[{"n": "David Thompson (explorer)", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas-and-pacific/david-thompson-explorer/", "s": "British fur trader and surveyor who mapped vast areas of North America."}, {"n": "Gaspar Corte-Real", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas-and-pacific/gaspar-corte-real/", "s": "Portuguese explorer who disappeared on a 1501 voyage to North America."}, {"n": "Diego Columbus", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas-and-pacific/diego-columbus/", "s": "Son of Christopher Columbus, he governed the Indies and fought for his father's titles."}, {"n": "Diogo Cão", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas-and-pacific/diogo-c-o/", "s": "Portuguese explorer of the west African coast in the 1480s."}, {"n": "Dirk Hartog", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas-and-pacific/dirk-hartog/", "s": "Dutch mariner who left the first European artefact in Australia."}, {"n": "Douglas Mawson", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas-and-pacific/douglas-mawson/", "s": "Australian geologist and Antarctic explorer of the Heroic Age."}, {"n": "Esteban de Dorantes", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas-and-pacific/esteban-de-dorantes/", "s": "First African and Arab explorer of the present-day United States."}, {"n": "Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas-and-pacific/fabian-gottlieb-von-bellingshausen/", "s": "Russian cartographer and explorer who discovered Antarctica."}, {"n": "Francisco Vázquez de Coronado", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas-and-pacific/francisco-v-zquez-de-coronado/", "s": "Spanish conquistador who sought the Seven Cities of Gold."}, {"n": "Fred Noonan", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas-and-pacific/fred-noonan/", "s": "Flight navigator and sea captain who mapped Pacific air routes."}, {"n": "García López de Cárdenas", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas-and-pacific/garc-a-l-pez-de-c-rdenas/", "s": "First European to see the Grand Canyon."}, {"n": "George Vancouver", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas-and-pacific/george-vancouver/", "s": "Royal Navy officer who charted the Pacific Northwest coast."}, {"n": "Giovanni da Verrazzano", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas-and-pacific/giovanni-da-verrazzano/", "s": "Florentine explorer who mapped North America's east coast for France."}, {"n": "Gonzalo Pizarro", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas-and-pacific/gonzalo-pizarro/", "s": "Spanish conquistador, half brother of Francisco Pizarro, executed for rebellion."}, {"n": "Hernando de Soto", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas-and-pacific/hernando-de-soto/", "s": "Spanish explorer who crossed the Mississippi and led the first European expedition into the U.S. Southeast."}, {"n": "Hernando Pizarro", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas-and-pacific/hernando-pizarro/", "s": "Spanish conquistador and the only Pizarro brother to survive Peru."}, {"n": "Henry Morton Stanley", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas-and-pacific/henry-morton-stanley/", "s": "Welsh-American explorer who found Livingstone and opened the Congo."}, {"n": "Heinrich Barth", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas-and-pacific/heinrich-barth/", "s": "German explorer who meticulously documented African cultures and history."}, {"n": "Hanno the Navigator", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas-and-pacific/hanno-the-navigator/", "s": "Carthaginian explorer of the fifth century BC West African coast."}, {"n": "Evliya Çelebi", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas-and-pacific/evliya-elebi/", "s": "Ottoman explorer who wrote the ten-volume Seyahatnâme."}, {"n": "Faxian", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas-and-pacific/faxian/", "s": "Chinese Buddhist monk who traveled to India for scriptures."}]