The Explorers Podcast
The Explorers Podcast is about the greatest explorers and explorations in history.
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Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza and the Exploration ...
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza conducts his first expedition up the Ogowe River
33 min
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Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza and the Exploration ...
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza and the Exploration of Central Africa
27 min
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Xu Fu and the Exploration of Japan
Chinese explorer and alchemist Xu Fu goes searching for the elixir of life.
14 min
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The Burke and Wills Expedition – Part 8 – The F...
The fate of John King is reveals, and the legacy of the VEE is discussed
55 min
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The Burke and Wills Expedition - Part 7 - The M...
Burke makes the risky decision to try and cut across country to Mount Hopeless
31 min
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The Burke and Wills Expedition - Part 6 - The R...
Robert Burke has crossed Australia, and now must make the return journey across the continent.
27 min
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The Burke and Wills Expedition - Part 5 - Acros...
Robert Burke leads a small contingent of men into the outback of Australia in an attempt to reach reach the north coast
29 min
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The Burke and Wills Expedition - Part 4 - Coope...
Burke and Wills trek from Menindee to Cooper's Creek - then prepare to strike out for the north coast of Australia
40 min
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The Burke and Wills Expedition - Part 3 - Menindee
The Victorian Exploring Expedition travels from Melbourne to the frontier outpost of Menindee on the Darling River.
33 min
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The Burke and Wills Expedition - Part 2 - Prepa...
The Exploration Committee and Robert Burke hire men and outfit the expedition for its epic journey across Australia
29 min
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The Burke and Wills Expedition - Part 1 - Austr...
The first episode in the Burke and Wills Expedition series provides some background to the endeavor, and introduces the Royal Society of Victoria and Robert Burke
34 min
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Hanno the Navigator
Hanno the Navigator of Carthage and the exploration of the west coast of Africa
24 min
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Vladimir Atlasov and the Exploration of Kamchatka
Cossack Vladimir Atlasov explores the Kamchatka Peninsula in the late 1690s - claiming it for the Russian Empire
27 min
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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
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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
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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
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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