Hint
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Nationality
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Answer
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Discovered the New World; Greenland
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Norse
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Erik the Red
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Credited with discovering America
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Italian
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Christopher Columbus
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First to circumnavigate the globe
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Portuguese
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Ferdinand Magellan
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Sent to explore the Louisiana Purchase
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American
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Meriwether Lewis & William Clark
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1st European to cross the Mississippi
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Spanish
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Hernando DeSoto
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Sought the fountain of youth in Florida
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Spanish
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Juan Ponce de León
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First man in space
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Russian
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Yuri Gagarin
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Known for his underwater explorations
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French
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Jacques Cousteau
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1st to the South & North Poles, NW Passage
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Norwegian
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Roald Amundsen
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First to explore the moon
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American
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Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin
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"Discovered" the Pacific Ocean in Panama
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Portuguese
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Vasco Núñez de Balboa
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Found and explored the wreck of Titanic
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American
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Robert Ballard
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Explorer of Mexico; conquered the Aztecs
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Spanish
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Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro
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English explorer of the U.S. coastline
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English
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Sir Francis Drake
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Viking explorer of Newfoundland
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Norse
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Leif Eriksson
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Found a sea route from Europe to India
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Spanish
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Vasco da Gama
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European discoverer of Niagara Falls
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French
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Louis Hennepin
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Explorer and first atop Mt. Everest
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British/Sherpa
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Sir Edmund Hillary; Tenzing Norgay
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Explored the NW Passage; Hudson Bay
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English
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Henry Hudson
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French explorers of the Mississippi River
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French, Canadian
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Jacques Marquette; Louis Joliet
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Missionary who explored east/south Africa
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English
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David Livingstone
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Explored much of Asia and China
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Italian
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Marco Polo
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Explored S. America; conquered the Incas
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Spanish
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Francisco Pizarro
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Vasco da gama was Portuguese, not Spanish
Magellan did not complete the first circumnavigation of the world, unfortunatelly he was killed by Philippino aborigins. Juan Sebastian Elcano, Spanish, did complete it.