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Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye (1685-1749) was a Canadian soldier and explorer.
Panfilo de Narvaez (1470?-1528) was a Spanish explorer and soldier.
Jean Nicollet (1598 - 1642) was a French explorer who was the first European to travel though the Great Lakes area.
Robert Edwin Peary (1856 - 1920) was an American explorer and Naval officer who led the first expedition the North Pole.
Zebulon Montgomery Pike (January 5, 1779 - April 27, 1813) was an American explorer and military officer.
Martin Alonzo Pinzon (1441? - 1493) was a Spanish explorer who sailed with Christopher Columbus to the New World.
Francisco Pizarro (1478-1541) was a Spanish conquistador who traveled through the Pacific coast of America along Peru.
Marco Polo (1254-1324) was an Italian voyager/merchant and one of the first Europeans to travel across Asia via China.
Chief Pontiac organized his Ottawa Indian Tribe and others to fight the British, in Pontiac’s War (1763-1764).
Sacajawea (1788-1812) was a Shoshone Indian who guided and acted as interpreter and negotiator for Lewis and Clark.
Robert Falcon Scott (1868 - 1912) was a British naval officer and Antarctic explorer who led two South Pole expeditions.
Ernest Shackleton (1872-1922) was a British explorer in the Royal Naval Reserve, who was in many South Pole expeditions.
John Smith (1580 - 1631) was an English adventurer, soldier, and a founder of the Jamestown, Virginia, settlement.
Explorers of South America.
Space Explorers: Astronauts and Cosmonauts. Yuri Gagarin, John Glenn, Sally Ride, Neil Armstrong, Alan Shepard, Michael Collins, Bondar, and others.
Space Explorers: Astronauts and Cosmonauts. Information on the ‘firsts’ in space exploration!
Undersea Explorers: Picard, Beebe, Cousteau, and more!
Fill in the directions on a Compass Rose in this simple worksheet.
Early Inventors and Inventions: the 1300s and earlier.
Inventors and Inventions: the 1400s.