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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Hernán Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico – Part 8
In part 8, we wrap up the series on Cortés and the conquest of the Aztec Empire
32 min
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Hernán Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico – Part 7
The siege of Tenochtitlan
32 min
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Hernán Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico – Part 6
In the wake of his defeat at Tenochtitlan, Cortés must fend off the Aztecs, and the plot his revenge
28 min
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Hernán Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico – Part 5
Hernán Cortés must deal with threats from the recently arrived Panfilo de Narvaez, and an uprising in Tenochtitlan.
30 min
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Hernán Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico - Part 4
Cortés comes face-to-face with the Emperor Montezuma
28 min
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Hernán Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico - Part 3
Cortés and his army march west in their quest to reach the capital of the Aztec empire
29 min
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Hernán Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico - Part 2
Cortés finds allies and establishes the first settlement in New Spain while coming into contact with the mysterious Aztec Empire
35 min
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Hernán Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico - Part 1
Hernán Cortés leads an army to Mexico to seek out the mighty empire to the west
31 min
159
The Lost Franklin Expedition - Part 2
The Franklin Expedition disappears in the Canadian Arctic while trying to find the Northwest Passage
38 min
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The Lost Franklin Expedition - Part 1
Sir John Franklin leads two ships into the Arctic in search of the fabled Northwest Passage
27 min
161
Apollo 11 - The Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong, ...
Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin set off in Apollo 11 for the first lunar landing in history
26 min
162
Francis Drake - Part 6 - The Spanish Armada and...
Francis Drake leads the fight against Spain, including Singeing the King of Spain's Beard, and the Spanish Armada
47 min
163
Francis Drake - Part 5 - Across the Pacific and...
Francis Drake and Golden Hind head across the Pacific to the Spice Islands, before rounding the tip of Africa and returning to England
27 min
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Francis Drake - Part 4 - War in the Pacific
Francis Drake passes through the Strait of Magellan and proceeds to attack the Spanish on the western coast of the Americas.
27 min
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Francis Drake - Part 3 - The Journey Around the...
Francis Drake begins his circumnavigation of the globe, traveling toward the Strait of Magellan.
34 min
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Francis Drake - Part 2 - Terror of the Spanish ...
Francis Drake conducts three expeditions to the Caribbean, becoming the most hated main the Spanish Empire.
46 min
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Francis Drake - Part 1 - The Early Years
The early years of Francis Drake, including his voyages with John Hawkins
38 min
168
Diogo Cão and the Exploration of West Africa
Portuguese explorer Diogo Cão travels down the coast of west Africa in the 1480s, becoming the first European to discover the Congo River, and setting the stage for others to round the tip of the continent.
29 min
169
Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery - Pa...
See what happened to Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery after the conclusion of their epic trek
73 min
170
Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery - Pa...
The Corps heads out of the Rockies and down the Missouri - the last leg of their epic journey.
33 min
171
Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery - Pa...
Lewis and Clark lead the Corps east - up the Columbia River and over the Rocky Mountains
29 min
172
Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery - Pa...
Lewis and Clark fight their way across the Rocky Mountains and make for the Pacific Coast
33 min
173
Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery - Pa...
Lewis and Clark struggle up the Missouri River and find that there is no easy route over the Rocky Mountains
37 min
174
Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery – Pa...
In the late summer and fall of 1804, Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery head into the lands of the powerful Sioux nation, aiming to reach the Mandan Villages, located near modern-day Bismarck, North Dakota.
41 min
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Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery - Pa...
In this episode, Lewis and Clark head up the Missouri River in the spring of 1804.
37 min