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Explorers

Click on the person's name to find books about the explorer or his journeys in the Youth Services Department
Click on the *C* to find collective biographies which contain information about the explorer
Click on the *A* to find information in the Adult Department
Click on the *I* to find Internet resources

For more internet sources try our Online Databases for Kids

Ask at the Youth Services desk if you need information on an explorer who is not listed below.

Roald Amundsen *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C*       *A* *I*
Vasco Nuñez de Balboa *C* *C* *C* *C* *C*               *A* *I*
James Pierson "Jim" Beckwourth *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C*               *I*
Daniel Boone *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C*             *A* *I*
Saint Brendan the Voyager *C*                         *I*
Sir Richard Burton *C* *C* *C* *C*                 *A* *I*
Admiral Richard Byrd *C* *C* *C* *C*                   *I*
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca *C* *C* *C* *C* *C*                 *I*
John Cabot *C* *C* *C* *C* *C*                 *I*
Sebastian Cabot *C* *C*                       *I*
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo                           *I*
Jacques Cartier *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C*             *I*
Samuel de Champlain *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C*         *A* *I*
William Clark *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C*       *A* *I*
Christopher Columbus *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *A* *I*
Captain James Cook *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C*       *A* *I*
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C*           *A* *I*
Hernán Cortés *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *A* *I*
Bartolomeu Dias *C* *C* *I*
Sir Francis Drake *C* *C* *C*                   *A* *I*
Leif Erikson *C* *C* *C* *C* *C*                 *I*
Estevanico *C* *C* *C*                   *A* *I*
John Charles Frémont *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C*             *A* *I*
Vasco da Gama *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C*         *I*
Prince Henry the Navigator *C* *C* *C* *C* *C*               *A* *I*
Matthew Henson *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C*     *I*
Thor Heyerdahl *C* *C* *C*                   *A* *I*
Sir Edmund Hillary *C* *C* *C* *C*                 *A* *I*
Henry Hudson *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C*           *I*
Louis Jolliet *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *I*
René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle *C* *C* *C* *C* *C*               *A* *I*
Meriwether Lewis *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C*     *A* *I*
David Livingstone *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C*             *A* *I*
Ferdinand Magellan *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C*     *A* *I*
Jacques Marquette *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C*             *A* *I*
Admiral Robert E. Peary *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C*         *A* *I*
Zebulon Pike *C*                       *A* *I*
Francisco Pizarro *C* *C* *C* *C*                   *I*
Marco Polo *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C*     *A* *I*
Juan Ponce de León *C* *C* *C* *C* *C*               *A* *I*
Sir Walter Raleigh *C* *C* *C*                   *A* *I*
Robert Falcon Scott *C*                       *A* *I*
Ernest Henry Shackleton *C* *C* *C*                   *A* *I*
Jedediah Strong Smith *C* *C* *C*                   *A* *I*
John Smith *C* *C* *C*                   *A* *I*
Hernando de Soto *C* *C* *C* *C* *C* *C*             *A* *I*
Henry Morton Stanley *C* *C* *C* *C*                 *A* *I*
Giovanni da Verrazano *C* *C* *C*                     *I*
Amerigo Vespucci *C* *C* *C* *I*
Lt. Charles Wilkes *C* *C* *A* *I*

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