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Hall of Explorers

That there shall be a church, and parish priests or friars to administer the sacraments, to perform divine worship, and for the conversion of the Indians. --- Christopher Columbus on Espanola 1494

Neil Armstrong

Vasco Núñez de Balboa

Daniel Boone

Ibn Battutah

Richard E. Byrd

John Cabot

Sebastian Cabot

Pedro Alvarez Cabrera

Jacques Cartier

Samuel de Champlain

King Charles I

William Clark

Christopher Columbus

Hernán Cortés

Jacques (Yves) Cousteau

Juan de Cartegena

Luis de Mendoza

Gaspar de Quesada

Juan Sebastian del Cano

Hernando de Soto

Bartolomeu Dias

Sir Francis Drake

Erik the Red (Erik Thorvaldsson)

Leif Eriksson

Ferdinand and Isabella

Vasco da Gama

Harold Godwinsson

Harald Hardradde

Henry VIII

Matthew Henson

Biarni Heriolfsson

Sir Edmund Hillary

Cheng Ho

Henry Hudson

Prestor John

Louis Jolliet

King Ferdinand

King Francois I

King George III

King Manuel I

Rene Robert de LaSalle

Meriwether Lewis

David Livingstone

Ferdinand Magellan

Jacques Marquette

Robert Edwin Peary

Martin Alonzo Pinzon

Vicente Yáñez Pinzón

Francisco Pizarro

Maffeo Polo

Marco Polo

Juan Ponce de León

Pope Nicolas V

Henry the Navigator

Pytheas

Queen Elizabeth I

Queen Isabella

Sacagawea

Scylax

Sir Henry Morton Stanley

Amerigo Vespucci

William the Conqueror

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