[{"n": "Louis Antoine de Bougainville", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas/louis-antoine-de-bougainville/", "s": "French explorer who led the first French circumnavigation."}, {"n": "Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas/lucas-v-zquez-de-ayll-n/", "s": "Spanish magistrate and explorer who founded a short-lived colony in 1526."}, {"n": "Luís Vaz de Torres", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas/lu-s-vaz-de-torres/", "s": "First European to navigate the strait separating Australia and New Guinea."}, {"n": "Martin Frobisher", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas/martin-frobisher/", "s": "English sea captain who sought the North-west Passage."}, {"n": "Martín Alonso Pinzón", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas/mart-n-alonso-pinz-n/", "s": "Captain of the Pinta on Columbus's first voyage to the New World."}, {"n": "Miguel López de Legazpi", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas/miguel-l-pez-de-legazpi/", "s": "Spanish conquistador who founded the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines."}, {"n": "Mungo Park (explorer)", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas/mungo-park-explorer/", "s": "Scottish explorer of West Africa and the Niger River."}, {"n": "Nikolay Przhevalsky", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas/nikolay-przhevalsky/", "s": "Russian explorer of Central Asia who described several endangered species."}, {"n": "Paweł Strzelecki", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas/pawe-strzelecki/", "s": "Polish explorer who named mainland Australia's highest peak and aided Irish famine relief."}, {"n": "Pedro Fernandes de Queirós", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas/pedro-fernandes-de-queir-s/", "s": "Portuguese navigator who sought Terra Australis for Spain."}, {"n": "Pedro Álvares Cabral", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas/pedro-lvares-cabral/", "s": "Portuguese explorer who led the first known voyage to four continents"}, {"n": "Percy Fawcett", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas/percy-fawcett/", "s": "British explorer who vanished seeking a lost Amazonian city."}, {"n": "Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas/pierre-savorgnan-de-brazza/", "s": "Italian-French explorer who peacefully advanced French colonial interests in Central Africa."}, {"n": "Pytheas", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas/pytheas/", "s": "Greek explorer who first described the Arctic and midnight sun."}, {"n": "Pánfilo de Narváez", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas/p-nfilo-de-narv-ez/", "s": "Spanish conquistador who led two failed expeditions in the Americas."}, {"n": "Ranulph Fiennes", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas/ranulph-fiennes/", "s": "First to reach both poles by surface and cross Antarctica on foot."}, {"n": "Reinhold Messner", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas/reinhold-messner/", "s": "Italian climber, explorer, and author from South Tyrol."}, {"n": "René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas/ren-robert-cavelier-sieur-de-la-salle/", "s": "French explorer who claimed the Mississippi basin for France."}, {"n": "René Caillié", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas/ren-cailli/", "s": "First European to return alive from Timbuktu."}, {"n": "Richard E. Byrd", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas/richard-e-byrd/", "s": "American naval officer and polar explorer who claimed first flights to both poles."}, {"n": "Richard Hawkins", "u": "/e/explorers-of-the-americas/richard-hawkins/", "s": "English seaman, explorer, and privateer; discovered the Falkland Islands."}]