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Explorer
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Area Explored
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Asia
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| Zheng He (China) |
Far East |
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Africa
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| Ibn Battuta, Morocco |
Middle and Far East |
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England
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| Charles Sturt |
Australia |
| David Livingston |
Africa |
| Edmund Hillary&Tenzing Norgay(sherpa) |
Mt Everest |
| Ernest Giles |
Australia |
| Francis Drake |
Northwest Passage |
| George Bass |
Australia |
| George Everest (Wales) |
India |
| Henry Hudson |
North America |
| Hugh Willoughby |
Northeast Passage |
| Isabella Bird |
Australia, Far East |
| James Cook |
Pacific, Australia. Antartica |
| James Weddell |
Antartic |
| Joseph Banks |
World circumnavigation |
| Mary Kingsley |
Africa |
| Matthew Flinders |
Australia |
| Morton Frobisher |
Northwest Passage |
| Peter Warburton |
Australia |
| Ranulph Fiennes |
South Pole |
| Richard Lander |
Africa |
| Richard Burton |
Africa |
| Walter Raleigh |
East coast of No. America |
| William Wills |
Australia |
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France
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| Jacques Cartier |
Canada, Northern U.S. |
| Jacques Cousteau |
Undersea w/ship Calypso |
| Jacques Marquette |
North America |
| Jean La Perouse |
Far East |
| Louis Jolliet |
North America |
| Renee La Salle |
Canada, North America |
| Samuel de Champlain |
Canada |
| Renee Caillie |
Africa |
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Germany
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| Alexander von Humboldt |
South America |
| Friedrich Leichhardt |
Australia |
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Ireland
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| Robert O'Hara Burke |
Australia |
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Italy
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| Amerigo Vespucci |
North America |
| John Cabot (nee Giovanni Caboto) |
North America |
| Marco Polo |
Central Asia and China |
| Sebastian Cabot |
So. America (Brazil) |
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Netherlands
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| Avel Tasman (Dutch) |
Australia |
| William Barents (Dutch) |
Northeast Passage |
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Porutigal
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| Ferdinad Magellan |
World circumnavigation |
| Henry the Navigator |
West coast of Africa |
| Pedro Alvares Cabral |
So America |
| Vasco Da Gama |
India |
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Scandinavia
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| Fridtjof Nansen (Norway) |
Greenland |
| Otto Nordenskjold (Sweden) |
Antartica |
| Thor Heyerdahl |
Pacific |
| Vitus Bering (Danmark) |
Northwest Passage |
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Russia
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| Fabian Bellingshausen |
Aantartica |
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Scotland
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| Alexander Mackenzie |
North America |
| Hugh Clapperton |
Africa |
| James Ross |
Artic, North Pole |
| John Ross |
Artic, No. Canada |
| Mungo Park |
Africa |
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Spain
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| Christopher Columbus |
North America |
| Franciso Coronado |
Southern U.S. |
| Francisco Pizarro |
Peru |
| Hernan Cortes |
Central America |
| Hernando De Soto |
Southern U.S. |
| Juan Ponce de Leon |
Florida & Caribbean |
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United States
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| Ann Bancroft |
North Pole |
| John Fremont |
North America |
| Merriwether Lewis |
North America |
| Robert Peary |
North Pole |
| William Clark |
North America |
| Zebulon Pike |
North America |
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