Notable & Famous Explorers Posters and Prints, pg 5/8
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William Dampier was an English sea captain, privateer, observer of nature and author. He was the first person to circumnavigate the world twice, and went on to circumnavigate a third time. Dampier marooned Alexander Selkirk who was the inspiration of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, and his careful observations of currents, coastlines and nature influenced Darwin.
b. 1651; England
d. March 1715; London

• A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier

In 1488 Portugese explorer Bartholomew Diaz became the first European known to have sailed around the Cape of Good Hope, the southern tip of Africa, since ancient times; he also accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral on the voyage that resulted in the discovery of Brazil in 1500.
b. c. 1450; Lisbon, Portugal
d. c. 1500; off the Cape of Good Hope

• India & Portugal: Cultural Interactions

Sir Francis Drake, English privateer, navigator, slave trader, and politician who, as he circumnavigated the globe (1577-1580) on his ship the "Golden Hind", also looted and burned Spanish shipping along the west coast of the Americas, going as far north possibly as Oregon. Due to his exploits he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I and was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588. Drake died of dysentery after unsuccessfully attacking San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1596, and was buried in Panama.
b. c 1540; England
d. 1-28-1596; Puerto Rico, dysentery after unsuccessful attack on the Spanish.

French naval officer Jules Dumont d'Urville was an explorer of the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica where the current French research station is named Dumont d'Urville Station. He also was responsible for the French acquiring a newly unearthed “Venus de Milo” (displayed at the Louvre Museum in Paris) on an early sailing venture in 1819.
b. 5-23-1790; France
d. 5-8-1842; France, train accident

Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, across the US nonstop, fly solo from Honolulu to Oakland, California.
b. 7-24-1898; Atchison, KS
missing since 7-2-1937, western Pacific Ocean

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Erik the Red founded the first Nordic settlement in Greenland. The settlement of Brattahlid lasted till the 15th century when the Little Ice Age conditions made life too difficult.
b. c. 950; Norway
d. c. 1000

Leif Eriksson, the son of Erik the Red, was an Icelandic explorer who was the first European land in North America, a land he called Vinland. L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada has been excavated by archeologists.
b. c. 970; Iceland
d. c. 1020

• Greenlander's Saga

John Edward Eyre, an English born explorer of Australia, was also controversial bureaucrat who served as Govenor of Jamaica among other British holdings. Numerous places in Australia carry Eyre's name such as Lake Eyre.
b. 8-5-1815; England
d. 11-30-1901; England

Captain Matthew Flinders, RN, was an accomplished navigator and cartographer whose naval career spanned just over twenty years. Flinders sailed with Captain William Bligh, circumnavigated Australia and encouraged the use of that name for the continent, survived shipwreck only to be imprisoned as a spy, identified and corrected the compass reading effected by the iron components and equipment on board wooden ships, and wrote the seminal work on Australian exploration A Voyage To Terra Australis.
b. 3-16-1774; England
d. 7-19-1814; England

• Terra Australis: Matthew Flinders' great adventures in the circumnavigation of Australia

Sir John Franklin, British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer, mapped almost two thirds of the northern coastline of North America. He died while attempting to chart and navigate the Canadian Arctic for a Northwest Passage; his entire crew then perished of exposure and starvation when they abandoned the icebound ships in desperation. Franklin was the nephew of Matthew Flinders and the uncle of Emily Tennyson, wife of the poet Alfred Tennyson.
b. 4-15-1786; Lincolnshire, England
d. 6-11-1847; near King William Island, Canada

• Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition

John C. Fremont, known as "The Pathfinder", was a military officer, explorer, the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of US President (and the first Presidential candidate of a major party to run on a platform in opposition to slavery). He was married to Jessie Benton, daughter of Missouri senator, Thomas Hart Benton. His chief guide was "Kit" Carson.
b. 1-21-1813; Savannah, Georgia
d. 7-13-1890; NYC

• Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire

Sir Martin Frobisher made his first voyage to Guinea, 1554; a voyage in search of a Northwest Passage, 1576; sailed to the same region in search of gold, of which he brought home 200 tons of iron pyrite, 1577; landed in Greenland, 1578; Vice-Admiral in Drake's expedition to the West Indies, 1585; commanded a ship against the Spanish Armada and was Knighted, 1588.
b. c. 1535; Yorkshire, England
d. 11-15-1594; Plymouth, England, of a wound received in action.

• Elizabethan Hero: The Life of Sir Martin Frobisher

Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, a French Navy officer, was asked by King Louis XVI to chart the globe in order to open new maritime routes. The expedition into the Pacific disappeared after La Perouse was able to send his charts and journals on to France saying that he expected to return in December of 1788. In May of 2005 a wreak off the Solomon Islands was confirmed as La Boussole, one of two expedition ships; fellow Frenchman Dumont d'Urville located the general area of the sinkings on one of his explorations.

La Perouse's voyage was notable for the number of scientists on board, that La Pérouse observed the only historical eruption of Mount Shasta on September 7, 1786, and that a sixteen year old Paris military academy student by the name of Napoleon Bonaparte did not make the final list for the crew.
b. 8-23-1741; France
d. c 1788; Oceania

• Pacific Explorer: The Life of Jean-Francois de La Perouse

Sir Humphrey Gilbert, adventurer and explorer, was a half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh. He is considered to have claimed the first English property in North America.
b. c. 1537; England
d. 9-9-1583; at sea