WRobin ("Rob") Leonard Bidwell was an English orientalist and author. He published many books about Yemen and Arabia as well as about French and British colonial history.
WJulius Lucius Brenchley, of Maidstone, was a 19th-century English explorer, naturalist and author.
WCharles Barrington Brown was a Canadian geologist and explorer. On April 24, 1870 he was one of two English-based geologists appointed government surveyors to the colony of British Guiana. That same year, he was the first Westerner to see Kaieteur Falls. The other surveyor was James Sawkins.
WGrant Carveth Wells was a British adventurer, travel writer, and television personality in the mid-twentieth century.
WWilliam Chandless was an English explorer of the Amazon Basin in the 1860s.
WLieutenant Robert Dale was the first European explorer to cross the Darling Range in Western Australia.
WAnn Daniels is a British polar explorer and motivational speaker. She and her team-mate Caroline Hamilton were the first women to reach both the North Pole and South Pole as part of all-women teams, in 2002.
WNey Elias, CIE, was an English explorer, geographer, and diplomat, most known for his extensive travels in Asia. Modern scholars speculate that he was a key intelligence agent for Britain during the Great Game. Elias travelled extensively in the Karakoram, Hindu Kush, Pamirs, and Turkestan regions of High Asia.
WAlicia Hempleman-Adams is the daughter of British explorer David Hempleman-Adams. She holds the record for the youngest person to have reached the North Pole when she was flown there to meet her father at the age of eight. On 13 April 2005 she became the youngest person to traverse Baffin Island, aged 15.
WArthur Jermy Mounteney Jephson (1859–1908) was an English merchant seaman and army officer. He became an adventurer and African explorer, who accompanied H. M. Stanley on the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 1887–1889.
WCaptain William Keeling, of the East India Company, was a British sea captain. He commanded the Susanna on the second East India Company voyage in 1604. During this voyage his crew was reduced to fourteen men and one of the ships vanished. On the third voyage he commanded the Red Dragon and the Hector in 1607. During this voyage he met with an ambassador from the Ayutthaya Kingdom in 1608 at Bantam (city). He discovered the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in 1609 as he was going home from Banda to England.
WWilliam Lithgow was a Scottish traveller, writer and alleged spy. He claimed at the end of his various peregrinations to have tramped 36,000 miles (57,936km) on foot.
WWilliam Kennett Loftus was a British geologist, naturalist, explorer and archaeological excavator. He discovered the ancient Sumerian city of Uruk in 1849.
WGeorge Robert Milne Murray was a Scottish naturalist, botanist, diatomist and algologist, noted for his association with T. H. Huxley and with the Discovery Expedition. He was the naturalist aboard the solar eclipse expedition to the West Indies in 1886, and was a member of several scientific voyages for the collection of marine organisms, leading valuable work on the Atlantic coast of Ireland in 1898.
WCommander Harry Lewin Lee Pennell was a Royal Navy officer who served on the Terra Nova Expedition. He was responsible for the first sighting of Oates Coast on 22 February 1911, and named it after Captain Lawrence Oates. He only spent short periods in Antarctica, returning with the Terra Nova to wait out the winters of 1911 and 1912 in Lyttelton, New Zealand. Due to the absence of Robert Falcon Scott on land, Pennell assumed the role of command on the Terra Nova, which would bring fresh supplies back to Antarctica with each voyage.
WJoseph Barclay Pentland was an Irish geographer, natural scientist, and traveller. Born in Ballybofey, Pentland was educated at Armagh. He also studied in Paris, and worked with Georges Cuvier.
WJames Richardson was a British explorer known for his expeditions into the Sub-Saharan desert.
WJames Robertson of Gossabrough FRS (1753–1829) was an 18th-century Scottish surveyor and map-maker.
WGraham Westbrook Rowley was an Arctic explorer, hailed as "one of the last true explorers of North America".
WEdward Oswald Shebbeare (1884–1964) was a British mountaineer, naturalist and forester. He was a member of the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition and the deputy leader and transport officer of the 1933 expedition. He also served as transport officer on the 1929 German Kanchenjunga expedition. In 1928, he was a founding member of The Himalayan Club. He was also a keen naturalist, particularly interested in rhinoceros and elephant conservation. In 1940, he was the founding president of the Malayan Nature Society.
WAdmiral Sir Bartholomew James Sulivan, was a British naval officer and hydrographer. He was a leading advocate of the value of nautical surveying in relation to naval operations.
WJoseph Wiggins FRGS was an English mariner, born at Norwich into a family of mailcoach operators.