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| Álvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca |
a Spanish explorer who, after landing on the cape of Florida in 1528 and being stranded in the Gulf coast region for 8 years, published an account of his survival and interaction with the native peoples under the title "La relación" (1542) (b.1490?--d.1557?). |
| Amerigo Vespucci |
an Italian navigator and explorer (b.1454--d.1512). |
| Christopher Columbus |
an Italian navigator and explorer, and leader of the Spanish expedition that landed in America in 1492 (b.1451?--d.1506). |
| Eric the Red |
a Nordic outlaw and explorer who established the first Nordic settlement of Greenland in 985 (b.950--d.1003). |
| Hernando Cortés |
a Spanish explorer and conqueror of Mexico (1485-1547). |
| Hernando De Soto |
a Spanish explorer in America (b.1500?--d.1542). |
| Leif Ericsson |
a Nordic explorer who was the first known European to set foot on mainland North America (b.980?--d.1020?). |
| Sir Walter Raleigh |
an English explorer who founded a short-lived colony on what is now Roanoke Island, Virginia (b.1554--d.1618). |
| Vasco da Gama |
a Portuguese explorer who established the first all-water trade route between Europe and India (b.1460?--d.1524). |
| Vasco Núñez de Balboa |
a Spanish explorer and the first European discoverer of the Pacific Ocean (b.1475?--d.1519?). |
| William Beebe |
U.S. naturalist, explorer, and author, who in 1934 made a record oceanic descent of 3,028 feet (923 meters) in a bathysphere (b.1877--d.1962). |
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