- Anza, Juan Bautista de (1736-1788)@
- Cabot, John (1425-c.1500)@
- Cabrillo, Juan Rodriguez@
- Charlevoix, Pierre François-Xavier de (1682-1761)@
- Columbus, Christopher@
- Learn about the Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus, whose 1492 expedition to the Indies instead opened the Americas to European exploration and conquest. Includes sites on his life, voyages, and legacy as well as sites about Columbus Day.
- Discovery and Exploration
 - Features manuscripts and maps that illuminate the European exploration of the world from the 15th to 19th century. From the Library of Congress. - First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
- Features letters, maps, artifacts, images, and other materials relating to the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West from the mid-18th to early 19th century.
- Gosnold, Bartholomew (1571?-1607)@
- Hudson, Henry (1570?-1611)@
- Lewis and Clark Expedition@
- Examines the journey of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to chart a path across the western U.S. Includes information on the history of the journey, different exhibitions about the trip, and their Native American guide Sacagawea.
- Maximilian of Wied (1782-1867)
- German explorer and naturalist known for his studies of the Northern Plains tribes of North America.
- Meeting of Frontiers
- Library of Congress presentation that tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. In English and Russian.
- Ponce de Leon@
- Portola Expedition of 1769
- Information on the land and maritime expeditions of what was later to become California.
- Powell, John Wesley (1834-1902)@
- Ralegh, Sir Walter (1552-1618)@
- Sebastian Vizcaino's Exploration of Monterey
- Account of Spanish explorer Sebastian Vizcaino's expedition to Monterey, in what is now California, on December 16, 1602.
- Smith, Jedediah Strong (1799-1831)@
- United States Exploring Expedition@
- Verrazano, Giovanni da (1485-1528)@
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