British

Frederick William Beechey (1796-1856)

Explored the northern Alaska coast from Bering Strait (1825)
Surveyed the coasts of South America (1835-1837)
Edward Belcher (1799-1877)

Surveyed on the expedition of Frederick William Beechey in Bering Strait (1825)
Surveyed on the west coast of Africa and on the west coast of South America
Surveyed the East Indies and the Philippines (1843-1847)
Christian Bonington (1934- )

First ascent of Mount Annapurna II (1960)
First ascent of Mount Nuptse (1961)
Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)

With John Speke, he reached Lake Tanganyika (1858)
Explored the Arabian peninsula and Somaliland
Frederick Spencer Chapman (1907-1971)

Explored Greenland, the Himalayas, and Malaysia (1930-1935)
Francis Rawdon Chesney (1789-1872)

Surveyed the Isthmus of Suez and the Euphrates Valley (1829)
Richard Collinson (1811-1883)

Sailed from Bering Strait to Coronation Gulf and Dease Strait to Victoria Island, where he explored (1851-1855)
James Cook (1728-1779)

Surveyed the St. Lawrence River (1759)
Made three survey voyages to the South Pacific, including one to the North Pacific (1768-1779)
Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham Fiennes (1944-????)

Made the first surface journey around the world's polar circumference (1979-1982)
Walter Herbert (1934-????)

First surface crossing by dog sledge of the Arctic Ocean from Alaska to Spitzbergen via the North Pole (1968-1969)
John Hunt (1910-????)

A leader of the successful Mount Everest expedition with Edmund Hillary, but not one who reached the summit (1953)
Alexander Mackenzie (c1755-1820)

First European to see the river named for him (1789)
Crossed the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific coast in what is now British Columbia, making the first known crossing north of Mexico (1792-1793)
John Moresby (1830-1922)

First European to visit the harbour in New Guinea now known as Port Moresby
Harry St. John Bridger Philby (1885-1960)

First European to visit the southern provinces of Najd, Arabia (1917-1918)
Frederick Courtney Selous (1851-1917)

Made a pioneer journey to what are now Zambia and Zimbabwe
John Hanning Speke (1827-1864)

Joined Richard Burton on an African expedition in which they reached Lake Tanganyika (1858)
First European to see Lake Victoria
Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904)

(John Rowlands)
With David Livingstone, explored Lake Tanganyika (1871)
Traced the course of the Congo River to the Atlantic Ocean (1884-1887)
Charles Sturt (1795-1869)

Charted the Murrumbidgee River to the estuary of the Murray River (1828)
Crossed what is now known as the Sturt Desert (1844)
Percy Molesworth Sykes (1867-1945)

Surveyed much of the territory between Baghdad, the Caspian Sea, and the Hindu Kush Mountains (1914-1918)
Joseph Thomson (1858-1895)

First European to reach Lake Nyasa from the north (1879)
Explored the Atlas Mountains (1885)
James Weddell (1787-1834)

Reached 75° S. and 35° W. in the Weddell Sea (1823)