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Prepare a list of explorations of sea routes |
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Answer» Answer: Exploration When Who (explorer) Northwest African coast (West Africa) about 500 BC Hanno the Navigator The Mediterranean Sea 5th century BC Himilco the Navigator Around western Europe to Thule Island about 330 BC Pytheas of Marseilles Greenland 900 Gunnbjörn Ulfsson Americas (North America) 999 Leif Ericson Brazil (South America) - controversial c. 14th century CE Abu Bakr II 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 1427-1460 Several navigators: Portuguese or serving Portugal, most under the sponsorship of Henry the Navigator Congo River, Angola and Namibia 1482-1485 Diogo Cão South Africa. CONNECTED the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. South Atlantic Volta do Mar winds 1482-1485 Bartolomeu Dias Caribbean, Venezuela (South America) and Central America. Use and development of the North Atlantic routes 1493-1502 Christopher Columbus Atlantic Ocean (outer routes) and Indian Ocean, Sea route to India (Europe to Asia) 1497-1499 Vasco da Gama 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 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, Paraguay, Bolivia and east of the Inca Empire 1525-1527 Aleixo Garcia Traveled across the Southwest of North America (Completely) 1528 Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca Peru, Inca Empire and Ecuador 1531-1534 Francisco Pizarro Ecuador and Brazil. Length of the Amazon river 1531-1534 Francisco de Orellana Canada, Saint Lawrence River 1534-1542 Jacques Cartier Colombia, Conquest of the Muisca 1536-1537 Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada Pacific Ocean's Volta do Mar (Asia to the Americas) 1564-1565 Andrés de Urdaneta Galápagos Islands, Rapa Nui c. 1480 Tupaq Inka Yupanki. 1594-1597 Rediscovered by the Spanish North, Canada (Hudson Bay) 1574-1631 Henry Hudson North 1594-1597 Willem Barents Siberia and Pacific coast. 1649-1641 Ivan Yuryevich Moskvitin 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 1771 Moric Benovsky 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 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 The Northern Sea Route 1878 Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld The South Magnetic Pole 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 to present NASA and other space agency exploration robots Explanation: |
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