[{"n": "Christopher Columbus", "u": "/e/great-explorers/christopher-columbus/", "s": "Italian explorer who opened the Americas to European colonization."}, {"n": "Ferdinand Magellan", "u": "/e/great-explorers/ferdinand-magellan/", "s": "Portuguese explorer who planned and led the first circumnavigation of Earth."}, {"n": "Marco Polo", "u": "/e/great-explorers/marco-polo/", "s": "Venetian merchant whose travels opened the East to European understanding."}, {"n": "Vasco da Gama", "u": "/e/great-explorers/vasco-da-gama/", "s": "The Portuguese explorer who opened the sea route to India"}, {"n": "James Cook", "u": "/e/great-explorers/james-cook/", "s": "British Royal Navy officer who mapped much of the Pacific and Southern Oceans."}, {"n": "Ernest Shackleton", "u": "/e/great-explorers/ernest-shackleton/", "s": "Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions and set a Farthest South record of 88°23′ S."}, {"n": "Roald Amundsen", "u": "/e/great-explorers/roald-amundsen/", "s": "Norwegian polar explorer who reached both the South and North Poles."}, {"n": "Robert Falcon Scott", "u": "/e/great-explorers/robert-falcon-scott/", "s": "British naval officer and Antarctic explorer who reached the South Pole."}, {"n": "The Lewis and Clark Expedition", "u": "/e/great-explorers/the-lewis-and-clark-expedition/", "s": "The Lewis and Clark Expedition sought a direct water route across North America for commerce, with scientific "}, {"n": "Zheng He", "u": "/e/great-explorers/zheng-he/", "s": "Chinese admiral who led seven voyages across the Indian Ocean."}, {"n": "Ibn Battuta", "u": "/e/great-explorers/ibn-battuta/", "s": "The greatest traveller of the pre-modern world, whose journeys spanned Africa, Asia, and the Iberian Peninsula"}, {"n": "Leif Erikson", "u": "/e/great-explorers/leif-erikson/", "s": "Norse explorer who reached North America centuries before Columbus."}, {"n": "David Livingstone", "u": "/e/great-explorers/david-livingstone/", "s": "Scottish doctor, missionary, and explorer whose search for the Nile sources aimed to gain influence to end the"}, {"n": "Henry Hudson", "u": "/e/great-explorers/henry-hudson/", "s": "English sea explorer and navigator, best known for explorations of present-day Canada and the Northeastern Uni"}, {"n": "Amelia Earhart", "u": "/e/great-explorers/amelia-earhart/", "s": "American aviator and aviation pioneer."}, {"n": "Edmund Hillary", "u": "/e/great-explorers/edmund-hillary/", "s": "First confirmed climber to summit Everest, later a philanthropist and diplomat."}, {"n": "Tenzing Norgay", "u": "/e/great-explorers/tenzing-norgay/", "s": "First confirmed to summit Mount Everest with Edmund Hillary in 1953."}, {"n": "Jacques Cousteau", "u": "/e/great-explorers/jacques-cousteau/", "s": "French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker, and host of The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau."}, {"n": "Sacagawea", "u": "/e/great-explorers/sacagawea/", "s": "Lemhi Shoshone or Hidatsa woman who aided the Lewis and Clark Expedition as interpreter and guide."}, {"n": "Ponce de Leon", "u": "/e/great-explorers/ponce-de-leon/", "s": "Spanish explorer who led first European expeditions to Puerto Rico and Florida."}, {"n": "Sir Francis Drake", "u": "/e/great-explorers/sir-francis-drake/", "s": "English explorer and privateer who led the second circumnavigation of the globe."}]