The Most Famous

Explorers from Denmark

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This page contains a list of the greatest Danish Explorers. The pantheon dataset contains 498 Explorers, 6 of which were born in Denmark. This makes Denmark the birth place of the 14th most number of Explorers behind Poland and China.

Top 6 Explorers

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Danish Explorers of all time. This list of famous Danish Explorers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

  1. #1
    Photo of Vitus Bering

    Vitus Bering

    1681 - 1741

    HPI 79.7784 langs

    Vitus Bering was a Danish explorer who discovered Alaska.

Overlapping Lives

Which Explorers were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 5 most globally memorable Explorers since 1700.

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