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Born October 31, 1888 • Australia
Died December 1, 1958 (aged 70) • Framingham • Massachusetts

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American aviator and explorer
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British noble
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Australian pilot
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Australian pilot
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
David Livingstone.
David Livingstone
Scottish explorer and missionary
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Sir Richard Burton
British scholar and explorer
British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist
Sir Henry Morton Stanley, detail of a portrait by Sir Hubert von Herkomer; in the City Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.
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British explorer
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British adventurer and writer
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Francis Galton
British scientist
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Sir John Franklin
English explorer
Wilfred Thesiger
Wilfred Thesiger
British explorer
Robert Swan
Robert Swan
British explorer
Mount Everest: 1921 expedition
George Mallory
British explorer and mountaineer
Ernest Shackleton
Ernest Shackleton
Anglo-Irish explorer
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker.
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
British botanist
Dick Smith
Australian aviator and businessman

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