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The era of European sea explorations began in the late 15th century and lasted for a little more than three full centuries.
This is a list of notable sea explorers:
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Louis Antoine de Bougainville, first French circumnavigator
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Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, the second person to circumnavigate Antarctica
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John Byron
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John Cabot
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Sebastian Cabot
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Pedro Álvares Cabral
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Jacques Cartier
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Thomas Cavendish
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Samuel de Champlain
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Didrik Pining, discovered America 20 years before Columbus
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Christopher Columbus, (re)discovered America
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James Cook, explorer of the Pacific Ocean and polar regions
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William Dampier
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John Davis
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Bartolomeu Dias
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Francis Drake
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Leif Ericson, a Norse viking discovered America some 500 years before Columbus, calling part of it Vinland
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Martin Frobisher
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Vasco da Gama
- Humfry Gilbert
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Henry Hudson
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Ferdinand Magellan, performed the first voyage of circumnavigation
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Jacob Le Maire
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Alvaro de Mendaña
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Binot Paulmyer
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Pedro Fernandez de Quiros
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Willem Schouten
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Abel Tasman, discoverer of Tasmania and New Zealand
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Luis Vaez de Torres
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George Vancouver
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Giovanni da Verrazano
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Amerigo Vespucci, discovered other parts of America and gave his name to the new continent
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Samuel Wallis, discoverer of Tahiti
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Zheng He explored much of Asia and Africa.
See also polar explorers and land explorers , explorers.
Last updated: 10-13-2005 07:24:48