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Great Explorers
What do you know about famous explorers and their discoveries?
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Last updated: January 17, 2023
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| First submitted | December 14, 2022 |
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One of two Americans who led first expedition to cross the western portion of the USA
Founded the first European settlement in Puerto Rico
Discovered a sea route to India
Reached Timbuktu in the early 19th century
Considered the first European to land in North America since the Vikings
Led the infamous Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914
Explored the Siberian far east and Alaska and claimed it for Russia
First European to sail around the Cape of Good Hope
First circumnavigation of the globe in a single expedition after its captain was killed
Discovered America in 1492
Travelled the Silk Road, around Asia and visited China
Berber explorer of Africa, Europe, the Middle East and India for 30 years
Defeated the Aztec Empire and took Mexico in the name of Spain
Conquered the Incas in 1532
Probably the most famous undersea explorer in recent history
First explorer to reach the geographic South Pole
French explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania
First person to conquest the North Pole
First person to have circumnavigated the globe
Explored much of the Pacific including New Zealand, Australia and Hawaii
Norse explorer who founded the first settlement in Greenland
American journalist who travelled around the world in 72 days
One of first two people to ever reach Mount Everest
First European to discover Victoria Falls
First European to reach New Zealand
Carried out the second circumnavigation of the world, between 1577 to 1580
Crossed the Pacific Ocean in a hand built raft the Kon-Tiki
The explorer after whom America was named
Known for his search for the source of the Nile
Explored and claimed what is now Canada for France
Led the lost expedition to the Arctic departing in 1845
Made two trips to search for "El Dorado"
Norse explorer who was the first European to land in North America
Abel Tasman
Amerigo Vespucci
Bartolomeu Dias
Christopher Columbus
David Livingstone
Edmund Hillary
Erik the Red
Ernest Shackleton
Ferdinand Magellan
Francis Drake
Francisco Pizarro
Gordon Laing
Henry Stanley
Hernan Cortes
Ibn Battuta
Jacques Cartier
Jacques Cousteau
James Cook
Jean François La Pérouse
John Cabot
John Franklin
Juan Ponce de León
Juan S. Elcano
Leif Ericson
Marco Polo
Nellie Bly
Roald Amundsen
Robert Peary
Sir Walter Raleigh
Thor Heyerdahl
Vasco da Gama
Vitus Bering
William Clark
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