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  2. Voyages of Christopher Columbus - Wikipedia

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    Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1493–1504. Penguin Group US. ISBN 978-1101544327. Columbus, Christopher (1893). Markham, Clements R. (ed.). The Journal of Christopher Columbus (During His First Voyage, 1492–93) and Documents Relating to the Voyages of John Cabot and Gaspar Corte Real. et al. London: Hakluyt Society. Dugard, Martin (2005).

  3. File:Christopher Columbus voyages map-fr.svg - Wikipedia

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    File:Christopher Columbus voyages.gif by Roke under licenses CC-BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL; File:Viajes de colon.svg by Phirosiberia under licenses CC-BY-SA or GFDL; File:Primer Viaje de Colon Detalle.svg by Zootie under license CC 0; Author: Sémhur (talk) Other versions: Derivative works of this file: Christopher Colombus first voyage 1492-1493 map-fr ...

  4. File:Christopher Columbus fourth voyage 1502-1504 map-fr.svg

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    English: Map of Christopher Columbus fourth voyage, between 1502 and 1504. Français : Carte du quatrième voyage de Christophe Colomb , de 1502 à 1504. Equirectangular projection, WGS84 datum

  5. Timeline of the European colonization of North America

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    1491: Columbus sets sail aboard the Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria. 1492: Columbus reaches the Bahamas, [5] Cuba and Hispaniola. 1492: La Navidad is established on the island of Hispaniola; it was destroyed by the following year. 1493: The colony of La Isabela is established on the island of Hispaniola. [6] 1493: Columbus arrives in Puerto Rico

  6. Fourth voyage of Columbus - Wikipedia

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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.

  7. Christopher Columbus - Wikipedia

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    Christopher Columbus [b] (/ k ə ˈ l ʌ m b ə s /; [2] between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian [3] [c] explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa [3] [4] who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.

  8. List of circumnavigations - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Waldseemüller map - Wikipedia

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    Columbus had not actually seen Behaim's globe in 1492 (which apparently owed much to the ideas of Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli); but the globe, except for one important point, reflects the geographical theory on which he apparently based his plan for his first voyage. The exception is that Columbus shortened the length of the degree, thus ...