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LIST OF ARTICLES Abbadie, Antoine d¿ Abi-Serour, Mordecai Abruzzi, Luigi Acosta, José de Aerial Survey Africa Exploration Early Exploration in East Africa Geographical Barriers to Exploration Maps Scientific Exploration Indigenous Porters and Guides Patrons, Sponsors, and Supporters African Association Agnese, Battista Akeley, Delia Alaska and the Yukon Gold Rush Alexander, Boyd Alexander the Great Fact Fiction `Ali Celebi Alterity Amazon River Amazons American West, Visual Images of Amundsen, Roald Andersson, Karl Johan Anglo-Dutch Maritime Wars Anson, George Antarctica Antichthon and Antipodes Antilia Anville, Jean-Baptiste d¿ Anza, Juan Bautista de Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicle Arabia Arabo-Islamic Geography Archaeology and ¿Discoveries¿ Sites Arctic Early Knowledge Nineteenth-Century Images Russian Arctic Argonauts and the Golden Fleece Armstrong, Neil Arrowsmith, Aaron Atlantis Atlasov, Vladimir Audubon, John James Australia, Exploration of Ayllón, Lucas V zquez de Azores Aztec Empire Back, George Baegert, Christoph Johannes Jakob Baffin, William Bailey, Frederick Marshman Baines, Thomas Baker, Samuel Balboa, Vasco Núñez de Balkhi, al- Ballard, Robert Bancroft, Ann Banks, Joseph Baranov, Alexandr Andreevich Barbot, Jean Barents, Willem Barrow, John Bar Sauma, Rabban Barth, Heinrich Barton, Otis Bartram, William Bass, George Bates, Henry Walter Baudin, Nicolas Beaufort, Francis Beebe, William Beechey, Frederick William Behaim, Martin Bell, Gertrude Bellingshausen, Fabian Benjamin of Tudela Benzoni, Girolamo Bering, Vitus Bernier, Joseph Biedma, Manuel de Binger, Louis Bingham, Hiram Bird, Isabella Biscoe, John Black Legend Bodega y Quadra, Juan Francisco de la Boer War Bombay Geographical Society Boone, Daniel Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de Bouvet, Lozier Boyd, Louise Arner Braun, Wernher von Brazza, Pierre Savorgnan di Brendan, Saint Brieva, Domingo de Bristol Voyages Brosses, Charles de Bruce, James Brussels Geographical Conference Bry, Theodor de Buache, Philippe Buccaneers Buddhist Cosmological Maps Burchell, William Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig Burke, Robert O¿Hara, and William Wills Burton, Richard F. Byrd, Richard Byrd, William Byron, John Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Núñez Cabot, John Cabot, Sebastian Cabral, Pedro Cabrillo, Juan Rodriquez Cadamosto, Alvise di Caillié, René California, Island of Cameron, Verney Lovett Cannibalism Cão, Diogo Cape of Good Hope Caribbean Region, Exploration of Carpini, Giovanni Carr, Jerry Cartier, Jacques Carver, Jonathan Catesby, Mark Catlin, George Cavendish, Thomas Çelebi Evliya Central America, Exploration of Central and South America Conquests and Colonization Colonies and Empires Scientific Inquiry Trade Routes Trade and Trade Goods Utopian Quests Chad, Lake Chaillé-Long, Charles Challenger Expedition Champlain, Samuel de Chancellor, Richard, and Hugh Willoughby Cherry-Garrard, Apsley Chichagov, Vasily Yakovlevich Chinese Empirical Maps Chinese Exile Writers Chinese Exploration Chirikov, Alexey Christie, Ella Cíbola Cipangu Clapperton, Hugh Colorado River Columbia River Columbus, Bartolomé Columbus, Christopher Compass, Magnetic Compiègne, Marquis de Constantinople Cook, James Coronelli, Vincenzo Corte-Real, Gaspar Cortés, Hern n Cousteau, Jacques Covilhã, Pêro da Cross