Notable & Famous Explorers Posters and Prints, pg 2/8
for social studies teachers and home schoolers, theme decor in office.

Pedro de Alvarado
b. c. 1495; Spain
d. 7-4-1541; Guadalajara, New Spain

Pedro de Alvarado, a Spanish conquistador and second in command to Cortes, was known for his skill as a soldier. His wife, Beatriz de la Cueva de Ubeda, succeeded his governorship of Guatemala after his death; she died several month later during the September 1541 eruption of the Guatemalan “de Agua” volcano.

• Pedro de Alvarado, Conquistador

Roald Amundsen
b. 7-16-1872; Norway
d. c 6-18-1928; plane crash during an attempted rescue

Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian polar explorer, led the first successful Antarctic expedition to the South Pole between 1910 and 1912. Amundsen and a co-explorer, Oscar Adolf Wisting, may also be the first persons to be at both North and South poles.

• The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912

Roy Chapman Andrews
b. 1-26-1884; Beloit, Wisconsin
d. 3-11-1960; California

Roy Chapman Andrews, explorer, adventurer and naturalist, wrote “I was born to be an explorer. . . There was never any decision to make. I couldn't do anything else and be happy.” Chapman was the first to discover fosselized dinosaur eggs in Mongolia; he was also became the director of the American Museum of Natural History after his beginning position was a janitor in the taxidermy department.

• Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central Asiatic Expeditions