Explorers Of The Americas
21 entries in the Explorers Of The Americas compendium.
Louis Antoine de BougainvilleFrench explorer who led the first French circumnavigation.Lucas Vázquez de AyllónSpanish magistrate and explorer who founded a short-lived colony in 1526.Luís Vaz de TorresFirst European to navigate the strait separating Australia and New Guinea.Martin FrobisherEnglish sea captain who sought the North-west Passage.Martín Alonso PinzónCaptain of the Pinta on Columbus's first voyage to the New World.Miguel López de LegazpiSpanish conquistador who founded the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.Mungo Park (explorer)Scottish explorer of West Africa and the Niger River.Nikolay PrzhevalskyRussian explorer of Central Asia who described several endangered species.Paweł StrzeleckiPolish explorer who named Australia's highest peak and aided Irish famine relief.Pedro Fernandes de QueirósPortuguese navigator who sought Terra Australis for Spain.Pedro Álvares CabralPortuguese explorer who led the first known voyage to four continents.Percy FawcettBritish explorer who vanished seeking a lost Amazonian city.Pierre Savorgnan de BrazzaItalian-French explorer who peacefully advanced French colonial interests in Central AfricPytheasGreek explorer who first described the Arctic and midnight sun.Pánfilo de NarváezSpanish conquistador who led two failed expeditions in the Americas.Ranulph FiennesFirst to reach both poles by surface and cross Antarctica on foot.Reinhold MessnerItalian climber, explorer, and author from South Tyrol.René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La SalleFrench explorer who claimed the Mississippi basin for France.René CailliéFirst European to return alive from Timbuktu.Richard E. ByrdAmerican naval officer and polar explorer who claimed first flights to both poles.Richard HawkinsEnglish seaman, explorer, and privateer; discovered the Falkland Islands.
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