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.

History
Education
Society & Culture
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Ernest Shackleton - Part 3 - 1903-1907
Shackleton become a public figure even as Antarctica beckons
41 min
102
Ernest Shackleton - Part 2 - The Discovery Expe...
Shackleton takes part in the 1901 Discovery Expedition
62 min
103
Ernest Shackleton - Part 1 - Early Years
The early life of Shackleton and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration
36 min
104
Alvise Cadamosto in the Age of Henry
Alvise Cadamosto explores the west coast of Africa and discovers the Cape Verde Islands
31 min
105
Henry the Navigator - Part 3/3
The explorations and legacy of Prince Henry of Portugal
26 min
106
Henry the Navigator - Part 2/3
Henry's captains continue to explore down the African coast; Henry tries to take Tangier
28 min
107
Henry the Navigator - Part 1/3
The early life of Prince Henry and the discoveries of the Madeira Islands and the Azores
26 min
108
Andrés de Urdaneta and the Manila Galleons
Explorer Andrés de Urdaneta maps the route from the Far East to the New World
31 min
109
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay and the Conqu...
The world for Hillary and Tenzing after the 1953 summit of Everest
47 min
110
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay and the Conqu...
Hillary and Tenzing make their assault on the summit of Everest
43 min
111
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay and the Conqu...
The 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition begins
35 min
112
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay and the Conqu...
The life of Tenzing Norgay and the world of the Sherpas
37 min
113
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay and the Conqu...
A background on Edmund Hillary
31 min
114
George Mallory and the Assault on Everest - Par...
Mallory and Irvine make one final try on the summit of Everest
41 min
115
George Mallory and the Assault on Everest - Par...
The 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition
30 min
116
George Mallory and the Assault on Everest - Par...
The 1922 British Mount Everest Expedition
37 min
117
George Mallory and the Assault on Everest - Par...
In 1921, British mountaineer George Mallory would be the lead climber with the British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition
35 min
118
Marco Polo - Part 5 - The Voyage Home
The Polos head home - completing a 24-year, 15,000+ mile journey.
35 min
119
Marco Polo - Part 4 - The Grand Canal and the C...
Marco Polo heads down the Grand Canal to the legendary City of Heaven
30 min
120
Marco Polo - Part 3 - The Mongol World
The Mongol World and Marco's first expedition across China
29 min
121
Marco Polo - Part 2 - The Silk Road
Marco Polo and his family travel the Silk Road to reach the court of the legendary Kublai Khan
30 min
122
Marco Polo - Part 1
Marco's father and uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo Polo, visit Kublai Khan and prepare for another journey east
22 min
123
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza and the Exploration ...
Brazza returns to Africa as an administrator - and investigator
42 min
124
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza and the Exploration ...
Brazza returns to Africa where he will establish an outpost on the great Congo River
31 min
125
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza and the Exploration ...
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza conducts his first expedition up the Ogowe River
33 min