The Explorers Podcast

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.

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Society & Culture
1
Roald Amundsen - Part 1 - Early life and the Be...
Amundsen sets his sights on becoming a polar explorer
37 min
2
Hiram Bingham and Machu Picchu - Part 5
We look at the rest of Bingham's life and the true nature of Machu Picchu
32 min
3
Hiram Bingham and Machu Picchu - Part 4
We wrap up the 1911 Yale Peruvian Expedition and look at the 1912, and 1914-15 Expeditions
31 min
4
Hiram Bingham and Machu Picchu - Part 3
Hiram Bingham goes searching for Vitcos and Vilcabamba
30 min
5
Hiram Bingham and Machu Picchu - Part 2
Bingham finds Machu Picchu, but doesn't realize what he has found
29 min
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Explorers Podcast Trailer
Explorers Podcast Trailer
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7
Hiram Bingham and Machu Picchu - Part 1
We look at the history of the Inca, their lost cities, and the younger years of Hiram Bingham
38 min
8
Henry Hudson - Part 3 - the Northwest Passage
Henry Hudson goes looking for the Northwest Passage and never returns
39 min
9
Henry Hudson - Part 2 - The Voyage of the Half ...
Henry Hudson goes searching for the Northwest Passage and finds the Hudson River
43 min
10
Henry Hudson - Part 1 - the Northeast Passage
Henry Hudson goes searching for the Northeast Passage
26 min
11
René Caillié and the Quest for Timbuktu - Part 3
Caillié reaches Timbuktu and must return home
35 min
12
René Caillié and the Quest for Timbuktu - Part 2
Caillié sets off into the back country of West Africa disguised as an Arab traveler.
29 min
13
René Caillié and the Quest for Timbuktu - Part 1
René Caillié attempts to become the first European to reach the legendary city of Timbuktu
27 min
14
Daniel Boone - Part 5 - Missouri and final years
Daniel Boone spends the last 20 years of his life on the frontier of Missouri
38 min
15
Daniel Boone - Part 4 - Frontier Wars
Daniel Boone fights on the frontier during the American Revolution.
42 min
16
Daniel Boone - Part 3 - The American Revolution
Daniel Boone and the settlers of Kentucky try to survive the early years of the American Revolution
35 min
17
Daniel Boone - Part 2 - Kentucky
Daniel Boone explores the lands of Kentucky.
37 min
18
Daniel Boone - Part 1 - Early Life
Daniel Boone grows up on the frontier of North Carolina
37 min
19
Amerigo Vespucci - Part 2
We talk about Vespucci's third voyage to the New World and discuss how his name became attached to two continents.
28 min
20
Amerigo Vespucci - Part 1
We look at the younger years of Vespucci and his first two voyages
33 min
21
Estêvão Cacella and João Cabral and the First E...
Two Jesuit missionaries would become the first Europeans to explore the Himalayas
32 min
22
Jules Dumont d'Urville - Part 7 - the second vo...
d'Urville returns to Antarctica - and then Europe; plus a look at the man's legacy
37 min
23
Jules Dumont d'Urville - Part 6 - the second vo...
d'Urville heads across the Pacific for more exploring
34 min
24
Jules Dumont d'Urville - Part 5 - the second vo...
d'Urville heads off on another round the world voyage
37 min
25
Jules Dumont d'Urville - Part 4 - the first voy...
The first voyage of the Astrolabe continues
36 min