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Browsing occupation: explorer

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  1. Quiros, Pedro Fernandez de (1596-1606)
  2. Janssen, Willem (1605-1606)
  3. Torres, Luis Vaez de (1606-1607)
  4. Houtman, Frederik de (1618-1619)
  5. Nuyts, Pieter (1627-1627, 1627-1627)
  6. Tasman, Abel Janszoon (1642-1644)
  7. Dampier, William (1688-1688, 1699-1699)
  8. Vlamingh, Willem de (1696-1697)
  9. Banks, Sir Joseph (1770-1770, 1770-1770, 1770-1770)
  10. Cook, James (1770-1770, 1770-1770, 1770-1770, 1777-1777)
  11. Marion Dufresne, Marc-Joseph (1772-1772)
  12. Forster, Johann Georg Adam (1773-1773)
  13. Furneaux, Tobias (1773-1773)
  14. Bligh, William (1777-1777, 1791-1791)
  15. La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup (1788-1788)
  16. Hunter, John (1788-1789)
  17. Ball, Henry Lidgbird (1788-1790)
  18. Tench, Watkin (1788-1791)
  19. Worgan, George Bouchier (1788-1791)
  20. Dawes, William (1789-1789)
  21. Bruni D'Entrecasteaux, Joseph-Antoine Raymond (1791-1793)
  22. Vancouver, George (1791-1794)
  23. Huon De Kermadec, Jean-Michel (1792-1793, 1792-1792)
  24. Hayes, Sir John (1793-1793)
  25. Paterson, William (1793-1793, 1801-1801)
  26. Hacking, Henry (1794-1794)
  27. Flinders, Matthew (1795-1795, 1798-1799, 1798-1800, 1801-1803, 1802-1803, 1802-1803, 1802-1803, 1802-1803, 1803-1803, 1803-1803)
  28. Bass, George (1795-1799, 1798-1799)
  29. Shortland, John (1797-1797)
  30. Wild, Joseph (1797-1823)
  31. Wilson, John (1798-1799)
  32. Grant, James (1800-1801, 1800-1801, 1800-1801)
  33. Péron, François (1800-1804, 1800-1804, 1800-1804, 1800-1804, 1800-1804)
  34. Caley, George (1800-1810)
  35. Grimes, Charles (1801-1801, 1802-1803)
  36. Murray, John (1801-1801, 1801-1802, 1802-1803, 1803-1803)
  37. Barrallier, Francis Louis (1801-1803)
  38. Collins, William (1803-1803, 1803-1804)
  39. Bowen, John (1803-1804)
  40. Meehan, James (1801-1803, 1803-1804, 1818-1818)
  41. Bowden, Matthew (1804-1804)
  42. Mountgarrett, Jacob (1804-1804)
  43. Evans, George William (1804-1818)
  44. Laycock, Thomas (1807-1807)
  45. Blaxland, Gregory (1810-1810, 1813-1813)
  46. Warby, John (1810-1816)
  47. Wentworth, William Charles (1813-1813)
  48. Lawson, William (1813-1822)
  49. Raine, Thomas (1814-1814)
  50. Lazarev, Mikhail Petrovich (1814-1823, 1814-1823)
  51. Hume, Hamilton (1814-1827, 1824-1825, 1828-1828)
  52. Jeffreys, Charles (1815-1816)
  53. Kelly, James (1815-1816)
  54. McCarty, Denis (1815-1816)
  55. Throsby, Charles (1816-1821)
  56. Cunningham, Allan (1816-1831, 1818-1818, 1819-1819)
  57. Beamont, John (1817-1817)
  58. Cox, William (1817-1817)
  59. King, Phillip Parker (1817-1822, 1817-1822, 1817-1822, 1817-1822, 1818-1819, 1837-1838)
  60. Oxley, John Joseph (1817-1823, 1823-1823)
  61. Sorell, William (1817-1824)
  62. Macarthur, James (1817-1830)
  63. Jamison, Sir John (1818-1818)
  64. Singleton, Benjamin (1818-1820)
  65. Howe, John (1819-1820)
  66. 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)
