Marco Polo (Venet.). . Ibn Batuta (Arab.). Sir John Mandeville (Eng) Diego Cam (Port.).. Bartholomew Diaz (Port.) Ven.). Vasco da Gama (Port.). Alvarez Cabral (Port.). . Discovery or Exploration. Invasions of Habesh, Arabia, Phoenicia, Syria. Voyages to Ophir, Gades, Britain. Extension of Colonies in the Mediterranean and Pon tus Euxinus. Spain (Tartessus) discovered for the Greeks. Circumnavigation of Africa by order of Necho. Sargasso Sea. have visited Britain. Attempts circumnavigation of Africa. Julius Cæsar in Gaul, Germany, and Britain Said to Extension of geographical knowledge and commerce as far as Central Asia. Describes Roman Empire and first mentions Thule and Ireland. Tiberius discovers the Lake of Constance; Drusus, the Brenner Pass. Agricola circumnavigates Britain. Constructs his Geography and Atlas. Visits Java, Sumatra, and India. Faroe Islands. North Cape of Europe rounded. Discovers Iceland. Visited by Irish monks about 795. Greenland coast. Rediscovered by Erik the Red (983). Colonizes Greenland. Discovers Newfoundland (Helluland), Nova Scotia (Markland), and coast of New England (Vinland)[?]. Geographer to King of Sicily, produces his geography. Trading merchants discover Siberia. Reaches Karakorum, the ancient seat of the Mongol Travels in Central Asia, China, India, Persia. Travels through the whole Mohammedan World, N. ? Travels in India. Gives an impetus to Portuguese voyages of discovery.· Cape Verde, etc. Coast of Guinea reached. Sends Columbus his map showing the western route to Cathay (China). Mouth of the Congo reached. Rounds Cape of Good Hope. America, West Indies, Trinidad, Cuba, etc. Sails along E. coast of America from Labrador as far as Florida. Route to India by Cape of Good Hope. Venezuela, and that America was not 'part of Asia." Brazil (named by him Ilha da Vera Cruz, being S. Central America on his fourth voyage. Florida. Reach the Moluccas. 1642 1643 1645 1660 1673 1725-43 1728 and 41 1764-66 1768-79 1770 1785-88 1789 1792 Mendaña (Span.). Champlain (French). Dirk Hartog (Dut.).. Deshnev (Cossack).. 1795-1806 1799-1804 1801-1804 1803-6 1805-9 Salt (Eng.).. Klaproth (Ger.). Sir E. Parry (Eng.) Sir J. Franklin. Richardson and (Eng.).... Long (U. S.). Back Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) and New Zealand. Lake region of the St. Lawrence discovered. Bering Strait and the NW. coast of America. Discovers New Siberian Islands. Vancouver Island circumnavigated. Discovered by Southern coasts of Australia. Surveys in Sea of Japan and Sea of Okhotsk, Saghalien, etc. Visit to Abyssinia Exploration of the Caucasus. Parry Archipelago. Coppermine and Mackenzie Rivers explored. Exploration of Rocky Mountains The shaded portion represents the radius of a three weeks' journey from London in 1800 and 1900. -Bartholomew's Atlas. J. Balleny (Eng.). Eyre (Eng.).. Trümmer. Sir James C. Ross (Eng.).. G. Nachtigal (Ger.)... Prejevalsky (Rus.) "Challenger" Expedi- Lieut. Cameron (Eng.). Sir Geo. Nares and Major Serpa Pinto (Port.). Emin Pasha (Ger.)... Wiesmann (Ger.). Discovers Lake Torrens, S. Australia, and in 1841 journeys from Adelaide to King George's Sound. Remains of ancient Nineveh. Victoria Land, with volcanoes Erebus and Terror. Crosses Australia, Moreton Bay to Port Essington. Northwest Passage. Basin of Ogowé River, W. Africa Explores Upper Nile. Discovers Albert Nyanza, 1864. Journeys in Central and Eastern Arabia. Journey in W. Sudan by Ghadames, Murzuk, and Wadai to R. Niger. Extensive travel and exploration in China. Exploration of the Jur. Niam-Niam, and Monbuttu countries. Explorations in Lake Chad region and Central Sudan States. Journeys in Mongolia, Tibet, etc. Exploration of N. part of Spitzbergen. Vaigats Is. Franz Josef Land. Zweifel Sources of the Niger. Grinnell Land and NE. coast of Greenland. Across Africa from West coast, Congo Basin. Welle-Mobangi, etc. 1876 1878-79 1878-89 1878-85 1878-92 1879 Moustier and (Swiss). 1881-85 Greely (U. S.). 1885 Junker (Rus.-Ger.). 1886 Peary (U. S.).. North Greenland. 1887 Capt. Younghusband (Eng.).. Travels from Pekin to Kashmir. Hviotenland, etc.; reached his "Farthest North" in Surveys and explorations in Franz Josef Land. Travels in Tonkin and China. Explores region of Lake Rudolf. Travels from Upper Mobangi to Fashoda. Attempt to cross over the North Pole in a balloon, with fatal results. Crosses Western Australia from S. to N. "Belgica," first ship to winter within Antarctic circle. |