The Most Famous
EXPLORERS from New Zealand
This page contains a list of the greatest New Zealander Explorers. The pantheon dataset contains 405 Explorers, 1 of which were born in New Zealand. This makes New Zealand the birth place of the 47th most number of Explorers behind Greece and Suriname.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary New Zealander Explorers of all time. This list of famous New Zealander Explorers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Laura Dekker (1995 - )
With an HPI of 33.00, Laura Dekker is the most famous New Zealander Explorer. Her biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Laura Dekker (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈlʌuraː ˈdɛkər]; born 20 September 1995) is a New Zealand-born Dutch sailor. In 2009, she announced her plan to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe single-handed. A Dutch court stepped in, owing to the objections of the local authorities, and prevented Laura from departing while under shared custody of both her parents. In July 2010, a Dutch family court ended this custody arrangement, and the record-breaking attempt finally began on 21 August 2010. Dekker successfully completed the solo circumnavigation in a 12.4-metre (40 ft) two-masted ketch named Guppy, arriving in Simpson Bay, Sint Maarten, 518 days later at the age of 16.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as explorers born between 1995 and 1995. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living explorers include Laura Dekker.
