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{{Short description|none}} {{Incomplete list|date=May 2024}} This is a list of some of the most important [[exploration]]s of [[Complex society|State Societies]], in chronological order: <!-- table --> {| class="wikitable" |- ! Exploration ! When ! Who ([[Exploration|explorer]]) |- | Northwest [[Africa]]n coast ([[West Africa]]) | about 500 BC | [[Hanno the Navigator]] |- | The [[Mediterranean Sea]] | 5th century BC | [[Himilco the Navigator]] |- | Around western [[Europe]] to [[Thule (myth)|Thule]] Island | about 330 BC | [[Pytheas]] of Marseilles |- | [[Greenland]], [[Iceland]], and [[Faroe Islands| 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 Africa|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 [[Volta do Mar|routes]]. | 1493–1502 | [[Christopher Columbus]] |- | [[Atlantic Ocean]] ([[Volta do Mar|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]], [[Spanish conquest of the Muisca|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 | [[Topa Inca Yupanqui|Tupaq Inka Yupanki]]. 1594–1597.<br>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 [[Río de la Plata Basin|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]] |- | [[Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Plateau|Northwest Plateau of North America]] | 1804–1806 | [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]] |- | The [[North Magnetic Pole]] | 1831-06-01 | [[James Clark Ross]] |- | [[Australia (continent)|Australia]] | c. 1640 | [[Makassan contact with Australia|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 (astronaut)|Michael Collins]], and [[Buzz Aldrin]] ([[Apollo 11]]) |- | [[Mars]] | 1960–present | [[NASA]] and other [[space agency]] exploration robots |} ==See also== * [[Age of Discovery]] * [[European maritime exploration of Australia|Exploration of Australia]] * [[Geographical exploration]] * [[List of explorers]] * [[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]] {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Explorations}} [[Category:Exploration|*Explorations]] [[Category:History-related lists|Explorations]] [[bs:Istraživanja]] [[de:Entdeckungsreise]] [[es:Cronología de las exploraciones]] [[hr:Zemljopisna otkrića]]
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