The Most Famous

Explorers from Estonia

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This page contains a list of the greatest Estonians Explorers. The pantheon dataset contains 498 Explorers, 4 of which were born in Estonia. This makes Estonia the birth place of the 20th most number of Explorers behind Australia and Türkiye.

Top 4 Explorers

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

  1. #1
    Photo of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen

    Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen

    1778 - 1852

    HPI 72.7055 langs
    Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen was a Baltic German explorer and admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy, who led an expedition to...Read moreShow less

    Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen was a Baltic German explorer and admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy, who led an expedition to Antarctica in 1819-1821.

  2. #2
    Photo of Adam Johann von Krusenstern

    Adam Johann von Krusenstern

    1770 - 1846

    HPI 65.2336 langs
    Adam Johann von Krusenstern is most famous for being the Russian naval officer who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe in...Read moreShow less

    Adam Johann von Krusenstern is most famous for being the Russian naval officer who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe in 1803-1806.

  3. #3
    Photo of Eduard von Toll

    Eduard von Toll

    1858 - 1902

    HPI 59.1224 langs

    Russian geologist and polar explorer

  4. #4
    Photo of Richard Maack

    Richard Maack

    1825 - 1886

    HPI 55.8816 langs

    Baltic German explorer and botanist (1825-1886)

Overlapping Lives

Which Explorers were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 4 most globally memorable Explorers since 1700.

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