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
• 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