Famous Sailors

Can you name these famous mariners from history?

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European who 'discovered' the New World in 1492

Christopher Columbus

Venetian explorer who recorded his travels throughout China during the 13th century

Marco Polo

Royal navy admiral and hero who lost his life on the HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar

Horatio Nelson

Naturalist who sailed the HMS Beagle and famously visited the Galapagos Islands

Charles Darwin

English explorer who sailed the HMS Endeavour and claimed Australia for the British

James Cook

Biblical character who took two of each animal onto an ark and survived the worldwide flood

Noah

Portuguese man who was the first person to circumnavigate the globe

Ferdinand Magellan

British privateer who was the second man to circumnavigate the globe

Francis Drake

Irish Antarctic explorer who led the entire crew of the HMS Endurance to safety after it was crushed by ice

Ernest Shackleton

Norse explorer who is generally considered the first European to reach continental America

Leif Erikson

Portuguese explorer who was the first European to reach India by sea

Vasco da Gama

Elizabethan statesman, namesake of a city in North Carolina, was executed for treason in 1618

Walter Raleigh

Victim of the Mutiny on the HMS Bounty and the Rum Rebellion

William Bligh

Ming Dynasty admiral who commanded seven "treasure voyages" across Asia

Zheng He

Dutchman who discovered Van Diemen's Land and New Zealand among other places

Abel Tasman

He worked for the White Star Line and skippered the doomed RMS Titanic

Edward J. Smith

Scottish-born American Revolutionary War hero who is called the "father of the U.S. Navy"

John Paul Jones

English navigator who is the namesake of the largest bay in Canada and the main river of New York City

Henry Hudson

Pirate more better-known as Blackbeard

Edward Teach

Austro-Hungarian naval officer who refused Nazi service, depicted in The Sound of Music

Georg von Trapp

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