Exploration and Discovery

General

• Discoverers Web
• Discoverers Web: North and Central America
• Exploration and Discovery - from American Memory Library of Congress
• 1492: an Ongoing Voyage - An Exhibit of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC
• European Exploration of Southeast and Caribbean
• Explorers of North America - from Enchanted Learning
• Spanish Exploration and Conquest of Native America
• The Mariner's Museum Age of Exploration Curriculum Guide
• PBS: Conquistadors
• You can look up your explorer in Fact Monster - from Information Please

Christopher Columbus

• Columbus Navigation Homepage
• Introduction to 1492: An Ongoing Voyage
• Age of Exploration: Christopher Columbus (from the Mariners' Museum)
• European Voyages of Exploration: Christopher Columbus
• 1942: An Ongoing Voyage

Vasco da Gama

• BBC - Historic Figures - Vasco da Gama (c. 1460 - 1524)
• Vasco da Gama (from InfoPlease, a free online encyclopedia)
• Discoverers Web: Balboa

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa (from InfoPlease, a free online encyclopedia)
• Famous Hispanics: Vasco Nunez de Balboa
• Balboa Reaches Pacific: 1513

Ferdinand Magellan

• Ferdinand Magellan and the First Circumnavigation of the World (from The Mariners' Museum)
• First Circumnavigation of the Globe by Magellan: 1519-1522

Hernando Cortes

• Hernando Cortes (from the Catholic Encyclopedia)
• Conquistadors: Cortes (from PBS)

Francisco Pizarro

• Conquistadors: Pizarro (from PBS)
• Francisco Pizarro (from Infoplease)
• Francisco Pizarro (from Enchanted Learning)

Henry Hudson

• Henry Hudson (Ian Chadwick's biography of Henry Hudson)
• Henry Hudson Explorer of the Hudson River (by The Half Moon Press)
• Big Apple History: Early New York: Henry Hudson (PBS Kids Go!)
• Albany NY: Timesunion.com: Halfmoon

Samuel de Champlain

• Samuel de Champlain: Explorer (from Enchanted Learning)
• Champlain (1613) and Champlain (1627-1632) (from Library and Archives, Canada)
• The Virtual Museum of New France: Samuel de Champlain

Leif Ericson (Leif Eriksson, Leif Erikson)

• Leif Ericson Biography (from ODIN)
• BBC - History: Leif Erikson (11th Century)
• Leif Eriksson: Leif the Lucky (by Jim Cornish)

Sir Francis Drake

• Francis Drake: The Voyage (Nova Albion Research)
• Sir Francis Drake (1542-1596) (Fact files from the National Maritime Museum)

Marco Polo

• Marco Polo and His Travels (from the Silkroad Foundation)
• In the Footsteps of Marco Polo: His Journey (an interactive map of Marco Polo's 24 year journey)

John Cabot

• John Cabot
• Age of Exploration: John and Sebastian Cabot (from The Mariners' Museum)
• John & Sebastian Cabot (from the Catholic Encyclopedia)
• John Cabot: Explorer (from Enchanted Learning)
• John Cabot's Voyage of 1497
• John Cabot's Voyage of 1498
  

Juan Ponce de Leon

• Juan Ponce de Leon (A&E Biography Channel)
• Juan Ponce de Leon ( from the Catholic Encyclopedia)

Giovanni da Verrazano (also sometimes spelled Verrazzano)

• Giovanni da Verrazano (from the Italian Historical Society of America)
• Giovanni da Verrazano (from the Catholic Encyclopedia)
• Giovanni da Verrazano (Fact Monster from Information Please)
• Giovanni da Verrazano (search for Verrazano from The History Channel Web site)

Jacque Cartier

• Discoverers Web: Jacque Cartier
• The Voyages of Jacque Cartier: ( from History of Nova Scotia, Bk1, Pt1, Ch3, Early European Explorers)

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