Enchanted Learning-Explorers: Let this be your first stop for exploring. This beginning site gives a nice alphabetical index, a picture of the explorer, and map of their famous exploration. Most explorers have additional links to more information about them. This site is great for younger children on up.

Explorers: Great elementary site for the early explorers of North and South America. 

Explorers of the World: This site produced by Bellingham School District is a well-organized site for beginning explorers. 

KidsClick: Exploration: Excellent sites for the beginning explorer to use. Sites include famous explorers and a description of each site.