Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

The enigmatic designer and commander of the submarine Nautilus, who keeps his guests aboard and his past hidden.

A French natural scientist and the narrator, whose curiosity about the sea binds him to the Nautilus voyage.

Aronnax's devoted Flemish servant, steeped in the classification of living things.

A Canadian harpooner with no equal in his trade, who joins Aronnax's expedition and chafes at life aboard the Nautilus.

The U.S. Navy officer commanding the frigate Abraham Lincoln, sent to hunt the supposed sea monster.