  67. Bellingshausen, Faddei Faddeevich (Fabian) (1820-1821)
  68. Blackman, James (1820-1823)
  69. Bingle, John (1821-1822, 1821-1822)
  70. Blosseville, Jules Poret de (1822-1824)
  71. Hobbs, James (1822-1824)
  72. Hardwicke, Charles Browne (1823-1823)
  73. Ovens, John (1823-1823)
  74. Hovell, William Hilton (1823-1825, 1824-1826)
  75. Bell, Archibald (1823-1840)
  76. McKay, Alexander (1823-1864)
  77. Dangar, Henry (1824-1824)
  78. Wedge, John Helder (1824-1835, 1835-1835)
  79. Bishop, Peter (1825-1825)
  80. Lockyer, Edmund (1825-1825)
  81. Dawson, Robert (1826-1827)
  82. Logan, Patrick (1826-1830)
  83. Hellyer, Henry (1826-1832)
  84. Jorgenson, Jorgen (1827-1827)
  85. Dixon, Robert (1827-1829)
  86. Stirling, Sir James (1827-1830)
  87. Rous, Henry John (1828-1828)
  88. Sturt, Charles (1828-1830, 1828-1830, 1828-1830, 1844-1846, 1844-1846, 1844-1846, 1844-1846)
  89. Collie, Alexander (1829-1829)
  90. Macleay, Sir George (1829-1830, 1829-1830, 1829-1830)
  91. Wilson, Thomas Braidwood (1829-1831)
  92. Biscoe, John (1830-1832)
  93. Moore, George Fletcher (1830-1839)
  94. Barker, Collet (1831-1831, 1831-1831)
  95. Mitchell, Sir Thomas Livingstone (1831-1832, 1835-1836, 1836-1836, 1845-1846)
  96. Cory, Edward Gostwyck (1832-1832)
  97. Darke, John Charles (1833-1836, 1844-1844)
  98. Lhotsky, John (1834-1834)
  99. Morris, Augustus (1835-1835, 1842-1842)
  100. Anderson, Samuel (1835-1837)
  101. Morphett, Sir John (1836-1836)
  102. Richardson, John Matthew (1823-1824, 1836-1836)
  103. Bunbury, Henry William St Pierre (1836-1837)
  104. Hobson, William (1836-1837)
  105. Stapylton, Granville William Chetwynd (1836-1838)
  106. Gellibrand, Joseph Tice (1837-1837)
  107. Yuille, William Cross (1837-1838)
  108. Grey, Sir George (1838-1839)
  109. Ross, John (1838-1874, 1870-1871)
  110. Brodribb, William Adams (1839-1840)
  111. Eyre, Edward John (1839-1841, 1840-1841)
  112. Stokes, John Lort (1839-1842, 1839-1842, 1839-1842)
  113. Strzelecki, Sir Paul Edmund de (1839-1843, 1839-1843)
  114. Horrocks, John Ainsworth (1839-1846)
  115. McLaurin, James (1840-1840)
  116. McMillan, Angus (1840-1841, 1864-1865)
  117. Clark, William Nairne (1840-1842)
  118. Burnett, James Charles (1841-1842, 1843-1843, 1847-1847)
  119. McDougall, Robert (1841-1848)
  120. Russell, Henry Stuart (1842-1843)
  121. Tyers, Charles James (1842-1867)
  122. Gilbert, John (1844-1844)
  123. Calvert, James Snowden (1844-1845)
  124. Hodgson, Christopher Pemberton (1844-1846)
  125. Roper, John (1844-1846)
  126. Leichhardt , Ludwig (1844-1848, 1845-1846)
  127. Stuart, John McDouall (1844-1862, 1844-1845, 1844-1845, 1859-1862, 1861-1862)
  128. Lang, Gideon Scott (1845-1846, 1845-1846, 1845-1846, 1850-1851)
  129. Kennedy, Edmund Besley (1845-1848)
  130. Bunce, Daniel (1839-1839, 1846-1846, 1846-1846)
  131. Mann, John Frederick (1846-1847)
  132. Gregory, Sir Augustus Charles (1846-1848, 1855-1856, 1858-1858)
  133. Hely, Hovenden (1846-1852)
  134. Franklin, Sir John (1847-1847)
  135. Stanley, Owen (1847-1848)
