EXPLORATION
Geography & History

Explorers
Geographers
Maps




CALENDARS

1,000 Places to See Before You Die Calendars
Travel Calendar

Star Trek - Ships of the Line Calendars
Star Trek - Ships of the Line Calendar

Destinations
Destinations Calendar




BOOKS ABOUT EXPLORERS

Explorers (Fandex Family Field Guides)
Explorers
(Fandex Family
Field Guides)


Around the World in a Hundred Years
Around the World
in a Hundred Years:
From Henry the Navigator
to Magellan


Nat'l Geographic World Atlas for Young Explorers
Nat'l Geographic
World Atlas
for Young Explorers


Women of Discovery
Women of Discovery:
A Celebration of
Intrepid Women Who
Explored the World


As Told at the Explorers Club
As Told at
the Explorers Club:
More than Fifty Gripping Tales of Adventure


Explorers South America
Explorers of
South America


Nat'l Geographic's Beyond 2000
Nat'l Geographic's
Beyond 2000
VHS




Teacher's Best - The Creative Process


Notable & Famous Explorers Posters “Ch...-Cr...-”
for social studies teachers and home schoolers, theme decor in office.


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Explorers ~

Samuel de Champlain
Hugh Clapperton
Christopher Columbus

John Colter
Captain James Cook
Francisco Coronado

Hernan Cortes
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Davy Crockett



Samuel de Champlain, Giclee Print
Samuel de Champlain,
Giclee Print

Samuel de Champlain
b. 1567; Brouage, France
d. 12-25-1635; Quebec City

Samuel de Champlain, the “Father of New France,” and founder of Quebec City, opened North America to French colonization with the fur trade.

Champlain was born in a seaport town on France's west coast and naturally became a salior, progressing to navigator and mapmaker. He would spend several months or years exploring North America in the area of present day Quebec and the area of the US Lake Champlain (named for him in 1609) and then return to France to find investors for more exploration.

• see Jean Nicolet


Hugh Clapperton Scottish Explorer First European to See Lake Chad Died on Niger Expedition, Giclee Print
Hugh Clapperton,
Giclee Print

Hugh Clapperton
b. 5-18-1788; Scotland
d. 4-13-1827; Africa

Hugh Clapperton, a Scottish traveller and explorer of West and Central Africa, was the first European to see Lake Chad; died on the Niger Expedition.

Hugh Clapperton into the Interior of Africa: Records of the Second Expedition, 1825-1827


Great Explorers - Christopher Columbus Wall poster
Great Explorers - Christopher Columbus Wall Poster

Christopher Columbus
b. c 8-26 & 10-31-1451; Genoa, Italy
d. 5-20-1506; Valladolid, Spain

• see Christopher Columbus page


John Colter: His Years in the Rockies
John Colter: His
Years in the Rockies

John Colter
b. c 1774-5; Stuarts Draft, Augusta Co., Virginia
d. 1812-1813; Missouri (possibly New Haven)

Mountain man John Colter, one of the original members of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, is better remembered for the being the first known person of European descent to see the Teton Mountains and what is now known as Yellowstone National Park. His reports had unbelieving fellow trappers calling the place “Colter's Hell” for the shooting waters and smoking ground.

In the Lewis and Clark Expedition Colter was regarded as one the best hunters so he was well prepared to spend months by himself in the wilderness. Before his death he met with William Clark who prepared a map of the west based on Colter's description.


Portrait of Captain James Cook, R.N., in Captain's Uniform in a Painted Oval, Giclee Print
Captain James Cook, R. N.,
Giclee Print

James Cook
b. 10-27-1728; Marton, (present-day Middlesbrough) Yorkshire, England
d. 2-14-1779; Hawaii

Captain James Cook, explorer, navigator and cartographer, made the first European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia, the European discovery of the Hawaiian Islands, the first mapping of Newfoundland and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.

The Journals of Captain Cook


Francisco Vasquez de Coronado Making His Way Across New Mexico, from "The Great American Explorers", Giclee Print, Frederic Remington
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
Making His Way Across New Mexico, from "The Great American Explorers",
Giclee Print

Frederic Remington

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
b. c 1510; Salamanca, Spain
d. 9-22-1554; Mexico City, bankrupt

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado was a Spanish conquistador whose desire for the fabled gold of Cibola fueled his expedition into what is now the southwestern United States to “Quivera” in the area of Lyons, Kansas.

He was also the first European to see the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River.

In Coronado's Footsteps, Stewart Udall


Hernan Cortes Giclee Print
Hernan Cortes
Giclee Print

Hernan Cortes
b. 1485; Medellin, Kingdom of Castile
d. 12-2-1546; Seville Province, Spain

Hernan Cortes, and his second cousin Francisco Pizzaro, were just two of the many young Spaniards and Portugese men who sought wealth in the 16th and 17th centuries through the conquest and colonization of the New World.

An eighteen year old Cortes, who had abandoned his training as a lawyer at the University of Salamanca, arrived in Hispaniola in 1504. His work turned out to be as a government bureaucrat in Hispaniola and Cuba, and not until 1518 did he sail for the mainland, again against the orders of his superiors.

Cortes as is best remembered as leading the unauthorized expedition that brought down Montezuma II and the Aztec Empire, putting much of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile. It was his law education that helped him defend his venture.

FYI ~ Cortes and “La Malinche” (also known as Dona Marina), a Nahua woman who was his interpreter and mistress, had a son named Martin, after Cortes father. Martin was a Mestizo, one of the first people of European and Amerindian parentage and culture.


The Silent World Poster Movie
The Silent World Poster Movie

Jacques-Yves Cousteau
b. 6-11-1910; Saint-André-de-Cubzac, Gironde, France
d. 6-25-1997; Paris

French naval officer Jacques-Yves Cousteau was an explorer and ecologist who studied the sea and all forms of water life.

• “Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”


Davy Crockett, American Frontiersman Giclee Print
Davy Crockett,
American Frontiersman,
Giclee Print

Davy Crockett
b. 8-17-1786; Greene County, Tennessee (then in the State of Franklin)
d. 3-6-1836; The Alamo, TX (Battle of the Alamo)

Frontiersman and hunter Davy Crockett's exploits and storytelling skills made him into a folk hero, even in his lifetime.

After serving in the US House of Representatives several times and being defeated in the 1836 election, he reported said “I told the people of my district that I would serve them as faithfully as I had done; but if not, they might go to hell, and I would go to Texas.”


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