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The fourth voyage of Columbus was a Spanish maritime expedition in 1502–1504 to the western Caribbean Sea led by Christopher Columbus.The voyage, Columbus's last, failed to find a western maritime route to the Far East, returned relatively little profit, and resulted in the loss of many crew men, all the fleet's ships, and a year-long marooning in Jamaica.
Columbus spent some time exploring the interior of the island for gold. Finding some, he established a small fort in the interior. Columbus left Hispaniola on 24 April 1494, and arrived at the island of Cuba (which he had named Juana during his first voyage) on 30 April and Discovery Bay, Jamaica, on 5 May.
Russian polar expedition of 1900-1902: Eduard Von Toll: 1902 Bennett Island (Arctic Ocean, north of Siberia) Russian expedition to search for the legendary Sannikov Land. Terra Nova expedition: Robert Falcon Scott: 1913 Antarctica: British expedition to become the first to reach the geographical South Pole. Rusanov expedition: Vladimir Rusanov ...
Rowan Gavin Paton Menzies (14 August 1937 – 12 April 2020) [1] [2] [3] was a British submarine lieutenant-commander who authored books claiming that the Chinese sailed to America before Columbus.
The replica was declared by Jose Maria Martinez-Hidalgo, a Spanish marine historian, to be the most authentic replica of the Santa María in the world during the ship's coronation on 12 October 1991. [25] Dana Rinehart, the 50th mayor of Columbus, christened the ship as part of the 500th anniversary of its voyage. The ship was removed from its ...
A Russian expedition funded by the Chancellor of Russia, count Nikolai P. Romanzof to investigate the Northeast Passage in the Bering Sea. The coast of Alaska was studied and the South Pacific, also the cartography of 36 islands including the Marshall Islands. Also natural history collections made. Captain: Otto von Kotzebue (1787–1846)
British postcard depicting the Russian warships firing on the fishing vessels. The Dogger Bank incident (also known as the North Sea Incident, the Russian Outrage or the Incident of Hull) occurred on the night of 21/22 October 1904, when the Baltic Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy mistook civilian British fishing trawlers from Kingston upon Hull in the Dogger Bank area of the North Sea for ...
Now a lieutenant, in 1900 Kolchak took part in Baron Eduard von Toll's Russian Polar expedition on the ship Zarya as a hydrologist and cartographer. [ 8 ] During the winter of 1901 Kolchak and Toll rode on dog sleds for 500 km to make a topographic survey of the Taymyr Peninsula , and in the spring they took dog sleds to make a geologic and ...