A to Z game
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May I suggest a topic ?
Famous Explorers or Sailors and please add his or her discovery.
Let me begin with :
Roald Amundsen (1872-1928)
First expedition to traverse the Northwest Passage (1903–06) in the Arctic.
Famous Explorers or Sailors and please add his or her discovery.
Let me begin with :
Roald Amundsen (1872-1928)
First expedition to traverse the Northwest Passage (1903–06) in the Arctic.
Si tu veux voler avec les aigles, éloigne-toi des paons. (proverbe d'origine inconnue)
千里之行 始于足下, proverbe chinois
اتَّكَلْنا منه على خُصٍّ الاتحاد قوة, proverbe arabe
ספר המעשיות: כולל אגדות וסיפורים מתוך קובץ כ"י ישן, proverbe sanskrit
千里之行 始于足下, proverbe chinois
اتَّكَلْنا منه على خُصٍّ الاتحاد قوة, proverbe arabe
ספר המעשיות: כולל אגדות וסיפורים מתוך קובץ כ"י ישן, proverbe sanskrit
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Louis-Antoine de Bougainville (1729-1811)
First French World Tour (1766-1769)
First French World Tour (1766-1769)
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Captain James Cook (1728 - 1779)
He achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.
He achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.
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Bartolomeu Dias (1451-1500)
He sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, reaching the Indian Ocean from the Atlantic, the first European known to have done so.
He sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, reaching the Indian Ocean from the Atlantic, the first European known to have done so.
Si tu veux voler avec les aigles, éloigne-toi des paons. (proverbe d'origine inconnue)
千里之行 始于足下, proverbe chinois
اتَّكَلْنا منه على خُصٍّ الاتحاد قوة, proverbe arabe
ספר המעשיות: כולל אגדות וסיפורים מתוך קובץ כ"י ישן, proverbe sanskrit
千里之行 始于足下, proverbe chinois
اتَّكَلْنا منه على خُصٍّ الاتحاد قوة, proverbe arabe
ספר המעשיות: כולל אגדות וסיפורים מתוך קובץ כ"י ישן, proverbe sanskrit
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Leif Erikson (ca. 970 - ca. 120) Norse explorer.
He was the first known European to have discovered continental North America.
He was the first known European to have discovered continental North America.
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Louis de Freycinet (7 August 1779 – 18 August 1841)
He circumnavigated the earth, and in 1811 published the first map to show a full outline of the coastline of Australia.
He circumnavigated the earth, and in 1811 published the first map to show a full outline of the coastline of Australia.
Si tu veux voler avec les aigles, éloigne-toi des paons. (proverbe d'origine inconnue)
千里之行 始于足下, proverbe chinois
اتَّكَلْنا منه على خُصٍّ الاتحاد قوة, proverbe arabe
ספר המעשיות: כולל אגדות וסיפורים מתוך קובץ כ"י ישן, proverbe sanskrit
千里之行 始于足下, proverbe chinois
اتَّكَلْنا منه على خُصٍّ الاتحاد قوة, proverbe arabe
ספר המעשיות: כולל אגדות וסיפורים מתוך קובץ כ"י ישן, proverbe sanskrit
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Vasco da Gama 1469-1524
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Kurbat Afanasyevich Ivanov (? - 1666) - Siberian Cossack, who was the first Russian to discover Lake Baikal, and to create the first map of the Russian Far East. He also is credited with creation of the early map of Chukotka and Bering Strait, which was the first to show (very schematically) the yet undiscovered Wrangel Island, both Diomede Islands and Alaska.
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Willem Jansz, Dutch Explorer and admiral. Born 1570 and died 1630. he is regarded as the first European to discover Australia in 1606. he arrived in the area of Cape York and Cape Keerweer, which he than believed to be the Southern past of New Guinea. he named this country Nieu Zelandt (New Zealand). That name would later be given to nowadays New Zealand bij Abel Tasman. He made a map of 320 km of the coastline of Australia.
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Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov (October 3, 1863 in Dukhovshchina – September 26, 1935 in Peterhof) was a Russian and Soviet traveler and explorer who continued the studies of Nikolai Przhevalsky in Mongolia and Tibet. From 1899 to 1901, he explored and later described in a book the upper reaches of the Yellow River, Yangtze, and Mekong rivers. During the first decade of the 20th century he was foremost researcher of Xinjiang. He visited the Dalai Lama in Urga in 1905. During his expedition of 1907–1909, Kozlov explored the Gobi Desert and discovered the ruins of Khara-Khoto, a Tangut city destroyed by the Ming Chinese in 1372.His last expedition to Mongolia and Tibet (1923–1926) resulted in the discovery of an unprecedented number of Xiongnu royal burials at Noin-Ula.