EXPLORERS AND SAILORS

Name	Lived	Origin	Expeditions/Discoveries
Hanno	5th century BC	Carthage	Sailed down the West coast of Africa
Erik the Red	950 - 1002 AD	Norway	Explored the coast of Greenland
Leif Eriksson	11th Century AD	Norway	Discovered Vinland, part of North America
Marco Polo	1254 - 1324 AD	Italy	Travelled extensively in China and along the silk road during 1275 - 92
Ibn Battuta	1304 - 1368 AD	Morocco	Explored the Sahara, Arabia, India, Central Asia, China & Southeast Asia
Dinis Diaz	15th Century	Portugal	Discovered the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa in 1445
Bartolomeu Dias	1450 - 1500	Portugal	Rounded cape of Good Hope at 1488
Vasco da Gama	1469 - 1524	Portugal	Sailed around cape of Good Hope and reached India in 1498
Christopher Columbus	1450 - 1506	Italy	Discovered the Americas, landed at the Bahamas on 1492, discovered the mainland of south America on 1498
John Cabot	1450 - 99	Italy	Discovered the mainland North Amerca on 1497
Pedro Alvarez Cabral	1467 - 1520	Portugal	Discovered the Brazil on 1500
Amerigo Vespucci	1454 - 1512	Italy	Explored the coastline of South America on 1501
Alfonso de Albuquerque	1453 - 1512	Portugal	Reached India via Zanzibar in 1503 - 04
Vasco Nunez de Balboa	1475 - 1519	Spain	First European to navigate the Pacific ocean from Panama on 1513
Juen Ponc de Leon	1460 - 1521	Spain	Discovered the Floida in 1513
Hernan Cortes	1485 - 1547	Spain	Led the conquest of the Axtec empire in Mexico on 1518 - 22
Ferdinand Magellan	1480 - 1521	Portugal	Explored the Philippines; partially circumnavigated the globe on 1520 - 1521
Francisco Pizarro	1475 - 1541	Spain	Led the conquest of the Inca empire in Peru on 1530 - 33
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado	1510 - 1554	Spain	Led the first major expedition to the southwest of the modern United States on 1540 - 1545
Garcia Lopez de Gardenas	1540	Spain	Reached the Grand Canyon in 1540
Richard Chancellor	1556	England	Explored the Russia via North Cap
Martin Frobisher	1535 - 94	England	Reached the Frobisher Strait (Canada) while searching for the Northwest passage on 1576
Francis Drake	1540 - 96	England	Circumnavigated the globe on 1580
Walter Raleigh	1552 - 1618	England	Reached Virginia on 1584 while attempting to land America
Cornelis de Houtman	1565 - 69	Netherlands	Started the first Dutch expedition to the East Indies
Samuel de Champlain	1567 - 1635	France	Explored the St.Lawrence river on 1603, discovered Quebec on 1608
Henry Hudson	1565 - 1611	England	Discovered the Hudson Bay in Canada on 1610
William Baffin	1584 - 1622	England	Explored the Baffin Bay, Part of the NorthWest Passage on 1616
Abel Tasman	1603 - 1659	Netherlands	Reached New Zealand & Tasmania on 1642
William Dampier	1651 - 1715	England	Crossed the Pacific ocean on 1683
Vitus Bering	1681 - 1741	Denmark	Explored Serbia on 1733
James Cook	1728 - 1779	Britain	Mapped New Zealand & Australian coasts on 1769 & made first Australian landfall at Botany Bay, New Southwales on 1770
James Bruce	1730 - 1794	Britain	Explord the Blue Nile & found the source of Nile on 1768
Antoine Brunei dÉntrecasteaux	1739 - 1793	France	Surveyed the South Pacific on 1791 - 1793
Mungo Park	1771 - 1806	Britain	Explored the Niger river on 1795
George Bass	1771 - 1803	Britain	Explored the coastline of southeastern peninsula on 1795
Friedrich Alexander Von Humboldt	1769 - 1859	Germany	Explored the Venezuala river & the Orinoco river on 1799.
Matthew Flinders	1774 - 1814	Britain	Sailed around Australia on 1801
Meriwether Lewis	1774 - 1809	USA	First to complete the transcontinental expedition across the United Sataes
Alexander Gordon Laing	1793 - 1826	Britain	First European to reach Timbuktu, in Mali on 1826
David Livingstone	1813 - 1873	Britain	Discovered the Vistoria falls on the Zambezi river on 1855
Robert O'Hara Burke	1820 - 1861	Ireland	Led an ill-fated expedition to explore the Australian interior on 1860 - 61
Richard Francis Burton	1821 - 1890	Britain	Travelled in Arabia & reached Medina and Mecca on 1853
Henry Morton Stanley	1841 - 1904	Britain	Undertook voyages down the Congo on 1874
Fridtjof Nansen	1861 - 1930	Norway	Crossed the Greenland on 1888
Aurel Stein	1862 - 1943	Hungary	Explored central asia & located an ancient complex at Dunhuang
Francis Younghusband	1863 - 1942	Britain	Led an expedition which reached Lhasa in Tibet on 1903 - 04
Sven Hedin	1865 - 1952	Sweden	Explored central asia & discovered lost cities in the Taklamakan desert on 1893 - 97
Wilfried Thesiger	1910 - 2003	Britain	Interpid traveller who crossed the Empty quarter of Arabia
Willem Barentsz	1550 - 1597	Netherlands	Searched for the Northeast passage on 1594 - 97
Fabian Von Bellingshausen	1778 - 1852	Estonia	Early eplorer of the Antartic on 1819 - 1821
Otto Nordenskjold	1869 - 1928	Sweden	Spent the winter in Antartica on 1901 - 03
Ronald Amundsen	1872 - 1928	Norway	First man to reach south pole on 1911
Vivian Fuchs	1908 - 1999	Britain	Completed the first land crossing of the Antartic continent