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The Chinese explorer, Wang
Dayuan (fl. 1311–1350)
made two major trips by ship to the Indian Ocean. During 1328–1333, he sailed
along theSouth
China Sea and visited many places
in Southeast
Asia and reached as far as South
Asia, landing in Sri
Lanka and India.
Then in 1334–1339, he visited North
Africa and East
Africa. Later, the Chinese admiral Zheng
He (1371–1433) made seven
voyages to Arabia, East
Africa, India, Indonesia and Thailand.
European Age of
Discovery
The Bartolomeu
Dias (c. 1450–1500), who was the
first European to reach the Cape
of Good Hope; Christopher
Columbus (1451–1506), who led a Spanish expedition
across the Atlantic and discovered
America; Vasco
da Gama (1460–1524), a navigator
who made the first trip from Europe to India and back by the Cape of Good Hope; Vasco
Núñez de Balboa (c. 1475–1519),
the first European to view the Pacific ocean from American shores (after
crossing the Isthmus
of Panama) confirming that America was a separate continent from Asia; Ferdinand
Magellan (1480–1521) and Juan
Sebastian Elcano (1476–1526), who
completed the first global
circumnavigation; García
Jofre de Loaísa(1490-1526) who discovered the Marshall
Islands; Álvar
Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1490-1558)
who discovered the Mississippi
River and was the first European
to sail the Gulf
of Mexico and cross Texas; Jacques
Cartier(1491–1557), who drew the first maps of what is now part of central
and maritime Canada; Andrés
de Urdaneta (1498–1568), who
discovered the maritime route from Asia to the Americas; Francisco
Vázquez de Coronado (1510-1554)
who discovered the Grand
Canyon and the Colorado
River; Francisco
de Orellana (1511–1546), who was
the first European to navigate the length of the Amazon
River; Álvaro
de Mendaña (1542–1595) discovered
the Tuvalu archipelago,
the Marquesas and
the Solomon
Islands; Pedro
Fernandes de Queirós (1565–1614)
who discovered thePitcairn
Islands and the Vanuatu archipelago; Yñigo
Ortiz de Retezdiscovered New
Guinea; Luis
Váez de Torres (1565-1613)
discovered theTorres
Strait between Australia and New
Guinea; Willem
Janszoon (1570–1630), who made
the first European landing in Australia; and Abel
Tasman (1603–1659), who
discovered Tasmania and New
Zealand. |
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