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Browsing occupation: explorer

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  1. Ainsworth, George Frederick (1911-1915)
  2. Allan, James Thomas (1850-1862)
  3. Allingham, Christopher (1851-1852)
  4. Anderson, Samuel (1835-1837)
  5. Archer, Charles (1853-1854, 1854-1854)
  6. Archer, Colin (1854-1855)
  7. Archer, William (1854-1855)
  8. Austin, Robert (1854-1854)
  9. Ball, Henry Lidgbird (1788-1790)
  10. Banks, Sir Joseph (1770-1770, 1770-1770, 1770-1770)
  11. Barker, Collet (1831-1831, 1831-1831)
  12. Barnard, Henry Greensill (Harry) (1888-?)
  13. Barnett, Emily Caroline (1882-1883)
  14. Barrallier, Francis Louis (1801-1803)
  15. Basedow, Herbert (1903-1903, 1926-1928)
  16. Bass, George (1795-1799, 1798-1799)
  17. Beadell, Leonard (Len) (1946-1968)
  18. Beamont, John (1817-1817)
  19. Becker, Ludwig (1860-1861)
  20. Bejah, Dervish (1896-1897)
  21. Bell, Archibald (1823-1840)
  22. Bellingshausen, Faddei Faddeevich (Fabian) (1820-1821)
  23. Bernacchi, Louis Charles (1898-1904)
  24. Bevan, Theodore Francis (1886-1887)
  25. Bingle, John (1821-1822, 1821-1822)
  26. Biscoe, John (1830-1832)
  27. Bishop, Peter (1825-1825)
  28. Blackman, James (1820-1823)
  29. Blaxland, Gregory (1810-1810, 1813-1813)
  30. Bligh, William (1777-1777, 1791-1791)
  31. Blosseville, Jules Poret de (1822-1824)
  32. Borchgrevink, Carsten Egeberg (1894-1895, 1898-1899)
  33. Bowden, Matthew (1804-1804)
  34. Bowen, John (1803-1804)
  35. Breaden, Joseph Albert (Joe) (1896-1897)
  36. Brodribb, William Adams (1839-1840)
  37. Brown, Henry Yorke Lyell (1882-1911, 1882-1911)
  38. Brown, Maitland (1861-1862)
  39. Bruni D'Entrecasteaux, Joseph-Antoine Raymond (1791-1793)
  40. Buchanan, Nathaniel (Nat) (1859-1877, 1878-1880, 1883-1886)
  41. Bunbury, Henry William St Pierre (1836-1837)
  42. Bunce, Daniel (1839-1839, 1846-1846, 1846-1846)
  43. Burke, Robert O'Hara (1860-1861, 1860-1861, 1860-1861)
  44. Burnett, James Charles (1841-1842, 1843-1843, 1847-1847)
  45. Cadell, Francis (1867-1867)
  46. Calder, George (1872-1872)
  47. Caley, George (1800-1810)
  48. Calvert, Albert Frederick (1890-1897, 1890-1897, 1890-1892, 1896-1897)
  49. Calvert, James Snowden (1844-1845)
  50. Canning, Alfred Wernam (1906-1910, 1929-1929)
  51. Carnegie, David Wynford (1896-1897)
  52. Carr-Boyd, William Henry James (1875-1882, 1883-1883)
  53. Carron, William (1848-1848)
  54. Chalmers, James (1877-1901)
  55. Chewings, Charles (1881-1885)
  56. Clark, William Nairne (1840-1842)
  57. Collie, Alexander (1829-1829)
  58. Collins, Robert Martin (1873-1878)
  59. Collins, William (1803-1803, 1803-1804)
  60. Colson, Edmund Albert (1928-1936, 1928-1936, 1928-1936)
  61. Conrick, John (1872-1875)
  62. Cook, James (1770-1770, 1770-1770, 1770-1770, 1777-1777)
  63. Cory, Edward Gostwyck (1832-1832)
  64. Cox, William (1817-1817)
  65. Creed, John Mildred (1867-1868)
  66. Cunningham, Allan (1816-1831, 1818-1818, 1819-1819)
  67. D'Albertis, Luigi Maria (1872-1878)
