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Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz reached the west coast of Novaya Zemlya in 1594, [6] and in a subsequent expedition of 1596 rounded the Northern point and wintered on the Northeast coast. [7] Willem Barentsz , Jacob van Heemskerck and their crew were blocked by the pack ice in the Kara Sea and forced to winter on the east coast of Novaya Zemlya.
List of Arctic expeditions; C. List of circumnavigations; D. List of Dutch explorations; E. European and American voyages of scientific exploration; L. List of lost ...
Because of his expedition, the 1529 Diogo Ribeiro world map outlines the East coast of North America almost perfectly. In 1528, Pánfilo de Narváez , who had been named adelantado (governor) of La Florida by Carlos I, the King of Spain, landed in Boca Ciega Bay on the west coast of Florida to begin the ill-fated land expedition of 300 men, of ...
1866–68 – A group of French colonial officers, led by Ernest Doudard de Lagrée, undertakes a naval exploration and scientific expedition of the Mekong River and into Southern China. [121] 1869 – American naturalist John Wesley Powell leads the first expedition to travel the entire length of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.
From the early 15th century to the early 17th century the Age of Discovery had, through Portuguese seafarers, and later, Spanish, Dutch, French and English, opened up southern Africa, the Americas (New World), Asia and Oceania to European eyes: Bartholomew Dias had sailed around the Cape of southern Africa in search of a trade route to India; Christopher Columbus, on four journeys across the ...
List of Dutch explorations; ... Second Dutch Expedition to the East Indies; Siboga expedition This page was last edited on 6 September 2015, at 18:49 (UTC) ...
1614: Dutch and French expeditions discover Jan Mayen; 1615: Robert Fotherby, in the pinnace Richard, is the first English expedition to reach Jan Mayen; 1615: English expedition captained by Robert Bylot and piloted by William Baffin reaches the Foxe Basin in search of the Northwest Passage
List of Dutch inventions and innovations; ... Second Dutch Expedition to the East Indies This page was last edited on 30 April 2024, at 22:24 (UTC). Text ...