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Notable & Famous Explorers Posters and Prints, pg 4/8
for social studies teachers and home schoolers, theme decor in office.

educational posters > history > Great Explorers posters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 < social studies


Cabot, Cabral, Camerson, Carson, Cartier, Champlain, Clapperton, Columbus, Cook, Coronado, Cortes, Cousteau, Crockett.



Sebastian Cabot Map Maker and Navigator Son of John Cabot. Giclee Print
John Cabot, Navigator,
Giclee Print

John Cabot
b. c. 1484; Bristol, England or Venice
d. c. 1557

John Cabot (originally Giovanni Caboto), was an explorer under the flags of England and Spain and a cartographer to Henry VIII.

Voyages and Discoveries: Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries

EXPLORERS-

Buzz Aldrin
Neil Armstrong
Diego de Almagro
Francisco de Almeida
Pedro de Alvarado
Roald Amundsen
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Willem Barents
Muhammad Ibn Battula
Benjamin of Tudela
Jean de Bethencourt
Isabella Bird Bishop
Daniel Boone
Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Michal Piotr Boym
St. Brendan the Navigator
Richard F. Burton
Richard E. Byrd
John Cabot
Sebastian Cabot
Pedro Alvares Cabral
Verney Lovett Cameron
Christopher "Kit" Carson
Jacques Cartier
Samuel de Champlain
Hugh Clapperton
Christopher Columbus
Captain James Cook
Francisco Coronado
Hernan Cortes
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Davy Crockett
Captain William Dampier
Bartholomew Diaz
Sir Francis Drake
Jules Dumont d'Urville
Amelia Earhart
Erik the Red
Leif Erikson
John Edward Eyre
Matthew Flinders
Sir John Franklin
John C. Fremont
Sir Martin Frobisher
Vasco de Gama
Jean François de Galaup,
comte de La Pérouse

Hanno the Navigator
Sven Anders Hedin
Matthew Henson
Prince Henry the Navigator
Henry Hudson
Friedrich von Humboldt
Louis Jolliet
Mary Kingsley
Leonid Kulik
Alexander Gordon Laing
Dr. David Livingstone
Lewis & Clark
Ferdinand Magellan
Henri Mohout
Fridtjof Nansen
Naddod
Odysseus
Alonso de Ojeda
Mungo Park
Robert Peary
Martin Alonso Pinzon
Francisco Pizarro
Marco Polo
Juan Ponce de Leon
Fernandes de Quiros
Sir Walter Raleigh
James Clark Ross
Robert de LaSalle
Robert Falcon Scott
Frederick Selous
Ernest Shackleton
Joshua Slocum
Captain John Smith
Sir George Somers
John Hanning Speke
Abel Janszoon Tasman
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier
Armin Vambery
Amerigo Vespucci
Samuel Wallis
Charles Wilkes
Yermak (Timofeyevich)



BOOKS ABOUT EXPLORERS
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


Sebastian Cabot Map Maker and Navigator Son of John Cabot. Giclee Print
Sebastian Cabot, Map Maker and Navigator Son of John Cabot,
Giclee Print

Sebastian Cabot
b. c. 1484; Bristol, England or Venice
d. c. 1557

Sebastian Cabot (originally Sebastiano Caboto), the son of John Cabot, was an explorer under the flags of England and Spain and a cartographer to Henry VIII

Voyages and Discoveries: Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries


Pedro Alvares Cabral Arriving in Brazil in 1500, from "Libro Dea Armadas", Giclee Print
Pedro Alvares Cabral Arriving in Brazil in 1500, from "Libro Dea Armadas",
Giclee Print

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


Verney Lovett Cameron Crossing the Lulindi, Giclee Print
Verney Lovett Cameron Crossing the Lulindi,
Giclee Print

Verney Lovett Cameron
b. 7-1-1844; England
d. 3-24-1894; England

Verney Lovett Cameron was the first European to cross equatorial Africa from sea to sea.

Across Africa by Verney Lovett Cameron


Kit Carson's House, Taos, NM, Art Print
Kit Carson's House, Taos, NM,
Art Print

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


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

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.


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 Niger Expedition.

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


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; 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


Jacques-Yves Causteau / TIME Magazine, March 28, 1960
Jacques-Yves Causteau / TIME Magazine,
March 28, 1960

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.


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

Davy Crockett, American Frontiersman
b. 8-17-1786; Tennessee
d. March, 1836; The Alamo, TX


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