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| Leif Ericson | The Viking explorer who named the land he found Vinland. |
| Christopher Columbus | The explorer who landed in San Salvador but thought he had reached the Indies. |
| Amerigo Vespucci | The navigator who realized that Columbus had found a New World not Asia. |
| John Cabot | The first English explorer to sail to North America. He disappeared on his second journey. |
| Francis Drake | The first English explorer to sail around the world. He was also a pirate. |
| Henry Hudson | An explorer search for the Northwest Passage. |
| Hernan Cortes | The Spanish explorer who conquered the Aztecs in Mexico. |
| Ferdinand Magellan | The Spanish explorer who sailed around the world. |
| Francisco Pizarro | The Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas in Peru. |
| Vasco Nunez de Balboa | The first European to see the Pacific Ocean from the New World |
| Herando De Soto | The Spanish explorer who explored the American Southeast. He crossed the Mississippi River. |
| Francisco Coronado | The Spanish explorer who explored the American Southwest and saw the Grand Canyon |
| Ponce de Leon | The Spanish explorer who looked for the Fountain of Youth in Florida. |
| Jacques Cartier | The French explorer who explored the St. Lawrence River and founded Mont Real. |
| Marquette and Jolliet | French explorers who found out that the Mississippi River flowed south. |
| Samuel de Champlain | The French explorer who founded Quebec and discovered three of the Great Lakes. |
| Rene-Robert Sieur de La Salle | The French explorer who claimed all of the land drained by the Mississippi River for King Louis of France. |
