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| Name | Nationality | Century | Main area/s explored |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hanno the Navigator | Carthaginian | 6th BC | west African coast |
| Hannu | ancient Egyptian | (c. 2750 BC) | eastern Africa |
| Gonzalo López de Haro | Spanish | 18th | Pacific Northwest |
| Alfred Harrison | English | 20th | Arctic |
| Dirk Hartog | Dutch | 17th | western Australian coast |
| Ahmed Pasha Hassanein | Egyptian | 20th | Oweinat and the Sahara |
| Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden | American | 19th | Rocky Mountains and the western United States |
| Bruno de Heceta | Spanish | 18th | Pacific Northwest |
| Sven Hedin | Swedish | 19th/20th | Central Asia |
| Matthew Alexander Henson | African-American | 20th | Arctic |
| Louis Hennepin | Belgian/French | 17th | North American interior |
| William Lewis Herndon | American | 19th | Amazonia |
| Bjarni Herjulfsson | Viking | 10th | North America |
| Thor Heyerdahl | Norwegian | 20th | anthropological ocean voyages |
| Sir Edmund Hillary | New Zealand | 20th | Mount Everest, Antarctica |
| Himilco the Navigator | Carthaginian | 6th BC | northwestern coast of Europe |
| Hippalus | ancient Greek | 1st BC | Indian Ocean |
| Clement Hodgkinson | British | 19th | New South Wales (Australia) |
| Emil Holub | Czech | 19th | Africa |
| Hong Bao | Chinese | 15th | South Asia, Southeast Asia, Middle East, East African coast |
| Robert Hottot | French | 20th | Congo River |
| Cornelis de Houtman | Dutch | 16th | sea route from Europe to Indonesia |
| Frederick de Houtman | Dutch | 16th/17th | western Australian coast |
| William Hovell | British | 19th | southern New South Wales |
| Henry Hudson | British | 17th | Northwest Passage, Hudson River and Hudson Bay |
| Alexander von Humboldt | German | 19th | Latin America, Siberia |
| Hamilton Hume | Australian | 19th | Australian interior |
| James S. Hutchinson | American | 20th | Sierra Nevada (U.S.) |
| Hyecho | Korean | 8th | India, Persia and Central Asia |
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