Timbers, The Crozet, Julien-Marie Crusades Curtis, Winifred Curzon, George Nathaniel Dalrymple, Alexander Dampier, William Darwin, Charles David-Neel, Alexandra Davis, John Debenham, Frank De Brahm, William Gerard Decken, Karl Klaus von der Dee, John Del Cano, Sebasti n Delisle, Guillaume Denham, Dixon Denham, Henry Deshnev, Semen Dias, Bartholomew Díaz del Castillo, Bernal Dieppe School Djuvayni, al- Dobbs, Arthur Dobrizhoffer, Martin Doughty, Charles Drake, Francis Du Chaillu, Paul Dudley, Robert Dumont de Montigny Dumont D¿Urville, J. S. C. Duveyrier, Henri Eanes, Gil East African Lakes Eclipses and Exploration Edwards, Amelia El Dorado Elias, Ney Emin Pasha Emory, William Hemsley Encyclopedias of Exploration Entrecasteaux, Antoine Raymond Joseph Bruni d¿ Eratosthenes Ethiopia Europe and the Mediterranean Ancient Near East Geography, Worldview, and Mapmaking Greek and Roman Geography and Worldview Greek and Roman Mapmaking Byzantine Geography, Worldview, and Mapmaking Medieval West Geography and Worldview Medieval West Mapmaking Evans, John Everest, George Exotic, Monstrous, and Wild Peoples and Animals Expeditions, World Exploration England France German States Netherlands Portugal Russia Scotland Spain Venice Exploration as Redemption Exploration Texts Explorers Club Explorers in Disguise Eyre, Edward Fawcett, Percy Federmann, Nikolaus Fernandes, Vasco Fern ndez de Oviedo, Gonzalo Fern ndez, Juan Fictions of Exploration Ancient Medieval Fictitious and Fantastic Places Filchner, Wilhelm Film and Exploration Finney, Ben Fischer, Gustav Flinders, Matthew Florence Florida Forrest, John Forster, Johann Reinhold, and Georg Forster Foucauld, Charles de Foureau, Fernand Foxe, Luke Franciscans Franklin, John Franklin Search Expeditions Fraser, Simon Frémont, John Charles Fritz, Samuel Frobisher, Martin Frontier Thesis Fur Trade Fu Sang Gagarin, Yuri Galton, Francis Gama, Vasco da Gautier, Émile-Félix Genoa Gentil, Émile Geographical Society of Paris Geological Survey of Canada Gerlache de Gomery, Adrien Victor Joseph de Gilgamesh Epic Globes Gobi Desert Goddard, Robert Golovnin, Vasily Gomes, Estevao Gordon, Charles Grant, James Augustus Great Basin Great Lakes, The Greek and Phoenician Colonization Greenland Gregory, Augustus Grivalja Gulf Stream Gvozdev, Mikhail Hajj Hakluyt, Richard Hakluyt Society Hall, Charles Francis Halley, Edmond Hamdani, al- Harris, William Cornwallis Harun ibn Yahya Hawaiian Islands Hawkesworth, John Hayward, George W. Hearne, Samuel Hedin, Sven Henday, Anthony Henry the Navigator Hern ndez, Francisco Herndon, William Herodotus Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de Heyerdahl, Thor Hornemann, Friedrich Houghton, Daniel Hubbard, Mina Benson Hubble Space Telescope Huc, Évariste Régis Hudson, Henry Hudson¿s Bay Company Arctic Exploration North American Exploration Humboldt, Alexander von Hurley, Frank Hurtado de Mendoza, García Hydrographic Office, British Hyperboreans Ibn Battuta Ibn Butlan Ibrahim ibn Ya`qub Imagery of Exploration Imperialism and Exploration Inca Empire Indian Ocean International Geophysical Year International Space Station Inuit Isidore of Seville Itineraries, Ancient and Medieval James, Thomas Jave la Grande Jefferson, Thomas Jenkinson, Anthony Jesuits Johnson, W. H. Johnston, Keith Jolliet, Louis Junker, Wilhelm Jupiter Kane, Elisha Kashevarov, A. F. Kelsey, Henry Kerguelen, Yves-Joseph de Khabarov, Erofey Pavlovich