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Browsing occupation: explorer

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  1. Quiros, Pedro Fernandez de (1596-1606)
  2. Houtman, Frederik de (1618-1619)
  3. Nuyts, Pieter (1627-1627, 1627-1627)
  4. Tasman, Abel Janszoon (1642-1644)
  5. Dampier, William (1688-1688, 1699-1699)
  6. Marion Dufresne, Marc-Joseph (1772-1772)
  7. Cook, James (1770-1770, 1770-1770, 1770-1770, 1777-1777)
  8. Furneaux, Tobias (1773-1773)
  9. Hunter, John (1788-1789)
  10. Bruni D'Entrecasteaux, Joseph-Antoine Raymond (1791-1793)
  11. La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup (1788-1788)
  12. Banks, Sir Joseph (1770-1770, 1770-1770, 1770-1770)
  13. Huon De Kermadec, Jean-Michel (1792-1793, 1792-1792)
  14. Hacking, Henry (1794-1794)
  15. Bligh, William (1777-1777, 1791-1791)
  16. Forster, Johann Georg Adam (1773-1773)
  17. Paterson, William (1793-1793, 1801-1801)
  18. Ball, Henry Lidgbird (1788-1790)
  19. Vancouver, George (1791-1794)
  20. Worgan, George Bouchier (1788-1791)
  21. Tench, Watkin (1788-1791)
  22. Collins, William (1803-1803, 1803-1804)
  23. Dawes, William (1789-1789)
  24. Cox, William (1817-1817)
  25. Hayes, Sir John (1793-1793)
  26. Shortland, John (1797-1797)
  27. Caley, George (1800-1810)
  28. Bass, George (1795-1799, 1798-1799)
  29. Grimes, Charles (1801-1801, 1802-1803)
  30. Grant, James (1800-1801, 1800-1801, 1800-1801)
  31. Barrallier, Francis Louis (1801-1803)
  32. Mountgarrett, Jacob (1804-1804)
  33. Wild, Joseph (1797-1823)
  34. Flinders, Matthew (1795-1795, 1798-1799, 1798-1800, 1801-1803, 1802-1803, 1802-1803, 1802-1803, 1802-1803, 1803-1803, 1803-1803)
  35. Lawson, William (1813-1822)
  36. Howe, John (1819-1820)
  37. Meehan, James (1801-1803, 1803-1804, 1818-1818)
  38. Warby, John (1810-1816)
  39. Péron, François (1800-1804, 1800-1804, 1800-1804, 1800-1804, 1800-1804)
  40. Murray, John (1801-1801, 1801-1802, 1802-1803, 1803-1803)
  41. Sorell, William (1817-1824)
  42. Jamison, Sir John (1818-1818)
  43. Throsby, Charles (1816-1821)
  44. Blaxland, Gregory (1810-1810, 1813-1813)
  45. Bowden, Matthew (1804-1804)
  46. Bellingshausen, Faddei Faddeevich (Fabian) (1820-1821)
  47. Evans, George William (1804-1818)
  48. Jorgenson, Jorgen (1827-1827)
  49. Bowen, John (1803-1804)
  50. Jeffreys, Charles (1815-1816)
  51. Dawson, Robert (1826-1827)
  52. Lockyer, Edmund (1825-1825)
  53. Barker, Collet (1831-1831, 1831-1831)
  54. Oxley, John Joseph (1817-1823, 1823-1823)
  55. Franklin, Sir John (1847-1847)
  56. Hovell, William Hilton (1823-1825, 1824-1826)
  57. Laycock, Thomas (1807-1807)
  58. Hardwicke, Charles Browne (1823-1823)
  59. Singleton, Benjamin (1818-1820)
  60. Lazarev, Mikhail Petrovich (1814-1823, 1814-1823)
  61. Ovens, John (1823-1823)
  62. Beamont, John (1817-1817)
  63. Hellyer, Henry (1826-1832)
  64. Wentworth, William Charles (1813-1813)
  65. Cunningham, Allan (1816-1831, 1818-1818, 1819-1819)
  66. King, Phillip Parker (1817-1822, 1817-1822, 1817-1822, 1817-1822, 1818-1819, 1837-1838)
  67. Kelly, James (1815-1816)
