The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan is often credited as being the first person to have circumnavigated the globe, but the reality of his journey is a bit more complicated.
Q. Where did Mawson die?
Brighton, Australia
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Q. Are there any female explorers?
10 Brave Female Explorers Who Changed the World
- Sarah Winnemucca. Sarah Winnemucca was a Native American born in Nevada in 1844.
- Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner. Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner has been climbing mountains since she was just thirteen years old.
- Dian Fossey.
- Bessie Coleman.
- Jeanne Baret.
Q. Which country did most of the Explorers represent?
Portugal and Spain became the early leaders in the Age of Exploration. Through the Treaty of Tordesillas the two countries agreed to divide up the New World. Spain got most of the Americas while Portugal got Brazil, India, and Asia. Spain sent over conquistadors to explore the Americas and to conquer the peoples there.
Q. Who was the most important European explorer?
Famous European explorers included Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Vasco de Gama, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh, Hernando Cortes, John Cabot and Samuel de Champlain!
Q. Who found America?
The explorer Christopher Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain: in 1492, 1493, 1498 and 1502. He was determined to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia, but he never did. Instead, he stumbled upon the Americas.
Q. Did Vikings meet Native Americans?
There is evidence of Norse trade with the natives (called the Skræling by the Norse). The Norse would have encountered both Native Americans (the Beothuk, related to the Algonquin) and the Thule, the ancestors of the Inuit.
Q. Did the Vikings discover America first?
Leif Eriksson Day commemorates the Norse explorer believed to have led the first European expedition to North America. Half a millennium before Columbus “discovered” America, those Viking feet may have been the first European ones to ever have touched North American soil.
