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This category includes sites about individual explorers and groups of explorers. All submissions should be suitable for children and teens to use for school projects and personal enrichment.

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Byrd, Richard (3) Cabot, John and Sebastian (8) Cartier, Jacques (5) Champlain, Samuel de (4) Columbus, Christopher (10) Cook, James (9) Cortez, Hernando (5) Da Gama, Vasco (5)

Drake, Francis (6) Ericson, Leif (2) Henry the Navigator (6) Henson, Matthew (9) Hudson, Henry (4) Jolliet, Louis (3) Lewis and Clark (19) Livingstone, David (5)

Magellan, Ferdinand (7) Marquette, Jacques (5) Peary, Robert (10) Polo, Marco (11) Ponce de León, Juan (4) Raleigh, Walter (6) Vespucci, Amerigo (4) de Soto, Hernando (2)

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Zoom Explorers Brief biographies of men and women who have explored the earth and skies. www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers

My Hero: Explorers Short student-friendly biographies of 10 men and women who ventured into new worlds during the 19th and 20th centuries. www.myhero.com/explorers/explorers_content.asp

Student Explorer Reports A collection of short reports on various explorers. Written by fifth graders. www.kent.k12.wa.us/KSD/MS/student/Explorers.html

Discoverers Web: Alphabetical List Links to information on the lives of dozens of explorers. www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/alpha.html

Voyage of Exploration: Discovering New Horizons Leads visitors on a journey through the past centuries looking at the explorers, the dangers they faced, where they went, and their motivations for exploration. In English and Dutch. library.thinkquest.org/C001692

Captain George Vancouver Biography of English captain George Vancouver and his exploration of the Pacific Northwest of Canada and the United States. www.discovervancouver.com/GVB/captain-george-vancouver.asp

Pomp - The True Story of the Baby on the Sacagawea Dollar This e-book tells the story of the baby born on the historic Lewis and Clark Expedition who would grow up to explore the American West. pompstory.home.mindspring.com

Who Goes There: European Exploration of the New World Recounts the stories of famous Portuguese, Spanish, English, and French explorers. library.thinkquest.org/J002678F

Famous Hispanics: Vasco Núñez de Balboa Short biography of the first European to see the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean. coloquio.com/famosos/balboa.html

Australian Explorers Provides detailed accounts of men who explored and mapped the continent of Australia. Designed especially for elementary school students. www.davidreilly.com/australian_explorers

Forbidden Territory @ nationalgeographic.com A glimpse into the lives of African explorers David Livingstone and Henry Morten Stanley. www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/lantern

Conquistadors Share the adventures of Hernan Cortes, Francisco Pizarro, Fracisco de Orellana and Cabeza de Vaca as series host Michael Wood retraces their journeys in modern-day South America and the southern United States. www.pbs.org/conquistadors

You Wouldn't Want to be a Polar Explorer Interactive site describing Shackleton's Endurance Expedition. www.salariya.com/web_books/explorer

Explorers: Can You Identify Them? Slide show includes facts about the lives of more than two dozen explorers. web54.sd54.k12.il.us/schools/hale/pgraf/explorers99/sld001.htm

Alonso de Ojeda Give a brief history and pictures of this Spanish Conquistador and explorer of the Americas. www.bruce.ruiz.net/PanamaHistory/alonso_de_ojeda.htm

Discovery School's Exploration Station Collection of articles based on World Book Encyclopedia, tell about the most famous Europeans who set sail for new lands during the 15th and 16th centuries. school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/explorationstation

Vitus Jonassen Bering Contributed to the discovery of Alaska by mapping the Coastline in two large Expeditions, together with scientist Georg Wilhelm Steller who recorded the journey. www.pmel.noaa.gov/bering/pages/vbering.html

Epic Voyages Offers a look at historic voyages and the lives of key explorers who helped uncover the world. Requires Flash. library.thinkquest.org/C004237/flash.html?tqskip1=1

Sheldrake the Beneficent A summary of the life and achievements of this explorer who discovered much of the Great Lakes region. scnc.hps.k12.mi.us/~hwms/encyclopedia/content/sheldrake.htm

Explorer Poems A fifth grade class shares the poems they wrote about the lives of famous explorers. www.kathimitchell.com/explpoe.htm

Explorers of the Millennium Fourth and fifth grade students offer short biographies of great explorers. library.thinkquest.org/4034

The Journies and Expeditions of Marquette, Drake, Columbus, Cortez, and DeSoto Middle school students tell the stories of five men who explored North America. Each story is illustrated with original drawings. library.thinkquest.org/6297

Taking on the World: European Explorers Features short biographies of the best-known European explorers. library.thinkquest.org/6174