Famous Explorers #5

first to cross South America (by sailing the Amazon)

16th

Spanish

first woman to sail around the world

18th

French

first European to cross the equator

15th

Portuguese

explored the Pacific, Oceania, and Antarctica

19th

French

possibly the first European to see the contiguous US

16th

Venetian

name any: first vertebrate in space / first vertebrate to survive a spaceflight / first animal in orbit / first animal to survive orbit

20th

American | Soviet | Soviet | Soviet

first Norse to settle permanently in Iceland

9th

Norse

Inca conquistador, first European to travel to Chile

16th

Spanish

first European to reach Western Australia

17th

Dutch

co-discovered the Antarctic continent

19th

Russian

first to fly nonstop across an ocean (name any)

20th

British

diplomat and enovy to the world outside China who pioneered the Silk Road

2nd BCE

Chinese

captain of the Beagle and pioneer meteorologist

19th

English

first woman on Mount Everest & the Seven Summits

20th

Japanese

led a scientific circumnavigation that vanished

18th

French

longest time spent on a solo spaceflight

20th

Soviet

woman who travelled extensively through West Africa

19th

British

travelled through Europe, Africa and the Middle East

12th

Jewish

helped Lewis & Clark explore the Louisiana Territory

18th

first to walk the length of the Amazon

20th

British