Explorers

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Jacques Cousteau

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Helped to protect the ocean life throughout his life andpeople still work today to fulfill his dream of having a cleaner ocean \;

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Reinhold Messner

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He made the first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, along with Peter Habeler, and was the first climber to ascend all fourteen peaks over 8,000 meters (26,000 ft) above sea level, including Mount Everest.

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Roald Amundsen

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first to make it to the south pole,fly over the north pole

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Edmund Hillary

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first person to go to the north and south poles, first person to climb MT. Everest

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Yuri Gagarin

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first man in space

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Neil Armstrong

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First man to walk on the moon, 2 flights with Apollo 11, famous quote

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Daniel Boone

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Tried to find a fast route to Kentucky, got a land in Kentucky, found a route to Kentucky, he made one of the first settlements on the west of the Appalachians

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Sir Francis Drake

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The second that circumnavigated the world expedition Discovered the terro de fuego

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Vasco da Gama

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he was the first to sail from Europe to India

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Bartolomeu Dias

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First Portuguese to sail the southernmost tip of Africa, set out to sail new trade routes

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Ferdinand Magellan

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First to prove the Earth is round, first to name the Pacific Ocean, navigated the straits of North America

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Jacques Cartier

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He founded Canada in 1534,

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Henry Hudson

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Quicker water route to Asia, Hudson Bay and river

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Vasco Nunez de Balboa

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He established the first permanent mainland in the Americas, Panama

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Marco Polo

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Introduced Asia to culture, wrote good about china, silk road

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Ibn Battuta

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at 21 he went on a pilgrimage to Mecca took 16 months

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Leif Erikson

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the first knownEuropean to get to North America

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Lewis & Clark (Sacajawea)

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Studied new plants and animals in the Louisiana purchase also mapped it, went through Missouri and Oregon, totaled two years

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Hernan Cortez

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Conquered the Aztec Empire, exploration of the northwestern part of Mexico, discovered Baja California peninsula

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Francisco Pizarro

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conquered Peru and founded the capital Lima

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Zheng He

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Established a sea route, traveled to over 30 countries, travelled to the Pacific ocean to the Indian ocean, established political power to countries where he traveled

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Ponce de Leon

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Tried to find the fountain of youth never did and was the first to step foot on Florida territory and name it

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Amerigo Vespucci

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discovered Rio, discovered North and South Dakota

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John Cabot

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was believed to be the European to step on land but he was the first European to step on land in North Americas since the Vikings

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Samuel de Champlain

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Explored north Americas. Founded Quebec, colonized Florida, explored the st Lawrence river, explored Niagara falls

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Giovanni da Verrazano

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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, following the Norse expeditions to North America around AD 1000

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Pedro Alvares Cabral

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conducted the first substantial exploration of the northeast coast of South America and claimed it for Portugal

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Christopher Columbus

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first to find the Americas

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Alex Honnold

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climbs mountains with out a rope