List of explorations

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Some of the most important explorations of State Societies, in chronological order:

Exploration  | When  | Who (explorer)

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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, Iceland, and Faroes | 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

## See also

* Age of Discovery
* Exploration of Australia
* 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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