Moncacht-Apé's travelogue was known to later European and American explorers through Le Page's book.

Other places were given Dutch names by later explorers or colonists in honour of the Dutch.

These later explorers, who were probably traders, prospectors, and slavers, left no written records mentioning the river.

Like later European explorers, they named things after themselves, their family-members and events that occurred at the newly-discovered location.

Many of these later explorers were original members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition who had returned to map and explore the area in greater detail.

Another group of later explorers only mentioned the Nahukuá in passing, speculating about the origins of the Nahukuá people.

The other name, native well is, as a later explorer David Carnegie, author of Spinifex and Sand (1898), points out, a misnomer.

The Report contains an early account of the Native American population encountered by the expedition; it proved very influential upon later English explorers and colonists.

No permanent settlements are known to have existed, but occasional villages close to the river were documented by later explorers.

Smith was a later explorer of the coastline.