Famous Explorers
Use the box with the number as the place to put
the first letter of your answer.
First and Last names should be all together
without a space between them in the puzzle.
Hint: In this assignment, Google is your friend.
1
Across
Down
2. Sailed around the southernmost tip of 1. English sea explorer and navigator in
Africa in 1488, reaching the Indian Ocean the early 17th
century
from the Atlantic
3. Organized the Castilian expedition to
4. Who sailed the ocean in 1492
the East Indies
6. Italian explorer of North America in 5. First demonstrates that Brazil and the
service of King Francis I of France West Indies did not represent Asia's
9. Claimed the Northeast coast of Southeastern outskirts as initially conjectured
America for Portugal
from Columbian voyages
11. Mapped much of the Southern half of 7. Best known for crossing the isthmus of
the modern United States
Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513
12. Founded New France and Quebec 8. He conquered Mexico
City on July 3, 1608
10. First governed of Puerto Rico by
15. Conquered Peru
appointment of the Spanish crown
16. Explored the Great Lakes region of 13. Who was the first European to reach
the United States, Canada, the
India by sea
Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico 14. 1497, he discovers parts of North
17. Found the city of Santa Fe and New America
Mexico in 1610
18. Made the first Europeans contact with
the Eastern Coast of Australia
19. First resident Bishop of Chiapas