Adventurers: Explorers, Pirates, Map Makers

This part of our website includes allsorts of interesting people from Welsh Pirates like Black Bart to explorers and cartographers (map makers) to magnificent hero's like Harold Lowe. True one would expect nearly all of these people to be historical personalities but there are adventures with a Welsh connection alive and well and doing their best to open frontiers today, even in space with NASA astronaut Joe Tanner.

St.Patrick educated and adventurous, changed his world.

Saint Patrick After six years of slavery he escaped to Gaul (France), became a Christian and went back to Ireland to convert them to Christianity.

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Howel Davis, adventurer linked to Milford Haven, West Wales

Howel Davis Davis proved himself an enterprising and successful pirate chief, but preferred, whenever possible, to use strategy and cunning rather than force to gain his ends.

Pembrokeshire, Milford Haven

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Sir Charles Evans, Everest expedition commander and Bangor, Wales

Sir Charles Evans Second in command of the Everest expedition of 1953. Was in fact the first choice for accent to the summit but was defeated by bad weather. Had he done so, he would have achieved all the fame that Edmund Hillary received. In 1955 he led the Khan Chen Junga expedition.

Bangor

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David Thompson, adventurer with a Welsh connection!

David Thompson The man who measured Canada! This prodigious explorer surveyed most of the Canadian - US border during the early days of the country. Covering 80,000 miles on foot, dog sled, horseback and canoe some two hundred years ago. He defined one-fifth of the North American continent.

Canada

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John Evans, adventurer linked to Gwynedd, Wales

John Evans Led the first expeditions along the upper Missouri River in the late eighteenth century. Before Lewis and Clark crossed the continent for the first time in 1806, Evans had progressed furthest into Continental America (as far present-day North Dakota).

Gwynedd

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