Everyone loves a good action and adventure movie.
Infact, national treasures is one of my all time favourite movies, hey don’t judge me
okay, but I just love the thrill of people searching and discovering ancient treasure
. However, expeditions like these, aren’t always how the movies make them out to be
Hey everyone, welcome back to most amazing top 10, I’m your host Lindsay Ivan, and
today I will be counting down the Top 10 Explorers who disappeared without a trace.
Starting of at number ten we have Giovanni Caboto
Giovanni Caboto, also known as John Cabot was an Italian navigator and explorer.
In fact, Giovanni Caboto was the first European to reach North America’s coast after the
vikings.
One of his greatest successes is when he declared Cape Bonavista in Newfoundland as part of
the British Empire.
From doing so he received a great deal of fortune.
In 1478 he continued his explorations with a journey towards Northern Canada, with 5
ships.
However, four of his 5 ships were lost forever.
One returned home after they encountered terrible weather, but the whereabouts of the other
4 ships are still unknown.
Sooo anyone want to come scuba diving with me and search for these ships?
Coming in at number 9 we have The Corte-Real Brothers.
Gaspar (gash-par) and Miguel Corte-Real were portuguese brothers part of a noble portugese
family.
In the 1500’s Gaspar (gash-par) and 4 ships went on a quest to Newfoundland with his Brother.
After reaching their location, he sent his brother and three of the ships back home.
Miguel and the other passengers aboard these three ships arrived safely, however it was
not the same fate for Gaspar.
No one knows what happened after his brother and the ships left.
Two years after Gaspar’s disappearance, miguel went on another quest looking for his
brother.
However, he ended up disappearing as well.
Theory is that Miguel might have survived and lived at least 9 more years just chilling
in newfoundland.
In our 8th spot we have George Bass George bass was a British sailor, and fun
fact he became an apprentice surgeon when he was a teen.
Two good skills to have I guess?
Anyway George bass was known for discovering the strait between Australia and Tasmania,
they in fact even named it the Bass Strait after him.
In 1803, Bass decided to sail from Sydney to South America.
His plan was to fill his ship with cargo and illegally sell it in South America.
However, several months passed and there was no word from George.
People believed that he encountered a terrible storm and died in a ship wreck.
Another theory is that he was captured and forced to work in peru in the spanish silver
mines.
No one really knows though, since his ship or body have never been found.
Bringing it in with number 7 we have Naomi uemura (ou-a-mera)
Naomi uemura (ou-a-mera) was known as a legendaryJapanese explorer from his multiple expeditions.
Some include his journey to the highest point in north america, Alaska’s mount mckinley.
He also has done multiple solo journeys including one to the north pole and rafting through
the amazon.
In 1984 Naomi decided to do another solo climb, this time of Antarctica's highest peak, Vinson
Massif.
Naomi successfully reached the top of this mountain, and in fact radioed that he was
on his way down.
He sadly disappeared along the way.
His journal and some of his equipment was found on the mountain, but his body never
was.
People believe that maybe he fell into a crevasse in the mountain, or got buried in the snow.
The last entry from his journey states “ I wish I could sleep in a warm sleeping bag,
no matter what happens i am going to climb Mckinley”.
In our 6th spot we have Jean-francois de Galaup (gal-o)
Jean-Francois de Galaup (gal-o) was an accomplished Sea Captain.
In 1785 French King Louis gave jean-Francois the quest to explore the pacific.
Two ships sailed out for this voyage, with about 225 crew members.
Throughout his travels, which were supposed to last 4 years, he kept detailed records
of his findings, mapping of the coastlines, and observations of any specimen or people
that they meant along the way.
He sent all of his findings back to france.
The last time the ship was spotted was when they arrived in Botany Bay in Australia.
When word from Jean-Francois stopped, a search team was sent out from France to find him.
There were no successful leads until 1826 when the explorer Peter Dillion was exploring
Soloman Island.
He noticed that the residents on this island had European swords.
He thought that these belonged to Jean-Francois.
Theory states that they got ship wrecked near this island, and then were killed by the locals.
