25 Epic Expeditions And The Explorers That Made Them

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Although today there are very few places on Earth above sea level that aren't explored (it has been said that we know more about the moon than we do the bottom of the ocean), there are still a few places like Papua New Guinea that have been notoriously impossible to map and settle. Of course, you'll probably notice that the history of exploration is more or less the history of western civilization. It's not that people don't live in Papua New Guinea or know anything about its geography and terrain, it's just that those people aren't really connected to the rest of the world. So, whether you call it colonialism or discovery, here are the stories behind 25 epic expeditions and the explorers that made them.

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Discovery of Greenland (Erik the Red)
Discovery of Newfoundland, Canada (Leif Erikson)
First Solo Circumnavigation of the World (Joshua Slocum)
The First Men to Conquer Mt. Everest (Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay)
First Expedition to South Pole (Roald Amundsen)
The Search for the Nile's Source in Africa (David Livingstone)
Discovery of China (Marco Polo)
The 8,000 Mile Exploration of the West (Meriwether Lewis and William Clark)
1831 HMS Beagle Explorations (Charles Darwin)
The First Circumnavigation of the Earth (Ferdinand Magellan)
The First Landing on the Moon (Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin Aldrin)
Discovery of the Northeast Coast of America (John Cabot)
First Man to Travel into Space (Yuri Gagarin)
Discovery of the Caribbean (Christopher Columbus)
First Woman to Fly a Plane (Louise Arner Boyd)
Discovery of India (Vasco da Gama)
Discovery of the North Pacific (Abel Tasman)
Discovery of Hudson Bay (Henry Hudson)
Explorations of Australia, New Zealand and North America (James Cook)
Discovery of East Africa (Sir Richard Burton)
Discovery of America (Amerigo Vespucci)
Discovery of Panama (Vasco Núñez de Balboa)
First Man to Dive into the Sea (William Beebe)
Modern Discovery of Machu Picchu (Hiram Bingham)
Discovery of the Manila Galleon Trade (Andrés de Urdaneta)