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Notable & Famous Explorers Posters and Prints, pg 4/8
for social studies teachers and home schoolers, theme decor in office.
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Cabeza de Vaca, Cabot, Cabral, Camerson, Carson, Cartier, Champlain, Clapperton, Columbus, Cook, Coronado, Cortes, Cousteau, Crockett.
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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
b. c. 1500; Cadiz
d. c. 1557; Spain
Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer remembered for his La Relacion (The Report) to Charles V about being one of four survivors out of a party of 300, and crossing from Florida to Mexico, 1528-1537.
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Pedro Alvares Cabral
b. c. 1467; Portugal
d. 1520; Portugal
Pedro Alvares Cabral, Portugese navigator entrusted with carrying on in Vasco de Gama's post, is considered the first European to establish a sea route to
• Voyage of Pedro Alvares Cabral to Brazil and India
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Christopher Houston “Kit” Carson
b. 12-24-1809; Kentucky
d. May, 1868
“Kit” Carson was an American frontiersman born in Kentucky to a Reveloutionary War veteren and traveled with his family at the age to two to Franklin, Missouri, situated at the eastern end of the Santa Fe Trail. After his father's untimely clearing land purchased from Daniel Boone's sons, Carson apprenticed in a saddlemaker shop and heard the stories of the trader's and trappers setting out for New Mexico. He left home at the age of 16, eventually learned the fur trapping skills and became fluent in Spanish, Navajo, Apache, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Paiute, Shoshone, and Ute. Carson also married three times, having fifteen children, and serving as scout for John C. Fremont.
• Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life
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Samuel de Champlain
b. 1567; France
d. 12-25-1635; Quebec City
Samuel de Champlain, the "father of New France," founder of Quebec City, opened North America to French fur trade. Champlain was born in the seaport town of Brouage on France's west coast and naturally became a salior, progressing to navigator and mapmaker. Champlain would spend several months or years exploring North America in the area of present day Quebec and the area of the US where Lake Champlain, named for him, in 1609; and then return to France to find investors for more exploration.
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James Cook
b. 10-27-1728; 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
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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
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau
b. 6-11-1910; 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.
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