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File:Viking at MN Capitol-cropped.jpg Leif Erikson (c. 970 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". c. 1020 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Norse explorer who is credited for being the first European to set foot on American soil.Explorers are listed below with their common names, countries of origin (modern and former), centuries of activity and main areas of exploration .
File:Marco Polo Mosaic from Palazzo Tursi.jpg Marco Polo (1254–1324) was an Italian explorer who recorded his 24 years-long travels in the Book of the Marvels of the World [ 1] File:Zheng He.jpg Zheng He (1371 – c. 1435 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". File:Diogo Cão.jpg Template:Flagicon Diogo Cão (c. 1452 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Congo River and the west coast of Africa, south of the equator .File:Bartolomeu Dias, South Africa House (cut).JPG Template:Flagicon Bartolomeu Dias (c. 1450 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". eastern sea route to the Indian Ocean .File:Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio - Ritratto di Cristoforo Colombo (1520).jpg Template:Flagicon Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) was an Italian explorer who led an expedition to the New World in 1492. His voyages are celebrated as the discovery of the Americas from a European perspective, and they opened a new era in the history of humankind and sustained contact between the two worlds.File:Conquistador Alonso de Ojeda.png Template:Flagicon Alonso de Ojeda (c. 1466 – c. 1515 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Juan de la Cosa and Amerigo Vespucci .File:JohnCabotPainting.jpg Template:Flagicon John Cabot (c. 1450 – c. 1500 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". File:Vasco da Gama - 1838.png Template:Flagicon Vasco da Gama (c. 1460 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". File:Amerigo Vespucci (with turban) - cropped.jpg Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Amerigo Vespucci (1451–1512). Italian navigator who made several trips to the New World . He is known for convincing the Europeans that the New World is not Asia, but an entirely new unknown continent. This new continent was soon named after him, America File:Pedro Álvares Cabral.jpg Template:Flagicon Pedro Álvares Cabral (c. 1467 – c. 1520 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Brazil in 1500 and claimed it for Portugal .File:Retrato de Afonso de Albuquerque (após 1545) - Autor desconhecido.png Template:Flagicon Afonso de Albuquerque (c. 1453 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". East Indies and Spice Islands , along with Francisco Serrão and António de Abreu .File:Juan Ponce de León.jpg Template:Flagicon Juan Ponce de León (1474–1521) was the first Governor of Puerto Rico and discovered Florida in 1513. He is the first known European to set foot on today's contiguous United States .File:Retrato de Vasco Nuñez de Balboa (1475-1517) - Anónimo.jpg Template:Flagicon Vasco Núñez de Balboa (c. 1475 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, becoming the first European to reach and see the Pacific from the America'sFile:Retrato de Hernán Cortés.jpg Template:Flagicon Hernán Cortés (1485–1547). Famous Conquistador who led the Spanish expedition to explore and conquer the Aztec Empire (1519–1521).File:Ferdinand Magellan.jpg Template:Flagicon Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521) was a Portuguese explorer who led the successful expedition under Spain to find a western sea route to Asia (1519–1521).File:Las Glorias Nacionales, 1852 "Juan Sebastian Elcano". (4013953698).jpg Template:Flagicon Juan Sebastián Elcano (c. 1486 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". circumnavigate the Earth .File:Jacques Cartier 1851-1852.jpg Template:Flagicon Jacques Cartier (1491–1557) was the first European to travel inland in North America and claimed the lands he explored for France in 1534.File:Gheeraerts Francis Drake 1591.jpg Template:Flagicon Francis Drake (c. 1540 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". privateer who plundered many Spanish towns and ships in the Caribbean and elsewhere. However, he is most notable for completing the second circumnavigation of the world (1577–1580).File:Samuel-de-champlain-s.jpg Template:Flagicon Samuel de Champlain (1567–1635) is known as "The Father of New France ". He founded the first permanent European settlements in Canada , and explored many lakes and rivers in the interior lands from early age to his death.File:HenryHudson.jpg Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Henry Hudson (c. 1565 – c. 1611 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". New York and northeastern Canada . Today he has both a river and bay named after him.File:Abel Tasman - Cuyp (cropped) (adjusted).jpg Template:Flagicon Abel Tasman (1603–1659) was a Dutch seafarer who was the first known European to sight the islands of Tasmania (named after him), New Zealand , and Fiji (1642–43).File:Captainjamescookportrait.jpg Template:Flagicon James Cook (1728–1779). Famous British explorer who led three voyages to the Pacific . He is known for exploring and charting many islands in the ocean such as Polynesia , New Zealand , The Hawaiian Islands , and the eastern coast of Australia .File:David Livingstone -1.jpg Template:Flagicon David Livingstone (1813–1873) is a Scottish explorer and missionary who sought to convert the locals to Christianity and expand British colonization, all the while discovering lakes and rivers within Africa's interior.File:Nlc amundsen.jpg Template:Flagicon Roald Amundsen (1872–1928) was a Norwegian explorer of the polar regions . He led the first successful expedition to the South Pole in 1911, and eventually also reached the North Pole by air in 1926.Template:Sticky header
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