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Amundsen, Roald (4)
Boone, Daniel (13)
Byrd, Richard (3)
Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nuñez (5)
Cabot, John (5)
Cartier, Jacques (3)
Champlain, Samuel de (4)
Columbus, Christopher (18)
Cook, James (12)
Coronado, Francisco Vázquez de (5)
Cortés, Hernán (5)
Da Gama, Vasco (5)
De Soto, Hernando (4)
Drake, Sir Francis (5)

Ericson, Leif (6)
Frémont, John Charles (2)
Henry the Navigator (5)
Henson, Matthew (3)
Heyerdahl, Thor (13)
Hillary, Sir Edmund (5)
Hudson, Henry (4)
Ibn Batuta (2)
Joliet, Louis (1)
La Salle, Robert Cavelier (5)
Leo, Africanus (1)
Lewis and Clark (22)
Livingston, David (5)
Magellan, Ferdinand (8)

Marquette, Jacques (2)
Mawson, Sir Douglas (2)
Peary, Robert E. (5)
Pizarro, Francisco (1)
Polo, Marco (10)
Ponce de León, Juan (1)
Powell, John Wesley (5)
Raleigh, Walter (11)
Sacagawea (5)
Scott, Robert Falcon (5)
Shackleton, Sir Ernest (6)
Tasman, Abel (1)
Vespucci, Amerigo (6)
Zheng He (7)

Web Pages

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Captain Christopher Newport - http://www.captainchristophernewport.com
Admiral of Virginia and founder of Jamestown. Includes images.

Count Matus Moric Benovsky - http://www.slovakopedia.com/m/moric-benovsky.htm
Biographical article on the Hungarian explorer (1746-1786), who journeyed to the Northern Pacific and became Emperor of Madagascar.

Discoverers Web - http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/
Large collection of information and links on voyages of discovery and exploration. Includes a list of explorers who died on their voyages and biographies of several explorers.

Discovering the Lost Legacy of Jedediah Smith - http://www.jedsmithlegacy.com/
Presents a biography, chronology, image gallery, and map gallery.

Hall of Explorers - http://www.virtualology.com/virtualmuseumofhistory/hallofexplorers/
Biographical articles on several explorers. Students can submit content.

List of Explorers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_explorers
Index to Wikipedia articles on world explorers.

Pedro Álvares Cabral - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_%C3%81lvares_Cabral
Brief biographical article.

Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage To Newfoundland - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1585haies-gilbert.html
An account of the last voyage, told by Edward Haies, commander of The Golden Hind, 1583.

The Barren Lands Digital Collection - http://digital.library.utoronto.ca/Tyrrell/
Photographs, maps, and documents from two exploratory surveys conducted by J.B. Tyrrell of the region west of Hudson Bay.

The Franklin Trail - http://www.netscapades.com/franklintrail/
Archaeological survey of evidence and artifacts relating to the final days of the Franklin expedition.

The Great Web of Percy Harrison Fawcett - http://www.phfawcettsweb.org/
Information about the British explorer's Brazilian expedition.

The Pre-British Explorers of Australia - http://australianexplorers.tripod.com/
Short expedition biographies of a few British, Dutch and French explorers, with historic maps.

Virtual Exploration Society - http://www.unmuseum.mus.pa.us/ves.htm
Information, pictures, biographies of a handful of explorers through time.

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