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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]
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
1539 – Francisco de Ulloa sails to the head of the Gulf of California and around Baja California to Cedros Island, establishing that Baja is a peninsula. [ 39 ] 1539–43 – An expedition led by Hernando de Soto explores much of the present-day Southern United States , becoming the first to cross the Appalachians (over the Blue Ridge ...
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 ...
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 inventions and innovations; ... Second Dutch Expedition to the East Indies This page was last edited on 30 April 2024, at 22:24 (UTC). Text ...
The following is a list of mountain passes and gaps in California.California is geographically diverse with numerous roads and railways traversing within its borders. In the middle of the U.S. state lies the California Central Valley, bounded by the coastal mountain ranges in the west, the Sierra Nevada to the east, the Cascade Range in the north and the Tehachapi Mountains in the south.
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) ...