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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
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]
?
[Noth America]
?
- 1804-1806 [Meriweather Lewis]
?
, [William Clark]
?
, Sacagawea
?
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
- ??? - ???