The exploration of North America by European sailors and geographers was an effort by major European powers to map and explore the continent with the goal...
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The Norse exploration of North America began in the late 10th century, when Norsemen explored areas of the North Atlantic colonizing Greenland and creating...
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The exploration of the Americas includes: Exploration of North America Age of Discovery § Exploring North America Timeline of the European colonization...
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now Newfoundland, called Vinland by the Norse. Later European exploration of North America resumed with Christopher Columbus's 1492 expedition sponsored...
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Exploration is the process of exploring, an activity which has some expectation of discovery. Organised exploration is largely a human activity, but exploratory...
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Vinland sagas (category Cultural depictions of Leif Erikson)
evidence of Viking exploration of North America through the descriptions of topography, natural resources, and native culture. In comparing the events of both...
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the Age of Discovery Exploration of North America European maritime exploration of Australia Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration History of navigation...
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Freydís Eiríksdóttir (section Saga of the Greenlanders)
the daughter of Erik the Red (as in her patronym), who figured prominently in the Norse exploration of North America as an early colonist of Vinland, while...
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North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres. North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic...
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coast of North America List of traditional territories of the Indigenous peoples of North America Native Americans in the United States List of American Inuit...
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Northwest Passage (redirect from North-West Passage)
desire to establish such a route motivated much of the European exploration of both coasts of North America, also known as the New World. When it became...
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list of the timelines for the history of northern New France beginning with the first exploration of North America by France through being part of the...
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Kinder und junge Leute and deals with the discovery, early exploration and conquest of America by focusing on one explorer in each volume: Christopher Columbus...
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"European and American voyages of scientific exploration." For Europeans in the Age of Exploration western North America was one of the most distant places on...
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Cavendish. Under sponsorship of the Viceroy of New Spain, de Fuca claimed to have piloted a voyage up the western coast of North America in 1592, reaching a strait...
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Moncacht-Apé (category Explorers of North America)
of the Louisiana area, it was taken as a guide by later European and American pioneers, including Lewis and Clark, during the continuing exploration of...
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Lewis and Clark Expedition (redirect from The Corps of Discovery)
first non-indigenous people to cross mainland North America, north of Mexico, reaching the Pacific coast of British Columbia in 1793–twelve years earlier...
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on the extraction and export of gold and silver. Oceans portal Columbus Day Columbus's vow Exploration of North America Lugares colombinos Pre-Columbian...
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James A. Michener references the site as a background to early Spanish exploration. In The Stand by Stephen King, Trashcan Man is instructed by Randall...
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Hernando de Soto (category Spanish explorers of North America)
European documented as having crossed the Mississippi River. De Soto's North American expedition was a vast undertaking. It ranged throughout what is now...
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history of the United States covers the period of European colonization of North America from the early 16th century until the incorporation of the Thirteen...
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The Saga of Erik the Red, in Old Norse: Eiríks saga rauða (listen), is an Icelandic saga on the Norse exploration of North America. The original saga...
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The history of North America encompasses the past developments of people populating the continent of North America. While it was commonly accepted that...
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Report on the Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries, which was revised and reissued in 1895 as The Exploration of the Colorado...
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mouse, and desert tortoise. Before the European exploration of North America, tribes of Native Americans, such as the Mohave (in the Mojave desert), the...
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Hawaiian Archipelago, before reaching the Pacific coast of North America. The two charted the west coast of the continent and passed through the Bering Strait...
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Pacific Ocean and wealth. Major French exploration of North America began under the rule of Francis I, King of France. In 1524, Francis sent Italian-born...
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priorities of the states within their footprints. Since 1962, the Astrogeology Research Program has been involved in global, lunar, and planetary exploration and...
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Drake in California (category Exploration of North America)
Relation to Encampment 20. The Nature of the Fort 21. Relation of the Montanus Engraving. 22. Further exploration of the area was a hike inland. 23. The...
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Palliser expedition (category Exploration of North America)
British North America: The journals, detailed reports, and observations relative to the exploration, by Captain Palliser, of that portion of British North America...
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