Explorers Flashcards
He was an Italian merchant, explorer, and writer, born in the Republic of Venice. His travels are recorded in Livre des merveilles du monde (Book of the Marvels of the World, also known as The Travels of _____, c. 1300), a book that described to Europeans the wealth and great size of China, its capital Peking, and other Asian cities and countries.
Marco Polo
Though he was not the first European to reach China (see Europeans in Medieval China), ____ was the first to leave a detailed chronicle of his experience. This book inspired Christopher Columbus[7] and many other travellers. There is a substantial literature based on ____’s writings; he also influenced European cartography, leading to the introduction of the Fra Mauro map.
Marco Polo
He learned the mercantile trade from his father and his uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo, who travelled through Asia and met Kublai Khan.
Marco Polo
He embarked on an epic journey to Asia, returning after 24 years to find Venice at war with Genoa; Marco was imprisoned and dictated his stories to a cellmate. He was released in 1299, became a wealthy merchant, married, and had three children. He died in 1324 and was buried in the church of San Lorenzo in Venice.
Marco Polo
Known for: The Travels of Marco Polo
Marco Polo
Nationality of Marco Polo
Italian
Spent time as governor of Yangzhou.
Marco Polo
Where did Christopher Columbus land first?
The Bahamas
What settlement did Christopher Columbus found on Hispaniola?
Navidad
What did Christopher Columbus discover on his second journey?
Jamaica
What did Christopher Columbus discover on his third journey?
South America
When was Marco Polo alive?
(c. 1254 – c. 1324)
When was Christopher Columbus alive?
(1451–1506)
What was John Cabot’s nationality?
Italian (Genoa)
Nationality of Christopher Columbus
Italian (Genoa)
Who did John Cabot explore for?
Henry VII of England
When was John Cabot alive?
(1450–1499)
When was Jacques Cartier alive?
(1491–1557)
When was Samuel de Champlain alive?
(c. 1567–1635)
What was Jacques Cartier’s nationality?
French (Breton)
What was Samuel de Champlain’s nationality?
French
What was Ferdinand Magellan’s nationality?
Portuguese
What was Hernan Cortés’s nationality?
Spanish
What was Francisco Pizarro’s nationality?
Spanish
What was Francis Drake’s nationality?
English
What was Henry Hudson’s nationality?
English
Who did Henry Hudson do his notable exploring for?
The Dutch
What country did Christopher Columbus sail for?
Spain
What was James Cook’s nationality?
British
Who did James Cook sail for?
British
When was Ferdinand Magellan alive?
(c. 1480–1521)
When was Hernan Cortes alive?
(c. 1485–1547)
When was Francisco Pizarro alive?
(c. 1475–1541)
When was Francis Drake alive?
(c. 1543–1596)
When was Henry Hudson alive?
(ca. 1565–1611)
When was James Cook alive?
(1728–1779)
What rulers did Christopher Columbus sail for?
Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain
Who sailed on the Matthew?
John Cabot
What monarch did Jacques Cartier sail for?
Francis I
His 1497 discovery of the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England is the earliest known European exploration of coastal North America since the Norse visits to Vinland in the eleventh century.
John Cabot
Breton explorer who claimed what is now Canada for France.
Jacques Cartier
first European to describe and map[1] the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named “The Country of Canadas”
Jacques Cartier
He named Montreal
Jacques Cartier
Founded Quebec City
Samuel de Champlain
First European to see Lake Huron
Samuel de Champlain
First European to travel inland in North America. Claimed what is now known as Canada for France.
Jacques Cartier
First European since the Norse colonization of North America to explore coastal parts of North America
John Cabot
“The Father Of New France”
Samuel de Champlain
Led the first circumnavigation of the Earth (though he died before it was finished)
Ferdinand Magellan
His ships were the San Antonio, Trinidad, Concepción, Santiago, and Victoria.
Ferdinand Magellan
Explorer killed in battle on the island Mactan.
Ferdinand Magellan
Only ship of Ferdinand Magellan’s that returned to Spain.
The Victoria
Who took over and finished Magellan’s circumnavigation?
Juan Sebastián Elcano
Known for: Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
Hernan Cortes
Who wrote detailed memoirs about Cortes’s conquest of Mexico?
Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Who was the governor of Cuba who didn’t get along with Cortes?
Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar
He was a Spanish conquistador who led the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.
Francisco Pizarro
This is the Incan leader Pizarro murdered
Atahualpa
Montezuma II was killed on what night?
The Night of Sorrows
Aztec capital
Tenochtitlan
He travelled with his partner Diego de Almagro, the priest Hernando de Luque, and a small force
Francisco Pizarro
Who commissioned Pizarro to go to Peru
Holy Roman Emperor Charles V
Incan capital
Cuzco
Francis Drake’s ship
The Golden Hind
Explorer nicknamed The Dragon
Francis Drake
carried out the second circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580, and was the first to complete the voyage as captain while leading the expedition throughout the entire circumnavigation.
Francis Drake
With his incursion into the Pacific Ocean, he claimed what is now California for the English and inaugurated an era of conflict with the Spanish on the western coast of the Americas, an area that had previously been largely unexplored by western shipping.
Francis Drake
Who commissioned Francis Drake’s voyage?
Elizabeth I
What did Francis Drake die from?
Dysentery
As a Vice Admiral, he was second-in-command of the English fleet in the battle against the Spanish Armada in 1588.
Francis Drake
exploits made him a hero to the English, but his privateering led the Spanish to brand him a pirate, known to them as El Draque.[7] King Philip II allegedly offered a reward for his capture or death of 20,000 ducats,[8] about £6 million (US$8 million) in modern currency.
Francis Drake
In 1609 he landed in North America and explored the region around the modern New York metropolitan area, looking for a Northwest Passage to Asia on behalf of the Dutch East India Company.
Henry Hudson
In 1611, after wintering on the shore of James Bay, ______ wanted to press on to the west, but most of his crew mutinied. The mutineers cast _____, his son, and seven others adrift;[7] the _____s and their companions were never seen again.
Henry Hudson
Cause of death: Killed by Hawaiians after turning back to Hawaii
James Cook
James Cook
He made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.
Whose ship was the Endeavour?
James Cook
He was attacked and killed in 1779 during his third exploratory voyage in the Pacific while attempting to kidnap Hawaiian chief Kalaniʻōpuʻu in order to reclaim a cutter stolen from one of his ships.
James Cook
Also known as the Corps of Discovery
Lewis and Clark
Woman who helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition in achieving their chartered mission objectives by exploring the Louisiana Territory.
Sacagawea
What tribe was Sacagawea?
Lemhi Shoshone
At age 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize: making a nonstop flight from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, to Paris, France.
Charles Lindbergh
Known for: First solo transatlantic flight (1927)
Charles Lindbergh
First to reach the North Pole
Roald Amundsen
First to navigate the Northwest Passage
Roald Amundsen
He disappeared while taking part in a rescue mission for the airship Italia in 1928.
Roald Amundsen
___ was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea.
Vasco Da Gama
The Portuguese national epic poem, Os Lusíadas, was written in his honour by Camões
Vasco Da Gama
When was Vasco Da Gama alive?
(c. 1460s – 24 December 1524)
_____ was an American explorer, politician, and soldier who, in 1856, became the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of President of the United States.
John C. Fremont
During the 1840s, when he led five expeditions into the American West, that era’s penny press and admiring historians accorded him the sobriquet The Pathfinder.
John C. Fremont
Between 1799 and 1804, he travelled extensively in the Americas, exploring and describing them for the first time from a modern scientific point of view. His description of the journey was written up and published in an enormous set of volumes over 21 years in “Kosmos.”
Alexander von Humboldt
___ has been credited as one of the most influential figures in the Argentine incorporation of large parts of Patagonia and its subsequent development.
Francisco Moreno
He is famous for the 1869 _____ Geographic Expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers, including the first official U.S. government-sponsored passage through the Grand Canyon.
John Wesley Powell
With teammates Jim Whittaker, Lute Jerstad, Willi Unsoeld and Tom Hornbein, he was a member of the first American team to summit Mount Everest on May 22, 1963. He worked for the National Geographic Society for most of his life, beginning as a picture editor in 1959 and serving as a photographer, writer, and scientist with the society until his retirement in 1994. He was killed in an automobile accident near Pocatello, Idaho later that year
Barry Bishop
American who claimed that his expeditions had been the first to reach both the North Pole and the South Pole by air. However, his claim to have reached the North Pole is disputed
Richard E. Byrd
___ was a Muslim Moroccan scholar, and explorer who widely travelled the medieval world. Over a period of thirty years, ____ visited most of the Islamic world and many non-Muslim lands, including Central Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia and China. Near the end of his life, he dictated an account of his journeys, titled A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Traveling.
