1998 AWARD-WINNING SITE
A team of fourth and fifth grade children from Sherwood Elementary School in Highland Park, Illinois, USA created this site for the 1998 ThinkQuest Junior contest. It won fourth place in the Social Sciences category.

Visit our other ThinkQuest Jr. award-winning sites:

Greatest Inventors and Inventions

Seeing Disabilities from a Different Perspective

Propelled by Pedals

Building the Windy City
 

visits since April 1999.

Searching for information about great explorers? Working on a report? This is the place to:

...discover the greatest explorers and the places they traveled. We feature 29 important explorers and adventurers in our Explorers' Hall of Fame.

...explore helpful links to other sites about explorers that interest you. We have a page of the web's best resources for learning about explorers.

...help us decide who belongs in our Hall of Fame. We're looking for new explorers to include, and we want your suggestions.

...sail over to our explorers' quiz and test your knowledge. The questions aren't easy, though, so you'd better do your homework first!