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World Explorers and Their Discoveries
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Lewis and Clark
Exploration of the American West
David Livingstone
Exploration of Africa
Francisco Pizarro
Conquest of the Inca Empire
Marco Polo
Exploration of Asia and the Silk Road
Ferdinand Magellan
First circumnavigation of the Earth
Vasco da Gama
First sea voyage from Europe to India
Christopher Columbus
Discovery of the New World (Americas)
Amerigo Vespucci
The Americas are named after him, and he demonstrated that they were separate landmasses from Asia
James Cook
First recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand
John Cabot
Discovery of parts of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England
Jacques Cartier
Discovery of Canada
Roald Amundsen
First to reach the South Pole
Hernando de Soto
Exploration of the Southeastern United States
Leif Erikson
Likely the first European to set foot on North American soil
Hernán Cortés
Conquest of the Aztec Empire
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