Ibn Battuta
He is best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection; his paper on the subject was jointly published with some of Charles Darwin’s writings in 1858.
Alfred Russel Wallace
During four expeditions to Central Asia, he made the Transhimalaya known in the West and located sources of the Brahmaputra, Indus and Sutlej Rivers. He also mapped lake Lop Nur, and the remains of cities, grave sites and the Great Wall of China in the deserts of the Tarim Basin.
Sven Hedin
Spanish explorer and conquistador known for leading the first official European expedition to Florida and the first governor of Puerto Rico.
Juan Ponce De Leon
According to John J. Browne Ayes, 30% of the modern population of Puerto Rico descend from this man and his wife.[4]
Juan Ponce De Leon
With Tenzing Norgay, first to reach summit of Mount Everest
Edmund Hillary
From 1985 to 1988 he served as New Zealand’s High Commissioner to India and Bangladesh and concurrently as Ambassador to Nepal.
Edmund Hillary
First person to reach both poles and summit Everest.
Edmund Hillary
Wrote “The Power of the Pendulum”
T.C. Lethbridge
He was an English archaeologist, parapsychologist, and explorer. A specialist in Anglo-Saxon archaeology, he served as honorary Keeper of Anglo-Saxon Antiquities at the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology from 1923 to 1957, and over the course of his lifetime wrote twenty-four books on various subjects, becoming particularly well known for his advocacy of dowsing.
T.C. Lethbridge
________ is a Danish philanthropist, space advocate, entrepreneur, financier and author.
He owns and administers his own international corporate financial advisory firm, which he founded on the 50th anniversary of Sputnik day, October 4, 2007. It specializes in global corporate finance, shares trading, real estate and natural resources. He is a founding astronaut with Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic; held a ticket to be the first astronaut onboard the XCOR Lynx rocketplane (now canceled) and holds a trip to space reservation with Space Adventures. He expects to be the first Danish citizen to enter space on board SpaceShipTwo. However LA-based René Gross Kærskov is also claiming to become the first Danish citizen in space with Virgin Galactic.[3]
Per Wimmer
In May 2009, at the age of 65, he climbed to the summit of Mount Everest.
Ranulph Fiennes
According to the Guinness Book of World Records in 1984, he was the world’s greatest living explorer. ____ has written numerous books about his army service and his expeditions as well as a book defending Robert Falcon Scott from modern revisionists.
Ranulph Fiennes
He was the first person to climb Kebnekaise, the tallest mountain in Sweden, which he accomplished in 1883.
Charles Rabot
He co-developed the Aqua-lung, pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie française.
Jacques Cousteau
He remained the only person to win a Palme d’Or for a documentary film, until Michael Moore won the award in 2004 for Fahrenheit 9/11.
Jacques Cousteau
Wrote The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure
Jacques Cousteau
During the second expedition 1907–1909 he and three companions established a new record Farthest South latitude at 88°S, only 97 geographical miles (112 statute miles, 180 km) from the South Pole, the largest advance to the pole in exploration history. Also, members of his team climbed Mount Erebus, the most active Antarctic volcano.
Ernest Shackleton
He was the first known European to have set foot on continental North America (excluding Greenland), before Christopher Columbus.
Leif Erikson
Founder of the first Norse settlement in Greenland
Erik the Red
Known for: Demonstrating to Europeans that the New World was not Asia but a previously-unknown fourth continent[a]
Amerigo Vespucci
He is the first European documented as having crossed the Mississippi River.
Hernando de Soto
Spanish explorer and conquistador who was involved in expeditions in Nicaragua and the Yucatan Peninsula, and played an important role in Pizarro’s conquest of the Inca Empire in Peru, but is best known for leading the first Spanish and European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States (through Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and most likely Arkansas).
Hernando de Soto
He disappeared while on his last expedition, attempting to chart and navigate the Northwest Passage in the North American Arctic. The icebound ships were abandoned and the entire crew died of starvation, hypothermia, tuberculosis, lead poisoning, and scurvy.
