| A | B |
|---|
| Marco Polo | 1271 - 1295. Venetian. Silk Road to China |
| Giovanni da Pian del Carpine | 1245-1247. Papal ambassador to Mongol Empire |
| Vasco Da Gama | Portuguese. 1497, 1502, 1524. Portuguese. Around Africa to India |
| Bartolomeu Dias | 1487-1488. Portuguese. South to Cape of Good Hope |
| Christopher Columbus | 1492 - 1504. Spanish. Caribbean |
| Pedro Alvares Cabral | 1500-1501. Portuguese. Brazil |
| Ferdinand Magellan | 1519-1521. Portuguese. Circumnavigation of the World |
| Vasco Nunez de Balboa | Spanish. 1513. Crossing the Isthmus of Panama |
| Francis Drake | English 1577. Circumnavigation of the World |
| John Cabot | English. 1497. Discovery of the North American mainland |
| Giovanni da Verrazzano | 1524. Italian. Exploration of North America between South Carolina and Newfoundland |
| Jacques Cartier | 1534-1542. French. Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Canada. |
| Willem Janszoon | 1606, 1618. Dutch. Australia |
| Abel Tasman | 1642-1644. Dutch. Australia |
| Francisco Vazquez de Coronado | 1540-1542. Spanish. Southwestern United States |
| Juan Ponce de Leon | 1513. Spanish. Florida -> Fountain of Youth |
| James Cook | 1768-1771, 1772-1779. English. Newfoundland and Australia |
| Henry Hudson | 1608-1611. English. Northwest Passage. |
| Samuel de Champlain | 1613. French. Southern Canada |
| Gaspar Corte Real | 1500. Portuguese. Northwest Passage and North-eastern Canada |
| Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle | 1669. French. Missippi River, Great Lakes |
| Vitus Bering | 1735. Russian. Bering Strait |
| Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo | 1542. Spain. California |
| Louis Jolliet | 1673. French. Northern Mississippi River, Great Lakes with Marquette |
| Jacques Marquette | 1673. French. Northern Mississippi River, Great Lakes with Louis Jolliet |
| Leif Erikson | 1003. Viking. Newfoundland. |
