Today's focus is on looking at famous explorers. Per wkitree.com I am:

12 degrees from Louis Jolliet
17 degrees from Thomas Batte
28 degrees from Vitus Bering
20 degrees from Gregory Blaxland
25 degrees from Christopher Colombo
22 degrees from Arthur Dobson
20 degrees from Thor Heyerdahl
20 degrees from Josephine Peary
23 degrees from Wilhelm Rickmers
21 degrees from Hester Stanhope
18 degrees from David Thompson
24 degrees from Hubert Wilkins

More about them:

Louis Jolliet, who mapped much of the Mississippi River.

Thomas Batte, one of the first Anglo-Virginians to explore west of the Appalachian
Mountains.

Vitus Bering, Danish cartographer and explorer and an officer of the Russian Navy.

Gregory Blaxland, English pioneer farmer and explorer in Australia, noted for the first
successful crossing of the Blue Mountains by European settlers.

Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer who opened the door for European colonization
of the Americas.

Arthur Dobson, New Zealand surveyor, engineer and explorer, best known for taking the
first party of Europeans over Arthur's Pass.

Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in zoology,
botany, and geography. He is considered the founder of experimental archaeology.

Josephine Peary, Arctic explorer, author, and the first white woman to take part in Arctic
expeditions.

Willi Rickmers, German alpinist, skiing pioneer and explorer. In particular, he was the
leader of an international expedition to the Pamir mountain ranges of Central Asia.

Lady Hester Stanhope, one of the most famous travelers (and travel writers) of her age.

David Thompson, trader, surveyor, and cartographer in Canada and the United States.
Over the course of his lifetime he would end up traveling more than 50,000 miles.

Sir Hubert Wilkins, an Australian polar explorer, ornithologist, pilot, soldier, geographer
and photographer.

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Indian chiefs, pro hockey players, singers and musicians, painters, physicians,
politicians, poets, popes, writers, WW I heroes. I guess that I am a collection of
all of them, as we ALL are.

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