Exploration, Geographic

Important Explorations

From Exploration to Seclusion

Cattle in the Sahara

Polynesian Mariners

Viking Raiding Party

Voyage of Vasco da Gama

Pilgrimage to the Kaaba

Jesuit Missionary Matteo Ricci

Ponce de León

Inca Sun Mask

Instruments of Exploration

Scramble for Africa

Sir Henry Morton Stanley

Routes of Human Migration

Ptolemy’s Map of the World

Travels of Marco Polo

Routes of the Vikings

Leif Eriksson’s Sighting of Newfoundland

Spanish Ships of Exploration

New-World Map from 1514

Magellan's Great Expedition

Voyage of Ferdinand Magellan

Routes of Hernán Cortés

Map of the New World, 1596

Slaves in a Sugarcane Mill

John Cabot

Explorations of Jacques Cartier

Henry Hudson

Francisco Vásquez de Coronado

Fur Trade Routes

Hudson’s Bay Company

Joliet and Marquette on the Mississippi

What Lewis and Clark Saw

Roald Amundsen and Crew

Captain James Cook

Cook’s Pacific Voyages

Voyages of Captain Cook

Saint George’s Castle, Ghana

Quest for the Source of the Nile

“Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?”

Livingstone Memorabilia

Stanley’s Explorations

Early Map of Australia

Australian Explorations

Trade in India and Ceylon

Alexandra David-Néel

Reaching the North Pole

Robert Edwin Peary

Race to the South Pole

Robert F. Scott’s Antarctic Expedition

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton

Mount Everest

Sir Edmund P. Hillary

Piccard’s Bathyscaphe

Wreck of the Titanic

Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki

Amundsen-Scott Base

Hot-Air Balloon, Breitling Orbiter 3