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FAMOUS EXPLORERS
Famous Explorers	Nationality	Voyage of Exploration
Sir Francis Drake	English	Circumnavigated the World
Sir Walter Raleigh	English	Discovered Guiana
Marco Polo	Italian	Exploration of China and Asia
Ferdinand Magellan	Portuguese	First voyage around the world
Christopher Columbus	Italian/Spanish	Discovery of the New World
Francisco Pizarro	Spanish	Famous Explorer who conquered the Incas of Peru
Amerigo Vespucci	Italian/Spanish	America was named after this famous explorer
Vasco Nunez de Balboa	Spanish	First European explorer to see the Pacific Ocean
Vasco da Gama	Portuguese	Discovery of an ocean route from Portugal to the East
Sir Humphrey Gilbert	English	This famous explorer established St Johns, Newfoundland
Juan Ponce de Leon	Spanish	First European explorer to set foot in Florida
Sir Richard Grenville	English	Voyages to Virginia and Roanoke Island and the Azores
Sir John Hawkins	English	Voyages to West Africa and South America
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado	Spanish	Explored the Southwest of North America
Sir Martin Frobisher	English	Voyages to Labrador and Greenland
Hernando De Soto	Spanish	First European to explore Florida and South East America
Sir Richard Hawkins	English	Voyages to South America
Hernando Cortes	Spanish	Spanish conqueror of Mexico and the Aztec Empire
Bartolomeu Dias	Portuguese	First explorer to lead voyage around the Cape of Good Hope
Pedro Alvares Cabral	Portuguese	The first European explorer to see Brazil in 1500
Giovanni da Verrazzano	Italian/French	Italian who explored the NE coast of Nth. America
Gaspar Corte Real	Portuguese	Exploration of Greenland and the coast of Newfoundland
John Cabot	Italian/English	Second explorer to find North America (after Columbus)
Sebastian Cabot	Italian/English	Son of the famous explorer John Cabot.
Jacques Cartier	French	Led three expeditions of exploration to Canada
Henry Hudson	English	Discovered the Hudson River
Jacques Marquette	French	Discovered the Mississippi with Can. explorer Louis Joliet
Samuel de Champlain	French	Famous explorer and founder of Quebec City.
Pedro Alvares Cabral	Portuguese	The first to see Brazil in 1500
Cabeza de Vaca	Spanish	The first European to explore Texas and Southwest America
Estevanico	North African	Exploring Texas and Southwest America
Panfilo de Narvaez	Spanish	The exploration of Cuba and Florida and North America
Fray Marcos de Niza	Italian/Spanish	Discovered the Pueblo tribe called the Zuni Indians.
Alonso Alvarez de Pineda	Spanish	First European in Texas, proved Florida was not an island
Juan de Onate	Spanish	Famous for establishing the colony of New Mexico for Spain
Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon	Spanish	Explorer and colonizer of South Carolina
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo	Spanish	First European explorer to navigate the coast of California
Louis Joliet	Canadian	Explored the Great Lakes area and Mississippi River

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