List of explorers

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• Hanno the Navigator - Carthageinian who travelled along the coast of Africa
• Hannu, ancient Egyptian explorer (around 2750 BC) and the first explorer of whom there is any knowledge
• Dirk Hartog, (1580?1621), Dutch VOC captain, charted mid-western coast of Australia
• Sven Hedin, (1865-1952), Swedish explorer of Central Asia
• Louis Hennepin - discoverer of Niagara Falls and the Saint Anthony Falls (the only waterfall on the Mississippi)
• Bjarni Herjulfsson - Viking, probable discoverer of North America
• Thor Heyerdahl, (1914-2002), Norwegian explorer
• Sir Edmund Hillary, with Tenzing Norgay was the first person to the summit of Mount Everest
• Himilco the Navigator, Carthaginian navigator
• Clement Hodgkinson - (1818-1893) Australian explorer
• 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
• William Hovell - Australian explorer
• Henry Hudson, (died 1570), discovered the Hudson River and sailed up it to Albany, discovered Hudson Bay
• Alexander von Humboldt, (1769-1859), German naturalist, explored Central and South America, visited Siberia
• Hamilton Hume - Australian explorer