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| Name | Nationality | Century | Main area/s explored |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Gordon Laing | Scottish | early 19th | West Africa (Niger River and Timbuktu) |
| Richard Lemon Lander | British | early 19th | West Africa (Niger and Benue Rivers) |
| Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff | Prussian | early 19th | Brazil |
| Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse | French | 18th | Pacific Rim |
| Anthony de la Roché | British | 17th | Antarctica |
| João Fernandes Lavrador | Portuguese | 15th/16th | Labrador |
| Joseph N. LeConte | American | 20th | Sierra Nevada (U.S.) |
| Albert von Le Coq | German | 19th/20th | central Asia |
| John Ledyard | American | 18th | Australasia, Oceania, Russia |
| Miguel López de Legazpi | Spanish | 16th | Philippines |
| Ludwig Leichhardt | Prussian | 19th | Australian interior |
| Jacob Le Maire | Dutch | 17th | South Pacific (Cape Horn, Tonga Islands, Wallis and Futuna) |
| Gaspar de Lemos | Portuguese | 15th | Brazil |
| Dragutin Lerman | Croatian | 19th/20th | Congo |
| Meriwether Lewis | American | 18th/19th | Western United States |
| St. George Littledale | British | 19th | central Asia and North America |
| David Livingstone | British | 19th | southern and eastern Africa |
| Louis-Philippe Loncke | Belgian | 21st | Australia and Iceland |
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