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- // Explorers of the Middle Ages
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- #p <nat>Irish<o>monk<n>Saint Brendan<b>484<c>Dingle
- #e <t>exploration<n>Voyage of Brendan<d>548(3)<c>North Atlantic
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- #e <t>exploration<n>Snaebjorn Hog sails to Northeast Greenland<d>980<c>Greenland
- #v <mem>Erik Thorvaldsson
- <c>Denmark Strait<dep>982<c>Julianehaab<c>Godthaab<arr>986
- #v <mem>Bjarni Bardarsson
- <c>Iceland<dep>986<c>Labrador<c>Greenland
- // Eric the Red<b>950(5)<info>coloniser of Greenland
- // Leif Ericson<b>990(25)<fa>Eric the Red<info>prob. discovered NA about 1000
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- // Explorers
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- #p <nat>English<o>explorer<n>Martin Frobisher<b>1539(5)<d>1594
- #p <nat>Dutch<o>explorer<n>Abel Tasman<b>1603<d>1661(1)
- #p <nat>English<o>explorer<n>James Cook<b>1728 Oct 27<d>1779 Feb 14 // died in Hawaii
- #e <t>exploration<n>Vasco de Gama arrives in India<d>1498 May 20<c>Kozhikode
- #p <nat>French<o>explorer<n>Jacques Cartier<b>1491 Sep(3)<d>1557 Sep 1
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- // Samuel de Champlain
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- #p <nat>French<o>explorer<n>Samuel de Champlain<sur>Champlain<b>1567<d>1635 Dec(2)
- #e <t>founding<n>Port Royal established<d>1604<c>Annapolis Royal<au>Champlain
- #e <t>founding<n>Quebec established<d>1608<c>Quebec City<au>Champlain
- // arr Quebec again 1633 May 22
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- // John Cabot
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- #p <nat>Italian<o>explorer<n>John Cabot<b>1450<d>1498(1)
- #e <t>exploration<n>Cabot discovers Cape Breton Island<d>1497 Jun 24
- // born in Genoa; Cabot still in Genoa 1493?, in Bristol 1495
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- // Columbus
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- #p <nat>Italian<o>explorer<n>Christopher Columbus<b>1446(5)<d>1506 May 20
- // born in Genoa
- <c>Palos<dep>1492 Aug 3 // first voyage
- <arr>1492 Aug 13<c>Canary Islands<dep>1492 Sep 6
- <arr>1492 Oct 12<c>Watlings, Bahamas
- <c>Rum Cay
- <c>Lord Island
- <c>Crooked Island
- <c>Cuba
- <c>Haiti
- <c>La Navidad<dep>1493 Jan 4
- <arr>1493 Feb 18<c>Santa Maria, Azores<dep>1493 Feb 24
- <arr>1493 Mar 4<c>Lisbon<dep>1493 Sep 24 // second voyage
- <c>La Navidad<dep>1494 Apr(1)
- <c>San Lucar<dep>1498 May 30 // third voyage
- <c>La Navidad
- <c>mouth of Orinoco
- <c>Cadiz<dep>1502 May 9 // fourth voyage
- <c>Jamaica<dep>1504 Jun 28
- <arr>1504 Nov 7<c>San Lucar
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- // Later
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- #p <nat>Norwegian<o>explorer<n>Roald Amundsen<b>1872 Jul 16<d>1928
- #p <nat>French<o>explorer<n>Jacques Cousteau<b>1910 Jun 11<d>1997 Jun 25
- #e <t>invent<au>Cousteau<n>aqualung<c>France<d>1943
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