PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Christopher Columbus: Italian explorer who discovered America in 1492, route he took was W.S.W.
Bartolomeu Dias: Portuguese explorer who sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, Indian Ocean from Atlantic.
Jaques Cartier: French explorer who claimed what is now Canada for France, first European to describe and map the gulf of St. Lawrence.
Giovanni Da Verrazano: florentine explorer of North America, discovered the New York harbor, voyages to the west on behalf of France.
Vasco Da Gama: Portuguese explorer who was the first European to reach India by sea linking, Europe and Asia by ocean route in
Ferdinand Magellan: Portuguese explorer who organized the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522.
Samuel De Champlain: French explorer, founded New France and Quebec City in 1608.
Louis Joliet: French Canadian explorer, explored the origins of Mississippi River in 1673.
Jaque Marquette: French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement, Sault Ste. Marie, St. Ignace in 1657.
Sieur De La Salle: French explorer who explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico in 1670's.
Henry Hudson: English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century, made 2 attempts on behalf of English merchants to find a perspective northwest passage to cathway via a route above the arctic circle.
