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Marco Polo

Journey along the Silk Road to China

Christopher Columbus

Voyages to the Americas

Ferdinand Magellan

Circumnavigation of the Earth

Hernán Cortés

Conquest of the Aztec Empire

Francisco Pizarro

Conquest of the Inca Empire

Lewis and Clark

Expedition across the western portion of the United States

David Livingstone

Exploration of Africa

Henry Hudson

Attempts to find a northeast passage to Asia

James Cook

First recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands

Roald Amundsen

First to reach the South Pole

Robert Falcon Scott

Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole

Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay

First confirmed ascent of Mount Everest

Vasco da Gama

First direct sea voyage from Europe to India

John Cabot

Discovery of portions of North America's coastline

Abel Tasman

First known European explorer to reach the islands of Tasmania, New Zealand, and Fiji

Ernest Shackleton

Endurance expedition to Antarctica

Juan Ponce de León

Exploration of Florida in search of the Fountain of Youth

Alexander von Humboldt

Exploration of Latin America

Zheng He

Seven maritime expeditions in the early 15th century

Jacques Cartier

First European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River

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