Plaque Wording: JULY 24, 1534 JACQUES CARTIER OF SAINT MALO APPROACHES THE LAND OF CANADA AND TAKES POSSESSION OF NEW FRANCE IN THE NAME OF FRANÇIS I

Plaque Wording: JUNE 26, 1604 SAMUEL CHAMPLAIN OF BROUAGE IN SAINTONGE WITH PIERRE-DUGUA DE MONS AND HIS COMPANIONS FOUND THE FIRST PERMANENT FRENCH ESTABLISHMENT IN ACADIA AND THEN ESTABLISHED IN QUEBEC IN 1608

Plaque Wording: Captain James Cook R.N. 1728-1779 After two historic voyages to the South Pacific, Cook was cruising the waters of the Pacific Northwest on his third and final voyage, with his two ships, Resolution and Discovery. He was searching for the western exit to the legendary Northwest Passage. In March 1778 they put into Nootka Sound for repairs and to trade with the native people. With him on the voyage were Mr William Bligh as Master of the Resolution, and midshipman George Vancouver.
This statue was commissioned by The Victoria Environmental Enhancement Foundation and unveiled by The Honourable William Richard Bennett Premier of the Province of British Columbia. July 12, 1976.

Plaque Wording: Captain James Cook, RN FRS, born 1728, died 1772. Circumnavigator of the globe, explorer of the pacific ocean, he laid the foundations of the British Empire in Australia and New Zealand, chartered the shores of Newfoundland and traversed the ocean gates of Canada, both east and west.
Unveiled by H. R. H. Prince Arthur of Connaught on behalf of the British Empire League, 7th July 1914.

Plaque Wording: He surveyed the St Lawrence River in 1759. In three voyages 1768-1779 he charted the coasts of New Zealand, the East Coast of Australia and the Pacific Coast of North America
On this site stood a house occupied for some years by Captain James Cook R.N.F.R.S 1728-1779 Circumnavigator and Explorer

Plaque Wording: Captain Samuel Cresswell 1827-1867 Arctic Explorer, born here
Borough Council of Kings Lynn and West Norfolk

Plaque Wording: Livingstone House
This house was placed by the Sultan Seyyid Majid at the disposal of the famous explorer David Livingstone for some weeks when fitting out his last expedition to the mainland in 1866.
It later became the property of Ethnasheri Khoja Indian community who used it as a rest house and as a place of religious meetings and became known as Sonabach.
In 1947 the government purchased and renovated it for use as laboratories for scientific research and living quaters (sic).
It now houses the Zanzibar Tourist Corporation head office.

Plaque Wording: 16 November 1855 - 16 November 1955. On the occasion of the centenary of David Livingstone's discovery of the Victoria Falls. Men and women of all races in, and from all parts of, The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland assembled solemnly to dedicate themselves and their country to carry on the high Christian aims and ideals which inspired David Livingstone in his mission here. Unveiled by His Excellency The Right Honourable the Lord LLewellin, G.B.E, M.C., T.D., D.L., Governor-General of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and dedicated by his grace the Lord Archbishop of Central Africa, Edward Francis Paget on 16 November 1955.

Plaque Wording: Captain Alexander Musgrave who sailed against the Spanish Armada - 1588 lived in a house on this site.
Borough Council of Kings Lynn and West Norfolk

Plaque Wording: TALENT FOR DOING WELL INFANTA D HENRIQUE

Plaque Wording: John Hanning Speke - Explorer (1827 - 1864) Speke was the first European, while on an expedition with Richard Burton to East Africa in 1858, to discover Lake Victoria. On a subsequent journey with James Grant in 1862, he confirmed its northern outlet as the source of the Nile. This plaque was erected in 1995 by The Friends of Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens

Plaque Wording: JAN HUYGEN VAN LINSCHOTEN Haarlem, 1563 Enkhuizen, 161 EXPLORER MERCHANT CHOROGRAPH ARRIVED IN ANGRA ON JULY 24, 1589 LEFT IN DECEMBER 1991 MUNICIPALITY OF ANGRA DO HEROISM 2021

Plaque Wording: To the memory of Captain George Vancouver RN. Born King's Lynn 1757 Died Petersham 1798 A great navigator & surveyor Captain Vancouver precisely charted many thousands of miles of the northwest Pacific coastline from San Diego California to Anchorage Alaska

Plaque Wording: This tablet is in memory of Sir Hugh Willoughby, Stephen Borough, William Borough, Sir Martin Frobisher and other navigators who, in the latter half of the sixteenth century, set sail from this reach of the river Thames near Ratcliff Cross to explore the northern seas.
Erected by the London County Council 1922