Explorers &
Discoverers
Conquistadors
This PBS site describes the exploits of 4 famous 16th century Spanish
explorers: Cortes, Pizarro, de Orellano and de Vaca.
Discoverers
Web
Contains comprehensive list of links to discoveries and explorers from
prehistoric to modern
times, including an alphabetical index. Compiled by a PhD student and
faculty member of a university in The Netherlands.
Explorers of Antarctica
Information about the exploration of Antarctica and biographies of the
explorers is provided by the American Society of Antarctic Philatelists.
Explorers
of the World
Created by Jim McKenzie of the Bellingham, Washington Public Schools,
this
site provides links to 11 land explorers and 8 sky
explorers.
Lindbergh
Based on the PBS series, this site includes maps, an aviation timeline
and information about Lindbergh’s famous flight across the Atlantic.
It goes beyond his flying successes to include his life as a public
figure.
Mariner’s
Museum: Age of Exploration
Includes Maritime discovery from ancient times to Captain Cook’s 1768
voyage and link to other useful websites, from the Mariners Museum,
one of the largest maritime history museums in the world.
New
Perspectives on the West
This biographical dictionary of men and women featured in The West,
a PBS
documentary series, includes many explorers and discoverers.
The Oregon
Trail: Discoverers & Explorers
This site, from Idaho State University, describes the men and women
whose explorations helped to blaze the trails to the West.
Passages:
A Treasure Trove of North American Exploration
The National Library of Canada provides a chronology of North American
exploration and profiles of individual explorers and their discoveries.
Select alphabetical list or chronological outline for links to the information.
Scientists,
Inventors and Explorers
This portal leads to hundreds of Web links to biographical information
by subject and grade level from an author and former high school teacher.
The Topic:
Explorers
Select Explorers A-Z for an alphabetical list by explorer name or scroll
way down for a lengthy annotated list of links to general explorer sites.
From eduScapes, a website written by two career educators.
Zoom
Explorers
Brief biographies with pictures arranged by name, region (including
outer space and undersea) and time period. Covers explorers from 1300s
and earlier until the 1900s, from Enchanted Learning.
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Last Updated:
October 9, 2008
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