| Name
|
Nationality |
Century
|
Main area/s explored
|
| Diego de Almagro
|
Spanish |
16th
|
Peru, Chile
|
| Henryk Arctowski
|
Polish |
20th
|
Antarctic, South America
|
| Väinö Auer
|
Finnish |
20th
|
Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia
|
| Vasco Núñez de Balboa
|
Spanish |
16th
|
Panama
|
| Henry Walter Bates
|
British |
19th
|
Amazonia
|
| Hiram Bingham III
|
American |
20th
|
Machu Picchu, Peru
|
| Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
|
Spanish |
16th
|
southwestern United States, Mexico, Argentina
|
| Pedro Álvares Cabral
|
Portuguese |
15th/16th
|
Brazil, Madagascar
|
| Pêro Vaz de Caminha
|
Portuguese |
15th
|
Brazil
|
| Thomas Cavendish
|
British |
16th
|
Virginia, Pacific coast of Central and South America
|
| Gonçalo Coelho
|
Portuguese |
15th/16th
|
South American coast
|
| Nicolau Coelho
|
Portuguese |
15th
|
Brazil
|
| Diogo Álvares Correia
|
Portuguese |
16th
|
Brazil
|
| Juan de la Cosa
|
Spanish |
15th/16th
|
Caribbean, South America
|
| Tristão da Cunha
|
Portuguese |
16th
|
Tristan da Cunha islands
|
| Francis Drake
|
British |
16th
|
Caribbean
|
| Juan Sebastián Elcano
|
Spain |
16th
|
completed Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation
|
| Percy Harrison Fawcett
|
British |
20th
|
Amazon Rainforest
|
| Baltazar Fernandes
|
Portuguese |
17th
|
Brazil
|
| André Gonçalves
|
Portuguese |
15th/16th
|
Brazil
|
| William Lewis Herndon
|
American |
19th
|
Amazonia
|
| Thor Heyerdahl
|
Norwegian |
20th
|
anthropological ocean voyages
|
| Alexander von Humboldt
|
German |
19th
|
Latin America, Siberia
|
| Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff
|
Prussian |
early 19th
|
Brazil
|
| Gaspar de Lemos
|
Portuguese |
15th
|
Brazil
|
| Ferdinand Magellan
|
Portuguese |
15th/16th
|
circumnavigation
|
| Alessandro Malaspina
|
Italian-Spanish |
18th
|
Pacific Ocean
|
| Archibald Menzies
|
British |
18th/19th
|
Pacific Ocean, circumnavigation
|
| Francisco de Orellana
|
Spanish |
16th
|
South America, Amazon River
|
| Duarte Pacheco Pereira
|
Portuguese |
15th
|
Atlantic Ocean, Brazil
|
| Luís Pires
|
Portuguese |
15th
|
abortive voyage to Brazil
|
| Francisco Pizarro
|
Spanish |
16th
|
Hispaniola, Panama, Peru
|
| Sir Walter Raleigh
|
English |
16th/17th
|
Virginia, the Orinoco river
|
| Jacob Roggeveen
|
Dutch |
18th
|
South Pacific (Easter Island)
|
| Cândido Rondon
|
Brazilian |
19th/20th
|
Brazilian interior (Amazon Basin)
|
| Willem Schouten
|
Dutch |
17th
|
South Pacific (Cape Horn, Tonga Islands, Wallis and Futuna)
|
| Tibor Sekelj
|
Croat |
20th
|
Argentina
|
| Mirko and Stjepan Seljan
|
Croat |
early 20th
|
Ethiopia, South America
|
| Eric Shipton
|
British |
20th
|
Mount Everest, southern Patagonia
|
| William Smith
|
British |
early 19th
|
South Shetland Islands
|
| Martim Afonso de Sousa
|
Portuguese |
16th
|
Brazilian interior
|
| Hans Staden
|
German |
16th
|
Brazil
|
| Ed Stafford
|
British |
21st
|
Amazon
|
| Paweł Strzelecki<ref>Sir Paul de Strzelecki.</ref>
|
Polish/British |
19th
|
the Americas, Australia (Gippsland)
|
| Ignacije Szentmartony
|
Croat |
18th
|
Amazon River
|
| Pedro Teixeira
|
Portuguese |
17th
|
Amazon River
|
| Harold William Tilman
|
British |
20th
|
Himalayas, Patagonia
|
| Amerigo Vespucci
|
Italian |
15th/16th
|
eastern South American coast, Caribbean
|
