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Famous Explorers #3
Name these further pioneers who accomplished these other feats of exploration. May be difficult.
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Explorer
first European to reach Australia
17th
Dutch
Willem Janszoon
claimed to have reached the North Pole in 1909
20th
American
Robert Peary
first woman to go to space
20th
Soviet
Valentina Tereshkova
visited the British Isles and the Arctic in antiquity
4th BC
Greek
Pytheas
first European since the Vikings to reach the Americas
north of the Caribbean
15th
Italian
John Cabot
farthest humans from Earth (Apollo 13, name any)
20th
American
Jim Lovell | Fred
Haise | Jack Swigert
monk who travelled to India to bring Buddhist texts to China
7th
Chinese
Xuanzang
tried to find the Northeast Passage and discovered Svalbard
16th
Dutch
Barentsz
first to traverse the Northwest Passage, partially by sled
19th
Irish
Robert McClure
admiral in the Russian fleet who discovered the Antarctic
continent while circumnavigating the globe
19th
Russian /
German
Fabian Gottlieb
von Bellingshausen
first European to explore the inner modern United States
16th
Spanish
Hernando de Soto
first to traverse the Northeast Passage & circumnavigate Eurasia
19th
Swedish
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
first human to orbit the moon alone
20th
American
John Young
friar who was the first to cross the Pacific west to east
16th
Spanish
Andrés de Urdaneta
explored West Africa and initiated the Age of Discovery
15th
Portuguese
Henry the Navigator
his lost expedition to the Canadian Arctic caused many searches
19th
British
John Franklin
explored the east coast of North America and founded Quebec
17th
French
Samuel de Champlain
travelled around the world in 72 days, inspired by Jules Verne
19th
American
Nellie Bly
first European known to sight American land
10th
Norse
Gunnbjörn Ulfsson
fastest humans relative to Earth (Apollo 10, name any)
20th
American
Tom Stafford | John
Young | Gene Cernan
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