Synonyms for explorer

adventurer, traveler, pioneer, wayfarer, pilgrim, voyager, astronaut, space traveler, investigator, inventor, seafarer, mountaineer, mountain climber, scientist, globe-trotter, navigator, circumnavigator, spelunker, creator, founder, pathfinder, trailblazer, colonist, conquistador.

Famous explorers include: Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, Francisco Pizarro, Magellan, Ponce de Leon, Balboa, Vasco da Gama, Sir Francis Drake, Henry Hudson, John Cabot, De Soto, Hernán Cortés, Father Marquette and Joliet, David Livingstone, Lewis and Clark, Robert E. Peary, Robert Scott, Vilhjalmur Stefanson, Roald Amundsen, Richard E. Byrd, Thor Heyerdahl, Sir Edmund Hillary, Maurice Herzog, Yuri Gagarin, Alan Shephard, John Glenn, Jacques Cousteau, Neil Armstrong.