- Discoverers
Web- This site is not well organized, but if you are looking for
a great variety of information on specific explorers it can be helpful.
- Discoverers
Web: Alphabetical List - Links to information on the lives of dozens
of explorers.
- Discovering the Lost Legacy
of Jedediah Smith - Presents a biography, chronology, image gallery,
and map gallery.
- The Electronic
Passport to David Livingstone - Short, illustrated biography created
for middle school students.
- Explorer
Poems - A fifth grade class shares the poems they wrote about the
lives of famous explorers.
- Explorers of the Millennium
- Fourth and fifth grade students offer short biographies of great explorers.
- Famous Hispanics:
Vasco Núñez de Balboa - Short biography of the first European to
see the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean.
- Forbidden
Territory @ nationalgeographic.com - A glimpse into the lives of
African explorers David Livingstone and Henry Morten Stanley.
- The Franklin Trail
- Archaeological survey of evidence and artifacts relating to the final
days of the Franklin expedition.
- The Great Web of Percy Harrison
Fawcett - Information about the British explorer's Brazilian expedition.
- Hall
of Explorers - Biographical articles on several explorers. Students
can submit content.
- The Journies and Expeditions
of Marquette, Drake, Columbus, Cortez, and DeSoto - Middle school
students tell the stories of five men who explored North America. Each
story is illustrated with original drawings.
- List of Explorers
- Index to Wikipedia articles on world explorers.
- Pedro
Álvares Cabral - Brief biographical article.
- The Pre-British Explorers
of Australia - Short expedition biographies of a few British, Dutch
and French explorers, with historic maps.
- Pomp - The True Story
of the Baby on the Sacagawea Dollar - This e-book tells the story
of the baby born on the historic Lewis and Clark Expedition who would
grow up to explore the American West.
- Ships of Discovery-
Study the ships that made it to undiscovered territory and those that
didn't make it.
- Sir
Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage To Newfoundland - An account of the last
voyage, told by Edward Haies, commander of The Golden Hind, 1583.
- Virtual Exploration
Society - Information, pictures, biographies of a handful of explorers
through time.
- Taking on the World:
European Explorers - Features short biographies of the best-known
European explorers.
- Voyage of Exploration:
Discovering New Horizons - Leads visitors on a journey through the
past centuries looking at the explorers, the dangers they faced, where
they went, and their motivations for exploration. In English and Dutch.
- Who
Was Ponce de Leon? - A biography of the Spanish explorer of the
New World
- Zoom Explorers
- Brief biographies of men and women who have explored the earth and
skies.
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