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The Explorers Podcast

The Explorers Podcast


The Explorers Podcast

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187 episodes
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English
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Podcast

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The Explorers Podcast is about the greatest explorers and explorations in history.
On the Explorers Podcast, the explorers we cover include Ernest Shackleton, Ibn Battuta, Roald Amundsen, Frederick Cook, Adrien de Gerlache, John McDouall Stuart, Francisco Vazquez de Coronado, Matt Rutherford, Jacques Marquette, Louis Jolliet, James Cook, Abel Tasman, Alice Morrison, Fridtjof Nansen, Yuri Gagarin, Jacques Cartier, Richard Francis Burton, Teddy Roosevelt, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, James Beckwourth, Alvise Cadamosto, Henry the Navigator, Andres de Urdaneta, Edmund Hillar, Tenzing Norgay, George Mallory, Marco Polo, Xu Fu, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Burke and Wills Expedition, Robert O'Hara Burke, William Wills, Hanno the Navigator, Lewis and Clark, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Hernan Cortes, John Franklin, Lost Franklin Expedition, Francis Drake, Diogo Cao, Pytheas, Nellie Bly, Christopher Columbus, Panfilo de Narvaez, Bartolomeu Dias, Mungo Park, John Cabot, Erik the Red, Leif Erikson, Zebulon Pike, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Ferdinand Magellan, and Zheng He and the Chinese Treasure Fleet, Neil Armstrong, Aztec Empire, Moctezuma, Montezuma, Robert Falcon Scott, Tom Creen, Frank Wild, Cândido Rondon, Brendan the Navigator, and Vladimir Atlasov.
We also cover a variety of subjects and events and travel to many places. Topics include the Far East, the River of Doubt, the Manila Galleons, Mount Everest, the Moon Landing, Apollo 11, the circumnavigation of the world, the source of the Nile, the New World, Vinland, the Niger River, Timbuktu, the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Horn, Antarctica, the Arctic, the Northwest Passage, the North Pole, the South Pole, the Congo River, the Chinese Treasure Fleet, the Corps of Discovery, Tenochtitlán, Japan, China, the Silk Road, the Spice Islands, the Moluccas, the Caravel, Mecca, Medina, Lake Tanganyika, Sputnik, Tasmania, Australia, Siberia, the Mississippi River, the Great Lakes, the Seven Cities of Gold, and much, much more.
Language:
English
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Podcast

Episodes1 - 10 of 187 episodes

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Estêvão Cacella and João Cabral and the First Explorations of the Himalayas including Bhutan, Nepal and Tibet

In 1626, Father Estêvão Cacella and his assistant, Father João Cabral, set out from the...

35 minutes
May 07, 2024

Jules Dumont d'Urville - Part 7 - the second voyage of the Astrolabe: Return to Antarctica

In the final chapter of our series on Jules Dumont d'Urville, the Astrolabe and the Zel...

39 minutes
Apr 30, 2024

Jules Dumont d'Urville - Part 6 - the second voyage of the Astrolabe: the Pacific Islands and Southeast Asia

d'Urville and his two ships sail from South America to Polynesia. On the agenda for thi...

36 minutes
Apr 22, 2024

Jules Dumont d'Urville - Part 5 - the second voyage of the Astrolabe: Antarctica

In part 5 of our series, d'Urville leads two ships - including the Astrolabe - on a cir...

40 minutes
Apr 08, 2024

Jules Dumont d'Urville - Part 4 - the first voyage of the Astrolabe (continued)

In part four of our series, d'Urville takes the Astrolabe through islands of the Pacifi...

39 minutes
Apr 01, 2024

Jules Dumont d'Urville - Part 3 - the first voyage of the Astrolabe

Jules Dumont d'Urville returns to the South Pacific about the Astrolabe. In this episod...

38 minutes
Mar 18, 2024

Jules Dumont d'Urville - Part 2 - Coquille Expedition

In 1822, d'Urville set off on his first epic voyage - a three year expedition around th...

39 minutes
Mar 11, 2024

Jules Dumont d’Urville – Part 1 – Early life and the Venus de Milo

In part 1 of our series, we look at d’Urville’s early life, including his journey into ...

35 minutes
Mar 04, 2024

Freya Stark - Part 6 - WWII and later years

In the final episode on the life of Freya Stark, we take a look at her work in the Midd...

30 minutes
Feb 26, 2024

Freya Stark - Part 5 - Yemen

Between 1935 and 1938, Freya Stark took part in two expeditions into the mountains of Y...

46 minutes
Feb 19, 2024