Learn about how Captain James Cook discovered much of the South Pacific for England on this website.

Detailed third grade lessons help students understand what skills and knowledge were required in order to become an explorer. Includes specific lessons on John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, and Henry Hudson.

Historical overviews and associated images that document the search, by European explorers, for the elusive Northwest Passage through the North American continent to the Pacific. Discusses, among others, the explorations of Cabot,...

Read about the early attempts to find a way through the Northwest Passage. Included are portraits and early maps of the explorers.