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These explorers, and many others, risked their lives on trips to explore faraway and often unknown places. Some sought fame. Some sought fortune. Some just sought challenge. All of them increased people's knowledge of the world. I hope you enjoy this blog...

NowYouKnowAbout Explorers

MATTHEW HENSON (1866-1955)

The first famous African American explorer. Hired as an assistant to explorer Robert Peary (1856-1920), he traveled on seven expeditions to Greenland and the Artic region. In April 1909, peary and Henson became the first to reach, the North Pole.

ANN BANCROFT (1955- )

American educator and explorer. In 1986, she became the first woman to reach the North Pole by dogsled, and in 1992-93 was leader of the first all woman expedition to reach the South pole on skis.

BENEDICT ALLEN (1960- )

British explorer. He has published nine books about his journeys, often alone and on foot, through some of the most remote and extreme environments on Earth. While studying the Niowra people of New Guinea, he participated in a secret ceremony that left many scars on his body.

JACQUES COUSTEAU (1910-1997)

French undersea explorer and environmentalist. He helped invent the Aqualung, allowing divers to stay deep underwaterfor hours, and made award-winning films of what he found there.