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.

Edward Morgan, adventurer with a Welsh connection!

Edward Morgan In 1665, when war had been declared on holland, the governor of jamaica issued commissions to several pirates and buccaneers, morgan was one of them.

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Charles Franklyn, adventurer with a connection to Wales (Monmouthshire)

Charles Franklyn Sailing with captain Davis in the west Indies.

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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, pirate

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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.

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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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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).

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