  68. Dalrymple, George Augustus (1859-1861, 1864-1864, 1873-1873)
  69. Dampier, William (1688-1688, 1699-1699)
  70. Dangar, Henry (1824-1824)
  71. Darke, John Charles (1833-1836, 1844-1844)
  72. David, Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth (1907-1909)
  73. Davidson, Allan Arthur (1897-1901, 1897-1901)
  74. Davis, John King (1911-1914)
  75. Dawes, William (1789-1789)
  76. Dawson, Robert (1826-1827)
  77. Debney, George Leonard (1870-1882)
  78. Dixon, Robert (1827-1829)
  79. Douglas, Alexander Douglas (1874-1882)
  80. Dow, John Lamont (1862-1862)
  81. Dowling, Vincent James (1860-1861)
  82. Drake-Brockman, Frederick Slade (1901-1901)
  83. Elsey, Joseph Ravenscroft (1853-1856)
  84. Evans, George William (1804-1818)
  85. Eyre, Edward John (1839-1841, 1840-1841)
  86. Favenc, Ernest (1878-1879, 1879-1883, 1883-1883, 1888-1888)
  87. Finckh, Alfred Edmund (1898-1898)
  88. Finsch, Otto (1884-1885)
  89. Flinders, Matthew (1795-1795, 1798-1799, 1798-1800, 1801-1803, 1802-1803, 1802-1803, 1802-1803, 1802-1803, 1803-1803, 1803-1803)
  90. Forbes, Henry Ogg (1885-1887)
  91. Forrest, Alexander (1871-1879)
  92. Forrest, Sir John (1869-1874)
  93. Forrest, Matthew (1879-1879)
  94. Forster, Johann Georg Adam (1773-1773)
  95. Franklin, Sir John (1847-1847)
  96. Freeling, Sir Arthur Henry (1857-1857)
  97. Furneaux, Tobias (1773-1773)
  98. Gellibrand, Joseph Tice (1837-1837)
  99. Gilbert, John (1844-1844)
  100. Giles, Ernest (1861-1865, 1872-1875, 1872-1875)
  101. Goldwyer, William (1859-1859)
  102. Gosse, William Christie (1873-1873, 1873-1873)
  103. Goyder, George Woodroffe (1857-1861)
  104. Grant, James (1800-1801, 1800-1801, 1800-1801)
  105. Gregory, Sir Augustus Charles (1846-1848, 1855-1856, 1858-1858)
  106. Grey, Sir George (1838-1839)
  107. Grimes, Charles (1801-1801, 1802-1803)
  108. Hacking, Henry (1794-1794)
  109. Hall, William Shakespeare (1861-1863)
  110. Hann, Frank Hugh (1898-1907)
  111. Hann, William (1872-1889)
  112. Hardwicke, Charles Browne (1823-1823)
  113. Hayes, Sir John (1793-1793)
  114. Hellyer, Henry (1826-1832)
  115. Hely, Hovenden (1846-1852)
  116. Henry, Ernest (1859-1859)
  117. Hides, Jack Gordon (1935-1937)
  118. Hoadley, Charles Archibald (1912-1913)
  119. Hobbs, James (1822-1824)
  120. Hobson, William (1836-1837)
  121. Hodgkinson, William Oswald (1860-1861, 1875-1876)
  122. Hodgson, Christopher Pemberton (1844-1846)
  123. Hooke, Sir Lionel George (1914-1916)
  124. Hooley, Edward Timothy (1864-1868)
  125. Horrocks, John Ainsworth (1839-1846)
  126. Houtman, Frederik de (1618-1619)
  127. Hovell, William Hilton (1823-1825, 1824-1826)
  128. Howe, John (1819-1820)
  129. Howitt, Alfred William (1859-1863)
  130. Hume, Hamilton (1814-1827, 1824-1825, 1828-1828)
  131. Hunt, Charles Cooke (1863-1865)
  132. Hunter, John (1788-1789)
  133. Hunter, John George (1911-1914)
  134. Huon De Kermadec, Jean-Michel (1792-1793, 1792-1792)
  135. Hurley, James Francis (Frank) (1911-1913)
  136. Huxley, Thomas Henry (1847-1850, 1847-1847, 1847-1848)
