Famous Explorers

Can you name these famous explorers?

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Exploration	Hint	Name
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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