Amundsen, Roald (5) Byrd, Richard (4) Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nuñez (7) Cabot, John (4) Cartier, Jacques (5) Champlain, Samuel de (6) Columbus, Christopher (20) Cook, James (20) Coronado, Francisco Vázquez de (5) Cortés, Hernán (3) Da Gama, Vasco (5) De Soto, Hernando (4) Drake, Sir Francis (8) Ericson, Leif (6) Frémont, John Charles (2) Henry the Navigator (5) Henson, Matthew (3) Heyerdahl, Thor (16) Hillary, Sir Edmund (5) Hudson, Henry (5) Ibn Batuta (3)

Joliet, Louis (2) La Salle, Robert Cavelier (7) Leo, Africanus (2) Lewis and Clark (31) Livingston, David (2) Magellan, Ferdinand (9) Marquette, Jacques (3) Mawson, Sir Douglas (2) Peary, Robert E. (7) Pizarro, Francisco (1) Polo, Marco (9) Ponce de León, Juan (1) Powell, John Wesley (6) Raleigh, Walter (10) Sacagawea (8) Scott, Robert Falcon (6) Shackleton, Sir Ernest (8) Tasman, Abel (1) Vespucci, Amerigo (6) Zheng, He (5)

Websites in Explorers

1. Count Matus Moric Benovsky
   Biographical article on the Hungarian explorer (1746-1786), who journeyed to the Northern Pacific and became Emperor of Madagascar.
   http://www.slovakopedia.com/m/moric-benovsky.htm
   
   
2. Discoverers Web
   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.
   http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/
   
   
3. Hall of Explorers
   Biographical articles on several explorers. Students can submit content.
   http://www.virtualology.com/virtualmuseumofhistory/hallofexplorers/
   
   
4. The Barren Lands Digital Collection
   Photographs, maps, and documents from two exploratory surveys conducted by J.B. Tyrrell of the region west of Hudson Bay.
   http://digital.library.utoronto.ca/Tyrrell/
   
   
5. The Franklin Trail
   Archaeological survey of evidence and artifacts relating to the final days of the Franklin expedition.
   http://www.netscapades.com/franklintrail/
   
   
6. The Great Web of Percy Harrison Fawcett
   Information about the British explorer's Brazilian expedition.
   http://www.phfawcettsweb.org/
   
   
7. The Pre-British Explorers of Australia
   Short expedition biographies of a few British, Dutch and French explorers, with historic maps.
   http://australianexplorers.tripod.com/
   
   
8. Virtual Exploration Society
   Information, pictures, biographies of a handful of explorers through time.
   http://www.unmuseum.mus.pa.us/ves.htm
   
   

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