Great Explorers

Name	Dates	Nationality	Major Voyages of Exploration
Amundsen, Roald	1872-1928	Norwegian	1911 voyage to the South Pole
Baffin, William	1584-1622	English	1616 explores Baffin Bay
Balboa, Vasco Nunez de	1475-1517	Spanish	1513 reaches the Pacific Ocean
Bougainville, Louis de	1729-1811	French	1766 begins circumnavigation of the globe
Cabral, Pedro Alvarez	1467-1520	Portuguese	1500 reaches Brazil
Cartier, Jacques	1491-1557	French	1534 explores the coast of N America
Cook, James	1728-1779	English	1769 Maps coast of New Zealand and Australia 1770 lands at Botany Bay 1774 reaches S Georgia and the Sandwich Islands 1778 explores islands now known as Hawaii
Davis, John	1550-1605	English	1585 expedition to Greenland; discovers the Davis Strait
Diaz, Bartholomeu	1450-1500	Portuguese	1488 sails round Cape of Good Hope
Diaz, Dinis	15th century	Portuguese	1446 reaches Cape Verde and Senegal
Drake, Francis	1540-1596	English	1580 completes circumnavigation of the globe
Gama, Vasco da	1469-1525	Portuguese	1497 sails round Cape of Good Hope 1498 explores coast of Madagascar and discovers sea route to India
Gomes, Diogo	1440-1484	Portuguese	1469 crosses the equator
Hillary, Edmund	1919-	New Zealander	1953 first ascent of Mount Everest, with Norgay Tenzing
Hudson, Henry	1565-1611	English	1610 discovers Hudson's Bay
Livingstone, David	1813-1873	English	1841 reaches Lake Ngami 1855 reaches the Victoria Falls
Lopez de Cardinas, Garcia		Spanish	1540 recahes the Grand Canyon
Magellan, Ferdinand	1480-1521	Portuguese	1520 discovers Strait of Magellan 1521 explorers the Philippinnes
Mendoza, Pedro de	1487-1537	Spanish	1536 founds Buenos Aires
Nansen, Fridjof	1861-1930	Norwegian	1888 crosses Greenland
Peary, Robert	1856-1920	American	1909 successful voyage to reach North Pole
Raleigh, Walter	1552-1618	English	1595 explores Orinoco River 1617 explores Guiana
Saussure, Horace	1740-1799	Swiss	1787 first ascent of Mont Blanc
Scott, Robert Falcon	1868-1912	English	1912 reaches South Pole
Shackleton, Ernest	1874-1922	English	1914 leads expedition to Antarctica
Stanley, Henry Morton	English	1871-1904	1875 traces Congo to the Atlantic
Tasman, Abdel Janszoon	1603-1659	Dutch	1642 reaches Tasmania and New Zealand
Tenzing, Norgay	1914-1986	Nepalese	1953 first ascent of Mount Everest, with Edmund Hillary
Verrazano, Giovanni da	1485-1528	Italian	1524 reaches New York Bay and the Hudson River
Vespucci, Amerigo	1454-1512	Italian	1499 discovers mouth of Amazon River 1501 explores coast of S America

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Last updated: 2005-01-17