List of explorers

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• Mungo Park (1771-1806), Scottish explorer of Western Equatorial Africa
• William Parry, (1790-1855), Arctic explorer
• Robert Edwin Peary, (1856-1920), notable Arctic explorer and leader of expedition usually credited as being first to reach the North Pole, actual attainment disputed in some quarters
• Paul Pelliot, French explorer of Central Asia
• Duarte Pacheco Pereira (15th century Portuguese explorer of the Atlantic)
• Bartolomeu Perestrelo (15th century Portuguese explorer of the Atlantic islands)
• Auguste Piccard, (1884-1962), physicist and explorer
• Jacques Piccard, (born 1922), undersea explorer
• Zebulon Pike, (1779-1813), explored Louisiana Purchase, Pikes Peak
• Alonso Alvarez de Pineda, (1494?-1519?)
• Serpa Pinto (19th century Portuguese explorer and soldier in Africa)
• Fernão Mendes Pinto (16th century Portuguese explorer and adventurer, was among the first Europeans to reach Japan)
• Martin Alonzo Pinzón (1441?-1493)
• Vicente Yáñez Pinzón (1460? - after 1523)
• Luís Pires (15th century Portuguese explorer of the sea route to Brazil)
• Francisco Pizarro, (1471-1541), conqueror of the Inca Empire
• Fernão do Pó (15th century Portuguese explorer of the African coast)
• Marco Polo, (1254-1323), Venetian Republic, travelled to China in the 13th century
• Peter Pond, (c. 1739 - 1807), Northwest Canada
• Gaspar de Portolà (fl. 1734-1784), explored California
• John Wesley Powell, (1834-1902), explorer, environmentalist
• Nicholas Michailovitch Prjevalsky, (1839-1888), Russian explorer in central and eastern Asia
• Nathaniel Pryor, (c. 1785-1850), US explorer
• Pytheas, Greek explorer who visited Britain and other north and northwest European countries