  68. Logan, Patrick (1826-1830)
  69. Stirling, Sir James (1827-1830)
  70. Hobbs, James (1822-1824)
  71. Mitchell, Sir Thomas Livingstone (1831-1832, 1835-1836, 1836-1836, 1845-1846)
  72. Blackman, James (1820-1823)
  73. Gellibrand, Joseph Tice (1837-1837)
  74. Wilson, Thomas Braidwood (1829-1831)
  75. Collie, Alexander (1829-1829)
  76. Raine, Thomas (1814-1814)
  77. Hobson, William (1836-1837)
  78. Wedge, John Helder (1824-1835, 1835-1835)
  79. Biscoe, John (1830-1832)
  80. Sturt, Charles (1828-1830, 1828-1830, 1828-1830, 1844-1846, 1844-1846, 1844-1846, 1844-1846)
  81. Lhotsky, John (1834-1834)
  82. Rous, Henry John (1828-1828)
  83. Bingle, John (1821-1822, 1821-1822)
  84. Dangar, Henry (1824-1824)
  85. Richardson, John Matthew (1823-1824, 1836-1836)
  86. Roe, John Septimus (1817-1817, 1817-1817, 1817-1817, 1817-1817, 1817-1817, 1817-1818, 1819-1820, 1819-1820, 1819-1823, 1824-1824, 1830-1836, 1839-1839, 1849-1849)
  87. Hume, Hamilton (1814-1827, 1824-1825, 1828-1828)
  88. Strzelecki, Sir Paul Edmund de (1839-1843, 1839-1843)
  89. Cory, Edward Gostwyck (1832-1832)
  90. Moore, George Fletcher (1830-1839)
  91. Macarthur, James (1817-1830)
  92. Dixon, Robert (1827-1829)
  93. Stapylton, Granville William Chetwynd (1836-1838)
  94. Blosseville, Jules Poret de (1822-1824)
  95. McKay, Alexander (1823-1864)
  96. Anderson, Samuel (1835-1837)
  97. Bell, Archibald (1823-1840)
  98. Clark, William Nairne (1840-1842)
  99. Darke, John Charles (1833-1836, 1844-1844)
  100. Tyers, Charles James (1842-1867)
  101. Milligan, Joseph (1856-1856)
  102. Becker, Ludwig (1860-1861)
  103. Morphett, Sir John (1836-1836)
  104. Brodribb, William Adams (1839-1840)
  105. Macleay, Sir George (1829-1830, 1829-1830, 1829-1830)
  106. Gilbert, John (1844-1844)
  107. McMillan, Angus (1840-1841, 1864-1865)
  108. Stanley, Owen (1847-1848)
  109. Grey, Sir George (1838-1839)
  110. Bunbury, Henry William St Pierre (1836-1837)
  111. Stokes, John Lort (1839-1842, 1839-1842, 1839-1842)
  112. Archer, Charles (1853-1854, 1854-1854)
  113. McDougall, Robert (1841-1848)
  114. Warburton, Peter Egerton (1858-1866, 1860-1860, 1864-1864, 1866-1866, 1873-1874, 1873-1874)
  115. Leichhardt , Ludwig (1844-1848, 1845-1846)
  116. Bunce, Daniel (1839-1839, 1846-1846, 1846-1846)
  117. MacDonnell, Sir Richard Graves (1859-1859)
  118. Eyre, Edward John (1839-1841, 1840-1841)
  119. Stuart, John McDouall (1844-1862, 1844-1845, 1844-1845, 1859-1862, 1861-1862)
  120. Burnett, James Charles (1841-1842, 1843-1843, 1847-1847)
  121. Ross, John (1838-1874, 1870-1871)
  122. Russell, Henry Stuart (1842-1843)
  123. Archer, William (1854-1855)
  124. Horrocks, John Ainsworth (1839-1846)
  125. Kennedy, Edmund Besley (1845-1848)
  126. Lang, Gideon Scott (1845-1846, 1845-1846, 1845-1846, 1850-1851)
  127. Yuille, William Cross (1837-1838)
  128. Sholl, Robert John (1865-1865)
  129. Gregory, Sir Augustus Charles (1846-1848, 1855-1856, 1858-1858)
  130. McKinlay, John (1861-1862, 1861-1862, 1865-1866, 1870-1870)
  131. Mann, John Frederick (1846-1847)
  132. Freeling, Sir Arthur Henry (1857-1857)
