Explore: European Discovery And Exploration

The Age of Discovery (c. 1418 – c. 1620), also known as the Age of Exploration, was part of the early modern period and overlapped with the Age of Sail

Exploration is the process of exploring, an activity which has some expectation of discovery. Organised exploration is largely a human activity, but exploratory

Andrew The discovery of the Pacific Islands Oxford, 1960, pp.44,45. Brand, Donald D. The Pacific Basin: A History of its Geographical Explorations The American

expansion. The combative and rapid nature of this exploration is the result of a series of countering actions by neighboring European nations to ensure no

Port Phillip area. Further exploration was carried out by John Helder Wedge later in 1835, with Batman's encouragement, and Wedge is believed to have again

kilometres (41,340 mi). Due to the historical context of European discovery and exploration, the coastline has been the first point of contact over 400

The exploration of the Americas includes: Exploration of North America Age of Discovery § Exploring North America Timeline of the European colonization

timeline of European exploration lists major geographic discoveries and other firsts credited to or involving Europeans during the Age of Discovery and the following

[citation needed] The first European to sight Western Australia was the Dutch explorer, Dirk Hartog, the first European to suggest to have found a continent

era of European and American voyages of scientific exploration followed the Age of Discovery and were inspired by a new confidence in science and reason