Sir John Franklin
Journalist and explorer who was famous for his exploration of central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
Henry Morton Stanley
This explorer is also known for his search for the source of the Nile, his pioneering work that enabled the plundering of the Congo Basin region by King Leopold II of Belgium, and his command of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition.
Henry Morton Stanley
He sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first to do so, setting up the route from Europe to Asia later on.
Bartolomeu Dias
First European during the Age of Discovery to anchor at what is present-day South Africa.
Bartolomeu Dias
First European to sail around the southernmost tip of Africa.
Bartolomeu Dias
He is well known for popularising tobacco in England.
Walter Raleigh
How did Walter Raleigh die?
He was executed by King James I.
___ was an English soldier, explorer, colonial governor, Admiral of New England, and author. He played an important role in the establishment of the Jamestown colony, the first permanent English settlement in North America, in the early 17th century. ___ was a leader of the Virginia Colony based at Jamestown between September 1608 and August 1609, and led an exploration along the rivers of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay, during which he became the first English explorer to map the Chesapeake Bay area.
John Smith
After spending two-and-a-half years trying to do his best for Jamestown, ____ was severely injured by an accidental gunpowder explosion in his canoe, which decided his fate for him. He sailed to England for treatment in mid-October 1609. He never returned to Virginia.
John Smith
He named New England.
John Smith
He led the team that made the first crossing of the Greenland interior in 1888, traversing the island on cross-country skis.
Fridtjof Nansen
___ was a Scottish explorer of West Africa. He was the first Westerner known to have travelled to the central portion of the Niger River. He wrote a popular and influential travel book about it titled Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa.[1]
Mungo Park
American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman, whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. ____ is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now Kentucky. He was a legend in his own lifetime, especially after an account of his adventures was published in 1784, framing him as the typical American frontiersman.
Daniel Boone
Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery expedition of 1901–1904 and the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition of 1910–1913.
Robert Falcon Scott
English explorer and officer in the British Indian Army who made three exploratory expeditions to Africa. He is most associated with the search for the source of the Nile and was the first European to reach Lake Victoria.
John Hanning Speke
Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador. He is best known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, becoming the first European to lead an expedition to have seen or reached the Pacific from the New World.
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
German explorer of Africa and scholar.
He is thought to be one of the greatest of the European explorers of Africa, as his scholarly preparation, ability to speak and write Arabic, learning African languages, and character meant that he carefully documented the details of the cultures he visited. He was among the first to comprehend the uses of oral history of peoples, and collected many. He established friendships with African rulers and scholars during his five years of travel (1850–1855). After the deaths of two European companions, he completed his travels with the aid of Africans.
Heinrich Barth
British officer of the Royal Navy best known for his 1791–95 expedition, which explored and charted North America’s northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of what are now the American states of Alaska, Washington, and Oregon, as well as the province of British Columbia in Canada. He also explored the Hawaiian Islands and the southwest coast of Australia.
Vancouver Island and the city of Vancouver, British Columbia are named for him, as is Vancouver, Washington. Mount Vancouver of Yukon and Alaska, on the Canadian-American border and New Zealand’s sixth highest mountain,[1] are also named for him.
George Vancouver
was one of the first of the late 19th century Indian explorers (pundits) who explored the Himalayas for the British. He hailed from the Johar Valley of Kumaon. He surveyed the trade route through Nepal[citation needed] to Tibet, determined for the first time the location[3] and altitude of Lhasa, and surveyed a large section of the Brahmaputra. He walked “1,580 miles, or 3,160,000 paces, each counted.”[3]
Nain Singh Rawat
travel books include Arabian Sands (1959), on his foot and camel crossing of the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula, and The Marsh Arabs (1964), on his time living in the marshes of Iraq with the Marsh Arabs. He donated his collection of 38,000 travel photographs to the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.
Sir Wilfred Thesiger
French officer, inspector of Indigenous Affairs of Cochinchina and explorer. He eventually became mission leader of the Mekong Exploration Commission in 19th century Southeast Asia.
Francis Garnier
French Arctic explorer. hile making a perilous journey with two comrades for the purpose of communicating with Sir Edward Belcher, he suddenly disappeared in an opening between the broken masses of ice in the Wellington Channel (August 1853).
Joseph René Bellot
British Royal Navy explorer known for his exploration of the Arctic with Sir William Parry and Sir John Ross, his uncle, and in particular, his own expedition to Antarctica.
