The Great Explorers Project
What is an explorer? An explorer is a person who travels into little known regions. Without explorers, we might still believe the world is flat, we would not have accurate maps, and many lands may have gone undiscovered.
The Wheel, the Sail and the Trace
Alexander the Great; conqueror and explorer
Erik Thorvaldson (the red), Leif Erikson and the Vikings
Genghis Khan (Temujin)
Ibn Battuta: The truth Behind the Footstep of Marco Polo
Zheng He and his Great Junks
Vasco da Gama: The Road to India
The Pinzon Brothers: The True Nature of Christopher Columbus
Amerigo Vespucci and the Explorers of the "New World"
Ferdinand Magellan or Sebastian Del Cano
Vitus Bering
James Cook and Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark: the Great Adventure to the Wild West
Alexander Von Humboldt
Robert O'Hara Burke and John McDouall Stuart: The Race Across Australia
Henry Morten Stanley and David Livingstone
Roald Amundsen and the Journey to the Center of the South Pole
Auguste Piccard and Jacques-Yves Cousteau: Up to the Sky and down to the Depth of the Oceans