Khedivial Exploration Kingsley, Mary Kino, Eusebio Knight, James Kotzebue, Otto von Krapf, Ludwig Krenitsyn, Pyotr Krusenstern, Ivan Fedorovich La Condamine, Charles-Marie de Lahontan, Baron de Laing, Alexander Gordon Lander, Richard, and John Lander La Pérouse, J. F. de Galaup de La Salle, Cavelier de Las Casas, Bartolomé de La Vérendrye, Sieur de Lawrence, T. E. Lawson, John Leahy, Michael Leakey, Louis, and Mary Leakey Learned Societies Lederer, John Ledyard, John Leichhardt, Ludwig Leifr Eiríksson Le Maire, Jakob Lenz, Oskar Leo Africanus Leopold II Léry, Jean de Lescarbot, Marc Le Testu, Guillaume Lewis, Meriwether, and William Clark Lhote, Henri Libraries and Archives of Exploration Linschoten, Jan Huyghen van Lisbon Livingstone, David Lobo, Jeronimo Longitude Mackay, Donald Mackenzie, Alexander Mackinder, Halford Madeira Magellan, Ferdinand Magnus, Olaus Malaspina, Alejandro Mallet, Pierre, and Paul Mallet Mandeville, John Manila-Acapulco Trade Maps, Mapmaking, and Mapmakers Marchand, Jean-Baptiste Marche, Alfred Mare Oceanum Marina, Doña Markham,Clements Marquette, Jacques Mars Marsden, Kate Martínez de Irala, Domingo Matonabee Mauro, Fra Mawson, Douglas Maximilian of Wied, Prince, and Karl Bodmer Maya, The McClure, Robert Medical Aspects of Exploration Medina, Pedro de Mediterranean Mela, Pomponius Mendaña, Alvaro de Mendoza, Pedro de Mercator, Gerard Mer de l¿Ouest and Rivière de l¿Ouest Merian, Maria Sibylla Micronesia Middleton, Christopher Migration and Migration Routes Mississippi River Mitchell, Thomas Modes of Discovery and Exploration Moon Moorcroft, William Moore, Clarence Muir, John Munk, Jens Münster, Sebastian Muqaddasi, al-, Shams al-Din Murchison, Roderick Muscovy Company Nachtigal, Gustav Nansen, Fridtjof Napoleonic Wars Nasir-i Khusrau National Geographic Society Navigation, Ancient and Medieval Navigational Techniques Newfoundland New Holland Niagara Falls Nicollet, Jean Niebuhr, Carsten Niger River Nikitin, Athanasius Nile River Niza, Marcos de Nordenskiöld, Nils Adolf Erik North, Marianne North America Apocryphal Discoveries and Imaginary Places (pre-1500) Apocryphal Voyages and Imaginary Places (post-1500) Indigenous Guides Indigenous Maps Missionary Accounts Northeast Passage North Pole An Overview Magnetic Pole North West Company Northwest Passage Norumbega Nunes, Pedro Ocean Currents and Winds Oceanography in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Ochogavia, Miguel de Odoric of Pordenone Oikoumeno and Orbis Terrarum O¿Neill, H. E. Oregon Trail Orellana, Francisco de Orosius Ortelius, Abraham Oudney, Walter Ovando, Nicol s de Overweg, Adolph Owen, William Fitzwilliam Pacific First Arrivals Peoples Missionary Accounts Pre-European Trade Routes European Trade Routes Natural History Collections Literary Representations Visual Images Paez, Pedro Palliser, John, and Henry Youle Hind Park, Mungo Parry, William Edward Peck, Annie Smith Pérez, Juan Periploi Petermann, August Peters, Karl Peutinger Map Phipps, Constantine John Phoenician Exploration Piccard, Auguste, and Jacques Piccard Pigafetta, Antonio Pike, Zebulon, and Stephen Long Pinto, Fernão Mendes Pinzón, Martín Alonso, and Vicente Y ñez Pinzón Pioneer Project Pioneer Trails Pizarro, Francisco, Gonzalo Pizarro, and Hernando Pizarro Pizzigano, Zuane Plants Pliny the Elder Poivre, Pierre Polar Flights Polo, Marco Polynesian Explorers of Europe Polynesian Voyages Ponce de León, Juan