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Famous Explorers
Explorers of history and where they went.
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- Christopher ColumbusExplorerSailed from Spain across the Atlantic in 1492 and reached the Caribbean
- Ferdinand MagellanExplorerLed the first voyage around the world (1519-1522); he died on the way
- Marco PoloExplorerVenetian merchant who traveled to China in the 1200s
- Leif EriksonExplorerViking who reached North America about 1000 CE
- Vasco da GamaExplorerSailed from Portugal around Africa to India (1498)
- Zheng HeExplorerChinese admiral who led huge treasure fleets in the early 1400s
- Ibn BattutaExplorerMoroccan traveler who journeyed across much of the known world in the 1300s
- James CookExplorerBritish captain who mapped the Pacific in the 1700s
- Lewis and ClarkExplorerLed an expedition across the western United States (1804-1806)
- SacagaweaExplorerShoshone woman who guided and helped the Lewis and Clark expedition
- Roald AmundsenExplorerLed the first team to reach the South Pole (1911)
- Robert Falcon ScottExplorerBritish explorer who reached the South Pole in 1912, just after Amundsen
- Ernest ShackletonExplorerLed a famous Antarctic expedition where his whole crew survived
- Edmund HillaryExplorerWith Tenzing Norgay, first to climb Mount Everest (1953)
- Tenzing NorgayExplorerSherpa who summited Everest with Hillary
- Neil ArmstrongExplorerFirst person on the Moon (1969)
- Yuri GagarinExplorerFirst person in space (1961)
- Amelia EarhartExplorerFirst woman to fly solo across the Atlantic (1932)
- Charles LindberghExplorerFirst solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic (1927)
- Henry HudsonExplorerExplored the river and bay in North America named for him
- Jacques CartierExplorerFrench explorer of the St. Lawrence River (1530s)
- Samuel de ChamplainExplorerExplored and founded Quebec (1608)
- Hernan CortesExplorerSpanish conquistador who invaded the Aztec Empire (1519)
- Francisco PizarroExplorerSpanish conquistador who invaded the Inca Empire
- Juan Ponce de LeonExplorerSpanish explorer who reached Florida (1513)
- Hernando de SotoExplorerSpanish explorer in the American Southeast
- Francisco CoronadoExplorerSpanish explorer in the American Southwest
- Amerigo VespucciExplorerItalian explorer whose first name was used for America
- Bartolomeu DiasExplorerFirst European sailor to round the southern tip of Africa (1488)
- Prince Henry the NavigatorExplorerPortuguese prince who backed ocean exploration
- John CabotExplorerItalian explorer who reached North America in 1497 for England
- Sir Francis DrakeExplorerEnglish sea captain who sailed around the world (1577-1580)
- Abel TasmanExplorerDutch explorer who found Tasmania and New Zealand (1642)
- David LivingstoneExplorerScottish explorer of Africa in the 1800s
- Mungo ParkExplorerScottish explorer of the Niger River
- Matthew HensonExplorerAfrican American explorer who reached the North Pole area with Peary (1909)
- Robert PearyExplorerAmerican explorer who led the 1909 Arctic expedition
- Jacques CousteauExplorerFrench ocean explorer and filmmaker
- Daniel BooneExplorerAmerican frontiersman who helped open Kentucky
- Zebulon PikeExplorerAmerican explorer in the Rocky Mountains; Pikes Peak is named for him
- John Wesley PowellExplorerLed a river trip through the Grand Canyon in 1869
- Alexander von HumboldtExplorerGerman scientist-explorer in South America
- Sally RideExplorerFirst American woman in space (1983)
- Alan ShepardExplorerFirst American in space (1961)
- John GlennExplorerFirst American to orbit the Earth (1962)
- Samuel HearneExplorerEnglish explorer of northern Canada
- PytheasExplorerGreek explorer who sailed to the far north about 325 BCE
- Erik the RedExplorerViking who founded settlements in Greenland
- Hanno the NavigatorExplorerCarthaginian sailor who explored Africa's west coast
- Jedediah SmithExplorerAmerican trapper who explored routes across the West
- Fridtjof NansenExplorerNorwegian polar explorer
- Thor HeyerdahlExplorerSailed a raft, the Kon-Tiki, across the Pacific in 1947
- Gertrude BellExplorerBritish traveler and writer in the Middle East
- Mary KingsleyExplorerBritish traveler who explored West Africa in the 1890s
- Nellie BlyExplorerJournalist who raced around the world in 72 days (1889-1890)
- Annie LondonderryExplorerCyclist who traveled around the world in 1894-1895
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