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LIST OF RESOURCES FOR EXPLORER 
RESEARCH ACTIVITY

Many of the resources listed below are on individual explorers. I suggest that you check all sources not dedicated to one individual as well as checking out the sources dedicated solely to your explorer. Many of the sites on all explorers will give you a good view into your subject. Also, please do a search using one of the accepted search engines we have discussed. I would like for you to include the name and location of the search engine you used to find your own information on your explorer. Please forgive any duplication of sites which may occur in this list. Remember, you may only include pictures in your report if you check them through Mrs. P. first.

There is also a great site which you may visit that will lead you to create a very complete research project based on your explorer. The site is called Biography Maker. Click on the link and see how much it can help you!

  1. The Explorers of Canada
  2. European Explorers in the "New World"
  3. Early Explorers
  4. Discovery and Colonization of America
  5. Explorers Resource Page for Teachers
  6. European Explorations of America
  7. The Age of Explorers
  8. Discoverer's Web
  9. Explorers of the Millennium
  10. Fact Files for Students and Teachers
  11. Famous Explorers
  12. Great Explorers of the World and their Expeditions
  13. Explorers and Exploration
  14. Explorers at Yahooligans!
  15. American History Explorer Sources for Students
  16. Discoverers by the Alphabet
  17. Discoverers Web
  18. Expeditions: The Great Ones
  19. Explorers of the World
  20. Florida Conquistadors
  21. Mariner's Museum: The Age of Exploration
  22. Viking Explorers
  23. Project Leif 2000 
  24. Eirik the Red's Saga 
  25. Leif Erikson 
  26. Leif Ericsson 
  27. Leif the Lucky 
  28. Erikson 
  29. Viking Explorers 
  30. Viking Discoverers 
  31. The Viking Longship 
  32. Medieval Scandinavia 
  33. 1492 Exhibit  
  34. The Explorations of Christopher Columbus  
  35. The Columbus Navigation Homepage  
  36. Columbus and the Age of Discovery  
  37. Christopher Columbus and the Spanish Empire  
  38. Columbus and the New World, 1493  
  39. Columbus's Ships  
  40. Columbus MythBusters  
  41. Columbus  
  42. Sir Francis Drake
  43. Sir Francis Drake  
  44. Francis Drake  
  45. Drake  
  46. Francis Drake  
  47. Sir Francis Drake  
  48. Francis Drake: The Voyage  
  49. Sir Francis Drake's Lost Harbor Found at Whale Cove, Oregon  
  50. Cabot 500 Celebrations Website
  51. Who was John Cabot
  52. John Cabot
  53. John & Sebastian Cabot  
  54. Fact file-John and Sebastian Cabot 
  55. History of John Cabot  
  56. John Cabot  
  57. John Cabot and the 1497 voyage  
  58. Cabot
  59. Half Moon Replica  
  60. Henry Hudson
  61. Henry Hudson  
  62. Henry Hudson Explorer of the Hudson River  
  63. Biography of Henry Hudson
  64. Hudson
  65. Ferdinand Magellan  
  66. Projecto Magellan
  67. Fernao De Magalhaes  
  68. Ferdinand Magellan
  69. Ferdinand Magellan  
  70. Ferdinand Magellan, Explorer  
  71. Ferdinand Magellan, the Greatest Voyager of Them All  
  72. Vitus Bering  
  73. Vitus Bering  
  74. Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
  75. Vasquez de Coronado  
  76. Francisco Vásquez de Coronado  
  77. The Story of Coronado  
  78. Francisco Vásquez de Coronado  
  79. Francisco de Coronado  
  80. Map of Coronado's Journey
  81. Coronado
  82. Coronado
  83. Prince Henry  
  84. Prince Henry, the Navigator  
  85. Vasco da Gama  
  86. Vasco da Gama and the Sea Route to India  
  87. Vasco da Gama  
  88. Vasco da Gama's Maritime Voyage to India, 1497  
  89. Rene Robert Cavalier, Sieur de La Salle  
  90. René-Robert-Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle  
  91. LaSalle Chronology  
  92. LaSalle  
  93. LaSalle  
  94. Samuel Champlain  
  95. Champlain's 1607 Map  
  96. Samuel de Champlain, Voyages
  97. Champlain
  98. The Voyages of Jacques Cartier  
  99. Jacques Cartier  
  100. Cartier  
  101. Hernando de Soto, Spanish Explorer  
  102. Hernando de Soto  
  103. de Soto  
  104. Hernando de Soto Expedition  
  105. Spanish Exploration and Conquest 
  106. Hernando de Soto
  107. Hernando de Soto  
  108. The PEARL QUEEN greets HERNANDO DeSOTO  
  109. CHIEF TUSKALOOSA shows the riches of Alabama to DeSOTO  
  110. Hernando de Soto 101
  111. DeSoto  
  112. James Cook  
  113. Captain Cook Study Unit  
  114. Captain Cook Links  
  115. Captain Cook: Voyages of Discovery  
  116. James Cook, Voyage of the Endeavor 1768-1771
  117. James Cook  
  118. James Cook
  119. James Cook
  120. Cortés
  121. Hernando Cortés
  122. An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
  123. "Empires Past: Aztecs: Conquest"  
  124. Hernan Cortes
  125. Pizarro
  126. The Tragic Story of Francisco Pizarro  
  127. Conquest of the Inca: Francisco Pizarro
  128. Conquest of Ecuador
  129. The Search for Inca Gold
  130. Marco Polo  
  131. Marco Polo  
  132. Marco Polo  
  133. Marco Polo
  134. Marco Polo  
  135. Juan Poncé de Léon  
  136. de Leon  
  137. Poncé de Léon  
  138. Ponce de Leon  
  139. Verrazzano  
  140. Giovanni da Verrazzano  
  141. Giovanni da Verrazzano  
  142. Giovanni da Verrazzano  
  143. Giovanni da Verrazzano  
  144. The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca  
  145. Windows to the Unknown  
  146. Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca  
  147. Cabeza de Vaca  
  148. History of Estévanico
  149. Estévanico the Moor 
  150. Amerigo Vespucci  
  151. Amerigo Vespucci
  152. Amerigo Vespucci 
  153. Life of Amerigo Vespucci


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