List of Romanian explorers

Explorers

  • Sever Pleniceanu (18671924) 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.
  • Bazil Assan (18601918) from 1896 to 1897 he travelled and studied Lapland, the Arctic, 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.
  • Grigoriu Ştefănescu (18361911) 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 (18981935) 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 (18481933)
  • Teodor Negoiţă (born 1947) polar-region explorer who, in 1995, became the first Romanian explorer who reached the North Pole; he runs the first permanent Romanian research-and-exploration station in Antarctica, the Law-Racoviţă Station, which he established in 2006.

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

References

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