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Name | Nationality | Century | Main area/s explored |
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Pedro Páez | Spanish | 16th/17th | Ethiopia |
Mungo Park | British | 18th/19th | west Africa (Niger River) |
William Parry | British | 19th | Arctic |
Robert Peary | American | 19th/20th | Arctic |
Paul Pelliot | French | 19th/20th | central Asia |
Duarte Pacheco Pereira | Portuguese | 15th | Atlantic Ocean, Brazil |
Bartolomeu Perestrelo | Portuguese | 15th | Madeira Islands |
Juan Pérez | Spanish | 18th | Pacific Northwest |
Auguste Piccard | Swiss | 20th | Earth's atmosphere, the deep sea |
Jacques Piccard | Swiss | 20th | the deep sea |
Zebulon Pike | American | early 19th | Louisiana Purchase (United States) |
Alonso Alvarez de Pineda | Spanish | early 16th | Gulf Coast |
Serpa Pinto | Portuguese | 19th | southern Africa |
Fernão Mendes Pinto | Portuguese | 16th | India, Far East, Japan |
Martin Alonzo Pinzón | Spanish | 15th | Caribbean |
Vicente Yáñez Pinzón | Spanish | 15th/16th | Caribbean, Brazil |
Luís Pires | Portuguese | 15th | abortive voyage to Brazil |
Francisco Pizarro | Spanish | 16th | Hispaniola, Panama, Peru |
Fernão do Pó | Portuguese | 15th | west African coast |
Marco Polo | Venetian | 13th/14th | China, Mongol Empire |
Juan Ponce de León | Spanish | 15th/16th | Florida |
Peter Pond | American | 18th/19th | Canadian interior |
Gaspar de Portolà | Spanish | 18th | Alta and Baja California |
Panayotis Potagos | Greek | 19th | Africa |
John Wesley Powell | American | 19th | western United States |
Gavriil Pribylov | Russian | 18th | Pribilof Islands |
Nathaniel Hale Pryor | American | 19th | western United States |
Nikolai Przhevalsky | Russian | 19th | central Asia |
Pytheas | ancient Greek | 4th BC | northern Europe |
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