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Some most important explorations (in chronological order) :
Exploration - When - Who (
explorer
)
Around western
Europe
to
Thule
Island - about 330 BC -
Pytheas
of Marsailles
the
Middle East
and
India
- 325-280 BC -
Alexander the Great
Greenland
- 900 -
Gunnbjoern[?]
Silk Road
- 1274 - 1292 -
Marco Polo
Congo River
- 1482 -
Diego Cao
Cape of Good Hope
- 1488 -
Bartolomeu Dias
America - 1492 -
Christopher Columbus
Sea route to
India
- 1497-1498 -
Vasco da Gama
Caribbean - 1493-1502 -
Christopher Columbus
Jamaica
- 1494 -
Christopher Columbus
Mexico
and
Central America
- 1519-1524 -
Hernan Fernando Cortes
Peru
and
Equador[?]
- 1531-1534 -
Francisco Pizarro
Around the Globe - 1519-1522 -
Ferdinand Magellan
Timor
- 1522 -
Juan Sebastian del Cano[?]
Inca
Empire - 1531 - 1534 -
Francisco Pizarro
the North - 1574-1631 -
Henry Hudson
the North - 1594-1597 -
Willem Barents
Oceania - 1642-1643 -
Abel Tasman
Oceania - 1768-1779 -
James Cook
Hawaii Islands[?]
- 1778 -
James Cook
Central America
and
Latin America
- 1799-1803 -
Alexander von Humboldt
North America
- 1804-1806
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Africa
- 1849-1863 -
David Livingstone
the
North Pole
- 06-04-1909 -
Robert Peary
the
South Pole
- 15-12-1911 -
Roald Amundsen
the
South Pole
- 18-01-1912 -
Robert Falcon Scott
the
Moon
- 1969 -
Apollo 11
See also:
Exploration of Australia
Exploration of the High Alps
Portugal in the period of discoveries
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