Seafarers

Discover a comprehensive list of renowned seafarers who have made significant contributions to maritime history and exploration. From renowned sailors like Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama to contemporary adventurers, this page showcases the lives and achievements of those who have braved the open seas.

Italian and French navigator and merchant

Lope de Aguirre

Conquistador of Basque origin

French navigator

British Arctic navigator

Canadian police officer who crossed the Northwest Passage in reverse - from west to east in one navigation

Alvize Cadamosto

Venetian navigator-adventurer, discovered the Cape Verde Islands

Portuguese navigator

English navigator, Arctic explorer, rear admiral.

A remarkable Russian sailor and scientist

English Antarctic navigator

Christopher Columbus

Spanish traveler, navigator and colonialist.

Bartolomeu Diash

Portuguese navigator, the first European to circumnavigate Africa from the south; discovered the Cape of Good Hope

Amerigo Vespucci

Italian navigator. Both Americas bear his name.

English navigator

Pedro Alvares Cabral

Portuguese navigator

Vladimir Rusanov

Arctic Explorer

Italian traveler, one of the first Europeans to visit the countries of the East.

Estevao Da Gama

Portuguese navigator and military leader, governor of Portuguese India in 1540-1542.

Vasiliy Golovnin

A talented scientist and writer, a gifted naval theorist of the 1820s.

Nils Nordensheld

Swedish geologist, Arctic explorer, who in 1878-79 was the first to navigate the Northeast Passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the steamship Vega.

Head of the rescue expedition to find McClure

Alvaro Mendana de Neira

Spanish navigator, discovered a number of islands in Oceania

Humphrey Gilbert

English navigator

Willem Barentsz

Dutch navigator and explorer

Portuguese navigator and explorer

Portuguese navigator and discoverer of lands

Thomas Cavendish

English explorer, navigator and privateer

James Lancaster

English navigator

Portuguese navigator

English navigator, Arctic explorer

French navigator

Dutch navigator

Italian navigator

Louis-Antoine de Bougainville

Navigator, leader of the first French expedition around the world

Famous sailor-yachtsman

English navigator

Joao Vaz Corte Real

Portuguese navigator.

Jovanni Veraccano

Navigator, discovered New York Harbor

Ferdinand Magellan

Portuguese navigator (made the first trip around the world)

Portuguese navigator

Portuguese navigator

Nicholay Dreyer

Russian navigator, captain of the patrol ship "Svyatogor".

Hendrik Brouwer

Dutch navigator, admiral and 8th Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies

Henrih Moreplavotel

Portuguese prince - organizer of sea expeditions to explore and capture the northwest coast of Africa.

Gaspar Corte-Real

Portuguese navigator

Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo

Conquistador and navigator

The Lone Sailor

Edvard Holm Johannesen

Norwegian navigator.