Faculty US History History Programs Senior Thesis ... R. Toolbox History of England/Great Britain Explorers on the Web - Cabrillo, Juan Rodriquez
- Sailed to New Spain in 1542 and discovered and named San Diego Bay and Santa Barbara.
- Captain Morgan's Journal
- Links to online resources for maritime and nautical history.
- Cartier, Jacques (1491-1557)
- Looking for a passage through or around North America.
- Champlain, Samuel de (1597-1635)
Christopher Columbus - Columbus Navigation Homepage Introduction to 1492: An Ongoing Voyage Cook, James (1728-1779)
- British navigator and explorer.
- Coronado, Francisco Vasquez de (1510-1554) Cortes, Hernan (1485-1547) Dampier, William (1652-1715)
- Explorer, sea captain, pirate. Highly regarded map-maker and navigator.
- Hearne, Samuel
- First European to explore the western Canadian Arctic in 1768.
- Henry the Navigator (1394-1460)
- Portuguese navigator.
- Hudson, Henry (1570?-1611)
- Chronology of his four voyages in search of a western passage to the East Indies.
- Magellan, Ferdinand (1480-1521)
- The first to circumnavigate the globe.
- Ponce de Leon
- Short biography of his discovery of Florida in search of the "fountain of youth."
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