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Jan 1, 1254
Marco Polo
Click Here!Marco Polo was determind, a writer, and influenced. He traveled though Asia for 24 years. He traveled beyond Mongolia to China. His greatest travelogue was traveling the whole of China and returning to tell the tale. Marco Polo was only 6 years old when his dad traveled Eastward on their first trip to Cathway. Marco polo was one of the first Europeans to travel aross Asia through China. -
Jan 1, 1450
John Cabot
Click Here!An Italian born-English explorer and navigator. His original name is Giovanni Caboto. Cabot sailed to Canada in 1497 in request of King Henry VII. Cabot landed near Labrador, Newfoundland, or Cape Breton Island. He claimed the land for England. He explored the Canadian coastline and named many of its islands and capes, He explored the canadian coastline in search of a Northwest passage across North America to Asia. His expeditions were the first of Britain's claims to Canada. -
Jan 1, 1491
Jacques Cartier
Click Here!Jacques Cartier was a French explorer who led three expeditions to Canada, in 1534, 1535, and 1541. Cartier paved the way for French exploration of North America. Cartier sailed inland, going 1,000 miles up the St. Lawrence River. He named Canada "Kanata", and then later named in Canada. -
Jan 1, 1545
Francis Drake
Click Here!Francis Drake was a British explorer, slagve-trader, privateer, mayor of Plymoth, England, and naval officer. He led the second expedition to sail around the world in a voyage from 1577 to 1580. He was the first sailor to do it. Queen Elizabeth I comissioned Drake to command the expedition together with John Winter and Thomas Doughty. They sailed to Brazil, and through the perilous Strait of Magellan. They sailed by Panama (1579), where he pirated Spanish ships. -
Jan 1, 1554
Walter Raleigh
Click Here!Walter was a british explorer, poet, historian, and soldier. He traveled to both North America and South America. Walter traveled there to find gold, new settlements, and increase trade with the new world. Raleigh sent colonists to the east coast of North America in 1585. He later named that area Virginia, after Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen. -
Jan 1, 1565
Henry Hudson
Click Here!Henry was an English explorer and navigator who explored parts of the Arctic Ocean and northeastern North America. The Hudson River, Hudson Strait, and Hudson Bay are named after Hudson. In 1607, Muscovy Company hired Hudson to find a waterway from Europe to Asia. Hudson found what is now called the Hudson River. Hudson discovered the location which is now New York City. He found many dutch settlements in the area. -
Jan 1, 1567
Samuel De Champlain
Click Here!Samuel De Champlain was French explorer and navigator who mapped much of northeastern North America and started a settlement in Quebec. In 1609, Champlain discovered the lake named for him (Lake Champlain), on the border of northern New York state and Vermont. Champlain sailed to France on Francois Grave Du Pont's expedition, in 1603. He also to sailed up the St. Lawrence River and the Saguenay River. Champlain searched for a Northwest Passage and to settle the Gaspe Peninsula. -
James Cook
He was a british explorer and astonomer who travel to the Pacific Ocean, Antartic, Artic, and around the world. Cook s first journey was toTahiti from 1768-1771. His second journey was in 1772-1775 to Antartica and Easter Island. His last expedition was to search for a Northwest Passage across North America to Asia in 1776. -
George Vancouver
George Vancouver was an English explorer and navigator who sailed to the northwest coast of North America. George had two ships, "Discovery" and "Chatham," They reached the Strait of Juan de Fuca, (near what is now seattle) then sailed to Puget Sound. Vancouver then later named Puget Sound after Lieutenant Peter Puget who was sailing under Captain Vancouver. He also named Mt. Rainier, Whidbey Island, and the Hood Canal. Vancouver Island and the city of Vancouver are named for him. -
Leif Ericson
Leif Ericson was the first European to sail to North America. Ericson sailed for North America in the year 1000 with 35 others. He was one of the sons of the explorer Eric the Red. He sailed north from the southern tip of Greenland, then went south along the coast of Baffin Island down to Labrador, and then landed inwhat is now, Newfoundland, which he dcalled vinland.
