The Explorers Podcast

A podcast by Matt Breen

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204 Episodes

  1. Jules Dumont d'Urville - Part 5 - the second voyage of the Astrolabe: Antarctica

    Published: 4/8/2024
  2. Jules Dumont d'Urville - Part 4 - the first voyage of the Astrolabe (continued)

    Published: 4/1/2024
  3. Jules Dumont d'Urville - Part 3 - the first voyage of the Astrolabe

    Published: 3/18/2024
  4. Jules Dumont d'Urville - Part 2 - Coquille Expedition

    Published: 3/11/2024
  5. Jules Dumont d’Urville – Part 1 – Early life and the Venus de Milo

    Published: 3/4/2024
  6. Freya Stark - Part 6 - WWII and later years

    Published: 2/26/2024
  7. Freya Stark - Part 5 - Yemen

    Published: 2/19/2024
  8. Freya Stark - Part 4 - Treasure Hunting in Luristan

    Published: 2/12/2024
  9. Freya Stark - Part 3 - The Lost Assassin Fortress and Solomon's Throne

    Published: 2/5/2024
  10. Freya Stark - Part 2 - The Valley of the Assassins

    Published: 1/23/2024
  11. Freya Stark - Part 1 - Early life and the lands of the Druze

    Published: 1/15/2024
  12. Alexander von Humboldt - Part 6 - Legacy

    Published: 1/2/2024
  13. Alexander von Humboldt - Part 5 - Russia

    Published: 12/27/2023
  14. Alexander von Humboldt - Part 4 - Mexico and the United States

    Published: 12/11/2023
  15. Alexander von Humboldt - Part 3 - The Andes Mountains

    Published: 12/5/2023
  16. Alexander von Humboldt - Part 2 - The Orinoco Expedition

    Published: 11/21/2023
  17. Alexander von Humboldt - Part 1

    Published: 11/7/2023
  18. The Opening of Japan

    Published: 10/24/2023
  19. Belgica Expedition - Interview with Author Julian Sancton

    Published: 10/9/2023
  20. Belgica Expedition - Part 5

    Published: 9/28/2023

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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.