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Name the famous explorers throughout history
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Nationality
Explorer
1) Often credited with "discovering" America but only reached the Bahamas
Genoese
Christopher Columbus
2) His expedition led the first circumnavigation of the globe in 1522
Portuguese
Ferdinand Magellan
3) Norse explorer who first discovered North America, reaching Canada in the 1000s
Icelandic
Leif Erikson
4) His explorations led to the discovery of the NY river and Canadian bay that bear his name
English
Henry Hudson
5) Discovered the first route to India via the Cape of Good Hope to open European trade
Portuguese
Vasco da Gama
6) Led the first European expedition to Puerto Rico and later explored Florida trying to find the legendary Fountain of Youth
Spanish
Ponce De Leon
7) Discovered the Amazon river delta and stated that the Americas were a new continent, not Asia
Florentine
Amerigo Vespucci
8) Introduced European trade to Central Asia/China along the Silk Road and did missions for Kublai Khan
Venetian
Marco Polo
9) Charted the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania and much of the remote Pacific
English
James Cook
10) Explored the area of Virginia, which he named the territory after the Queen. The capital of North Carolina bears his name
English
Walter Raleigh
11) First astronaut to walk on the moon
American
Neil Armstrong
12) Commanded the legendary treasure fleet and explored much of SE Asia, the Middle East and Africa
Chinese
Zheng He
13) His voyages discovered the Azores and much of the West African coastline
Portuguese
Henry the Navigator
14) Landed in "new found land" in Canada, which he claimed for England
Venetian-English
John Cabot
15) Regarded as the discoverer of Brazil when his expedition landed and claimed it for Portugal
Portuguese
Pedro Alvares Cabral
16) His expedition was the first to reach the South Pole in frigid Antarctica
Norwegian
Roald Amundsen
17) She completed the first non stop flight across the Atlantic
American
Amelia Earhart
18) Charted the course to the Pacific across the newly bought Louisiana territory
Americans
Lewis and Clark
19) Explorer who named Venezuela and explored Guyana, Curacao, Columbia and the southern Caribbean
Spanish
Alonso de Ojeda
20) His expeditions mapped Baffin island, Labrador and the strait that bears his name
English
John Davis
21) Spanish conquistador who claimed Mexico for Spain and conquered the Aztecs
Spanish
Hernan Cortes
23) Mapped a significant area from Africa to Asia, bringing Muslim culture into different parts of the world
Moroccan
Ibn Battuta
24) First European to cross Africa from coast to coast and named Victoria Falls, which the town in Zambia bears his name
Scottish
David Livingstone
25) Charted the length of the Congo river and circumnavigated Lake Victoria while searching for the above
Welsh
Henry Morton Stanley
26) His explorations set a new "furthest south" record in the Antarctic, reaching the magnetic Pole, and climbed Mt Erebus
Irish
Ernest Shackleton
27) Mapped the St Lawrence river and gulf and claimed Canada for France
French
Jacques Cartier
28) First European to discover the Mississippi river area and explored much of the American South
Spanish
Hernando De Soto
29) First explorer to reach New Zealand and chart the Fiji and Tongan islands. An Australian island bears his name
Dutch
Abel Tasman
30) First European to reach the legendary city of Timbuktu in Mali
Scottish
Alexander Gordon Laing
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1 Comments
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Jan 15, 2026
British pair John Alcock and Arthur Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic flight. Also, "Henry Stanley" isn't accepted. Liked the quiz apart from that though, and learned some stuff from it.
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