  133. Morton, William Lockhart (1859-1859, 1861-1864)
  134. Morris, Augustus (1835-1835, 1842-1842)
  135. McLaurin, James (1840-1840)
  136. Carron, William (1848-1848)
  137. Burke, Robert O'Hara (1860-1861, 1860-1861, 1860-1861)
  138. Hodgson, Christopher Pemberton (1844-1846)
  139. Cadell, Francis (1867-1867)
  140. Roper, John (1844-1846)
  141. Hely, Hovenden (1846-1852)
  142. Morrill, James (1864-1864)
  143. Landsborough, William (1856-1862, 1862-1862)
  144. Huxley, Thomas Henry (1847-1850, 1847-1847, 1847-1848)
  145. Mueller, Sir Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von (1855-1856)
  146. Calvert, James Snowden (1844-1845)
  147. Pettigrew, William (1862-1865)
  148. Hall, William Shakespeare (1861-1863)
  149. Austin, Robert (1854-1854)
  150. Dalrymple, George Augustus (1859-1861, 1864-1864, 1873-1873)
  151. Turner, Alfred Allatson (1847-1848, 1847-1848)
  152. Buchanan, Nathaniel (Nat) (1859-1877, 1878-1880, 1883-1886)
  153. Goyder, George Woodroffe (1857-1861)
  154. Smith, James (Philosopher) (1853-1871)
  155. Allingham, Christopher (1851-1852)
  156. Sinnett, Frederick (1852-1852)
  157. Moresby, John (1873-1873, 1873-1874)
  158. Howitt, Alfred William (1859-1863)
  159. Petrie, Thomas (Tom) (1859-1862)
  160. Allan, James Thomas (1850-1862)
  161. McIntyre, Duncan (1863-1866)
  162. Archer, Colin (1854-1855)
  163. Sellheim, Philip Frederic (1859-1859)
  164. Onslow, Arthur Alexander (1874-1874)
  165. Hunt, Charles Cooke (1863-1865)
  166. Wills, William John (1860-1861, 1860-1861, 1860-1861)
  167. Elsey, Joseph Ravenscroft (1853-1856)
  168. Dowling, Vincent James (1860-1861)
  169. Hodgkinson, William Oswald (1860-1861, 1875-1876)
  170. Giles, Ernest (1861-1865, 1872-1875, 1872-1875)
  171. Moore, William Dalgety (1858-1858)
  172. MacGregor, Duncan (1857-1868)
  173. Hann, William (1872-1889)
  174. Henry, Ernest (1859-1859)
  175. Dow, John Lamont (1862-1862)
  176. Mackay, John (1860-1861, 1863-1863)
  177. Scott, James Reid (1873-1877)
  178. Finsch, Otto (1884-1885)
  179. Calder, George (1872-1872)
  180. Tate, Ralph (1882-1882, 1894-1894)
  181. Parry-Okeden, William Edward (1862-1863)
  182. Windich, Tommy (1869-1874, 1870-1874)
  183. Chalmers, James (1877-1901)
  184. D'Albertis, Luigi Maria (1872-1878)
  185. King, John (1861-1861)
  186. Hooley, Edward Timothy (1864-1868)
  187. Creed, John Mildred (1867-1868)
  188. Gosse, William Christie (1873-1873, 1873-1873)
  189. Brown, Maitland (1861-1862)
  190. Brown, Henry Yorke Lyell (1882-1911, 1882-1911)
  191. Collins, Robert Martin (1873-1878)
  192. Douglas, Alexander Douglas (1874-1882)
  193. Johnstone, Robert Arthur (1873-1881)
  194. Tietkens, William Harry (1873-1875, 1873-1875, 1875-1875, 1875-1875, 1889-1889)
  195. Favenc, Ernest (1878-1879, 1879-1883, 1883-1883, 1888-1888)
  196. Mikluho-Maklai, Nicholai Nicholaievich (1871-1877)
  197. Hann, Frank Hugh (1898-1907)
  198. MacGregor, Sir William (1895-1898)
  199. O'Hea, Timothy (1874-1874)
  200. Strachan, John (1884-1886)
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