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Icons: The Greatest Person of the 20th Century Explorers

The four shortlisted explorers.

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    Ernest Shackleton

    Polar explorer and pioneer

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  • Neil Armstrong

    First man on the moon

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  • Gertrude Bell

    The first western woman to map and travel across Arabia

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  • Jane Goodall

    Revolutionised the study of wild chimpanzees

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