Geographers and explorers

Background Information

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Abel Tasman	Amelia Earhart	Christopher Columbus
David Livingstone	Edmund Hillary	Ferdinand Magellan
Henry Morton Stanley	Jacques Cartier	James Cook
John Cabot	Josiah Willard Gibbs	Juan Sebastián Elcano
Leif Ericson	Marco Polo	Neil Armstrong
Richard Francis Burton	Roald Amundsen	Robert Falcon Scott
S. A. Andrée's Arctic Balloon Expedition of 1897	Tenzing Norgay	Vasco da Gama
Vitus Bering	Willem Barentsz	Yuri Gagarin

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