Christopher Middleton Middleton had been sent out in search of a Northwest Passage in order to ease the minds of merchants... http: //nmm.ac.uk/explore/sea-and-ships/in-dept...
Alcala-Galiano 1792 Born in 1762 in Cabra, Spain, Dionisio Alcalá-Galiano enrolled in the naval school in 1775... http: //cmhg.gc.ca/cmh/en/image_283.asp
Thomas Thomes 1631-1632 Born around 1593 in Bristol, England, Thomas James first studied law before embarking on his career as navigator http: //epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/passa...
George Heriot A writer, government official and landscape painter, George Heriot is remembered mainly in the latter capacity... http: //epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/passa...
Vitus Bering Vitus Bering was one of the world's famous explorers. In 1728, Bering discovered that Asia and America are two separate continents, and in 1741 he was the first one to map the west coast of Alaska. As Columbus tied together the world to the west, Bering tied it together to the east. http: //nndb.com/people/082/000094797/
Iberville 1694-1703 Born in Montreal in 1661, Pierre Lemoyne d Iberville was simultaneously and in succession an adventurer, soldier, ship's captain, explorer, pirate, smuggler... http: //epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/passa...
Luke Foxe and Thomas James Leading rival merchants in London both sent out expeditions to the Hudson Bay area in 1631 to search for the Northwest Passage... http: //win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/foxejames....
Discoverers Web: Verrazzano The life of Verrazzano. He is best known for being the discoverer of New York Harbor and for mistaking Pamlico Sound for the Pacific http: //win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/verra...
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