Directory of Explorers Resources

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Individuals responsible for notable and significant efforts to search for geographical information.

Subcategories

• Amundsen, Roald
• Boone, Daniel
• Byrd, Richard
• Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nuñez
• Cabot, John
• Cartier, Jacques
• Champlain, Samuel de
• Columbus, Christopher
• Cook, James
• Coronado, Francisco Vázquez de
• Cortés, Hernán
• Da Gama, Vasco
• De Soto, Hernando
• Drake, Sir Francis
• Ericson, Leif
• Frémont, John Charles
• Henry the Navigator
• Henson, Matthew
• Heyerdahl, Thor
• Hillary, Sir Edmund
• Hudson, Henry
• Ibn Batuta
• Joliet, Louis
• La Salle, Robert Cavelier
• Leo, Africanus
• Lewis and Clark
• Livingston, David
• Magellan, Ferdinand
• Marquette, Jacques
• Mawson, Sir Douglas
• Peary, Robert E.
• Pizarro, Francisco
• Polo, Marco
• Ponce de León, Juan
• Powell, John Wesley
• Raleigh, Walter
• Sacagawea
• Scott, Robert Falcon
• Shackleton, Sir Ernest
• Tasman, Abel
• Vespucci, Amerigo
• Zheng He

Resources in This Category

• Captain Christopher Newport

  http://www.captainchristophernewport.com/
  Admiral of Virginia and founder of Jamestown. Includes images.

• Count Matus Moric Benovsky

  http://www.slovakopedia.com/m/moric-benovsky.htm
  Biographical article on the Hungarian explorer (1746-1786), who journeyed to the Northern Pacific and became Emperor of Madagascar.

• Discovering the Lost Legacy of Jedediah Smith

  http://www.jedsmithlegacy.com/
  Presents a biography, chronology, image gallery, and map gallery.

• List of Explorers

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_explorers
  Index to Wikipedia articles on world explorers.

• Pedro Álvares Cabral

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_%C3%81lvares_Cabral
  Brief biographical article.

• Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage To Newfoundland

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1585haies-gilbert.asp
  An account of the last voyage, told by Edward Haies, commander of The Golden Hind, 1583.

• The Barren Lands Digital Collection

  http://link.library.utoronto.ca/tyrrell/
  Photographs, maps, and documents from two exploratory surveys conducted by J.B. Tyrrell of the region west of Hudson Bay.

• The Franklin Trail

  http://www.netscapades.com/franklintrail/
  Archaeological survey of evidence and artifacts relating to the final days of the Franklin expedition.

• The Great Web of Percy Harrison Fawcett

  http://www.phfawcettsweb.org/
  Information about the British explorer's Brazilian expedition.

• The Pre-British Explorers of Australia

  http://australianexplorers.tripod.com/
  Short expedition biographies of a few British, Dutch and French explorers, with historic maps.

• Virtual Exploration Society

  http://www.unmuseum.mus.pa.us/ves.htm
  Information, pictures, biographies of a handful of explorers through time.

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