A list of explorers would easily include Christopher Columbus and his exploration. Famous, worldwide, and innovative would all be words historians could use to describe his trip to the New World.

	Famous Explorers Who Changed the World A list of explorers would easily include Christopher Columbus and his exploration. Famous, worldwide, and innovative would all be words historians could use to describe his trip to the New World. More

	Leif Erickson Precisely who was Leif Erickson?  Leif Erickson is the explorer famous for the discovery of North America.  Leif Erickson came from Iceland and was the son of an outlaw and the grandson of an outlaw.  Leif was one of four children: he had two other brothers and one sister. More

	Erik the Red While we most often remember the great explorers, Spanish and Portuguese both, many equally daring and bold explorers, famous and well-known, came before them. Erik the Red was one of these explorers. Long before Columbus and Magellan, and other explorers, Portuguese and Spanish, Viking explorers sea traveled. More

	Ferdinand Magellan Ferdinand Magellan is best known for his successful attempt at circumnavigation, or for successfully attempting to sail all the way around the world, although he personally died before the voyage was completed.   More

	Marco Polo Marco Polo was a great Venetian explorer, famous and well-known. He was one of the first westerners to travel the Great Silk Road in China, even before the first explorer Spanish and explorer Portuguese. While many an earlier explorer, Spanish and Portuguese, had traveled by sea, Marco Polo is the land explorer, famous and most remembered. More

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