Sample Clues
On Oct. 12, 1492 he wrote, "this afternoon the people of San Salvador came swimming to our ships"
Christopher Columbus
Danish captain hired by Russia who made a "strait" line to Alaska
Vitus Bering
( Jon of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Leaving Portugal in July 1497, going around Africa & with the help of a pilot from Malindi, this explorer made it to India in 1498
Vasco da Gama
This Norwegian's autobiography, "My Life as an Explorer", was published in 1927, a year before he was lost in the Arctic
Roald Amundsen
In 1609 he led his men across the Atlantic & up what became known as his river, to Albany
Henry Hudson