The following sources were consulted in the preparation of the article “13 famous explorers that changed world history.”
- Christopher Columbus: Man and Myth
- First circumnavigation
- The Travels of Marco Polo
- Instructions from the Admiralty
- L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site of Canada
- Across North Africa to Cairo: 1325
- Francis Drake
- Mexico, 1400–1600 A.D.
- History of British Antarctic Survey ships
- Captain Robert Falcon Scott
- Colonisation and cultivation: Nutmeg production, labour and ecology on the Banda Islands before and after the conquest of 1621
- Da Gama reaches Calicut, India
- Negotiating the Surrender of New Netherland