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John C. Frémont
American explorer, military officer, and politician

John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist

John Smith
British explorer

Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d’Urville
French explorer

Robert Fitzroy
British scientist

Francis Rawdon Chesney
British explorer

John Oxley
British explorer

George William Evans
English surveyor and explorer

Clarence King
American geologist

George Vancouver
British explorer

Jeremiah Dixon
English surveyor

Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
American geologist

George Ferdinand Becker
American geologist

Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
British explorer

Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden
American geologist

Sir John Richardson
Scottish surgeon and explorer

Matthew Flinders
British navigator

David Rittenhouse
American astronomer and inventor

Louis-Claude de Saulces de Freycinet
French cartographer

Clarence Edward Dutton
American geologist