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Famous Explorers #2
This is a continuation of Quizmaster's
Famous Explorers
. Can you name the pioneers who accomplished these feats of exploration?
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Explorer
explored and colonised Mexico for Spain
16th
Spanish
Hernán Cortés
travelled for 30 years through much of Africa and Asia
14th
Maghrebi
Ibn Battuta
first to climb Mount Everest alongside Hillary
20th
Nepali/Indian
Tenzing Norgay
first to circumnavigate the world, taking over from Magellan
16th
Spanish
Juan Sebastián Elcano
accidentally became the first European to reach Brazil
15th
Portuguese
Pedro Álvares Cabral
led the Fram expedition to the Arctic, later a diplomat
19th
Norwegian
Fridtjof Nansen
Viking who first settled Greenland
10th
Norse
Erik the Red
first human to walk in space
20th
Soviet
Alexei Leonov
explored northeast Asia & western North America for Russia
17th
Danish
Vitus Bering
explored and conquered Peru for Spain
16th
Spanish
Francisco Pizarro
sailed across the Pacific in a hand-built raft
20th
Norwegian
Thor Heyerdahl
first human on the moon alongside Armstrong
20th
American
Buzz Aldrin
first European to round the southern tip of Africa
15th
Portuguese
Bartolomeu Dias
first European to travel inland in North America,
claimed Canada for France
16th
French
Jacques Cartier
searched for the sources of Nile and Congo
19th
British
Henry Morton Stanley
explored the east coast of South America and wrote about it
16th
Florentian
Amerigo Vespucci
lost the race to the South Pole to Amundsen
20th
British
Robert Falcon Scott
scientist and geographer who travelled the Americas
19th
German
Alexander von Humboldt
led the Nimrod and Endurance expeditions to Antarctica
20th
British/Irish
Ernest Shackleton
first three humans to leave Earth orbit (name any)
20th
American
Frank Borman |
Jim Lovell | Bill Anders
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