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List of Resources for Explorer Research Activity

Many of the resources listed below are on individual explorers. I suggest that you check all sources not dedicated to one individual as well as checking out the sources dedicated solely to your explorer. Many of the sites on all explorers will give you a good view into your subject. Also, please do a search using an accepted search engine. 

There is also a great site which you may visit that will lead you to create a very complete research project based on your explorer. The site is called Biography Maker. 

The original resource list for this activity has been greatly reduced. The links below were viable at the time I reviewed the sites. Please report any broken links.

1. European Explorers in the "New World"
2. Explorers Resource Page for Teachers
3. The Age of Explorers
4. Discoverer's Web
5. Discoverers by the Alphabet
6. Mariner's Museum: The Age of Exploration
7. Viking Explorers
8. Project Leif 2000 
9. Erik the Red's Saga 
10. Viking Discoverers 
11. 1492 Exhibit  
12. The Columbus Navigation Homepage  
13. Columbus's Ships  
14. Columbus MythBusters  
15. Sir Francis Drake  
16. Drake  
17. Francis Drake: The Voyage  
18. Who was John Cabot
19. John Cabot  
20. Half Moon Replica  
21. Henry Hudson Explorer of the Hudson River  
22. Ferdinand Magellan, the Greatest Voyager of Them All  
23. Vitus Bering  
24. Francisco Vásquez de Coronado  
25. Map of Coronado's Journey
26. Coronado
27. LaSalle  
28. Samuel Champlain  
29. Champlain's 1607 Map  
30. Jacques Cartier  
31. de Soto  
32. Spanish Exploration and Conquest 
33. Hernando de Soto
34. James Cook
35. An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
36. The Search for Inca Gold
37. Marco Polo  
38. Marco Polo  
39. Giovanni da Verrazzano  
40. Cabeza de Vaca  

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