{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/fun-famous-explorers",
 "id": "fun-famous-explorers",
 "title": "Famous Explorers",
 "category": "trivia-fun",
 "subject": "People",
 "levels": [
  "3-5",
  "6-8",
  "9-12"
 ],
 "description": "Explorers of history and where they went.",
 "tags": [
  "explorers",
  "history",
  "people"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Explorer",
 "backLabel": "Known for",
 "cards": [
  [
   "Christopher Columbus",
   "Sailed from Spain across the Atlantic in 1492 and reached the Caribbean"
  ],
  [
   "Ferdinand Magellan",
   "Led the first voyage around the world (1519-1522); he died on the way"
  ],
  [
   "Marco Polo",
   "Venetian merchant who traveled to China in the 1200s"
  ],
  [
   "Leif Erikson",
   "Viking who reached North America about 1000 CE"
  ],
  [
   "Vasco da Gama",
   "Sailed from Portugal around Africa to India (1498)"
  ],
  [
   "Zheng He",
   "Chinese admiral who led huge treasure fleets in the early 1400s"
  ],
  [
   "Ibn Battuta",
   "Moroccan traveler who journeyed across much of the known world in the 1300s"
  ],
  [
   "James Cook",
   "British captain who mapped the Pacific in the 1700s"
  ],
  [
   "Lewis and Clark",
   "Led an expedition across the western United States (1804-1806)"
  ],
  [
   "Sacagawea",
   "Shoshone woman who guided and helped the Lewis and Clark expedition"
  ],
  [
   "Roald Amundsen",
   "Led the first team to reach the South Pole (1911)"
  ],
  [
   "Robert Falcon Scott",
   "British explorer who reached the South Pole in 1912, just after Amundsen"
  ],
  [
   "Ernest Shackleton",
   "Led a famous Antarctic expedition where his whole crew survived"
  ],
  [
   "Edmund Hillary",
   "With Tenzing Norgay, first to climb Mount Everest (1953)"
  ],
  [
   "Tenzing Norgay",
   "Sherpa who summited Everest with Hillary"
  ],
  [
   "Neil Armstrong",
   "First person on the Moon (1969)"
  ],
  [
   "Yuri Gagarin",
   "First person in space (1961)"
  ],
  [
   "Amelia Earhart",
   "First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic (1932)"
  ],
  [
   "Charles Lindbergh",
   "First solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic (1927)"
  ],
  [
   "Henry Hudson",
   "Explored the river and bay in North America named for him"
  ],
  [
   "Jacques Cartier",
   "French explorer of the St. Lawrence River (1530s)"
  ],
  [
   "Samuel de Champlain",
   "Explored and founded Quebec (1608)"
  ],
  [
   "Hernan Cortes",
   "Spanish conquistador who invaded the Aztec Empire (1519)"
  ],
  [
   "Francisco Pizarro",
   "Spanish conquistador who invaded the Inca Empire"
  ],
  [
   "Juan Ponce de Leon",
   "Spanish explorer who reached Florida (1513)"
  ],
  [
   "Hernando de Soto",
   "Spanish explorer in the American Southeast"
  ],
  [
   "Francisco Coronado",
   "Spanish explorer in the American Southwest"
  ],
  [
   "Amerigo Vespucci",
   "Italian explorer whose first name was used for America"
  ],
  [
   "Bartolomeu Dias",
   "First European sailor to round the southern tip of Africa (1488)"
  ],
  [
   "Prince Henry the Navigator",
   "Portuguese prince who backed ocean exploration"
  ],
  [
   "John Cabot",
   "Italian explorer who reached North America in 1497 for England"
  ],
  [
   "Sir Francis Drake",
   "English sea captain who sailed around the world (1577-1580)"
  ],
  [
   "Abel Tasman",
   "Dutch explorer who found Tasmania and New Zealand (1642)"
  ],
  [
   "David Livingstone",
   "Scottish explorer of Africa in the 1800s"
  ],
  [
   "Mungo Park",
   "Scottish explorer of the Niger River"
  ],
  [
   "Matthew Henson",
   "African American explorer who reached the North Pole area with Peary (1909)"
  ],
  [
   "Robert Peary",
   "American explorer who led the 1909 Arctic expedition"
  ],
  [
   "Jacques Cousteau",
   "French ocean explorer and filmmaker"
  ],
  [
   "Daniel Boone",
   "American frontiersman who helped open Kentucky"
  ],
  [
   "Zebulon Pike",
   "American explorer in the Rocky Mountains; Pikes Peak is named for him"
  ],
  [
   "John Wesley Powell",
   "Led a river trip through the Grand Canyon in 1869"
  ],
  [
   "Alexander von Humboldt",
   "German scientist-explorer in South America"
  ],
  [
   "Sally Ride",
   "First American woman in space (1983)"
  ],
  [
   "Alan Shepard",
   "First American in space (1961)"
  ],
  [
   "John Glenn",
   "First American to orbit the Earth (1962)"
  ],
  [
   "Samuel Hearne",
   "English explorer of northern Canada"
  ],
  [
   "Pytheas",
   "Greek explorer who sailed to the far north about 325 BCE"
  ],
  [
   "Erik the Red",
   "Viking who founded settlements in Greenland"
  ],
  [
   "Hanno the Navigator",
   "Carthaginian sailor who explored Africa's west coast"
  ],
  [
   "Jedediah Smith",
   "American trapper who explored routes across the West"
  ],
  [
   "Fridtjof Nansen",
   "Norwegian polar explorer"
  ],
  [
   "Thor Heyerdahl",
   "Sailed a raft, the Kon-Tiki, across the Pacific in 1947"
  ],
  [
   "Gertrude Bell",
   "British traveler and writer in the Middle East"
  ],
  [
   "Mary Kingsley",
   "British traveler who explored West Africa in the 1890s"
  ],
  [
   "Nellie Bly",
   "Journalist who raced around the world in 72 days (1889-1890)"
  ],
  [
   "Annie Londonderry",
   "Cyclist who traveled around the world in 1894-1895"
  ]
 ]
}