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Some most important explorations (in chronological order) :
- Exploration - When - Who (explorer)
- Around western Europe to Thule Island - about 330 BC - Pytheas of Marsailles
- the Middle East and India - 325-280 BC - Alexander the Great
- Greenland - 900 - Gunnbjoern
- Silk Road - 1274 - 1292 - Marco Polo
- Congo River - 1482 - Diego Cao
- Cape of Good Hope - 1488 - Bartolomeu Dias
- America - 1492 - Christopher Columbus
- Sea route to India - 1497-1498 - Vasco da Gama
- Caribbean - 1493-1502 - Christopher Columbus
- Jamaica - 1494 - Christopher Columbus
- Mexico and Central America - 1519-1524 - Hernan Fernando Cortes
- Peru and Equador - 1531-1534 - Francisco Pizarro
- Around the Globe - 1519-1522 - Ferdinand Magellan
- Timor - 1522 - Juan Sebastian del Cano
- Inca Empire - 1531 - 1534 - Francisco Pizarro
- the North - 1574-1631 - Henry Hudson
- the North - 1594-1597 - Willem Barents
- Oceania - 1642-1643 - Abel Tasman
- Oceania - 1768-1779 - James Cook
- Hawaii Islands - 1778 - James Cook
- Central America and Latin America - 1799-1803 - Alexander von Humboldt
- North America - 1804-1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition
- Africa - 1849-1863 - David Livingstone
- the North Pole - 06-04-1909 - Robert Peary
- the South Pole - 15-12-1911 - Roald Amundsen
- the South Pole - 18-01-1912 - Robert Falcon Scott
- the Moon - 1969 - Apollo 11
