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  2. Northwest Passage - Wikipedia

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    Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen was the first to sail through the Northwest Passage in 1903–1906. Amundsen's Gjøa was the first vessel to transit the passage. The first explorer to conquer the Northwest Passage solely by ship was the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. In a three-year journey between 1903 and 1906, Amundsen explored ...

  3. Age of Discovery - Wikipedia

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    1598 map of Arctic exploration by Willem Barentsz in his third voyage. On 5 June 1594, Dutch cartographer Willem Barentsz departed from Texel in a fleet of three ships to enter the Kara Sea, with the hopes of finding the Northeast Passage above Siberia. [189] At Williams Island the crew encountered a polar bear for the first time. They managed ...

  4. Geographical exploration - Wikipedia

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    Abraham Ortelius's 1570 world map, the world's first modern atlas. Geographical exploration, sometimes considered the default meaning for the more general term exploration, refers to the practice of discovering remote lands and regions of the planet Earth. [1] It is studied by geographers and historians. [citation needed]

  5. Waldseemüller map - Wikipedia

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    While some maps after 1500 show, with ambiguity, an eastern coastline for Asia distinct from the Americas, the Waldseemüller map apparently indicates the existence of a new ocean between the trans-Atlantic regions of the Spanish discoveries and the Asia of Ptolemy and Marco Polo as exhibited on the 1492 Behaim globe.

  6. Arctic exploration - Wikipedia

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    This is a typical map from the Golden Age of Netherlandish cartography. A Dutch map of Jan Mayen during the Golden Age of Dutch exploration and discovery (ca. 1590s–1720s). The Dutch were the first to undisputedly explore and chart coastlines of Jan Mayen and the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.

  7. Ocean exploration - Wikipedia

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    Atlantic Ocean. Ocean exploration is a part of oceanography describing the exploration of ocean surfaces. Notable explorations were undertaken by the Greeks, the Phoenicians, the Romans, the Polynesians, Phytheas, the Vikings, Arabs and the Portuguese. Scientific investigations began with early scientists such as James Cook, Charles Darwin, and ...