  137. Jamison, Sir John (1818-1818)
  138. Janssen, Willem (1605-1606)
  139. Jeffreys, Charles (1815-1816)
  140. Johnstone, Robert Arthur (1873-1881)
  141. Jorgenson, Jorgen (1827-1827)
  142. Kelly, James (1815-1816)
  143. Kennedy, Edmund Besley (1845-1848)
  144. King, John (1861-1861)
  145. King, Phillip Parker (1817-1822, 1817-1822, 1817-1822, 1817-1822, 1818-1819, 1837-1838)
  146. Landsborough, William (1856-1862, 1862-1862)
  147. Lang, Gideon Scott (1845-1846, 1845-1846, 1845-1846, 1850-1851)
  148. La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup (1788-1788)
  149. Laseron, Charles Francis (Carl) (1911-1913)
  150. Lawson, William (1813-1822)
  151. Laycock, Thomas (1807-1807)
  152. Lazarev, Mikhail Petrovich (1814-1823, 1814-1823)
  153. Leahy, Daniel Joseph (Dan) (1932-1934)
  154. Leahy, Michael James (Mick) (1930-1934, 1930-1934)
  155. Leichhardt , Ludwig (1844-1848, 1845-1846)
  156. Lethbridge, George Langworthy (1854-1854)
  157. Lhotsky, John (1834-1834)
  158. Lindsay, David (1891-1891)
  159. Lockyer, Edmund (1825-1825)
  160. Logan, Patrick (1826-1830)
  161. Macarthur, James (1817-1830)
  162. MacDonnell, Sir Richard Graves (1859-1859)
  163. MacGregor, Duncan (1857-1868)
  164. MacGregor, Sir William (1895-1898)
  165. Mackay, Donald George (1908-1908, 1926-1937)
  166. Mackay, John (1860-1861, 1863-1863)
  167. Macleay, Sir George (1829-1830, 1829-1830, 1829-1830)
  168. Madigan, Cecil Thomas (1911-1913, 1939-1939)
  169. Mann, John Frederick (1846-1847)
  170. Marion Dufresne, Marc-Joseph (1772-1772)
  171. Mawson, Sir Douglas (1929-1931)
  172. McCarty, Denis (1815-1816)
  173. McDougall, Robert (1841-1848)
  174. McIntyre, Duncan (1863-1866)
  175. McKay, Alexander (1823-1864)
  176. McKinlay, John (1861-1862, 1861-1862, 1865-1866, 1870-1870)
  177. McLaurin, James (1840-1840)
  178. McMillan, Angus (1840-1841, 1864-1865)
  179. Meehan, James (1801-1803, 1803-1804, 1818-1818)
  180. Meston, Archibald (1860-1860, 1889-1889)
  181. Mikluho-Maklai, Nicholai Nicholaievich (1871-1877)
  182. Milligan, Joseph (1856-1856)
  183. Mitchell, Sir Thomas Livingstone (1831-1832, 1835-1836, 1836-1836, 1845-1846)
  184. Monckton, Charles Arthur (1897-1907)
  185. Moore, George Fletcher (1830-1839)
  186. Moore, Thomas Bather (1879-1919)
  187. Moore, William Dalgety (1858-1858)
  188. Moresby, John (1873-1873, 1873-1874)
  189. Morphett, Sir John (1836-1836)
  190. Morrill, James (1864-1864)
  191. Morris, Augustus (1835-1835, 1842-1842)
  192. Morton, William Lockhart (1859-1859, 1861-1864)
  193. Mountgarrett, Jacob (1804-1804)
  194. Moyes, Morton Henry (1911-1914, 1929-1930)
  195. Mueller, Sir Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von (1855-1856)
  196. Murphy, Herbert Dyce (1911-1914)
  197. Murray, John (1801-1801, 1801-1802, 1802-1803, 1803-1803)
  198. Nuyts, Pieter (1627-1627, 1627-1627)
  199. O'Hea, Timothy (1874-1874)
  200. Onslow, Arthur Alexander (1874-1874)
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