Notable & Famous Explorers Posters “E...-”
for social studies teachers and home schoolers, theme decor in office.

Amelia Earhart
b. 7-24-1898; Atchison, KS
missing since 7-2-1937, western Pacific Ocean

Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, across the US nonstop, and fly solo from Honolulu to Oakland, California.

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Isabelle Eberhardt
b. 2-17-1877; Geneva, Switzerland
d. 10-21-1904; Ain Sefra, Algeria (flash flood)

Isabelle Eberhardt is noted as an explorer as she, disguised as a man, traveled and became heavily involved with the Sufis in helping the poor and needy against the injustices of colonial rule of North Africa.

FYI ~ In 1897 she and her mother converted to Islam, when they first visited her half-brother, a member of the French Foreign Legion.

Juan Sebastián Elcano
b. 1476; Getaria, Gipuzkoa, Spain
d. 8-4-1526; Pacific Ocean

Juan Sebastián Elcano was really the first to circumnavigate the world, completing Ferdinand Magellan's 1519 expedition after Magellen's death in the Philippines. Elcano brought back the Victoria, the only one out of the five original ships, and 17 surviving crew (out of 241) in 1522.

Elcano died of malnutrition on the Loaisa Expedition in 1526.

Erik the Red
b. c. 950; Norway
d. c. 1000

Erik the Red founded the first Nordic settlement in Greenland. The settlement of Brattahlid lasted till the 15th century when the Little Ice Age conditions made life too difficult.

Leif Eriksson
b. c. 970; Iceland
d. c. 1020

Leif Eriksson, the son of Erik the Red, was an Icelandic explorer who was the first European land in North America, a land he called Vinland. L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada has been excavated by archeologists.

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John Edward Eyre
b. 8-5-1815; Whipsnade, England
d. 11-30-1901; Yorkshire

John Edward Eyre, an English born explorer of Australia, was also controversial bureaucrat who served as Govenor of Jamaica among other British holdings. Numerous places in Australia carry Eyre's name such as Lake Eyre.