List of explorations
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This is a list of some of the most important explorations of State Societies, in chronological order:
| class="wikitable" |
| Exploration
! When ! Who (explorer) |
|---|
| Northwest African coast (West Africa)
| about 500 BC |
| The Mediterranean Sea
| 5th century BC |
| Around western Europe to Thule Island
| about 330 BC | Pytheas of Marseilles |
| Greenland, Iceland, and Faroes
| 900 |
| Americas (North America)
| 999 |
| Brazil (South America) - controversial
| c. 14th century CE |
| Sahelian kingdoms
| 1351–1354 |
| 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.
| 1427–1460 | Several navigators: Portuguese or serving Portugal, most under the sponsorship of Henry the Navigator |
| Congo River, Angola and Namibia
| 1482–1485 |
| South Africa. Connected the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. South Atlantic Volta do Mar winds.
| 1482–1485 |
| Caribbean, Venezuela (South America) and Central America. Use and development of the North Atlantic routes.
| 1493–1502 |
| Atlantic Ocean (outer routes) and Indian Ocean, sea route to India (Europe to Asia)
| 1497–1499 |
| Brazil, South Atlantic Volta do Mar, Indian Ocean, Madagascar, gate of the Red Sea (Bab-el-Mandeb Strait); India. Voyage that united Europe, Americas, Africa and Asia.
| 1500–1501 | Pedro Álvares Cabral and Diogo Dias, among others |
| Timor, Moluccas (Australasia - Pacific Ocean)
| 1512–1513 |
| Circumnavigation of the globe. Connection from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean (Americas to Asia).
| 1519–1522 |
| Mexico
| 1519–1521 |
| Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia and east of the Inca Empire
| 1525–1527 |
| Traveled across the Southwest of North America (completely)
| 1528 |
| Peru, Inca Empire and Ecuador
| 1531–1534 |
| Ecuador and Brazil. Length of the Amazon River.
| 1531–1534 |
| Canada, Saint Lawrence River
| 1534–1542 |
| Colombia, Conquest of the Muisca
| 1536–1537 |
| Pacific Ocean's Volta do Mar (Asia to the Americas)
| 1564–1565 |
| Galápagos Islands, Rapa Nui
| c. 1480 | Tupaq Inka Yupanki. 1594–1597. |
| North, Canada (Hudson Bay)
| 1574–1631 |
| North
| 1594–1597 |
| Siberia and Pacific coast
| 1649–1641 |
| Oceania
| 1642–1643 |
| Brazil (circumnavigation), Paraguay, Bolivia and Peru. Connected the River Plate Basin to the Andes and to the mouth of the Amazon River.
| 1648–1651 |
| Oceania
| 1768–1779 |
| North Pacific, western Alaska, Far East Eurasian Coast
| 1771 |
| Hawaiian Islands
| By c. 800 | Hawaiʻiloa (mythical) |
| Central America and Latin America
| 1799–1803 |
| Northwest Plateau of North America
| 1804–1806 |
| The North Magnetic Pole
| 1831-06-01 |
| Australia
| c. 1640 | Makassar People before. Explored by Abel Tasman. |
| Interior of Africa
| 1851–1873 |
| The Burke and Wills expedition (Central Australia)
| 1860–1861 |
| Exploration of the Zambeze river region, Central Africa, Angola, Mozambique, Zambia, Zaire
| 1877 |
| The Northern Sea Route
| 1878 |
| The South Magnetic Pole
| January 16, 1909 |
| The North Pole
| April 6, 1909 |
| The South Pole
| December 14, 1911 |
| The South Pole
| January 17, 1912 |
| 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 | NASA and other space agency exploration robots |
See also
- Age of Discovery
- Exploration of Australia
- Geographical exploration
- List of explorers
- List of lost expeditions
- List of Russian explorers
- Exploration of the High Alps
- Portugal in the period of discoveries
- Chronology of European exploration of Asia
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