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What is an explorer?What is an explorer?What is an explorer?What is an explorer?

Here are some definitions of the word explorer.Here are some definitions of the word explorer.Here are some definitions of the word explorer.Here are some definitions of the word explorer.

• An explorer explores unknown places anddiscovers new things.

• An explorer is a person who goes to unknown places to find out what they are like.

• An explorer is someone who goes looking for newthings that have not been found yet.


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Here are some famous explorers.Here are some famous explorers.Here are some famous explorers.Here are some famous explorers.


In 1984, the Guinness Book of Records described the EnglishmanSir Sir Sir Sir Ranulph Ranulph Ranulph Ranulph FiennesFiennesFiennesFiennesas ‘the world’s greatest living explorer’.

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Sir Ranulph Fiennes was born on March 7th 1944.

He is a modern day explorer who led over 30 expeditions to the North and South Poles, the Arabian desert, the River Nile and many other far away places.


Sir Ranulph Fiennes was the first man to have reached both the North and South Poles on foot and to walk across Antarctica.


In May 2009, at the age of 65, he became the oldest man to have reached the top of Mount Everest. This Everest climb was his third attempt to reach the top and raised a lot of money for charity.


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Jacques Cousteau was born in France on June 11th 1910 and became the most famous undersea explorer in the world.


Jacques Cousteau helped to invent the SCUBA – the self contained underwater breathing apparatus – which meant undersea divers could explore deep down in the ocean.


He used a specially designed underwater camera to make a film about his explorations.

The film was called ‘The Silent World’.


Millions of people watched his television series ‘The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau’ as he explored the ocean and marine life and learned more about what was under the sea.



On July 16th 1969, a huge American rocket launched a spacecraft called Apollo 11 Apollo 11 Apollo 11 Apollo 11 towards the Moon. Thousands of people watched it take off.


Onboard Apollo 11 were astronauts, Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin.


On July 20th, 1969, Commander Neil Armstrong became the first human being to land on the Moon.

As he stepped onto the Moon’s surface he said,“One small step for man, One small step for man, One small step for man, One small step for man, one giant leap for one giant leap for one giant leap for one giant leap for mankindmankindmankindmankind”.


This is the lunar module that was used to take the astronauts down to the Moon’s surface. It was nicknamed the Eaglethe Eaglethe Eaglethe Eagle.

As Neil Armstrong climbed down onto the Moon he said, “The Eagle has The Eagle has The Eagle has The Eagle has landedlandedlandedlanded”.


Neil Armstrong was the first man on the Moon.He was followed moments later by Buzz Aldrin.


The astronauts sent pictures of the Moon back to Earth. They were pictures that had never been seen before.


They also collected samples of Moon rock, dust and soil to take back to Earth.


On July 24th 1969, eight days after the launch, their command module floated gently towards Earth and landed in the ocean where boats picked up the astronauts.


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Sir Edmund Hillary was born in Auckland, New Zealand on July 20th 1919. As a boy he was very shy but he dreamed of having lots of adventures.

When he grew up he became a famous mountaineer.


On June 2nd, 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first two men to successfully climb to the top of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world.


Route to the top


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Robert Falcon Scott was born in Devon in 1868 and became an officer in the Royal Navy.


He led two expeditions to Antarctica, a place where not long before, only sealers and whalers had ever been.

No one lived in Antarctica - it was too cold and covered in ice!


The purpose of the expeditions was to explore the part of Antarctica around the Ross Sea and to find out more about the animals, the weather and the land of Antarctica. Scott and his fellow explorers also wanted to be the first to reach the South Pole.


When they finally reached the South Pole in January 1912, they found that the Norwegian explorer, Roald Amundsen and his men had got there first.


To reach safety, Scott and his men had to go back 800 miles through freezing temperatures and ice. They had a disastrous time with blizzards, gale force winds, poor clothing and little food.

Eventually they all died. Many months later, a search party found their bodies wrapped them in their tent and buried them in the snow.

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Roald Amundsen was born in Norway in 1872.

On December 14th, 1911 he beat Robert Falcon Scott to the South Pole.


This photograph shows Amundsen and his team onboard their ship on the way to Antarctica.


Amundsen and his dog team at the South Pole.


Roald Amundsen was famous for other expeditions.

Between 1903 and 1905 he crossed the Northwest passage which is the sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It was another 34 years before anyone else made the same journey.


In 1918, he set off on his ship, the Maud to the North Pole. His idea was to freeze his ship into the ice and then float to the Pole with the ice.

After three winters frozen in the ice, Amundson and his men finally got through the Northeast passage to the North Pole.


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Sir Edmund Hillary1919 - 2008

Robert Falcon Scott1868 - 1912

Roald Amundsen1872 - 1928

Jacques Cousteau1910 - 1997

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