Exploration
These goos are from the Exploration category, people famous for reaching new geographical frontiers. Browse another way.
Abel Tasman
Fiji? Check. Tasmania? Found it. New Zealand? Next! Australia? Never heard of it. Go »
Amerigo Vespucci
This Italian cartographer was so influential in mapping the New World that he became synonymous with it. Go »
Arthur Frommer
these days, you can't go to many places for five dollars Go »
Christopher Columbus
I would have saved him to be goo #1492, but he was so impatient to "discover" this game and claim it for his homeland... Go »
Daniel Boone
Coonskin? No thanks - hate 'em. I'll stick with felt caps. Go »
David Livingstone
If you asked the ghost of this Scottish explorer what justified his colonialism in Africa, I presume his answer would be denial. Go »
Edmund Hillary
No matter how many goos you guess right, you can't get higher than this New Zealander. Go »
Edmund Hillary
the first climber to top Mount Everest, not the author of inexpensive travel guides Go »
Edmund Hillary
He was the first climber to top Mount Everest, not the Sherpa mountaineer who accompanied him. Go »
Ernest Shackleton
If you thought the long (and recently concluded) search for his shipwreck was exciting, the real story of endurance was how he kept every crew member alive in a perilous trek back north. Go »
Estevanico
This Portuguese slave took a long path through Florida and Texas to become a crying spirit. Go »
Fabien Cousteau
Être originaire de France pourrait amener ce cinéaste à décider de vivre sous l'eau à Halloween et pourrait se faire attaquer par un requin à l'air mystérieux. Go »
Ferdinand Magellan
500 years ago today, his expedition proved by direct action that the world was round after sailing around it in its entirety, and yet we still argue about whether it's flat. Go »
Francisco Pizarro
Lima bears the legacy of this lopsided victor. Go »
Gertrude Bell
This Oxford-educated archeologist traveled and documented the Middle East so extensively that Britain needed an opinion as clear as hers about how to establish Iraq. Go »
Henry Hudson
This British sea captain's legend is as short as the American river named for him. Go »
Hernán Cortés
His conquest of the Aztecs included razing their capital to the ground in order to build what is today Mexico City. Go »
Hiram Bingham III
The single day that he spent as the governor of Connecticut was about the same amount of time that he gave anyone else credit for "discovering" Machu Picchu before him. Go »
James Cook
If you can't find the answer after all your searching, your goose is stewed. Go »
Jedediah Smith
This clean-living mountain man's expeditions to the Pacific coast took him Over the Hills and Far Away. Go »
Jim Bridger
He may have defined the term Mountain Man. Go »
John Smith
His experience settling Virginia would help him win a game of Settlers of Catan, but Pocahontas wouldn't be there to save his life. Go »
Juan Sebastián Elcano
This explorer completed Magellan's desire. Go »
Kazimierz Nowak
Africa's huge, but you can traverse it on two feet or two wheels, even if nobody reads about it for seven decades. Go »
Kennewick Man
Whether he's a boon to North American anthropology or deserving of a proper religious burial, one thing's for sure: This old fellow's been waiting to become a goo far longer than anyone else. Go »
Leif Erikson
Wandering about like a leaf on the wind led him to discover North America long before Columbus. Go »
Marco Polo
Whose idea was it to remember the great merchant land-traveler in a water-based game? Go »
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
President Jefferson sent them to have a look at the Pacific Ocean, a trip that took two years. Go »
Pedro de Alvarado
Every red son of central Central America knows this founder's name. Go »
René-Robert Cavelier
A car and a basketball team share a name with this French explorer who traveled through the Great Lakes region. Go »
Rick Steves
White people are supposed to leave Europe to conquer other lands, not the other way around. Go »
Roald Amundsen
Like any good explorer, he ventured off the map, but he was the first to get beneath it all. Go »
Robert Ballard
This oceanographer would find the answer to his own goo even if it were 12,500 feet under water. Go »
Sacagawea
She helped a couple of white boys draw up some maps. Go »
Squanto
The last of his kind helped the Pilgrims get the tiniest quantum of a foothold in the New World. Go »
Tenzing Norgay
If you reach the pinnacle of success in this game, make sure to credit anyone who helped. Go »
Vasco da Gama
couldn't wait for this round to get to India Go »
Vitus Bering
Straight partners were attracted to this goo's affinity for bearing life. Go »
