List of Explorations

Some of the most important explorations of Western civilization (in chronological order) :

Exploration When Who (explorer)
Northwest African coast 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
The Middle East and India 325 BC-280 BC Alexander the Great
Greenland 900 Gunnbjörn Ulfsson
Silk Road 1274-1295 Marco Polo
Azores 1427 Diogo de Silves
Cape Bojador 1434 Gil Eanes
Sierra Leone 1460 Pêro de Sintra
Congo River 1482 Diogo Cão
Cape of Good Hope 1487 Bartolomeu Dias
Americas 1492 Christopher Columbus
Sea route to India 1497-1498 Vasco da Gama
Caribbean 1493-1502 Christopher Columbus
Jamaica 1494 Christopher Columbus
Brazil 1500 Pedro Álvares Cabral
Inland Mexico and Central America 1519-1524 Hernán Cortés
Circumnavigate the Globe 1519-1522 Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano
Timor 1522 Juan Sebastián Elcano
Peru, Inca Empire and Ecuador 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
North Pacific, western Alaska, east shores of Asia 1771 Moric Benovsky
Hawaiian Islands 1778 James Cook
Central America and Latin America 1799-1803 Alexander von Humboldt
North America 1804-1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition
The North Magnetic Pole 1831-06-01 James Clark Ross
Africa 1849-1863 David Livingstone
The Burke and Wills expedition (Central Australia) 1860-1861 Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills
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 1, 1918 Robert Falcon Scott
Mount Everest Summit May 29, 1953 Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa 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

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