Explorer Gallery

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Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark with their Native American guide Sacagawea.
Digital photograph of a bronze statue in Charlottesville Virginia

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Mariana Islands in the Pacific discovered by Magellan, 1521

The Ladrones, later called the Marianas, and a native outrigger drawn by Pigafetta on the Magellan expedition, 1521.
Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a 16th-century illustration

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The search for Sir John Franklins Arctic expedition, 1850s

"Resolute" and four other ships leaving England to search for Franklin's lost Arctic expedition, 1852.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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