| Exploration
| When
| Who ( explorer)
|
| Around western Europe to Thule Island
| about 330 BC
| Pytheas of Marsailles
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| the Middle East and India
| 325-280 BC
| Alexander the Great
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| 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 GamaSee Clube de Regatas Vasco da Gama for the football club. Vasco da Gama ( 1469 December 24, 1524), was a Portuguese explorer who was the first person to sail from Europe to Malabar, India. From the early 15th century, the nautical school of Henry the Navi
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| Caribbean
| 1493-1502
| Christopher Columbus
|
| JamaicaThis article is about the country. For others uses, see Jamaica (disambiguation). Jamaica is a country in the Caribbean Sea, located south of Cuba and to the west of Hispaniola, on which Haiti and the Dominican Republic are situated. Jamaica ( In Detail)
| 1494
| Christopher Columbus
|
| MexicoThis article is about the country Mexico. For other meanings, see Mexico (disambiguation The United Mexican States or Mexico ( Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos or Mexico regarding the use of the variant spelling Mejico see section The name below) is a co and Central AmericaCentral America is the region of North America located between the southern border of Mexico and the northwest border of Colombia, in South America. Some geographers classify Central America as a large isthmus, and in this geographic sense it sometimes in
| 1519-1524
| Hernán CortésHernan Cortes ( 1485 December 2, 1547) (who was known as Hernando or Fernando Cortes during his lifetime and signed all his letters Fernan Cortes was the conquistador who conquered Mexico for Spain. Early Life Cortes was born in Medellin, Extremadura prov
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| PeruFor other uses, see Peru (disambiguation The Republic of Per ( Spanish: Per Quechua, Aymara: Piruw is a country in western South America, bordering with Ecuador and Colombia to the north, Brazil to the east, Bolivia to the east, south-east and south, Chil and Ecuador
| 1531-1534
| Francisco Pizarro
|
| Around the Globe
| 1519-1522
| Ferdinand Magellan
|
| Timor
| 1522
| Juan Sebastián Elcano
|
| 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
|
| North Pacific, western Alaska, east shores of Asia
| 1771
| Moric Benovsky
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| Hawaiian Islands
| 1778
| James Cook
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| Central America and Latin America
| 1799-1803
| Alexander von Humboldt
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| 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
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| the Moon
| 1969
| Apollo 11
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