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Earhart broke numerous records over the next 7 years, but it was in 1928 when she became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, that she truly established her celebrity status. As much as anything else, though, Burton was an explorer who risked his life (and very nearly ended it) countless times. Here are a few particular near-death experiences of note:

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Wanderlust must have coursed through his veins, with each trip pumping and fuelling his love of it even further. This is great but could someone look at adding Tim Peake as a significant British individual?? We are focusing on him for our topic and would have found it useful when doing our space topic. Many thanks.

This call for answers attracted international attention and inspired an American newspaper to send a search party (led by esteemed journalist, Henry Stanley) in the hope of finding him. A key figure of the Elizabethan era, Sir Walter Raleigh carried out several expeditions to the Americas between 1578 and 1618. Hernán Cortés was a Spanish conquistador who explored Central America and won Mexico for the crown of Spain. Getty Images In a wonderfully naive and totally unrealistic rescue mission, Tom encounters life-threatening danger from icebergs, polar bears and blizzards but is fortunate to have, among other things, a hot air balloon, a parachute and unparalleled igloo-building skills to ensure the successful completion of his arduous task.

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Instead, the Italian navigator found himself on an island that later became known as the Bahamas. Believing he had reached the Indies, he dubbed the natives there “Indians”. Once there, he lay claim to the land, planting Portugal’s flag in the sand and naming it the ‘Island of the True Cross’.On his second expedition, from 1829-30, Sturt traced the Murrumbidgee River to its junction with the Murray River and with the help of the local Aborigines (native Australians) located the mouth of the Murray at Lake Alexandrina. And this time, he managed to solve the mystery of where those west-flowing rivers were headed – they all flowed into the Murray River. Sahara and Sudan: The Results of Six Years Travel in Africa". World Digital Library. 1879–1889. Archived from the original on 3 May 2021 . Retrieved 2 October 2013. He, along with a fleet of ships and a hardy crew, set out under a Spanish banner (he’d ‘jumped ship’, as it were, to Spain after falling out of favour with the Portuguese King) to chart a brand new, westerly course to the coveted Spice Islands of modern-day Indonesia (now known as the Maluka Islands).

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years later, though, in 1492, after a decade-long bid to acquire funding, he set sail to the west in an attempt to find a new, shorter, and easier route to Asia (and wealth and fame with it).

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