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Major Explorations of the World |
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| Year |
Explorer |
National |
| 1271-95 |
Marco Polo |
Italy |
| 1492-1504 |
Christopher Columbus Italy |
America |
| 1497-98 |
John Cabot |
England |
| 1497-98 |
Vasco da Gama |
Portugal |
| 1497-1502 |
Amerigo Vespucci |
Italy |
| 1519-21 |
Ferdinand Magellan |
Portugal |
| 1519-22 |
J. Sebastian del Cano |
Spain |
| 1642-44 |
Abel J. Tasman |
Netherlands |
| 1768-78 |
James Cook |
England |
| 1821 |
John Davis |
U.S. |
| 1831-43 |
James Clark Ross |
England |
| 1839-44 |
Edward John Eye |
England |
| 1892; 1908-9 |
Robert E. Peary |
US |
| 1903-26 |
R. Amundsen |
Norway |
| 1907-9 |
Ernest H. Shackleton |
Ireland |
| 1946-58 |
Finn Ronne |
U.S. |
