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Maritime history dates back thousands of years. In ancient maritime history, [1] evidence of maritime trade between civilizations dates back at least two millennia. [2] The first prehistoric boats are presumed to have been dugout canoes which were developed independently by various Stone Age populations.
Although human maritime exploration is very ancient, only explorers known in recorded histories of their cultures are noted here. As such they represent three global maritime regions (in English alphabetic order): the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and their sub-regional seas as points of origin of the exploration missions.
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From the discovery of a passage from Europe to India to the first European to set foot in the New World, this list chronicles some of the most important feats of maritime exploration in history. Ten of the most important ocean explorers in recorded history are on this list.
Seafaring Austronesian peoples establish the Austronesian maritime trade network, the first true maritime trade network in the Indian Ocean. It established trade routes with Southern India and Sri Lanka, East Asia, the Arabian peninsula, and Eastern Africa. It later became part of the Spice Trade and the Maritime Silk Road. 1500-300 BCE
Jack Sheppard (31 March 1909 – 14 July 2001), pioneer of cave diving in the United Kingdom and a founder of the Cave Diving Group. Wesley C. Skiles (March 6, 1958 – July 21, 2010), documentary filmmaker. E. Lee Spence (born 1947), pioneer underwater archaeologist and treasure hunter. Rick Stanton (born 1961)
Sep 1, 2022 · The end-of-the-world Thule. Greek explorer Pytheas first wrote about the mysterious island of Thule in his fourth-century B.C. work, On the Ocean. An intrepid traveler from Massalia (today’s ...
Aug 11, 2017 · They are seeking the now-flooded landscape ancient maritime explorers would have followed on their journey south, when today's coastlines were dozens of kilometers inland. Some coastal travelers did eventually turn landward, as shown by early inland sites such as Oregon's Paisley Caves, which yielded a 14,200-year-old human coprolite ( Science ...
