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The prehistoric exploration and colonisation of the Pacific (Cambridge UP, 1994). Lincoln, Margarette, ed. Science and exploration in the Pacific: European voyages to the southern oceans in the eighteenth century (Boydell & Brewer, 2001). Lloyd, Christopher. Pacific Horizons: The Exploration of the Pacific Before Captain Cook (Allen and Unwin ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Exploration of the Pacific Ocean" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. F.
Several previous voyages of exploration including those of Ferdinand Magellan and James Cook, and the Spanish Manila-Acapulco galleons trade route active since 1565, had established the strategic and commercial value of exploring and claiming the Pacific Ocean access, both for its wealth in whales and furs and as a trade route to the "Orient".
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Transpacific crossings are voyages of passengers and cargo across the Pacific Ocean between Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. Transpacific voyages frequently cross the International Date Line. The first recorded crossing of the Pacific was a Spanish expedition led by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan of 1521.
Exploration of the Pacific coast of America and interior of Nicaragua and El Salvador. Sulphur participated in the First Opium War between 1840 and 1841 and was later used to survey the harbour of Hong Kong in 1841, returning to England in 1842. Captain: Edward Belcher (1799–1877) Physician-naturalist: Richard Brinsley Hinds (1811–1846)
Davis Land is the name of a phantom island that was believed to be located in the Pacific Ocean, near South America. It is named for the pirate Edward Davis , who supposedly sighted it in 1687. Never found again, it was also believed by William Dampier to possibly be the coast of Terra Australis Incognita .