We are now at our half way mark with Park Yong-Seok (sew)
For this next explorer, danger should have been his middle name because the expeditions
that he went on were quite unsafe.
Park Yong-Seok was a record setting explorer, who had embarked on numerous dangerous expeditions.
In fact the Annapurna mountain is named the world’s deadliest mountain and he explored
it multiple times.
Man i dont know how he did it because im over here getting scared that im going to slip
on a little of ice on the side walk.
Anyways, in 2011 Park traversed up Annapurna once already, and decided to do it again,
this time finding a new route up it.
The last known communication between him was October 18 when he radioed saying he was returning
back to base.
After that there were no more signs of Park or his team, just his rope that had been buried
in the snow.
Coming in at number 4 we have Percy Fawcett People often compare Percy Fawcett to Indiana
Jones.
This is do to his adventurous treks through the amazon jungle.
Fawcett has been on numerous expeditions and map charting quests all throughout brazil
and bolivia.
Through these treks he believes that there is a lost city which he refers to as Z somewhere
in an unexplored region in Mato Grosso in Brazil.
With this theory, him, his oldest son Jack, and his friend Raleigh, embarked on the journey
to find this city.
However, they disappeared during this journey sometime in 1925.
People believe that they could have died from malaria or getting eaten by jaguars.
Another theory states that maybe they just decided to live among the Jungle for the rest
of their life.
A total of 100 people, maybe even more have died looking for Fawcett and his team.
At number 3 we have Peng Jiamu
Peng Jiamu was a chinese biologist and adventurer.
He is known for his scientific journeys throughout the Lop Nor Desert in Northern China.
Now this Desert is known to be unpredictable, however Peng had already conquered a journey
through the desert once, and had the desire to do it again.
During 1980 him and his team of geologists, biologists, and archaeologists all went into
the Desert to collect new research.
One morning Peng left a note saying he was going to find more water for the troop, yet
he never returned.
I don’t know about you, but I think he must have been one brave man if he decided to split
up from his group like that.
After he went missing the chinese government conducted a huge search to try and locate
him, however this turned up unsuccessful.
Over the course of the years 6 skeletons have surfaced in this desert, however, non being
that of Peng Jiamu.
In our second spot we have Ludwig Leichardt (lei-ch-art)
Ludwig Leichardt (leichart) say his name 10 times fast, wow.
Ludwig Leichardt was a German scientist with a love and passion for Australia.
Just like the previous explorers that I mentioned, Ludwig was not a novice and had done multiple
expeditions before he went missing.
One of his more famous adventures was one that took 18 months while he travelled from
the east coast to the north west of the country, collecting botanical specimens along the way.
However, in 1848 he decided to go on an exploration from Queensland to Western Australia.
With him he had 20 mules, seven men, and seven horses.
Hey I don't know why they needed that many donkeys for 7 men but I guess thats apart
of the mystery as well.
The last sign of his troop was when they were spotted passing McPherson station.
The only remnants of evidence left is a brass plaque attached to ludwig’s burnt gun.
This was found wedged in between a tree whose trunk had the letter “L” carved into it.
It is said that if a more thorough analysis was done on the plate then maybe it would
give us a clue on what happened to him.
And for our number one spot we have Amelia Earhart
Now one little fact about me is that I am terrified of flying, seriously, turbulence
is my worst enemy.
So I applaud Amelia Earhart for being so brave.
Amelia was a well known american aviator, who set numerous flying records.
She is one of the most well known explorers and her disappearance has caused ongoing wonder.
In 1937 Amelia set out with her navigator Fred Noonan to fly around the world.
They were last heard from on July 2 1937, two years later she was declared dead, however
they never found her body.
They just assumed that their plane crashed somewhere in the pacific ocean.
The government did not give up though, and spent 15 years looking for her.
In fact searching for Earhart was the largest and most expensive search in american history.
In 2017 a photograph surfaced which appears to be what looks like Earhart and Noonan alongside
Japanese authorities.
People now speculate that earhart landed in japanese territory and was taken into custody.
However, Japanese authorities denied ever having them in custody, so the mystery continues.
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