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	Places for Kids & Teens Just Curious: Explorers

• Australian Explorers - Learn about the brave explorers of Australia, their lives and their experiences.
• Conquistadors - This site, adapted from a PBS documentary of the same name, looks at the exploits of four of the most famous conquistadors.
• Discovery and Exploration - With maps, journal entries, and other period documents, this Library of Congress American Memory site brings alive the world of the explorers.
• Exploration is Risky Business - Find out which explorers died on their voyages.
• Explorers - Click on the name of any explorer listed to access a brief biography and summary of explorations.
• Explorers of the Millennium - Information and biographies of the greatest explorers of the past 1,000 years, at least in the eyes of the students who created this award winning site.
• The Oregon Trail: Discoverers & Explorers - This site looks at the men and women whose explorations and discoveries help to blaze the trail to the West.
• Passages: A Treasure Trove of North American Exploration - Created by the National Library of Canada, this site tracks the exploration of North America from 1492 - 1905.
• SouthPole.com's Explorers - Click on "History" to get detailed information about the exploration of Antarctica and biographies of the explorers who finally opened up the southernmost continent.
• Zoom Explorers - This site covers not only the explorations of the Earth's surface but also expeditions beneath the sea and into outer space.

INDIVIDUAL EXPLORERS

• Amundsen, Roald - Detailed information on one of the most successful polar explorers.
• Anza, Juan Batista de - Biography of the first European to establish an overland route from Mexico to the Pacific Coast of Mexico.
• Byrd, Richard E. - A very detailed account of his Antarctic expeditions.
• Cabot, Sebastian - Read about Cabot's voyages in his own words.
• Cabrillo, Juan Rodriguez - Brief biography of the man remembered as the discoverer and first explorer of the Californian Coast.
• Clark, Captain William - Summary of his life and the expedition from PBS online.
• Coronado, Francisco Vazquez de - Description of the life and journeys of this Spanish conquistador.
• Cortes, Hernan - In 1519 Hernan Cortes sailed from Cuba, landed in Mexico, and made his way to the Aztec capital. Read accounts by the Aztecs written shortly after the conquest.
• Verrazzano, Giovanni de - Detailed description of this explorer's life and voyages.

Last updated: 07/01/10