This article lists the explorations in history. For the documentary 'Explorations, powered by Duracell', see Explorations (TV)

Some most important explorations (in chronological order) :

Exploration	When	Who (explorer)
Around western Europe to Thule Island	about 330 BC	Pytheas of Marsailles
the Middle East and India	325-280 BC	Alexander the Great
Greenland	900	Gunnbjoern
Silk Road	1274-1292	Marco Polo
Congo River	1482	Diogo Cão
Cape of Good Hope	1488	Bartolomeu Dias
America	1492	Christopher Columbus
Sea route to India	1497-1498	Vasco da Gama
Caribbean	1493-1502	Christopher Columbus
Jamaica	1494	Christopher Columbus
Mexico and Central America	1519-1524	Hernán Cortés
Peru and Ecuador	1531-1534	Francisco Pizarro
Around the Globe	1519-1522	Ferdinand Magellan
Timor	1522	Juan Sebastián Elcano
Inca Empire	1531-1534	Francisco Pizarro
the North	1574-1631	Henry Hudson
the North	1594-1597	Willem Barents
Oceania	1642-1643	Abel Tasman
Oceania	1768-1779	James Cook
North Pacific, western Alaska, east shores of Asia	1771	Moric Benovsky
Hawaiian Islands	1778	James Cook
Central America and Latin America	1799-1803	Alexander von Humboldt
North America	1804-1806	Lewis and Clark Expedition
Africa	1849-1863	David Livingstone
the North Pole	06-04-1909	Robert Peary
the South Pole	15-12-1911	Roald Amundsen
the South Pole	18-01-1912	Robert Falcon Scott
the Moon	1969	Apollo 11

See also:

• Exploration of Australia
• Exploration of the High Alps
• Portugal in the period of discoveries