The Most Famous

EXPLORERS from Jersey

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This page contains a list of the greatest Explorers. The pantheon dataset contains 498 Explorers, 1 of which were born in Jersey. This makes Jersey the birth place of the 44th most number of Explorers behind Argentina, and South Africa.

Top 1

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

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1. Philip Carteret (1733 - 1796)

With an HPI of 50.58, Philip Carteret is the most famous Explorer.  His biography has been translated into 20 different languages on wikipedia.

Rear-Admiral Philip Carteret, Seigneur of Trinity (22 January 1733, Trinity Manor, Jersey – 21 July 1796, Southampton) was a British naval officer and explorer who participated in two of the Royal Navy's circumnavigation expeditions in 1764–66 and 1766–69.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as explorers born between 1733 and 1733. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased explorers include Philip Carteret.

Deceased Explorers

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