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William Baffin (1584-1622)

Explored Hudson Bay with Robert Bylot (1615)
Explored Baffin Bay with Robert Bylot, reaching 77° 45' N (1616)
Frederick Marshman Bailey (1882-1967)

Led an expedition to map the Tsangpo River in Tibet (1957)
Samuel White Baker (1821-1893)

First European to see Lake Albert Nyanza and to discover that the Nile River flowed through it (1864)
George Bass (1771-1803)

With Matthew Flinders, explored the coast of New South Wales and the strait between the Australian states of Tasmania and Victoria (1795-1798)
Thomas Button (????-1634)

Led expedition to find Henry Hudson (1612)
With Robert Bylot, entered Hudson Strait and Hudson Bay (1612)
Robert Bylot (fl. 1610-1616)

Served on the voyages of William Baffin, Thomas Button, William Gibbons, and Henry Hudson
Sailed past the north shore of Southampton (1615)
With Baffin, made voyage around Baffin Bay (1616)
Verney Lovett Cameron (1844-1894)

Led a mission to find David Livingstone (1871)
Explored Lake Tanganyika, plotting many rivers flowing into it and one out of it, then became the first European to cross tropical Africa from east to west (1873-1875)
Philip Carteret (1733-1796)

Discovered Pitcairn Island and the islands of the Tuamotu Archipelago and the strait separating New Britain and New Ireland (1767)
Thomas Cavendish (1555-1592)

Commanded the third circumnavigation of the world (1586)
Hugh Clapperton (1788-1827)

With Dixon Denham, crossed the Sahara Desert from Tripoli to Lake Chad (1823)
Began a trip with his servant Richard Lander, who reached the mouth of the Niger River (1830)
William Dampier (1652-1715)

Circumnavigated the world three times (1667-1707)
Rescued Alexander Selkirk, on whose life Robinson Crusoe is based (final trip)
John Davis (1550-1605)

Sailed into Baffin Bay while searching for the Nortwest Passage (1587)
First European to see the Falkland Islands
Dixon Denham (1785-1828)

See: Hugh Clapperton
Francis Drake (c1540-1580)

First Englishman to circumnavigate the world (1577-1580)
John Eyre (1815-1901)

Explored central Australia (1840-1841)
Matthew Flinders (1834-1861)

With George Bass, explored the easter and southern coasts of Australia (1795)
Circumnavigated Tasmania (1798-1799)
Made several other exploration trips along the Australian coast (1801-1803)
John Franklin (1786-1847)

Commanded an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage from Atlantic to Pacific, during which he and his crew died (1845)
Martin Frobisher (1535-1594)

Made a voyage to Guinea, West Africa (1554)
While searching for the Northwest Passage, visited Labrador, Frobisher Bay, and Baffin Island (1576-1578)
William Gibbons (fl. 1612-1614)

With Robert Bylot, made a voyage from the entrance of Hudson Strait down the Labrador coast (1614)
Humphrey Gilbert (1539-1583)

Landed in Newfoundland and claimed it for England
Samuel Hearne (1745-1792)

Explored the west coast of Hudson Bay, went inland to just south of Chesterfield Inlet to Dubawnt Lake (1769)
Traveled from the mouth of the Churchill River to the mouth of the Coppermine River to Great Slave Lake and back again to Churchill (1770)
William Hilton Hovell (1786-1875)

With Hamilton Hume, traveled overland in Australia from near Sydney to Port Phillip (1824)
Henry Hudson (c1565-c1611)

Reached New York Bay and sailed up the river that nows bears his name (1609)
Sailed into what are now Hudson Strait and Hudson Bay, being set adrift in the latter by his mutinous crew (1610)
Richard Lander (1804-1834)

A servant of Hugh Clapperton, traced the course of the Niger River with brother John (1830-1831)
William Edward Parry (1790-1855)

Sailed through Lancaster Sound to become discoverer of an entrance to the Northwest Passage (1821-1823)
Explored the western Foxe basin (1821-1823)
Led an expedition to prince Regent Inlet (1824-1825)
Traveled by sledge boat from Spitsbergen to 82° 45' N
James Clark Ross (1800-1862)

Discovered the magnetic North Pole (1831)
Explored in Antarctica (1839)
William Scoresby (1789-1857)

Pioneered in the study of the Arctic
Charted Greenland's coast (1820s)
Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912)

Commanded two Antarctic expeditions, the first one with Ernest Shackleton (1901-1904; 1910-1912)
Reached the South Pole (1912)
Samuel Wallis (1728-1795)

Traveled around Cape Horn to the Tuamotu Archipelago and discovered Tahiti (1767)
Henry George Watkins (1907-1932)

Made expeditions in Labrador and Greenland, which helped to open up an Arctic air route