List of South Seas researchers
The list is arranged alphabetically by last name.
- Bisschop, Eric de (1891–1958), France, inventor of the modern catamaran
- Bougainville, Louis Antoine de (1729–1811), France, circumnavigator, one of the first to describe the South Seas
- Byron, John (1723–1786), Great Britain
- Carteret, Philipp (1733–1796), Great Britain
- Clerke, Charles (1741–1779), Great Britain, Cook's companion
- Fanning, Edmund (1769-1841) USA
- Finsch, Otto (1839–1917), Germany, ethnologist and ornithologist
- Forster, Johann Reinhold (1729–1798), Germany
- Gore, John (1730–1790), Great Britain, Cook's companion
- Kermadec, Jean Michel Huon de (1748–1793), France
- Kleinschmidt, Theodor (1834–1881), Germany, businessman, traveler, natural scientist in the service of the Godeffroy Museum
- Krämer, Augustin (1865–1941), Germany, founder of ethnology at the University of Tübingen
- Nauer, Karl (1874–1962), Germany, captain
- Parkinson, Richard (1844-1909), Germany, colonist
- Tischner, Herbert (1906–1984), Germany, anthropologist