List of Romanian explorers

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A list of

Explorers

• Qing China
  , returning to Romania in 1678.
• zoological specimens for the Natural History Museum in Bucharest
  .
• Prince Nicolas Ghika-Comanesti — son of Dimitrie Ghica-Comănești, with whom, from 1894 to 1895, he explored the interior of British Somaliland; on his own, he made voyages to Northern Africa and the Sahara in 1899, and to Canada and Alaska (Kodiak Island) in 1910.
• Julius Popper (1857–1893) — engineer and adventurer, extremely lucky gold seeker, he studied the extremity of South America (Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego).
• Batak and eastern Papua New Guinea) collecting specimens of plants and animals for the Romanian National Natural History Museum
  .
• Mihai Tican-Rumano — son of a small-town lumberjack, an adventurer, hunter, globetrotter and writer, he traveled to central East Africa in 1925, where he hunted and studied cannibalism first hand.
• Emil Racoviţă or Racovitza (1868–1947) — he traveled to Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, but most notably he is remembered for his research in Antarctica on board the ship Belgica; he was one of the world's foremost cave explorers, and the international founder for the science of biospelology
  (study of life in caves).

• Sever Pleniceanu (1867–1924) — doctor, officer and cartographer, he went deep into the interior of the Congo for three years, contracted by the Belgian colonial army; studied equatorial forest pygmy tribes.
• Spitzbergen, discovering new islands; he later voyaged fully around the world and on his return, with the King of Romania's permission, boarded the NMS Elisabeta warship and took possession of certain unclaimed islands in the Pacific for Romania, but the project fell short for financial reasons.^{[citation needed}
  ]
• Grigoriu Ştefănescu (1836–1911) — geologist, mineralogist and paleontologist, he was mainly interested in volcanoes; at the end of the 19th century, he researched such places as Yellowstone, Mexico, Caucasus, Siberia, Lake Baikal, Scandinavia and wrote eleven books.
• Dumbravă Constantin (1898–1935) — explorer of Greenland, he led a ten-month expedition, in 1928, in Angmassalik region; in 1930 into 1931, he crossed the entire island and studied the Greenlandic Inuit.
• Contantin Chiru (1848–1933)
• polar-region explorer who, in 1995, became the first Romanian explorer who reached the North Pole; he ran the first permanent Romanian research-and-exploration station in Antarctica, the Law-Racoviță-Negoiță Station
  , which he established in 2006. Originally named Law-Racoviță Station, his name was added in 2011 in his honor after his death.

List of explorers born in Transylvania, Romania, but of other heritage than Romanian

• Hungarian origin, he led the first European expedition in northern Kenya —discovering Lake Rudolf (now called Lake Turkana) — then Tanzania and Ethiopia; he was the first man to attempt climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, up to 5,300 feet (1,600 metres), and Mount Kenya
  , up to 4,300 feet (1,300 metres).
• Hungarian origin, he made discoveries in the field of paleontology regarding dinosaurs
  in Europe.
• royal court
  ; he also made studies of the gorillas; he is little-known as minimal literature has been preserved on him.
• Florence Baker or Florica Sas (1826–1913) — of Hungarian (Szekely) origin, the wife of Sir Samuel White Baker, she was active with her expedition-leader husband in Africa as a full participant.

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