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German explorers of North America (9 P) P. German polar explorers (18 P) Pages in category "German explorers" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 December 2024. Leif Erikson (c.970–c.1020) was a famous Norse explorer who is credited for being the first European to set foot on American soil. Explorers are listed below with their common names, countries of origin (modern and former), centuries of activity and main areas of exploration. Marco ...
1848 – German missionary Johannes Rebmann is the first European to sight Mount Kilimanjaro. [111] 1849 – David Livingstone and William Cotton Oswell cross the Kalahari Desert to Lake Ngami. [89] 1849 – James Clark Ross charts 240 kilometres (150 mi) of the west coast of Somerset Island south to Cape Coulman, discovering Peel Sound. [112]
Explorers like Vasco da Gama, ... Johannes Gutenberg (1400–1468), German inventor who introduced printing to Europe with his mechanical movable-type printing press.
By 1400, a Latin translation of Ptolemy's Geographia reached Italy from Constantinople. The rediscovery of Roman geographical knowledge was a revelation, [41] both for map-making and worldview, [42] although reinforcing the idea that the Indian Ocean was landlocked.
Didrik Pining (c. 1430 – 1491) [2] was a German privateer, nobleman and governor of Iceland and Vardøhus. [ 3 ] In 1925, researcher Sofus Larson proposed that Pining may have landed in North America in the 1470s, almost twenty years before Columbus' voyages of discovery.
1583–91: The Englishman Ralph Fitch becomes one of the earliest English explorers to visit Mesopotamia, India, and Southeast Asia (Burma, Lan Na, Malacca). 1595: The Dutchman Jan Huyghen van Linschoten published his Reys-gheschrift vande navigatien der Portugaloysers in Orienten ("Travel Accounts of Portuguese Navigation in the Orient") which ...
Pages in category "Explorers from the German Empire" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.