Leif Ericson (980 - 1020) - Icelandic explorer. Believed to have been the first European to land in North America.

Zheng He (1371 - 1433) - Chinese admiral made seven voyages to Arabia, East Africa, India, Indonesia and Thailand.

John Cabot (c. 1450 - 1499) - Italian explorer for England. Discovered Newfoundland and claimed it for the Kingdom of England.

Bartolomeu Dias (c. 1450 - 1500) - Portuguese explorer. He sailed from Portugal and reached the Cape of Good Hope.

Christopher Columbus (1451 - 1506) - Genoese explorer for Spain. Sailed in 1492 and discovered the "New World" of the Americas.

Amerigo Vespucci (c. 1454 - 1512) - Italian explorer for Spain. Sailed in 1499 and 1502. He explored the east coast of South America.

Pedro Álvares Cabral (c. 1467 - c. 1520) - Portuguese explorer, generally regarded as the European discoverer of Brazil.

Vasco Núñez de Balboa (c. 1475 - 1519) - Spanish explorer. The first European to cross the Isthmus of Panama and view the Pacific ocean from American shores.

Francisco Pizarro (c. 1475 - 1541) - Spanish explorer. Conquered the Inca Empire.

Ferdinand Magellan (1480 - 1521) - Portuguese explorer for Spain. Initiated the first circumnavigation of the globe in a single expedition. Sailed through Strait of Magellan and named Pacific Ocean. Died in the Philippines after claiming them for Spain.

Abel Tasman (1603 - 1659) - Dutch explorer. Discovered New Zealand and Tasmania.

Vitus Bering (1681 - 1741) - Danish explorer. Explored the Siberian Far East and Alaska and claimed it for Russia.

James Cook (1728 - 1779) - British naval captain. Explored much of the Pacific including New Zealand, Australia and Hawaii. The Djibouti stamp shows map of all three voyages of James Cook.

Otto Sverdrup (1854 - 1930) - Norwegian explorer. Joined Fridtjof Nansen acoss Greenland in 1888 and captain on the Fram on the polar drift in 1893-1896 and the 2nd Fram expedition in 1898-1902. Mapped the Northernmost part of Canada in 1898-1902.

Roald Amundsen (1872 - 1928) - Norwegian explorer. He led the first successful Antarctic expedition between 1910 and 1912. He was also the first ever person to successfully traverse the North West Passage.

Ernest Shackleton (1874 - 1922) - Irish Explorer, noted for his ill-fated Endurance expedition to Antarctica.

Voyager

Great exhibit

We have given you a website domain name for your exhibit so you can pass it on to your friends or link it directly from your blog.

http://www.myphilately.com/exhibit/voyager

Wonderful exhibit. Very educational.

A nice collection Voyager.

Very nice collection.
Cees:)

Beautiful material

Great work - You know I like ships.

Brian

Thanks for all your comments.

Great attempt to cover a very big area.Very good and interesting.joking

Very nice material! I did a frame called "The Misadventures of La Perouse" there's quite a lot of stamps and philatelic material out there on his expedition too.

Good work, keep it up!

Great collection,
It is not my theme but it is fascinating. I collection and material is very good.

Shaleen

Wow Voyager you are talanted. Your site is very well done and very interesting,