Explorers and Exploration
Explorers and Exploration
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Richard Hakluyt , Hakluyt, Richard
BORN: 1552 • London, England
English geographer; writer; priest
Though he never traveled very far from his native England, Richard H… Adrien De Gerlache , The Norwegian Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) was the first explorer to reach the South Pole. One of the greatest figures in the history of polar explorat… Bora-Bora , Bora-Bora •abhorrer, adorer, Andorra, angora, aura, aurora, bora, Bora-Bora, borer, Camorra, Cora, corer, Dora, Eleonora, Eudora, explorer, fedora, f… Exploration , During the Middle Ages, Europeans knew little about the world beyond their lands and the seas around them. The Renaissance brought a great leap forwa… Treaty Of Tordesillas , Tordesillas, Treaty of
After early New World colonization efforts by the Vikings around a.d. 1000 several centuries passed before European exploratio… Donald Baxter Macmillan , The American explorer and scientist Donald Baxter MacMillan (1874-1970) surveyed and mapped unknown land and water in the Arctic.
MacMillan's initial…
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