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- Marco Polo
- Zheng He
- Henry The Navigator
- Christopher Columbus
- Vasco Da Gama
- John Cabot
- Pedro Álvares Cabral
- Amerigo Vespucci
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Juan Sebastián Elcano
A Venetian merchant and adventurer, Marco Polo travelled along the Silk Road from Europe to Asia between 1271 and 1295. Originally invited to the court of Kublai Khan (1215-1294) with his father and uncle, he remained in China for 17 years where the Mongol ruler sent him on fact-finding missions to distant parts of the empire. Upon his return to Ve...
Known as the Three-Jewel Eunuch Admiral, Zheng He was China’s greatest explorer. Commanding the world’s mightiest fleet of 300 ships and as many as 30,000 troops, Admiral Zheng made 7 epic voyages to southeast Asia, south Asia, the Middle East and Africa between 1405 and 1433. Setting sail aboard his “treasure ships”, he would exchange valuable goo...
The Portuguese prince has a legendary status in the early stages of European exploration – despite never having embarked on an exploratory voyage himself. His patronage of Portuguese exploration led to expeditions across the Atlantic Ocean and along the western coast of Africa, and the colonising of the Azores and Madeira islands. Although he did n...
Often called the “discoverer” of the New World, Christopher Columbus embarked on 4 voyages across the Atlantic Ocean between 1492 and 1504. Under the sponsorship of Ferdinand II and Isabella I of Spain, he had originally set sail hoping to find a westward route to the Far East. Instead, the Italian navigator found himself on an island that later be...
In 1497, the Portuguese explorer set sail from Lisbon towards India. His voyage made him the first European to reach India by sea, and opened up the first sea route connecting Europe to Asia. Da Gama’s discovery of the Cape Route opened the way for an age of Portuguese exploration and colonialism in Asia. It would take another century for other Eur...
Born Giovanni Caboto, the Venetian explorer became known for his 1497 voyage to North America under the commission of Henry VII of England. Upon landing in what he called “New-found-land” in present-day Canada – which he mistook for being Asia – Cabot claimed land for England. Cabot’s expedition was the first European exploration of coastal North A...
Regarded as the “discoverer” of Brazil, the Portuguese navigator was the first European to reach the Brazilian coast, in 1500. While on a voyage to India Cabral accidentally sailed too far south west, and found himself at present-day Porto Seguro on the coast of Bahia. After staying mere days, Cabral sailed back across the Atlantic, leaving two deg...
Around 1501-1502, the Florentine navigator Amerigo Vespucci embarked on a follow-up expedition to Cabral’s, exploring the Brazilian coast. As a result of this voyage, Vespucci demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies were not the eastern outskirts of Asia – as Columbus had thought – but a separate continent, which became described as the “New W...
The Portuguese explorer was the first European to cross the Pacific Ocean, and organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522. Despite rough weather, and a mutinous and starving crew riddled with scurvy, Magellan and his ships managed to reach an island – probably Guam – in the western Pacific. In 1521, Magellan was killed af...
Following Magellan’s death, the Basque explorer Juan Sebastián Elcano took command of the expedition. His ship ‘the Victoria’ reached Spanish shores in September 1522, completing the navigation. Of the 270 men who left with the Mangellan-Elcano expedition, only 18 Europeans returned alive. Magellan has historically received more credit than Elcano ...
10 de ago. de 2023 · From Christopher Columbus to Marco Polo, these celebrated—and controversial—explorers made groundbreaking journeys across the globe.
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Leif Erikson (c.970–c.1020) was a famous Norse explorer who is credited for being the first European to set foot on American soil. The following is a list of explorers. Their common names, countries of origin (modern and former), centuries when they were active and main areas of exploration are listed below.
6 de dic. de 2023 · We narrate the daring missions of courageous men and women who overcame enormous obstacles to reveal the secrets of the world, from Christopher Columbus‘ historic journey across the Atlantic in 1492 to the victories of polar explorers like Roald Amundsen and Ernest Shackleton in the twentieth century.
Hace 6 días · National Geographic Explorers are groundbreaking scientists, conservationists, educators, and storytellers. Each one is infinitely curious about our planet and passionate about helping make it...
