List of South Africans - Travelers, Adventurers and Pioneers

Travelers, Adventurers and Pioneers

• Alexander Biggar, colonial pioneer (1781–1838)
• William John Burchell, naturalist traveler (1781–1863)
• Francisco de Almeida, adventurer buried in Cape Town (c. 1450–1510)
• Bartolomeu Dias, explorer who reached eastern Cape (c. 1450–1500)
• John Dunn, colonial pioneer (1833–1895)
• Robert Jacob Gordon, explorer, soldier, naturalist (1743–1795)
• Emil Holub, explorer (1847–1902)
• Nathaniel Isaacs, Natal traveler (1808–1872)
• Dick King, colonial pioneer (1813–1871)
• François Levaillant, Cape naturalist traveler (1753–1824)
• Karl Mauch, traveling geologist (1873–1875)
• Harriet A. Roche, Transvaal traveler (1835–1921)
• Carl Peter Thunberg, Cape naturalist traveler (1743–1828)
• Sibusiso Vilane, first black African to summit Mount Everest (born 1970)
• Kingsley Holgate, traveler and pioneer
• Mike Horn, explorer, traveler, environmentalist, adventurer