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Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that conquered the Inca Empire, capturing and killing Incan emperor Atahualpa, and claiming the lands for Spain.

British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy who achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.

Norse explorer from Iceland. He is thought to be the first known European to have set foot on continental North America (excluding Greenland), before Christopher Columbus.

Venetian navigator and explorer who discovered the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England.

Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea, linking Europe and Asia for the first time by an ocean route.

Portuguese explorer who organized the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth.

Italian navigator who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.

Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large parts of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile.

Italian explorer, financier, navigator, and cartographer who is best known for being the first to suggest that the New World was not the eastern outskirts of Asia but a separate landmass unknown to Europeans.

English sea explorer and navigator during the early 17th century, best known for his explorations of present-day Canada and parts of the northeastern United States.

English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era. Drake carried out the second circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580.