Frobisher was an English explorer who made three voyages to North America in search of a Northwest Passage. He is best known for his discovery of Frobisher Bay in present-day Canada.
John Davis (c. 1550–1605)
Davis was an English explorer and navigator who made three voyages to the Arctic in search of a Northwest Passage. He is best known for his discovery of the Davis Strait, which separates Baffin Island from mainland Canada.
Walter Raleigh (c. 1552–1618)
Raleigh was an English explorer, colonist, and soldier. He is best known for his attempts to establish the first English colony in North America on Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina.
Humphrey Gilbert (c. 1539–1583)
Gilbert was an English explorer and soldier who is best known for his attempts to establish an English colony in North America. He is the half-brother of Walter Raleigh.
Richard Hakluyt (c. 1552–1616)
Hakluyt was an English writer and editor who is best known for his book The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, which was a collection of accounts of English voyages around the world.
Thomas Harriot (c. 1560–1621)
Harriot was an English mathematician, astronomer, and navigator who is best known for his work in the Roanoke colony. He is also credited with introducing the potato to Europe.
John White (c. 1540–1593)
White was an English artist, explorer, and colonist who is best known for his paintings of the Native Americans living on Roanoke Island.
Ferdinand Magellan (c. 1480–1521)
Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who is best known for his voyage around the world. He was the first to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and the first to circumnavigate the globe.
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)
Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer. Born in the Republic of Genoa, in northwestern Italy, Columbus completed four round-trip voyages between Spain and the Americas between 1492 and 1503. His expeditions were the first European contact with the Caribbean, Central America, and South America.