Ships
First Portuguese explorer to round southern tip of Africa.
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
This explorer was the first European to discover the land bridge along the shores of the St. Lawrence River in the 1530s.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
This explorer became the first European able to sail to Asia by rounding Africa's Cape of Good Hope.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
This explorer hiked through thick jungles to discover that the American continent had a coastline that faced the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
This explorer landed on the Atlantic coast of what is present day Panama.
Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
This explorer set out across the Atlantic Ocean into the Caribbean Sea.
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
This explorer was the first to document the territory's name as "Canada".
Who is Jacques Cartier?
In 1492, Spain sent this explorer to find a westward route to the Asian East Indies.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
A water passage (strait) was named after this explorer.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This explorer sailed from Portugal to India in 1497.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
This explorer explored the coastline as far south as the Florida Keys.
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
This explorer sailed 13 ships in the western Atlantic Ocean, headed for Asia in 1500.
Who is Pedro Alvares Cabral?
This explorer landed in a new continent that Europeans had no idea existed in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
In 1520, this explorer sailed along the southern coast of what is present-day South America until he discovered a water passage that led him to the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
Portugal's king named the newly discovered water passage "The Cape of Good Hope" because it provided a new sea route from Europe to the Asian spice trade islands.
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
This explorer landed on the eastern coast of South American and named the land Brazil.
Who is Pedro Alvares Cabral?