Famous Explorers

MD 2010 What is an explorer? Here are some famous explorers. Sir Ranulph Fiennes (1944 ––– )))

Here are some definitions of the word explorer. Sir Ranulf Fiennes In 1984, the Jacques Cousteau Guinness Book • An explorer explores unknown places and of Records described discovers new things. Apollo 11 Moon Landing the Englishman Sir Ranulph Fiennes • An explorer is a person who goes to unknown Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay as ‘the world’s places to find out what they are like. greatest living Robert Falcon Scott Famous • An explorer is someone who goes looking for new explorer’. Explorers things that have not been found yet. Roald Amundsen www.ks1resources.co.uk www.ks1resources.co.uk www.ks1resources.co.ukTime line and The End ……….. www.ks1resources.co.uk

Sir Ranulph Fiennes was born Sir Ranulph Fiennes was the first man to have In May 2009, at the age of 65, he became the Jacques Cousteau (1910 ––– 1997) on March 7 th 1944. reached both the North and South Poles on foot oldest man to have reached the top of Mount and to walk across Antarctica. Everest. This Everest climb was his third attempt to reach the top and raised a lot of money for Jacques Cousteau charity. was born in France on June 11 th 1910 and became the most famous He is a modern day explorer who led over 30 undersea explorer expeditions to the North and South Poles, the in the world. Arabian desert, the River Nile and many other far away places. www.ks1resources.co.uk www.ks1resources.co.uk www.ks1resources.co.uk www.ks1resources.co.uk

Jacques Cousteau helped to He used a specially Millions of people invent the SCUBA – the self designed underwater watched his contained underwater camera to make a film television series breathing apparatus – which about his explorations. ‘The Undersea meant undersea divers could World of Jacques explore deep down in the Cousteau’ as he ocean. explored the ocean and marine life and The film was called learned more about ‘The Silent World’. what was under the sea.

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On July 16 th 1969, This is the lunar module On July 20 th , 1969, Commander a huge American that was used to take the Neil Armstrong became the first rocket launched a astronauts down to the human being to land on the Moon. spacecraft called Moon’s surface. It was Apollo 11 towards nicknamed the Eagle . the Moon. As he stepped onto the Thousands of people Moon’s surface he said, watched it take off. “One small step for man, As Neil Armstrong one giant leap for climbed down onto mankind ”. the Moon he said, Onboard Apollo 11 were astronauts, Michael “The Eagle has Collins, Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin. landed ”. www.ks1resources.co.uk www.ks1resources.co.uk www.ks1resources.co.uk www.ks1resources.co.uk Neil Armstrong was the first man on the Moon. They He was followed moments later by Buzz Aldrin. also collected samples of Moon rock, dust and soil to take The astronauts sent pictures of the Moon back to back to On July 24 th 1969, eight days after the launch, their Earth. They were pictures that had never been Earth. command module floated gently towards Earth and landed seen before. in the ocean where boats picked up the astronauts. www.ks1resources.co.uk www.ks1resources.co.uk www.ks1resources.co.uk www.ks1resources.co.uk

Sir Edmund Hillary (1919 ––– 2008 ) On June 2 nd , 1953, Sir Edmund Robert Falcon Scott (1868 ––– 1912) Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were Sir Edmund Hillary was born the first two men to successfully in Auckland, New Zealand on climb to the top of Mount Everest, July 20 th 1919. As a boy he the tallest mountain in the world. Robert Falcon Scott was was very shy but he Route to the top dreamed of having lots born in Devon in 1868 of adventures. and became an officer in the Royal Navy. When he grew up he became a famous mountaineer. www.ks1resources.co.uk www.ks1resources.co.uk www.ks1resources.co.uk www.ks1resources.co.uk

When they finally reached the To reach safety, Scott and his men had to go back He led two expeditions The purpose of the expeditions was to explore the South Pole in January 1912, 800 miles through freezing temperatures and ice. to Antarctica, a place part of Antarctica around the Ross Sea and to they found that the Norwegian They had a disastrous time with blizzards, gale where not long before, find out more about the animals, the weather and explorer, Roald Amundsen and force winds, poor clothing and little food. only sealers and the land of Antarctica. Scott and his fellow his men had got there first. whalers had ever been. explorers also wanted to be the first to reach the South Pole. Eventually they all died. Many months later, a search No one lived in party found their bodies Antarctica - it was too wrapped them in their tent cold and covered in ice! and buried them in the snow.

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Roald Amundsen (1872 ––– 1928) Amundsen and his dog team at the South Pole. 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. www.ks1resources.co.uk www.ks1resources.co.uk www.ks1resources.co.uk www.ks1resources.co.uk 1850 1900 1950 2000 Roald Amundsen was famous for other expeditions. In 1918, he set off on his ship, the Maud to the For as long as people have lived on Earth 1875 1925 1975 2025 For as long as people have lived on Earth North Pole. His idea was to freeze his ship into there have been explorers. Many have Between 1903 and 1905 he the ice and then float to the Pole with the ice. gone to places that other crossed the Northwest passage After three Sir Edmund Hillary people have never been which is the sea route between the 1919 - 2008 Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. winters frozen before. It was another 34 years before in the ice, Moon Landing 1969 anyone else made the same journey. Amundson and Jacques Cousteau his men finally 1910 - 1997 Why do people become explorers? got through the Roald Amundsen Northeast 1872 - 1928 That’s another story! passage to the Robert Falcon Scott Ranulf Fiennes 1868 - 1912 North Pole. 1944 - www.ks1resources.co.uk www.ks1resources.co.uk www.ks1resources.co.uk www.ks1resources.co.uk