Sir James Clark Ross
Known for
namesake of Davis Strait and Inlet
discoverer of the Falkland Islands
inventor of the backstaff
John Davis
British explorer of Australia, and part of the European exploration of Australia. He led several expeditions into the interior of the continent, starting from both Sydney and later from Adelaide. His expeditions traced several of the westward-flowing rivers, establishing that they all merged into the Murray River. He was searching to prove his own passionately held belief that there was an “inland sea” at the centre of the continent.
Charles Sturt
Scottish traveller and travel writer who spent more than a dozen years in North Africa and Ethiopia, where he traced the origins of the Blue Nile.
James Bruce
Russian geographer of Polish-Russian origin and a renowned explorer of Central and East Asia. Although he never reached his ultimate goal, the holy city of Lhasa in Tibet, he traveled through regions then unknown to the West, such as northern Tibet, Amdo and Dzungaria.
Nikolay Przhevalsky
Known for Being the first Frenchman to circumnavigate the world, during the 18th century.
Louis Antoine de Bougainville
British Arctic explorer and nephew of Bolton Eyres-Monsell, 1st Viscount Monsell.
Gino Watkins
Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition. During eight years of traveling across the US Southwest, he became a trader and faith healer to various Native American tribes before reconnecting with Spanish civilization in Mexico in 1536. After returning to Spain in 1537, he wrote an account, first published in 1542 as La relación y comentarios (“The Account and Commentaries”[3]), which in later editions was retitled Naufragios (“Shipwrecks”). ____ is sometimes considered a proto-anthropologist for his detailed accounts of the many tribes of Native Americans that he encountered.
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
First European to reach Timbuktu and come home alive.
Rene-Auguste-Caillie
He is best known for rediscovering the ruins of the ancient Nabataean city of Petra in Jordan.
Johann Ludwig Burckhardt
The search for the Nile made this duo famous.
Burton and Speke
Explorer who translated the Arabian Nights stories into English.
Richard Burton
Wrote “Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa.”
David Livingstone
Traced the course of the Congo River to the sea.
Henry Morton Stanley
Who treated Africans better Stanley or Livingstone?
Livingstone treated them well, Stanley treated them badly
Woman who became the first woman to climb Mount Cameroon, first outside to meet the Fang Tribe, and wrote “Travels in West Africa.”
Mary Kingsley
Led seven expeditions to what the Chinese called “The Western Ocean.” He created a huge trading network and vastly increased Chinese knowledge of the outside world. He wrote down his experiences in a book called The Triumphant Vision of the Boundless Ocean. Some historians believe he may even have sailed around the world, reaching America 72 years before Columbus.
Zheng He
First European to visit the salt lake of Lop Nor since Marco Polo.
Nikolai Przewalski
The Revenant
Hugh Glass
First woman asked to join the Royal Geographical Society, in 1892.
Isabella Bird
“Daughter of the Desert”
Gertrude Bell
First person to sail all the way around Australia, and suggested its name.
Matthew Flinders
Interior of Australia. First European to cross northeastern Australia, but failed in his attempt to cross Australia from east to west.
Ludwig Leichhardt
First explorers to make the South-North crossing of Australia.
Burke & Wills
First European to travel down the Amazon River.
Francisco De Orellana
Passed through strait proving that Asia and North America were separate continents — although he did not realize it.
Vitus Bering
His two ships were the Erebus and the Terror.
John Franklin
With Henson and four Inuit men he was credited as the first to reach the North Pole, despite his rival Dr. Frederick Cook claiming he had reached it first.
Robert Peary
His team got within 450 miles of the South Pole before having to turn back. Went back years later, a month after Amundsen. His gripping diary of the journey was published and became a best-seller.
Robert Scott
One of the first scientists to explore the continent of Antarctica. Together with T.W.E. David, he travelled 1,243 miles to reach the Magnetic South POle.
Douglas Mawson
Known for Part of team that made first ascent of Mount Erebus
First team to reach the South Magnetic Pole
Sole survivor of Far Eastern Party
Australasian Antarctic Expedition
Mawson’s Huts
Mawson Plateau
Douglas Mawson
Discovered Baffin Bay/Baffin Island
William Baffin
English artist who, with his wife Lucy, spent the years around 1850 painting watercolours as they travelled nearly 40,000 miles through parts of Eastern Russia and Central Asia.
