All-purpose Sites:
The
Mariner's Museum: Biographies of Explorers and Associated
People
Look here to read short biographies of the
explorers. Find out when they lived, and what their
major accomplishments were. This site is a great starting
place for the rest of your research.
http://www.mariner.org/educationalad/ageofex/
Multnomah County Library
Homework Center -
Explorers
http://www.multcolib.org/homework/explorhc.html
Specific Explorers:
de Balboa, Vasco Nunez
http://coloquio.com/famosos/balboa.html
Cabot, Sebastian
http://www.heritage.nf.ca/exploration/sebcabot.html
Cartier, Jacques
http://www.mariner.org/educationalad/ageofex/french.php
http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/cartier.html
Columbus, Christopher
http://www.mariner.org/educationalad/ageofex/columbus.php
Cook, James
http://www.mariner.org/educationalad/ageofex/cook.php
Coronado, Francisco Vasquez
http://www.desertusa.com/mag98/sep/papr/coronado.html
da Gama, Vasco
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06374a.htm
de Soto, Hernando
http://www.floridahistory.com/inset44.html
Dias, Bartolomeu
http://www.mariner.org/educationalad/ageofex/portuguese_exp.php
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/3808/dias_e.html
Drake, Sir Francis
http://www.mcn.org/2/oseeler/drake.htm
Hillary, Sir Edmund
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/hillary/index.htm
Hudson, Henry
http://www.hudsonriver.com/halfmoonpress/stories/hudson.htm
http://www.mariner.org/educationalad/ageofex/hudson.php
Magellan, Ferdinand
http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/WestEurope/Magellan.html
http://www.mariner.org/educationalad/ageofex/magellan.php
Pizzaro, Francisco
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/P/PizarroF1.asp
Polo, Marco
http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/China/MarcoPolo.html
Prince Henry the Navigator
http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/henry.html
http://www.mariner.org/educationalad/ageofex/portuguese_exp.php#prince
Raleigh, Sir Walter
http://www.britishexplorers.com/woodbury/raleigh.html
Vespucci, Amerigo
http://marauder.millersv.edu/~columbus/papers/canaday.html
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