St. Brendan

484 -587

Leif Ericson

980 - 1020

Polynesian

1000 AD

Marco Polo

1254 - 1324

Zheng He

1371 -1433

Bartholomew Diaz

1450 - 1500

Christopher Columbus

1451 - 1506

Juan Ponce de León

1460 - 1520

Pedro Alvares Cabral

1469 - 1524

Vasco da Gama

1469 - 1524

Ferdinan Magellan

1480 - 1521

Jacques Cartier

1491 - 1557

Sir Francis Drake

1540 - 1596

Willem Barentsz

1550 - 1597

de Samuel de Champlain

1567 - 1635

Willem Jansz

1584 - 1632

Abel Tasman

1603 - 1659

James Cook

1728 - 1779