Who's Who List of European Explorers

European Explorer	Voyage of Exploration
Sir Francis Drake	Circumnavigates the World
Sir Walter Raleigh	The  Discovery of Guiana and establishing the Virginia colony of Roanoke Island in 1584
Ferdinand Magellan	First voyage around the World by a European explorer
Christopher Columbus	Discovering the New World
Francisco Pizarro	European Explorer who conquered the Incas of Peru
Amerigo Vespucci	America was named after this explorer
Vasco Nunez de Balboa	First European explorer to see the Pacific Ocean from its eastern shore
Vasco da Gama	Discovered an ocean route from Portugal to the East
Sir Humphrey Gilbert	Established St Johns, Newfoundland
Juan Ponce de Leon	First European to set foot in Florida
Sir Richard Grenville	Voyages to Virginia and Roanoke Island and the Azores
Sir John Hawkins	Voyages to West Africa and South America
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado	First European to explore the Southwest of North America in Arizona and New Mexico
Sir Martin Frobisher	Voyages to Labrador and Greenland
Hernando De Soto	First European to explore Florida and South East America
Sir Richard Hawkins	Voyages to South America
Hernando Cortes	Spanish conqueror of Mexico and the Aztec Empire
Bartolomeu Dias	The first European to lead a 1487 voyage around the Cape of Good Hope on the Southern most tip of South Africa
Pedro Alvares Cabral	The first European to see Brazil in 1500
Giovanni da Verrazzano	European explorer from Italy who explored the NE coast of North America from Cape Fear, North Carolina to Maine
Gaspar and Miguel Corte Real	Exploring Greenland and the coast of Newfoundland
John Cabot	Exploring the coastline of Canada the subsequent colonization of Canada. Cabot was the second European to find North America (after Christopher Columbus)
Sebastian Cabot	Son of John Cabot. Searching for the Northwest passage across North America, attempting to circumnavigate the world and making expeditions to Russia
Jacques Cartier	Led three expeditions of exploration to Canada
Henry Hudson	The discovery of the  Hudson River
Jacques Marquette	Discovering the Mississippi River with Louis Joliet
Samuel de Champlain	The Founder of Quebec City. Known as 'The Father of Canada'
Marco Polo	Famous explorer and traveller to China, Japan and Persia