Explorers

1

Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)

2

Marco Polo (1254-1324)

3

John Smith (1580-1631)

4

James Cook (1728-1779)

5

Henry Hudson (1565-1611)

6

Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521)

7

Daniel Boone (1734-1820)

8

Francis Drake (1540-1596)

9

Hernando Cortés (1485-1547)

10

Jacques Cartier (1491-1557)

11

Samuel De Champlain (1574-1635)

12

Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922)

13

Joseph Banks (1743-1820)

14

Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512)

15

Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809)

16

Jessica Watson, 29

17

William Clark (1770-1838)

18

Stephen Austin (1793-1863)

19

Matthew Henson (1866-1955)

20

Hernando Desoto (1496-1542)

21

Roald Amundsen (1872-1928)

22

John Henry Mears (1878-1956)

23

Calamity Jane (1852-1903)

24

Jim Bowie (1796-1836)

25

Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)

26

Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912)

27

Alexander Mackenzie (1764-1820)

28

David Livingstone (1813-1873)

29

Ed Stafford, 47

30

Abel Tasman (1603-1659)

31

James Oglethorpe (1696-1785)

32

John Franklin (1786-1847)

33

Robert De la Salle (1643-1687)

34

George Fletcher Moore (1798-1886)

35

Robert Ballard, 80

36

Annie Edson Taylor (1838-1921)

37

John C Fremont (1813-1890)

38

Zebulon Pike (1779-1813)

39

Jedediah Smith (1799-1831)

40

George Vancouver (1757-1798)

41

St. George Littledale (1851-1931)

42

Henry The Navigator (1394-1460)

43

Louis Jolliet (1645-1700)

44

Arthur Phillip (1738-1814)

45

Matthew Flinders (1774-1814)

46

Percy Fawcett

47

Hamilton Hume (1797-1873)

48

Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002)