Pond, Peter Portuguese-Ottoman Wars Post, Frans Powell, John Wesley Poyarkov, Vasily Prester John Projections Przhevalsky, Nikolay Ptolemy Pundit Mapmakers Purchas, Samuel Quesada, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quirós, Pedro Fern ndez de Quivira Radisson, Pierre Esprit Rae, John Ralegh, Walter Ramusio, Giovanni Battista Ravenstein, Ernst Georg Reade, W. Winwood Rebmann, Johannes Reis, Piri Rennell, James Ricci, Matteo Richardson, James Roanoke Rocket Societies, The Rocky Mountains Roggeveen, Jacob Rogozinski, Stefan Rohlfs, Gerhard Rome Ross, James Clark Ross, John Royal Geographical Society Royal Scottish Geographical Society Royal Society Russian American Company Saavedra, Alvaro de Sahagún, Bernardino de Sahara Santa Cruz, Alonso de Saturn Schmidel, Ulrich Schomburgk, Robert Schoolcraft, Henry Schweinfurth, Georg Scoresby, William, Jr. Scott, Robert Falcon Scurvy Seaborne Exploration since 1500 Sea Ice Selkirk, Alexander Selous, Frederick Semenov, Petr Petrovich Serpa Pinto, Alexandre Serra, Junípero Serrao, Francisco Seven Years¿ War Shackleton, Ernest Sheldon, May French Shelikov, Gregory Ivanovich Shepard, Alan Ships and Shipbuilding, Ancient and Medieval Siberia Skylab Slocum, Joshua Smith, Jedediah Smith, John Society for the History of Discoveries Solomon Islands Soto, Hernando de South Sea Company Space Program American European Soviet Space Shuttle American Russian Spanish and Portuguese America, Reports and Descriptions of Sparrman, Anders Speke, John Hanning Spices Sputnik Staden, Hans Stanley, Henry Stark, Freya Stefansson, Vilhjalmur Stein, Aurel Steller, Georg Wilhelm Stephens, John Lloyd, and Frederick Catherwood Stone, Charles St. Roch and St. Roch II Stuart, John McDouall Sturt, Charles Sverdrup, Otto Tasman, Abel Janszoon Teixeira, Pedro de Teleki von Szek, Samuel, and Ludwig von Höhnel Terra Australis Incognita Terra Incognita Thames School Thanaldelthur Thesiger, Wilfred Thevet, André Thirty Years¿ War Thompson, David Thomson, Joseph Thule Thunberg, Carl Peter Timbuctoo Tinne, Alexine Tonty, Henry de Torres, Luis Vaez de Toscanelli, Paolo dal Pozzo Travel Literature, European Travel Writing in Antiquity Treaty of Tordesillas Tuckey, James H. Tulisen Tupaia Underworld United States Army Corps of Topographical Engineers Urdaneta, Andrés de Valdivia, Pedro de V mbéry, Arminius Vancouver, George Varthema, Ludovico di V zquez de Coronado, Francisco V zquez de Coronado, Juan Vélez de Escalante, Silvestre de Vélez de Mendoza, Alonso Véniard de Bourgmont, Étienne de Venice Venus Venus, Transit of Verbiest, Ferdinand Verrazano, Giovanni da Vespucci, Amerigo Vessels: Sailing Vessels Vessels: Motorized Vessels Vial, Pedro Viking Discoveries and Settlements Viking Ships, Preserved Vínland Vizcaíno, Sebasti n Vogel, Eduard Waldseemüller, Martin Walker, Robert Bruce Wallace, Alfred Russel Wallis, Samuel, and Philip Carteret War of Austrian Succession War of Spanish Succession Watkins, Gino Wegener, Alfred Weiditz, Christoph Weyprecht, Karl Whaling White, John Wilkes, Charles William of Rubrouck Wilson, Edward Wissmann, Hermann von Women Explorers Workman, Fanny Bullock World War I World War II Wright, Edward Xuanzang Yermak, Timofeyevich Yevreinov, Ivan Younghusband, Francis Young, John Yu Yonghe Zacuto, Abraham Zaikov, Potap Kuzmich Zanzibar Zhang Qian Zheng He
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Discoveries in geography.