Explorations

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
• Grenland? - 900 - Gunnbjoern?
• [Silk Road]? - 1274 - 1292 - Marco Polo
• [Congo River]? - 1482 - Diego Cao
• [Cape of Good Hope]? - 1488 - [Bartolomeu Diaz]?
• 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 - [Ferdinand Cortes]?
• Peru and Equador? - 1531-1534 - [Francisco Pizarro]?
• Around the Globe - 1519-1522 - [Ferdinando de Magallanes]?
• 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
• Mars - ??? - ???