and educator
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Frederick Jackson
 Great BritainEnglish polar explorer and geographer, explorer of Africa and Australia
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Mikhail Gotsky
Sea captain, Arctic explorer, PhD in Geographical Sciences
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Philipp Cluver
 GermanyA German scholar who studied historical geography.
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Felix Philipp Kanitz
 AustriaAustrian geographer and ethnographer
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Petr Brounov
Russian geographer and meteorologist
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Gustav Adolf von Kloden
Germany German geographer
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Matthias Quaden
Germany German geographer and cartographer.
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Ibn Hawqal
 IraqA 10th-century Arab geographer and traveller, originally from Baghdad
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Vladimir Keppen
Germany German-Russian geographer, meteorologist, climatologist and botanist.
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Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon Anville
 FranceFrench geographer and cartographer
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Karl Sonklar
Austria Austrian geographer
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Andrey Ditmar
Soviet geographer, historian of geography, actor
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Vasiliy Shuleykin
 RussiaSoviet geophysicist, participant and leader of a number of oceanographic expeditions.
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Adolphe Laurent Joanne
France French writer and geographer.
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