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The early part of Pytheas' voyage was outlined by statements of Eratosthenes that Strabo said are false because they were taken from [clarification needed] Pytheas. [16] Apparently, Pytheas said that tides ended at the "sacred promontory" ( Hieron akrōtērion , or Sagres Point ), and from there to Gades is said to be 5 days' sail.
The Ship Sarcophagus: a Phoenician ship carved on a sarcophagus, 2nd century AD.. The theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas suggests that the earliest Old World contact with the Americas was not with Columbus or Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians (or, alternatively, other Semitic peoples) in the first millennium BC.
The voyage of the Greek navigator Pytheas of Massalia is a particularly notable example of a very long, early voyage. [12] A competent astronomer and geographer, [12] Pytheas ventured from Greece through the strait of Gibraltar to Western Europe and the British Isles. [12]
The routes of James Cook's voyages. The first voyage is shown in red, second voyage in green, and third voyage in blue. The route of Cook's crew following his death is shown as a dashed blue line. William Funnell (English); 1703–1706. [2] William Dampier (English); 1703–1706. [2]
The Inventio Fortunata, a lost book, describes in a summary written by Jacobus Cnoyen but only found in a letter from Gerardus Mercator, voyages as far as the North Pole. [16] One widely disputed claim is that two brothers from Venice , Niccolo and Antonio Zeno , allegedly made a map of their journeys to that region, which were published by ...
Around 325 BC, Pytheas (Ancient Greek Πυθέας ὁ Μασσαλιώτης) made a voyage of exploration to northwestern Europe as far as the Arctic Circle from his city of Marseilles. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] His discoveries contributed to the elaboration of the ancient world maps of Dicaearchus , Timaeus and Eratosthenes , and to the development of ...
Hanno the Navigator (sometimes "Hannon"; Punic: 𐤇𐤍𐤀, ḤNʾ; [1] Greek: Ἄννων, romanized: Annōn [2]) was a Carthaginian explorer (sometimes identified as a king) who lived during the fifth century BC, known for his naval expedition along the coast of West Africa.
Atlantic Ocean. Ocean exploration is a part of oceanography describing the exploration of ocean surfaces. Notable explorations were undertaken by the Greeks, the Phoenicians, the Romans, the Polynesians, Phytheas, the Vikings, Arabs and the Portuguese.