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Featured Explorers

Explorer

Amelia Blanford Edwards

British writer and explorer who promoted the protection and preservation of ancient Egyptian sites

Explorer

Jeanne Baret

She was a French botanist and explorer. She unknowingly became the first woman to sail around the entire globe.

Explorer

Marie Tharp

Oceanographer and geologist who helped create the first map of the ocean floor, proving that it was not just the flat surface most people believed it to be.

Explorer

Sylvia Earle

Sylvia A. Earle is an American marine biologist, explorer, and activist for protecting our world’s ocean and its inhabitants

Games

  • World Explorers game (Requires Flash)
  • Merchants of the Great Exchange game (Requires Flash)
  • Whose Lunch is it Anyway? game (Requires Flash)

More

  • Vocabulary
  • Original "EXPLORATION through the AGES" site
  • The Mariners' Educational Programs
  • Distance Learning ad
  • World Explorers game

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