Explorers in the New World

Christopher Columbus

Pedro Cabral

Portuguese Exploration

Vicente Yß±ez Pinz≤n

Amerigo Vespucci

Other European Explorers

The Conquistadors

Amazon Explorers

Francisco de Orellana

Lope de Aguirre

Pedro de Teixeira

Sir Walter Raleigh

Charles Marie de la Condamine

Madame Isabela Godin

Baron Alexander von Humboldt

Theodore Roosevelt

Colonel Percy Fawcett

Joe Kane

Baron von Humbolt

The "last great universal man", and the "greatest man who ever lived" are two descriptions commonly used to describe him. Von Humboldt's was the greatest of all early scientific endeavours in the Amazon.

Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was ....