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Prize: 4th special section.
Artist: Joan S. Blanch.
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Dedicated to famous explorers or travellers, discoverers of lost places.
"From 3000bc when the Phoenician sailboats sailed by the Mediterranean, until 1969dc, when Neil Armstrong arrives to the moon, has passed five thousand years of history and discoveries that have marked the way of the civilization".
"Normally, for the majority of us, an explorer or traveller is white man, European, bearded and famous, who discovers a lost place, and is named in honor to him or his monarch. It is a defect very human and civilized to believ oneself the first in visiting some thing".
"David Livingstone is considered “discoverer” of the Victory cataracts in 1855... but it seems little probable that the African of the zone did not realize of which in his land there was a water jump of 120m of height?".
"Anyway history is full of women and men who entered in the unknown, they traveled more far than the rest of the mortals and discovered new lands and occupied unexplored territories".
1519-22 Juan Sebastián Elcano. First to go around the world.
1519-21 Hernán Cortés. Conquers the Aztec empire of Mexico.
"55bc Roman general Julius Caesar invades Britania"
"1183-87 Ibn Juvayr travels to Mecca, Bagdag and Damascus"
"1245-47 Juan de Pian del Carpine arrives to Mongolia"
"850 the arab merchant Soliman travels to Melaka, Malsia."
"14-37ac Hipalo sail from the red sea to the river Nile."
"1352 Ibn Battuta explores the empires of Songay andy Mali"
"698 Willibord of Utrech discovers Heligoland"
"986 Viking Herjolfson arrives to Norht America"
"17 of april 1492. Capitulations of the Catholic Kings and Columbus"
"1486 Bartolomeo Diaz arrives to the cape of Good Hope"
"1271-95 Venetian Marco Polo arrives to the court of Kublai Kan"
"1580 Juan de Garay founds Buenos Aires"
"1650 franciscan missionaries explore the high course of the Amazonas river"
"1560 Álvaro de Mendaña discovers the Salomón islands"
"1605 french Samuel de Champlain explores the coast or New Scotland"
"1642 dutch Abel Tasman discovers New Zealand and Tasmania"
"1627 english Thomas Herbert explores Persia"
"1789 Alejandro Malaspina after the success of his expedition is consedered traitor and jailed by Godoy"
"1686 Wlliam Dampier explores the north of Australia"
"1892 Mary Kingsley eexplores the river Ogoue and mount Camerún"
"1613 Luis Vaez de Torres discovers the strait between Australia and New Guinea"
"1770 James Cook, first european that arrives to Australia"
"1799 british Alexander Mackenzie explores the north of Canadá"
"1831 british James Clark Ross arrives to the magnetic North Pole"
"1888-92 german Emin Pasha explores central Africa"
"1852-56 british David Livingstone explores the Zambeze river"
"1911 Norwegian Roald Amudsen arrives to the South Pole"
"1909 Robert Peary arrives to the North Pole"
"1957-58 Vivian Fuchs expedition to Antartida"
"1919 Alcock and Brown first atlantic flight without scales"
"1969 Neil Armstrong"
"2300bc egyptian explorer Harkhuf sail by the south of the Nile"
"470bc Carthaginian Hannon found a colony in western Africa"
"449-444bc greek historian Herodoto middle East"
"330bc Piteas of Marsella circumnavigates British islands"
"3000bc phoenicians sail by all Mediterranean"
"515bc greek geographer Escilax explores the river Indo"
"650bc greek sailors arive to the strait of Gibraltar"
"138-125bc chinese Chang Ch'ien explores central Asia and India"
Last update: April 2009 Víctor & Ruth