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This is a list of maritime explorers. The list includes explorers which had contributed, and continue to contribute to human knowledge of the planet's geography, weather, biodiversity, human cultures, the expansion of trade, or established communication between diverse populations...
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Antiquity
The Phoenicians explored North Africa, establishing a number of colonies, the most prominent of which was Carthage. Carthage itself conducted exploration of West Africa. The first alleged circumnavigation of the African continent attested to was made by Phoenician sailors, in an expedition commissioned by Egyptian pharaoh Necho II, c.600 BC which took three years. A report of this expedition is provided by Herodotus (4.37). They sailed south, rounded the Cape heading west, made their way nort...
Middle Ages
Between 859 and 861 a Viking fleet of 62 ships, led by Hastein and Björn Ironside sailed from the Loire to raid in the Mediterranean, including North Africa. From 1146 to 1148 the Norseman, Roger II of Sicily, established the Kingdom of Africa. In May 1291 the Genoese brothers, Vandino and Ugolino Vivaldi, commanded the first known expedition in search of a sea route to India around Africa, but went lost. A few years later, in 1312, possibly in search of the Vivaldi brothers, a fellow Genoese...
Early Portuguese expeditions
Portuguese explorer Prince Henry, known as the Navigator, was the first European to methodically explore Africa and the oceanic route to the Indies. From his residence in the Algarve region of southern Portugal, he directed successive expeditions to circumnavigate Africa and reach India. In 1420, Henry sent an expedition to secure the uninhabited but strategic island of Madeira. In 1425, he tried to secure the Canary Islands as well, but these were already under firm Castilian control. In 143...
15th century
1. Diogo Cão 2. Diogo de Azambuja 3. Bartolomeu Dias 4. Pêro de Alenquer 5. João Infante 6. João Grego 7. Álvaro Martins 8. Pêro Dias 9. Gil Eanes 10. Nuno Tristão 11. Antão Gonçalves 12. Dinis Dias 13. Álvaro Fernandes 14. Pêro de Sintra 15. Fernão do Pó 16. Alvise Cadamosto(Venetian born) 17. António de Noli(Genoese born) 18. Diogo Gomes 19. Álvaro Caminha 20. João de Santarém 21. Pedro Escobar 22. Duarte Pacheco Pereira 23. Lopes Gonçalves(and Atlantic Ocean)
15th/16th century
1. Vasco da Gama(and discovered sea route to India) 2. Diogo Dias (and Indian Ocean, discovered Madagascar) 3. Pêro da Covilhã (15th/16th century diplomat and explorer in Ethiopia) 4. Pedro Álvares Cabral(discovered Brazil, explored India along the African coast) 5. Sancho de Tovarand Vicente Pegado among others (also among the first Europeans ever to contemplate and to describe the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, then referred to by the Portuguese as Monomotapa).
16th century
1. Paulo Dias de Novais 2. António Fernandes (he travalled to Monomotapa and beyond, exploring most of the present day Zimbabwe and possibly northeastern South Africa) 3. Lourenço Marques(trader and explorer in East Africa) 4. Francisco Álvares(missionary and explorer in Ethiopia) 5. Gonçalo da Silveira(jesuit missionary, travalled up the Zambezi River to the capital of the Monomotapa which appears to have been the N'Pande kraal, close by the M'Zingesi River, a southern tributary of the Zambezi)
Michael Crowder, The Story of Nigeria, Faber and Faber, London, 1978. (1962)Basil Davidson, The African Past, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1966. (1964)People also ask
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Chinese exploration. Chinese exploration includes exploratory Chinese travels abroad, on land and by sea, from the travels of Han dynasty diplomat Zhang Qian into Central Asia during the 2nd century BC until the Ming dynasty treasure voyages of the 15th century that crossed the Indian Ocean and reached as far as East Africa .
The Portuguese mariner Bartolomeu Dias was the first European to explore the coastline of South Africa in 1488, while attempting to discover a trade route to the Far East via the southernmost cape of South Africa, which he named Cabo das Tormentas, meaning Cape of Storms.
24 May 1500. Gender: Male. Bartolomeu Dias, also spelt: Bartholomew Diaz. He was a Portuguese navigator whose discovery in 1488 of the Cape of Good Hope showed Europeans there was a feasible route to India around the storm-driven southern tip of Africa.
Purpose of the list . The purpose of the list is to enable the reader to navigate between Wikipedia entries of diverse maritime explorers from a central encyclopedic point of reference. Definition . A communication with other populations, commercial trade, and military missions such as establishment of colonies. List scope
