Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)
Explorer
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Marco Polo (1254-1324)
2
John Smith (1580-1631)
3
James Cook (1728-1779)
4
Daniel Boone (1734-1820)
5
Henry Hudson (1565-1611)
6
Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521)
7
Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922)
8
Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512)
9
John Cabot
10
Francis Drake (1540-1596)
11
St. George Littledale (1851-1931)
12
William Clark (1770-1838)
13
Hernando Cortés (1485-1547)
14
Samuel De Champlain (1574-1635)
15
Matthew Henson (1866-1955)
16
Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809)
17
Jacques Cartier (1491-1557)
18
Jim Bowie (1796-1836)
19
Vasco da Gama (1460-1524)
20
Jedediah Smith (1799-1831)
21
Joseph Banks (1743-1820)
22
Hernando Desoto (1496-1542)
23
Stephen Austin (1793-1863)
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Female Explorers
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Roald Amundsen (1872-1928)
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David Livingstone (1813-1873)
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James Oglethorpe (1696-1785)
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Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)
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John C Fremont (1813-1890)
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Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912)
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Abel Tasman (1603-1659)
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John Henry Mears (1878-1956)
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Ed Stafford, 49
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Robert Ballard, 82
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Floyd Collins (1887-1925)
35
Henry The Navigator (1394-1460)
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Bartolomeu Dias
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Matthew Flinders (1774-1814)
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William Kidd (1645-1701)
39
George Fletcher Moore (1798-1886)
40
Jan van Riebeeck (1619-1677)
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Arthur Phillip (1738-1814)
42
Robert Peary (1856-1920)
43
John Franklin (1786-1847)
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Pedro Menendez de Aviles (1519-1574)
45
Peter Skene Ogden (1790-1854)
46
Zebulon Pike (1779-1813)
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Henry Tureman Allen (1859-1930)
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