List of explorers

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• George Back, (1796?1878), British naval officer, several expeditions to the Canadian Arctic
• William Baffin, (1584-1622)
• Samuel Baker, Africa
• Vasco Núñez de Balboa, (c. 1475-1519), Spanish, first to sight the Pacific Ocean, founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent.
• Pêro de Barcelos (15th century/16th century Portuguese explorer of North America)
• Willem Barents, (1550?-1597), Dutch, died on Novaya Zemlya Northeast Passage
• Heinrich Barth (1821-1865), Northern and Central Africa
• Robert Bartlett (1875-1946), notable Arctic explorer
• George Bass - Australian explorer
• Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta, (1304?-1377?), Moroccan Berber Muslim, visited Mecca several times, travelled to Central Asia, East Africa, China, Tombouctou and other places
• Nicolas Baudin - 18th century French explorer, mapped the West Australian coastline.
• Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian explorer
• Joseph René Bellot French Arctic explorer
• Moric Benovsky, Slovak
• Vitus Bering
• Vittorio Bottego (1860,1897), Italian explorer of the Giuba region in northeast Africa
• Pierre Savorgan de Brazza Italian explorer naturalized French. French Congo's founder.
• Saint Brendan - Irish abbot who sailed the Atlantic Ocean
• James Bruce
• William S. Bruce, (1867-1921) Scottish explorer of Antarctica
• Cornelis de Bruijn, (1652-1727), Dutch traveler and artist
• Lafayette Bunnell, (1824-1903), described Yosemite Valley
• Richard Francis Burton, (1821-1890), looking for the source of the Nile, discovered Lake Tanganyika
• Richard E. Byrd, (1888-1957), flew over South Pole