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Unit IV : World Around UsIV : World Around Us
Unit
Famous Explor

A person who fearlessly travels to discover something unknown to the rest of the
world is called an explorer.

Read the clues and identify these famous explorers. Write their names using the

Clue Box.

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He was He was the
the first Portuguese sailor
Governor of and explorer who was
France and the first European to

he explored discover the way to India
much of what is now Nova by sea.
Scotia and established __________________
Quebec in 1608.
__________________

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3 He was a

He was the He was the first famous Portuguese
first Englishman European to reach explorer. He travelled
to circumnavigate America in 1492. from the Atlantic to the
the globe in a single __________________ Pacific ocean.
expedition from 1577 to ________________

1580.
______________

Clue Box
Clue Box
Vasco da Gama, Samuel de Champlain, Sir Francis Drake,
Ferdinand Magellan, Christopher Columbus

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