People & stories

Behind every view there are people: warlords who founded cities, exiled poets, architects who gave their lives to a single church. Here are 162 historical figures linked to our destinations and 1161 local stories. History and folk legend are labelled separately, and every story has a source.

冰岛

Viking Age · c. 940–?

Thorgeir

Lawspeaker of the Icelandic parliament

1 related places

1179–1241

Snorri Sturluson

1179–1241, Icelandic historian, poet, and politician, principal compiler of the *Prose Edda* and *Heimskringla* (*Lives of the Norwegian Kings*).

Viking Age · 9th century

Ingólfur Arnarson

Iceland's first permanent settler

1 related places

格陵兰

1686–1758

Hans Egede, full name Hans Poulsen Egede

1686–1758, Norwegian–Danish Lutheran missionary, known as the "Apostle of Greenland" and founder of Nuuk.

1879–1933

Knud Rasmussen, full name Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen, Greenlandic name Kunuunnguaq

1879–1933, Greenlandic–Danish polar explorer and anthropologist, known as the "father of Eskimo studies".

帕劳

11 February 1926–1 July 1999

Roman Tmetuchl

20th-century Palauan politician and entrepreneur, one of the main promoters of Palau's separation from the other districts of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands to seek self-government on its own.

1981–1985

Haruo Remeliik, full name Haruo Ignacio Remeliik

First President of Palau (1981–1985), a key figure in Palau's constitution-making and transition to independence.

法属波利尼西亚

1753–1803

Pōmare I, full name Tū-nui-ʻēʻa-i-te-atua-i-Tarahoi Vairaʻatoa Taina Pōmare I, also known as Tū

c. 1753–1803, unifier of Tahiti and first king (reigned 1788–1791, regent after abdication until 1803), founder of the Pōmare dynasty.

1813–1877

Pōmare IV, full name ʻAimata Pōmare IV Vahine-o-Punuateraʻitua

1813–1877, Queen of Tahiti (reigned 1827–1877 for fifty years), the longest-reigning monarch of the Pōmare dynasty.

斐济

1815–1883

Ratu Seru Epenisa Cakobau

c. 1815–1883, paramount chief of Bau, Fiji, and King of Fiji (Tui Viti, 1871–1874), the decision-maker who ceded Fiji to Britain.

1920–2004

Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara

1920–2004, Fiji's first prime minister (1970–1987, with an interruption) and later president (1993–2000), hailed as the father of modern Fiji.