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Leif Erikson was an Icelandic explorer considered by some as the first European to land in North America.
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Bartolomeu Diaz was a Portuguese navigator known for being the first European explorer to double the southern tip of Africa , reaching the Indian Ocean from the Atlantic , one of the most important in the history of sailing events.
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Christopher Columbus, was a navigator , cartographer , Admiral, Viceroy and Governor General of the West Indies. It is famous for making the discovery of America , arriving at the island of Guanahani.
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Vasco de Gama, count of Vidigueira, noted for being the commander of the first ships sailed directly from Europe to India the longest ocean voyage made till now.
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Amerigo Vespucci said the land that Columbus had arrived was not part of Asian lands described by Marco Polo , but it was a new continent. This continent came to be termed "America", deriving its name from Americus, the Latin version of Vespucci's first name.
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Juan Ponce de Leon was a Spanish explorer and conquistador. He became the first Governor of Puerto Rico. He led the first European expedition to Florida, which he named.
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Hernan Cortes was a Spanish conquistador who led the expedition that caused the end of the Aztec Empire and the conquest of Mexico.
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Was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth.
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Hernando de Soto was ahead , Spanish conquistador and explorer. He traveled to America and participated in the 1522 expedition of Gil Gonzalez de Avila who discovered the coast of Nicaragua , and then in 1524 the conquest of this territory.
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Francisco Pizarro is remembered for having been imposed on the Inca Empire with the help of various local chiefdoms , conquering imperial State.
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John Smith It is generally recognized to establish the first British settlement in North America, and her brief relationship with the Native American Pocahontas.
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They led an expedition to the Pacific coast where almost 13,000 kilometers traveled by canoe , on horseback and on foot.
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It was the only woman in the expedition Merriweather Lewis and William Clark who crossed on foot for the first time the American continent.
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Edmund Percival Hillary was a mountaineer , pilot and New Zealand explorer, famous for being the first to reach the summit of Everest and return alive from it.
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Yuri Alekséyevich Gagarin was a Soviet cosmonaut . Gagarin became the first human to travel into space. He did aboard ship.
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Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also an aerospace engineer, naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor.
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau discovered underwater life through over 115 television documentaries and films, he brought to the knowledge of marine species , classification and behavior. In 1973, along with his two sons and Frederick Hyman, he created the Cousteau Society for the Protection of Ocean Life.
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Marco Polo was a merchant and Venetian traveler's famous stories attributed travel to East Asia. It is said that he introduced gunpowder in Europe.
