Dutch
- Willem Barents (1550-1597)
- Made three unsuccessful expeditions to seek the Northwest Passage (????-1597)
- Anthony van Dieman (1593-1645)
- Supervised expeditions to Australia from the Dutch East Indies (1636, 1641)
- Abel Janszoon Tasman (1603-1659)
- First European to sight Tasmania (1642)
- Also first to sight New Zealand, Tonga, and Fiji
