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| Da Gama | The Portguese explorer who successfully sailed around Africa to India. |
| Columbus | The explorer who landed in San Salvador but thought he had reached the Indies. |
| Vespucci | The navigator who realized that Columbus had found a New World not Asia. |
| Cabot | The first English explorer to sail to North America. He disappeared on his second journey. |
| Drake | The first English explorer to sail around the world. He was also a pirate. |
| Hudson | An explorer whose men revolted and set him adrift in a small boat. |
| Cortes | The Spanish explorer who conquered the Aztecs in Mexico. |
| Magellan | The Spanish explorer who sailed around the world. |
| Pizarro | The Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas in Peru. |
| Balboa | The first European to see the Pacific Ocean from the New World |
| De Soto | The Spanish explorer who explored the American Southeast. He crossed the Mississippi River. |
| 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. |
| Cartier | The French explorer who explored the St. Lawrence River and claimed Canada for France. |
| Cabeza de Vaca | A shipwrecked survivor of the Narvaez expedition who walked across Texas. |
| Champlain | The French explorer who founded Quebec and discovered three of the Great Lakes. |
| La Salle | The French explorer who claimed all of the land drained by the Mississippi River for King Louis of France. |
