EXPLORERS

Once upon a time there were heaps of people in the world.. and they wanted to find out what was where.. so they went exploring... some became famous... some didnt.. some returned to tell their tale.. some didnt.. some lived happily ever after .. some didnt... find out about some of them here..


World Explorers


Alexander the Great explored heaps of places to conquer
Amundsen, Roald this guy liked being cold !
Burton, Sir Richard No no no.. not the actor !!
Cabot, John Explored North America
Champlain, Samuel this guy liked canada
Cheng Ho China's Mr Columbus
Cabot, Sebastian John's son
Columbus, Christopher heaps of information here
Columbus, Christopher another good site
Cortez, Hernando
Da Gama, Vasco sailed from portugal to india to find the best route
Da Gama, Vasco some more info about him
Dampier, William
this guy didnt like australia?????
Drake, Francis Sir he once was a pirate????? sheesh !
Eric the Red advanced stuff here
Gray, Robert trader
Hall, Charles Francisartic explorer
Hamel, Hendrik explored Korea
Hartog, Dirk first european to discover australia???
Henry the Navigator explored the coastline of Africa
Hillary, Edmund Mt Everest here he comes !!
Kane, Joe amazonian effort
Kingsley, Mary *yay* a female
de La Salle
Livingstone, David
Magellan, Ferdinand Sailed round the world first !
Mawson, Douglas explored antarctica
Pelsart, Francisco
Polo, Marco excellent stuff here
Stanley, Henry Morton "Dr Livingstone I presume?"

American Explorers

Boone, Daniel "daniel boone was a man.....
Cabarillo, Juan explored California coastline
Campbell, Robert
Carson, Kit
Fraser, Simon crossed the Rockies
Fremont, John Charles
The Oregan Trail who is responsible???

Australian Explorers

like a lot of places .. australia had to be explored.. and it was.. the native australians all ready knew what was out there.. but heaps of other people wanted to know too !!

bass, george
Banks, Joseph okay .. so? hes a botanic explorer !
blaxland, george
burke, robert ohara
Cabral, Pedralvarez found brazil (was he nutty?)
cook, james
eyre, edward john
flinders, matthew
forrest, john
gregory, augustus charles
Hume, Hamilton
kennedy, edmund
king, phillip parker
leichardt, ludwig
mitchell, thomas livingstone
oxley, john
stuart, john
sturt, charles
tasman, abel

Activities and fun stuff

heres some stuff you can do interacting with the net.. and in doing so, explore more about the explorers...

Timeline of explorations this has everything.. (i think)
Best linksthis page has the greatest links

Activity 1

Click on this link about Cortez and explain what you think this poem is about

Activity 2

This page - activities - has some excellent activities for you to do..try some

Activity 3

This WORKSHEET is for you to use with the European Explorers of the West Coast of Australia website.. go explore it !! Its fun !
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