British Explorer
1. William Hovell (1786)
British Explorer
He became the co-leader, along with HHamilton Hume, of the infamous expedition of Eastern Australia.
2. William Marsters (1831)
British Explorer
As an explorer, he settled one of the Cook Islands with his wife and his two Polynesian mistresses.
3. Eric Shipton (1907)
British Explorer
Mountain climber extraordinaire who was the the only member to complete all four expeditions to Everest in the 1930s.
4. Wilfred Thesiger (1910)
British Explorer
British explorer and author who rejected the world of technology for a life with the natives of Africa.
5. Ed Stafford (1975)
British Explorer
He set a Guinness recorded by walking the entire length of the Amazon river from its source to where it enters the sea.
6. Robert Swan (1956)
British Explorer
Robert Charles Swan OBE FRGS is the first person to walk to both Poles. He was born on 28 July 1956 in Durham England and attended Aysgarth School and then...