The Explorers Podcast

A podcast by Matt Breen

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204 Episodes

  1. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay and the Conquest of Everest - Part 3/5

    Published: 2/9/2021
  2. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay and the Conquest of Everest - Part 2/5

    Published: 1/26/2021
  3. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay and the Conquest of Everest - Part 1/5

    Published: 1/15/2021
  4. George Mallory and the Assault on Everest - Part 4/4

    Published: 12/31/2020
  5. George Mallory and the Assault on Everest - Part 3/4

    Published: 12/16/2020
  6. George Mallory and the Assault on Everest - Part 2/4

    Published: 12/3/2020
  7. George Mallory and the Assault on Everest - Part 1/4

    Published: 11/19/2020
  8. Marco Polo - Part 5 - The Voyage Home

    Published: 11/5/2020
  9. Marco Polo - Part 4 - The Grand Canal and the City of Heaven

    Published: 10/23/2020
  10. Marco Polo - Part 3 - The Mongol World

    Published: 10/9/2020
  11. Marco Polo - Part 2 - The Silk Road

    Published: 9/28/2020
  12. Marco Polo - Part 1

    Published: 9/10/2020
  13. Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza and the Exploration of Central Africa – Part 4/4 - Administrator and Investigator

    Published: 9/1/2020
  14. Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza and the Exploration of Central Africa – Part 3/4 – The Congo

    Published: 8/14/2020
  15. Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza and the Exploration of Central Africa - Part 2/4 - The Father of Slaves

    Published: 8/4/2020
  16. Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza and the Exploration of Central Africa - Part 1/4

    Published: 7/27/2020
  17. Xu Fu and the Exploration of Japan

    Published: 7/12/2020
  18. The Burke and Wills Expedition – Part 8 – The Fate of John King and the Legacy of the VEE

    Published: 7/6/2020
  19. The Burke and Wills Expedition - Part 7 - The Mount Hopeless Gamble

    Published: 6/23/2020
  20. The Burke and Wills Expedition - Part 6 - The Return

    Published: 6/15/2020

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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.