| Accomplishment | Explorer | FUN FACT |
| First explorer to reach Americas | |
| First explorer to circumnavigate the world | |
| Conquered Mexico, destroyed Tenochtitlan | |
| Dutch explorer explored area around Manhatten Island for Dutch West India Company | |
| Spanish explorer who crossed Panama to Pacific Ocean | |
| Spaniard who founded Lima, Peru and conquered Incans | |
| French explorer who led New France expeditions | |
| Italian working for French who explored area around New York City and Carolinas | |
| Italian who traveled on foot across Asia to China | |
| Italian cartographer who gives first name to whole of West Indies and such | |
| Norse viking, has a day named after him,(Hint: 'explorer's name' Day!) | |