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

Alexander Gordon Laing
b. 12-27-1793; Edinburgh, Scotland
d. 9-26-1826; murdered near Timbuktu

Alexander Gordon Laing was a Scottish explorer and the first European to reach the fabled trading outpost of Timbuktu, Mali.

• Travels in the Timannee, Kooranko, and Soolima Countries, in Western Africa

Lewis and Clark, the Corps of Discovery

• more Lewis & Clark posters
• more map posters

Manuel Lisa
b. 9-8-1772; New Orleans, Spanish Louisiana
d. 8-12-1820; St. Louis, MO

Manuel Lisa was a fur trader who sent out John Colter to explore the upper Missouri region.

FYI ~ Lisa was appointed US Indian Agent by Missouri govenor William Clark in 1814.

Dr. David Livingstone
b. 3-19-1813; Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
d. 5-1-1873; near Lake Bangweulu, today Zambia (Malaria and internal bleeding due to dysentery)

David Livingstone was a medical missionary to Africa.

Mr. Henry Morton Stanley (née John Rowland)
b. 1-28-1841; Denbigh, Wales
d. 5-10-1904; London

“Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” (11-10-1871)

• Africa posters
• Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone

Martín Ignacio de Loyola
b. c. 1550; Elbar, Spain
d. 1606; Buenos Aires

Franciscan friar Martín Ignacio de Loyola is best remembered as the first person to complete the world circumnaivation twice.

The first expedition, 1580-1584, was in the westerly direction, the second (1585-1589) was in the easterly direction.

He is also the most traveled man in the 17th century when another two trips between Europe and South America are taken into account.

FYI ~ Martín Ignacio de Loyola was the grand nephew of Ignatius of Loyola.

Carl Sofus Lumholtz
b. 1851; Fåberg, Norway
d. 1922; Saranac Lake, New York (tuberculosis)

Ethnographer and explorer Carl Sofus Lumholtz is best remembered for his studies of the indigenous cultures of Australia and Mesoamericans in central Mexico.