Dates Of Geographical Enterprise And Discovery
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This section is from the book "Chambers's Concise Gazetteer Of The World", by David Patrick. Also available from Amazon: Chambers's Concise Gazetteer Of The World.
Dates Of Geographical Enterprise And Discovery
Hanno the Carthaginian off Sierra Leone...................... | B.C. 470 |
Alexander the Great in the Punjab................................. | 327 |
Nearchus in the Indian Ocean........................................ | 325 |
Pytheas of Marseilles in British Seas............................ | 320 |
Megasthenes at Patna on the Ganges........................... | 300 |
Julius Cæsar in Britain................................................... | 55 |
Agricola in Britain...................................................... | A.D. 84 |
Cosmas Indicopleustes in India..................................... | 550 |
Sulaiman (Arab) in India and China..... | 9th c. |
Sindbad the Sailor on Indian Coast............................. | 9th c. |
Iceland colonised from Norway................................. | 9th c. |
Norsemen in Vinland (America)................................. | 10th c. |
Benjamin of Tudela in India, etc........ | 1160-73 |
John of Carpini at Karakorum..................................... | 1254 |
Marco Polo at the Court of Kubla Khan....................... | 1270 |
Ibn Batuta in Bokhara, India, China............................ | 1325-49 |
,, ,, in Timbuctoo.............................................. | 1353 |
Maderia Islands discovered........................................... | 1418 |
Cape Bojador doubled by Gil Eannes.......................... | 1433 |
Diaz discovers Cape of Good Hope............................. | 1486 |
Columbus discovers Watling's Island.......................... | 1492 |
1492 | |
,, ,, Jamaica and Windward Islands.......................... | 1494 |
Cabot discovers N. American Coast............................. | 1497 |
Da Gama discovers Cape Passage................................ | 1497 |
Columbus discovers S. American Coast....................... | 1498 |
Pinzon at the Amazon.................................................. | 1499 |
Cortez in Mexico.......................................................... | 1519 |
Magellan in the Pacific................................................ | 1520 |
His lieutenant circumnavigates world......................... | 1519-22 |
The Portuguese in Abyssinia......................................... | 1520 |
Western Australia sighted by Portuguese..................... | 1522 |
Pizarro in Peru........................ | 1532 |
Cartier at Montreal......................................................... | 1535 |
Portuguese trade with Japan.......................................... | 1542 |
Chancellor in the White Sea.......................................... | 1552 |
Frobisher in Frobisher Bay........................................... | 1576 |
Drake circumnavigates the world................................. | 1577-80 |
Davis in Davis Strait...................................................... | 1587 |
Hawkins in the Pacific................................................... | 1593 |
Barentz at Nova Zembla and Spitzbergen.................... | 1594 |
Benedict Goes in India and Central Asia....................... | 1603 |
Champlain at Quebec.................................................. | 1608 |
Hudson in Hudson Bay............................................... | 1610 |
Baffin in Baffin Bay .................................................... | 1616 |
Dirk Hartog on the Australian Coast....................... | 1616 |
Russians in Siberia......................................................... | 1698 |
Dampier on New Guinea Coast.................................... | 1700 |
Behring in Behring Strait............................................. | 1728 |
Bruce explores Nile and Abyssinia...... | 1768-73 |
Cook on the East Coast of Australia.............................. | 1770 |
Kerguelen at Kerguelen Land...................................... | 1771 |
La Perous in Polynesia................................................ | 1787 |
Mungo Park on the Gambia...................................... | 1795 |
Humboldt in South America...................................... | 1799 |
Mungo Park on the Niger.............................................. | 1805 |
Stemship first crosses the Atlantic............................... | 1819 |
Parry at Melville Island................................................ | 1820 |
Bellinghausen in the Antarctic...................................... | 1821 |
Ross in Boothia Felix.................................................... | 1831 |
Biscoe in the Antarctic................................................. | 1831 |
Darwin on Beagle Expedition...................................... | 1831-36 |
Ross in the Antarctic..................................................... | 1841 |
Franklin in Franklin Strait............................................. | 1846 |
Livingstone at Lake Ngami.......................................... | 1849 |
M'Clure in Prince of Wales Strait................................ | 1850 |
Barth on the Benue....................................................... | 1851 |
Kane at Grinnell Land.................................................. | 1853 |
Burton and Speke on Lake Tanganyika..................... | 1856 |
Livingstone on the Zambesi...................................... | 1858 |
Livingstone at Lake Nyassa...................................... | 1859 |
Burke and Wills traverse Australia............................... | 1860 |
Speke on the Victoria Nyanza...................................... | 1862 |
1864 | |
De Long at Wrangel Land.............. | 1867 |
Schweinfurth on the Welle......................................... | 1870 |
Challenger Expedition.................. | 1872-76 |
Payer & Weyprecht in Franz-Josef Land................... | 1874 |
1876 | |
Nordenskiold in the North-east Passage..................... | 1878 |
Emin Pasha in Equatoria............................................. | 1878-89 |
Greely in Smith Sound.................................................. | 1882-83 |
Lockwood reaches 83o23' N...................................... | 1882 |
Prejevalski in Gobi Desert......................................... | 1883-84 |
Junker in Central Africa............................................. | 1885-86 |
Stanley at Albert-Edward Nyanza................................ | 1889 |
Peary in North Greenland........................................... | 1892-1906 |
Nansen in the Polar Ice............................................... | 1893-96 |
Scott in Antarctic......................................................... | 1902-4 |
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