Websites about Explorers

Hernando de Soto:

http://library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/de_soto.htm

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/d/desoto.shtml

http://www.archeologyinc.org/soto.html

John Cabot:

http://www.mariner.org/age/cabot.html

http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/kiexp.htm

http://www.heritage.nf.ca/exploration/cabot.html

Ferdinand Magellan:

http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/4034/magellan2.html

http://www.mariner.org/age/magellan.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/magellan.htm

Vasco Nunez de Balboa:

http://library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/balboa.htm

http://www.campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/Americas/Balboa.html

http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/balboa.html

Ponce de Leon:

http://stamponhistory.com/people/deleon.html

http://magicnet.net/~dac/poncedeleon.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/ponce_de_leon.htm

Henry Hudson:

http://www.ianchadwick.com/hudson/

http://www.ulster.net/~hrmm/halfmoon/1609moon.htm

http://www.mariner.org/age/hudson.html

Francis Drake:

http://www.mariner.org/age/drake.html

http://www.mcn.org/2/oseeler/drake.htm

http://library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/sir_francis_drake.htm?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0117

Francisco Pizzaro (Pizarro):

http://library.thinkquest.org/C001692/english/index.php3?subject=explorers/database/show&id=13

http://www.zusas.uni-halle.de/~robison/classes/NativeAmerica/FranciscoPizarro.htm

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7012/pizarro.html

Jacques Cartier:

http://www.mariner.org/age/cartier.html

http://geonames.NRCan.gc.ca/english/schoolnet/nfld/jacques.html

http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/cartier.html

Hernan Cortez (Cortes):

http://geocities.com/athens/7012/cortez.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/16325/y-conq.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/cortez.htm

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado:

http://www.lsjunction.com/people/coronado.htm

http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/coronado.htm

http://www.desertusa.com/mag98/sep/papr/coronado.html

Amerigo Vespucci:

http://library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/vespucci.htm

http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/eviau/edit557/vespucci/

http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/13439.html

Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet:

http://library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/father_marquette.htm

http://library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/jolliet.htm

http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/jolmar.html

Robert LaSalle:

http://www.thc.state.tx.us/belle/LaS.html

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/l/lasalle.shtml

http://www.lsjunction.com/people/lasalle.htm

Pedro Alvarez Cabral:

http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/02112.html

http://www.d23.org/sullivan/travis/Explorer%20Book/Cabral.htm

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0809735.html

Giovanni da Verrazzano (Verrazano):

http://www.lihistory.com/2/hs213a.htm

http://www.italianhistorical.org/verrazzano.htm

http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/verrazzano.html

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