Notable & Famous Explorers Posters “Q...-R...-”
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Conquistador Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada, Poster

Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada
b. 1495; Cordoba, Spain
b. 2-16-1579; New Granada

Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada explored the northern part of South America, founding the city of Bogotá. His last expedition ended disastrously and it is thought he was the inspiration for Miguel de Cervantes story Don Quixote (1605).

• Invading Colombia: Spanish Accounts of the Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada Expediton of Conquest

Fernandes de Quiros
b. c. 1565; Évora, Portugal
d. c. 1614; Panama

Fernandes de Quiros was a Portugese explorer in service to Spain. He made several voyages and believed he had located, and claimed for Spain, the “great south land,” naming it Terra Australis after the idea of Aristotle. De Quiros claims lead to sectarian tensions between Australian Catholics and Protestants in the 19th and 20th centuries.

• Pacific adventure: The story of the pilot Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, his passage April 1595-February 1596 by Margaret Whiting Spilhaus

Sir Walter Raleigh
b. c 1554; London, England
d. 10-29-1618; beheaded at Whitehall, ordered by James I

Sir Walter Raleigh, English soldier, poet and adventurer, established the first English colony of Roanoke, 6-4-1584, in present day state of North Carolina. The colony failed with the fate of the colonists never known.

One of the legends surrounding Raleigh is his throwing a fine cape over the muddy ground so Queen Elizabeth I would not dirty her shoes or dress.

Raleigh's half brother Sir Humphrey Gilbert, also an explorer, was lost at sea in 1583.

• Sir Walter Raleigh: Being a True and Vivid Account of the Life and Times of the Explorer, Soldier, Scholar, Poet, and Courtier--The Controversial Hero of the Elizabethan Age

Knud Rasmussen
b. 6-7-1879; Ilulissat, Greenland
d. 12-21-1933; Copenhagen, Denmark

Knud Rasmussen, the son of missionary parents, was the first European to cross the Northwest Passage in the Arctic.

Hormuzd Rassam
b. 1826; Mosul, Iraq, then the Ottoman Empire
d. 9-16-1910; England

Hormuzd Rassam, traveler and Assyriologist, made a number of discoveries which included the clay tablets of the Epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest-known example of written literature.

• The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh

James Clark Ross
b. 4-15-1800; London, England
d. 4-3-1862; England

James Clark Ross, British naval officer and explorer, went to the Arctic and North Pole with his uncles Sir John Ross and Sir William Parry. Later Ross led his own expedition to Antarctica where he identified the landforms known today as the Ross Sea, the Ross Ice Shelf and Ross Island. His last voyage was in a fruitless search for Arctic explorer John Franklin in 1848.

• Polar Pioneers: John Ross and James Clark Ross