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

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

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
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
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

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
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
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

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
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 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
b. 8-17-1786; Tennessee
d. March, 1836; The Alamo, TX