Famous Explorers

Can you name these famous explorers?

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1271-1295

Venetian merchant and scholar who became a subject of Kublai Khan

Marco Polo

1325-1353

Moroccan scholar who travelled to Europe, China and West Africa

Ibn Battuta

1405-1433

Chinese mariner who sailed to Arabia and East Africa

Zheng He

1487-1488

Portuguese mariner who sailed passed the Cape of Good Hope

Bartolomeu Dias

1492-1504

Italian navigator who "discovered" and sailed four times to America

Christopher Columbus

1497-1504

Italian navigator who mapped America and named it a new continent

Amerigo Vespucci

1497-1524

Portuguese explorer who first travelled to India by sea

Vasco da Gama

1519-1521

Spanish explorer who conducted the first circumnavigation of the globe

Ferdinand Magellan

1534-1542

French explorer who travelled to America and gave Canada its name

Jacques Cartier

1577-1596

English explorer who beat Spain and colonized part of the Pacific coast

Francis Drake

1642-1644

Dutch seafarer who reached New Zealand, Fiji and Tasmania

Abel Tasman

1728-1741

Danish cartographer who explored the seas of northeast Russia

Vitus Bering

1768-1779

British navigator who first traveled to Australia and Hawaii

James Cook

1841-1873

British explorer who travelled to Africa and explored various rivers

David Livingstone

1903-1911

Norwegian explorer who was the first to reach the South Pole

Roald Amundsen

1901-1912

British explorer who led two expeditions to Antarctica

Robert Falcon Scott

1953-1958

New Zealand mountaineer who first summited Mount Everest

Edmund Hillary

1961-1964

Soviet astronaut who was the first man to go to outer space

Yuri Gagarin

1969-1971

American astronaut who was the first man to walk on the moon

Neil Armstrong

1950-1974

French conservationist who studied the sea and marine life

Jacques Cousteau

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