Exploration
- Willem Barentsz (c. 1550 – 1597), several expeditions to Arctic waters; discovered Spitsbergen
- Abraham Blauvelt (died 1663), Central America
- Adriaen Block (1567–1627), New Netherlands
- Hendrik Brouwer (1580–1643), discovered the Roaring Forties
- Olivier Brunel (c. 1540 – 1585), tried to find a passage around Siberia to China
- Jan Carstenszoon (born c. 1595), New Guinea coast, navigated the Gulf of Carpentaria in 1623
- Robert Jacob Gordon (1743 - 1795), extensively traveled South Africa in the service of the Dutch East India Company.
- Dirk Hartog (1580–1621), VOC captain, charted mid-western coast of Australia
- Jacob van Heemskerk (1567–1607), captain of one of Barent's ships on his last fatal expedition
- Cornelis de Houtman (1565–1599), brother to Frederick, established Dutch trading route to the Spice Islands
- Frederick de Houtman (1571–1627), brother to Cornelis, charted several constellations in the southern skies, explored coast of Western Australia
- Willem Janszoon (c. 1570 – 1630), first European expedition to make landfall on the Australian continent
- Jacob Le Maire (c. 1585 – 1616), Cape Horn, 1616 circumnavigation
- Cornelius Jacobsen Mey, New Jersey (1614–1620)
- Olivier van Noort (1558–1627), 1598 circumnavigation
- Jacob Quaeckernaeck (died 1606), reached Japan via Street of Magellan and Moluccas
- Matthijs Quast (died 1641), Japan, Bonin Islands, and legendary islands East of Japan
- Jan Rijp, saved remainder of Willem Barentsz' crew in 1597
- Jakob Roggeveen (1659–1729), First European to reach Easter Island Easter 1722
- Willem Schouten (1567–1625), Cape Horn, 1616 circumnavigation
- Simon van der Stel (1639–1702), explored South Africa North and East of Cape Town
- Abel Tasman (1603–1659), extensive voyages around Australia and southwest Pacific, discovered a.o. Tasmania, New Zealand & Tonga
- François Thijssen, charted 1,000 miles of the Australian South Coast in 1627
- Alexandrine Tinné (1839–1869), Sahara desert crossing
- Willem de Vlamingh (1640–17??), Western Australia
- Sebald de Weert (died 1602), discovered Falkland Islands
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Famous quotes containing the word exploration:
“The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.”
—Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)
“I call her old. She has one family
Whose claim is good to being settled here
Before the era of colonization,
And before that of exploration even.
John Smith remarked them as he coasted by....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
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