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This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. ( May 2024 ) This is a list of some of the most important explorations of State Societies , in chronological order:
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 ...
Major explorations of Earth continued after the Age of Discovery. By the early seventeenth century, vessels were sufficiently well built and their navigators competent enough to travel to virtually anywhere on the planet by sea. In the 17th century, Dutch explorers such as Willem Jansz and Abel Tasman explored the coasts of Australia.
Columbus before the Queen, imagined by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 1843. This timeline of European exploration lists major geographic discoveries and other firsts credited to or involving Europeans during the Age of Discovery and the following centuries, between the years AD 1418 and 1957.
Chronology of Space Exploration Archived 2017-05-25 at the Wayback Machine archive of important space exploration missions and events, including future planned and proposed endeavors; Crewed spaceflight 1961–1980; Crewed spaceflight chronology; History of crewed space missions Archived 2009-02-07 at the Wayback Machine
Genoese exploration voyage to find a sea route to India. It was one of the first recorded voyages to sail from the Mediterranean into the Atlantic Ocean since the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, and predated attempts by Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama by two centuries. Abubakari expedition: Abu Bakr II: 1311 Atlantic Ocean
The longest fully unsupported land Arctic journey in history at 1,374 mi (2,211 km) [citation needed] 2009: David Scott Cowper becomes the only person to have sailed the Northwest Passage solo in a single season. [citation needed] 2011: MLAE-2011 led by Vasily Igorevich Yelagin travelled from Dudinka, Russia – North Pole – Resolute, Nunavut ...
2013–2014 – Married couple Christine (Chris) Fagan and Marty Fagan became the first American married couple (and second married couple in history) to complete a full unguided, unsupported, unassisted ski from the Antarctic coast to the South Pole. They join just over 100 people in history who have traveled to the South Pole in this manner.