All About Explorers

7. Completing the first circumnavigation of the Earth
8. Establish an English colony at Roanoke Island
9. Discovered Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island
10. Reached the South Pole first on December 14, 1911
12. Voyages to the Pacific Ocean
15. Discovered the foundation of Quebec City
18. Realizing that the lands explored by himself and others were not part of Asia, but rather a new, previously unknown continent
19. His most significant discovery was his detailed descriptions of China and its culture, technologies, and customs
20. led to the discovery of the Azores Islands and the Madeira Islands

1. He sailed westward through the Strait of Magellan
2. Lead the first European expedition to reach the islands of Timor and the Banda Islands
3. Discovered America
4. Expedition to the South Pole in 1912
5. Most famous discovery was the Inca Empire in South America
6. Most famous discovery is generally credited as being the land that is now Brazil
11. Expose of the horrific conditions at the Blackwell's Island asylum in New York City
13. Made contact with Japan
14. He led the Spanish colonization of the region
16. Most famous discovery was the Strait of Magellan
17. The first to sail from Europe to India by rounding Africa's Cape of Good Hope