  136. Turner, Alfred Allatson (1847-1848, 1847-1848)
  137. Huxley, Thomas Henry (1847-1850, 1847-1847, 1847-1848)
  138. Carron, William (1848-1848)
  139. Allan, James Thomas (1850-1862)
  140. Allingham, Christopher (1851-1852)
  141. Sinnett, Frederick (1852-1852)
  142. Archer, Charles (1853-1854, 1854-1854)
  143. Elsey, Joseph Ravenscroft (1853-1856)
  144. Smith, James (Philosopher) (1853-1871)
  145. Austin, Robert (1854-1854)
  146. Archer, Colin (1854-1855)
  147. Archer, William (1854-1855)
  148. Mueller, Sir Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von (1855-1856)
  149. Milligan, Joseph (1856-1856)
  150. Landsborough, William (1856-1862, 1862-1862)
  151. Freeling, Sir Arthur Henry (1857-1857)
  152. Goyder, George Woodroffe (1857-1861)
  153. MacGregor, Duncan (1857-1868)
  154. Moore, William Dalgety (1858-1858)
  155. Warburton, Peter Egerton (1858-1866, 1860-1860, 1864-1864, 1866-1866, 1873-1874, 1873-1874)
  156. Henry, Ernest (1859-1859)
  157. MacDonnell, Sir Richard Graves (1859-1859)
  158. Morton, William Lockhart (1859-1859, 1861-1864)
  159. Sellheim, Philip Frederic (1859-1859)
  160. Dalrymple, George Augustus (1859-1861, 1864-1864, 1873-1873)
  161. Petrie, Thomas (Tom) (1859-1862)
  162. Howitt, Alfred William (1859-1863)
  163. Buchanan, Nathaniel (Nat) (1859-1877, 1878-1880, 1883-1886)
  164. Meston, Archibald (1860-1860, 1889-1889)
  165. Becker, Ludwig (1860-1861)
  166. Burke, Robert O'Hara (1860-1861, 1860-1861, 1860-1861)
  167. Dowling, Vincent James (1860-1861)
  168. Hodgkinson, William Oswald (1860-1861, 1875-1876)
  169. Mackay, John (1860-1861, 1863-1863)
  170. Wills, William John (1860-1861, 1860-1861, 1860-1861)
  171. King, John (1861-1861)
  172. Brown, Maitland (1861-1862)
  173. McKinlay, John (1861-1862, 1861-1862, 1865-1866, 1870-1870)
  174. Hall, William Shakespeare (1861-1863)
  175. Giles, Ernest (1861-1865, 1872-1875, 1872-1875)
  176. Dow, John Lamont (1862-1862)
  177. Parry-Okeden, William Edward (1862-1863)
  178. Pettigrew, William (1862-1865)
  179. Hunt, Charles Cooke (1863-1865)
  180. McIntyre, Duncan (1863-1866)
  181. Morrill, James (1864-1864)
  182. Hooley, Edward Timothy (1864-1868)
  183. Sholl, Robert John (1865-1865)
  184. Cadell, Francis (1867-1867)
  185. Creed, John Mildred (1867-1868)
  186. Forrest, Sir John (1869-1874)
  187. Windich, Tommy (1869-1874, 1870-1874)
  188. Mikluho-Maklai, Nicholai Nicholaievich (1871-1877)
  189. Forrest, Alexander (1871-1879)
  190. Calder, George (1872-1872)
  191. D'Albertis, Luigi Maria (1872-1878)
  192. Hann, William (1872-1889)
  193. Gosse, William Christie (1873-1873, 1873-1873)
  194. Moresby, John (1873-1873, 1873-1874)
  195. Tietkens, William Harry (1873-1875, 1873-1875, 1875-1875, 1875-1875, 1889-1889)
  196. Scott, James Reid (1873-1877)
  197. Collins, Robert Martin (1873-1878)
  198. Johnstone, Robert Arthur (1873-1881)
  199. O'Hea, Timothy (1874-1874)
  200. Onslow, Arthur Alexander (1874-1874)
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