List of explorations
Appearance
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This is a list of some of the most important explorations of State Societies, in chronological order:
Exploration | When | Who (explorer) |
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Northwest African coast (West Africa) | about 500 BC | Hanno the Navigator |
The Mediterranean Sea | 5th century BC | Himilco the Navigator
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Around western Thule Island
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about 330 BC | Pytheas of Marseilles |
Greenland, Iceland, and Faroes | 900 | Gunnbjörn Ulfsson |
Americas (North America) | 999 | Leif Ericson
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Brazil (South America) - controversial | c. 14th century CE | Abu Bakr II
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Sahelian kingdoms | 1351–1354 | Ibn Battuta |
Great permanent wind wheel of Volta do Mar, the North Atlantic Gyre. Recognition of the Sargasso Sea, Madeira, Azores and West African coast. Cape Verde .
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1427–1460 | Several navigators: Portuguese or serving Portugal, most under the sponsorship of Henry the Navigator
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Congo River, Angola and Namibia | 1482–1485 | Diogo Cão |
Volta do Mar winds.
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1482–1485 | Bartolomeu Dias |
routes .
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1493–1502 | Christopher Columbus |
) | 1497–1499 | Vasco da Gama |
Volta do Mar, Indian Ocean, Madagascar, gate of the Red Sea (Bab-el-Mandeb Strait); India. Voyage that united Europe, Americas, Africa and Asia .
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1500–1501 | Pedro Álvares Cabral and Diogo Dias, among others |
Moluccas (Australasia - Pacific Ocean)
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1512–1513 | António de Abreu and Francisco Serrão |
Circumnavigation of the globe. Connection from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean (Americas to Asia). | 1519–1522 | Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano |
Mexico | 1519–1521 | Hernán Cortés |
Brazil, Inca Empire
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1525–1527 | Aleixo Garcia |
Traveled across the Southwest of North America (completely) | 1528 | Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca |
Inca Empire and Ecuador
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1531–1534 | Francisco Pizarro |
Ecuador and Brazil. Length of the Amazon River. | 1531–1534 | Francisco de Orellana |
Saint Lawrence River
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1534–1542 | Jacques Cartier |
Colombia, Conquest of the Muisca | 1536–1537 | Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada |
Volta do Mar (Asia to the Americas)
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1564–1565 | Andrés de Urdaneta |
Rapa Nui
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c. 1480 | Tupaq Inka Yupanki. 1594–1597. Rediscovered by the Spanish. |
North, Canada (Hudson Bay) | 1574–1631 | Henry Hudson |
North | 1594–1597 | Willem Barents
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Siberia and Pacific coast | 1649–1641 | Ivan Yuryevich Moskvitin
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Oceania | 1642–1643 | Abel Tasman |
Brazil (circumnavigation), Paraguay, Bolivia and Peru. Connected the River Plate Basin to the Andes and to the mouth of the Amazon River. | 1648–1651 | António Raposo Tavares |
Oceania | 1768–1779 | James Cook |
North Pacific, western Alaska , Far East Eurasian Coast
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1771 | Moric Benovsky
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Hawaiian Islands | By c. 800 | Hawaiʻiloa (mythical) |
Central America and Latin America | 1799–1803 | Alexander von Humboldt |
Northwest Plateau of North America | 1804–1806 | Lewis and Clark Expedition |
The North Magnetic Pole
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1831-06-01 | James Clark Ross |
Australia | c. 1640 | Makassar People before. Explored by Abel Tasman. |
Interior of Africa | 1851–1873 | David Livingstone |
The Burke and Wills expedition (Central Australia) | 1860–1861 | Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills |
Exploration of the Zambeze river region, Central Africa, Angola, Mozambique, Zambia, Zaire | 1877 | Serpa Pinto
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The Northern Sea Route | 1878 | Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld |
The South Magnetic Pole
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January 16, 1909 | Douglas Mawson, Edgeworth David, and Alistair Mackay |
The North Pole | April 6, 1909 | Robert Peary |
The South Pole | December 14, 1911 | Roald Amundsen |
The South Pole | January 17, 1912 | Robert Falcon Scott |
Mount Everest summit | May 29, 1953 | Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay |
The Moon | July 20, 1969 | Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11) |
Mars | 1960–present | space agency exploration robots
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