Search results for "List of maritime explorers" - New World Encyclopedia
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- explorer to Africa. Seeking the headwaters of the Nile River, he explored ... a businessman. After a short experience of office work proved him to be ...9 KB (1,323 words) - 03:03, 23 December 2022
- 1480 – April 27, 1521) was a Portuguese maritime explorer who, at the service ... sailing westward from Europe, the objective of the voyage of Christopher Columbus ...20 KB (3,084 words) - 17:19, 26 March 2024
- east. Wrangle Island has the highest density of polar bear dens as well as ... Humans lived as early as 1700 B.C.E. in the region, at the end of ...21 KB (3,205 words) - 14:01, 20 May 2023
- Southeast Asia, sometimes abbreviated to SEA, is a subregion of Asia ... The maritime region consists of Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia ...38 KB (5,260 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023
- capital, Halifax, is a major economic center of the region. It is the fourth ... The province includes several regions of the Mi'kmaq nation of ...28 KB (4,053 words) - 10:08, 11 March 2023
- Phoenicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient ... #039;. The Phoenicians often traded by means of a galley, a man-powered sailing ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- , is a country on the Atlantic coast of West Central Africa. Located ... investment have helped make Gabon one of the more prosperous countries ...23 KB (3,343 words) - 07:34, 15 April 2024
- The Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis (also known as the Federation ... (Saint James). However, misinterpretations of maps by subsequent Spanish ...25 KB (3,664 words) - 00:45, 23 December 2022
- The San Juan Archipelago is a group of islands in the Pacific Northwest ... Part of a submerged mountain chain, the archipelago has more than ...22 KB (3,191 words) - 03:09, 23 December 2022
- The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's ... and is known as the coldest of all the oceans. The International Hydrographic ...31 KB (4,598 words) - 06:22, 12 August 2023
- finding directions on the earth. It consists of a magnetized pointer free to ... using a needle to indicate the direction of the magnetic north of a planet ...26 KB (3,954 words) - 00:20, 8 January 2024
- Washington is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United ... Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory ...48 KB (6,885 words) - 22:59, 3 May 2023
- South America is a continent of the Americas, situated entirely in ... South America has a land area of 17,840,000 square kilometers (6,890 ...34 KB (4,744 words) - 15:36, 4 February 2023
- Dublin is both the largest city and capital of the Republic of Ireland ... Long the seat of culture within Ireland, it has been at the center ...29 KB (4,094 words) - 17:16, 12 February 2024
- state, located 54 miles (87 km) southeast of the city of Seattle. In Pierce ... in the lower 48 states at 35 square miles of snow and glaciers. It also ...24 KB (3,759 words) - 17:43, 10 November 2022
- genesis%2011;&version=31; Chapter 11] of the Bible, the Tower of Babel ( ... humanity. God, observing the arrogance of humanity, resolves to confuse ...34 KB (5,579 words) - 04:46, 1 May 2023
- country that occupies the eastern two-thirds of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola ... the Dominican Republic has a long history of violence and tyranny, including; ...37 KB (5,424 words) - 09:27, 15 January 2023
- mines increasingly financed a long series of European and North African ... The Peace of Utrecht (1713) stripped Spain of its remaining territories ...78 KB (11,731 words) - 19:08, 7 February 2023
- Not to be confused with the People's Republic of China For the civilization of China and its history see China ...97 KB (13,790 words) - 00:28, 4 January 2024
- (The "Hexagon") because of the geometric shape of its ... republic with more than 200 years of democratic traditions, and ...109 KB (16,195 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
