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Ferdinand Magellan
First circumnavigation of the Earth
Robert Falcon Scott
Antarctic expeditions and reaching the South Pole
Matthew Henson
Co-discoverer of the Geographic North Pole
Christopher Columbus
Discovery of the Americas
Jacques Cartier
Discovery of Canada
Amerigo Vespucci
Demonstration that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts
Edmund Hillary
First confirmed ascent of Mount Everest
Abel Tasman
European discovery of Tasmania, New Zealand and Fiji
David Livingstone
Exploration of Africa
Hernando de Soto
Discovery of the Mississippi River
Yuri Gagarin
First human to journey into outer space
Vasco da Gama
First European to reach India by sea
Marco Polo
European knowledge of Central Asia and China
Hernán Cortés
Conquest of the Aztec Empire
Henry Hudson
Discovery of the Hudson River and Hudson Bay
Roald Amundsen
First to reach the South Pole
Juan Ponce de León
First European expedition to Florida
Francis Drake
Second circumnavigation of the Earth
John Cabot
Discovery of parts of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England
Neil Armstrong
First man on the Moon
Lewis and Clark
Exploration of the American West
Sir Walter Raleigh
Founder of the Roanoke Colony in present-day North Carolina, often referred to as the 'Lost Colony'
James Cook
First contact with Eastern Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first circumnavigation of New Zealand
Willem Barentsz
Arctic exploration and discovery of the Svalbard archipelago
Valentina Tereshkova
First and youngest woman to have flown in space with a solo mission
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