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The sighting of the archipelago was included in the accounts and maps made by the expedition and Spitsbergen was quickly included by cartographers. The name Spitsbergen, meaning "pointed mountains" (from the Dutch spits – pointed, bergen – mountains), was at first applied to both the main island and the Svalbard archipelago as a whole. [1] [3]
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 ...
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
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 ...
The Stephens–Townsend–Murphy Party consisted of ten families who migrated from Iowa to California prior to the Mexican–American War and the California Gold Rush.The Stephens Party is significant in California history because they were the first wagon train to cross the Sierra Nevada during the expansion of the American West.
Mount Whitney is the highest mountain peak in the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, and the contiguous United States. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [a] of the U.S. State of California. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
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) ...
Mount Whitney is the highest mountain peak in the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, and the contiguous United States. The following list comprises the mountain ranges of U.S. State of California designated by the United States Board on Geographic Names and cataloged in the Geographic Names Information System .