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Answer:
Samuel de Champlain - established colony of Quebec
Robert La Salle - explored Mississippi
James Cook - discovered Australia
Henry Hudson - explored North America and the Arctic
Explanation:
Explorers play a key role in discovering new places and land outside Europe. France chose to send its voyages to seek a route to the Pacific Ocean and wealth after many European nations founded colonies in the New World.
Samuel de Champlain became the first to establish colonies as Quebec and New France.
La Salle was an explorer and trader who begin an expedition in the Mississippi rivers and claimed the region for the French and named it La Louisiane.
James Cook was an English naval captain who explored the Pacific Ocean and discovered Australia which became part of the British Empire.
Henry Hudson was an explorer from England who explored North America (Canada and northeastern part of the U.S.) and the Arctic.
