Famous Explorers #3

Name these further pioneers who accomplished these other feats of exploration. May be difficult.

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Hint	c.	Nationality	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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