Explorers

Great Sites to Look For Your Explorer's Biography

ICONN: The Connecticut Digital Library  (the Discovering Collection--use the people search)

The Mariners' Museum (Age of Exploration--with brief biographies of even more explorers)

Balboa 

Cabot

Cartier

Champlain

Columbus

Cook

Coronado

Cortes

De Gama

De Soto

Drake

Erickson

Henry the Navigator

Hudson

La Salle

Lewis   & Clark

Magellan

Marco Polo

Marquette  & Joliet

Pizarro

Ponce de Leon

Raleigh

Smith

Amerigo Vespucci