Explorers
- 54 Alexandra (Alexander von Humboldt, naturalist and explorer)
- 327 Columbia (Christopher Columbus)
- 853 Nansenia (Fridtjof Nansen, polar explorer)
- 876 Scott (Robert Falcon Scott, polar explorer)
- 1065 Amundsenia (Roald Amundsen, polar explorer)
- 2473 Heyerdahl (Thor Heyerdahl, explorer and writer)
- 2785 Sedov (Georgy Sedov, Arctic explorer)
- 3130 Hillary (Edmund Hillary, mountaineer )
- 3357 Tolstikov (Yevgeny Tolstikov, polar explorer)
- 4055 Magellan (Ferdinand Magellan, circumnavigator)
- 6481 Tenzing (Tenzing Norgay, Sherpa )
- 6542 Jacquescousteau (Jacques-Yves Cousteau, marine explorer)
- 8291 Bingham (Hiram Bingham III, explorer)
- 15425 Welzl (Jan Welzl, Arctic explorer)
- 43806 Augustepiccard (Auguste Piccard, explorer)
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“The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear the atmosphere of smoke.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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