Thomas Atkinson
The inspiration for Robinson Crusoe
Alexander Selkirk
English aristrocrat who moved to the Middle East after her lover and brother died fighting the French. “Queen of the Desert”
Lady Stanhope
First European to travel the entire length of the Columbia River.
David Thompson
Founded the Brisbane River in Australia
John Oxley
With others in 1992 he found the legendary Lost City of Ubar, known as “the Atlantis of the Sands,” in the desert of Oman.
Ranulph Fiennes
First non-Natives to explore and map the Mississippi River in 1673 (but not the first ones to discover it)
Louis Jolliet and Jesuit Father Jacques Marquette
Discovered the Grand Canyon while trying to find the 7 cities of gold
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
Discovered and claimed Canada for France
Jacques Cartier
Danish navigator who claimed Alaska for Russia
Vitus Bering
Recorded the first circumnavigation of New Zealand
James Cook
Discovered the sea route to India
Vasco Da Gama
The first Englishman to sail around the world and live to tell about it
Francis Drake
Discovered Newfoundland and claimed it for England
John Cabot
Roald Amundsen’s country of birth
Norway
Vitus Bering country of birth
Denmark
How did Vitus Bering die?
Scurvy
What is Hochelaga now called?
Montreal
First European to map the St. Lawrence
Jacques Cartier
Jaques Cartier country of birth
France
Island Columbus named after the Latin for Sunday
Dominica
Bay in Sydney where James Cook first made landfall
Botany Bay
James Cook’s ship that ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef
HMS Endeavour
James Cook named these islands the Sandwich Islands
Hawaiian Islands
First European to reach India by sea
Vasco da Gama
Vasco Da Gama followed route to Africa discovered by this explorer
Bartolomeu Dias
Largest city in this Indian state is named after Vasco Da Gama
Goa
Francis Drake’s Spanish nickname meaning ‘‘the dragon’’
El Draque
Francis Drake was second-in-command against this 1588 invasion
Spanish Armada
Where was Leif Erikson born?
Iceland
Father of Leif Erikson
Erik the Red
Leif Erikson spread this religion to Greenland from Norway
Christianity
First European to see Victoria Falls
David Livingstone
Livingstone led an expedition along this African river
Zambezi
Strait of Magellan is on this continent
South America
Ocean named by Ferdinand Magellan
Pacific Ocean
Magellan died in Battle of Mactan in this country
Philippines
Magellan died in this battle
Battle of Mactan
Who died in the Battle of Mactan?
Ferdinand Magellan
Made first crossing of Greenland in 1888
Fridtjof Nansen
What country was Fridjof Nansen from?
Norway
Fridtjof Nansen won a Nobel Prize in this category
Peace
Marco Polo met this Yuan-dynasty Chinese Emperor
Kublai Khan
City served by Marco Polo Airport
Venice
US state Ponce de Leon is credited with discovering
Florida
Ponce De Leon was first governor of this island
Puerto Rico
Made first account of tides being caused by the moon
Pytheas of Massalia
Made the first recorded voyage to Baltic Sea
Pytheas of Massalia
Known for Earliest Greek voyage to Britain, the Baltic, and the Arctic Circle for which there is a record, author of Periplus.
Pytheas of Massalia
US state Walter Raleigh named for Elizabeth I
Virginia
Who named Virginia for Elizabeth I?
Walter Raleigh
Ill-fated Robert F. Scott expedition name, from Latin for ‘‘New Land’’
Terra Nova
Ernest Shackleton attempted to cross this continent in 1914
Antarctica
Ernest Shackleton ship
Endurance
Ernest Shackleton made an 800-mile open-boat journey to this island
South Georgia
Island formerly known as Van Diemen’s Land
Tasmania
What country is Abel Tasman from?
Netherlands
Species of this bird named after Alexander von Humboldt
Penguin
Von Humboldt explored the course of this South American river
Orinoco
Alexander von Humboldt was this President’s guest when visiting the USA
Thomas Jefferson
_____ was an Italian explorer of North America, in the service of King Francis I of France. He is renowned as the first European to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between Florida and New Brunswick in 1524, including New York Bay and Narragansett Bay. Wikipedia
Giovanni da Verrazzano
