Bird, Isabella (Boroughbridge)
The author of A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Famous Explorers from England
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Cook, James (Marton)
English explorer of the Pacific in the 1770s -
Drake, Francis (Devonshire)
The English mariner who circumnavigated the globe -
Hudson, Henry
The first European to sail up the Hudson River -
Mawson, Douglas (Shipley) (Yorkshire)
Australian explorer of the Antarctic -
Raleigh, Sir Walter (Devonshire)
The man who (maybe) laid his cloak over a mudpuddle for the queen -
Scott, Robert Falcon (Devonport)
The second man to reach the South Pole -
Thompson, David (London)
The explorer who mapped Western Canada in the 18th century