| Achievement |
Nationality |
Explorer (Year) |
| First man to reach the North Pole |
American |
Robert Peary (1909) |
| First man to reach the South Pole |
Norwegian |
Amudsen (1911) |
| Travels in Central Asia and China |
Italian |
Marco Polo (1271-1295) |
| Exploration of Central Africa |
Welsh |
Stanley, Henry Morton (1874-1889) |
| Landfall in Canada, with his Brother Sebastian |
Italian |
Cabot, John (1497) |
| First man to orbit the Earth |
Russian |
Yuri Gagarian (April 1961) |
| Conquest and Exploration of Mexico |
Spanish |
Fernando Cortes (1519-1521) |
| Possible the first European landfall in North America |
Norse |
Leif Ericon(1003) |
| Exploration of the South Pacific |
English |
James Cook (1768-1779) |
| First to sail around Africa to India |
Portuguese |
Vasco DaGama (1497-98) |
| First north-south crossing of Australia |
Irish |
Robert O’HanaBurke (1860-1861) |
| First man to step onto the Moon |
American |
Neil Armstrong (July 1969) |
| Exploration of the Caribbean |
Italian |
Christopher Columbs (1492-1504) |
| Discovery of Tasmania and New Zealand |
Dutch |
Abel Janszoon (1642) |
| Exploration of Southern and Central Africa |
Scotish |
Livingstone, David |
| Voyage around the Cape of Good Hope |
Portuguese |
Bartholomew Dias (1487) |
| First sea journey around the world |
Portugusese |
Magellan |
| Conquest and Exploration of Peru |
Spanish |
Pozarro Francisco (1530-1538) |
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