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// Explorers of the Middle Ages
#p <nat>Irish<o>monk<n>Saint Brendan<b>484<c>Dingle
#e <t>exploration<n>Voyage of Brendan<d>548(3)<c>North Atlantic
#e <t>exploration<n>Snaebjorn Hog sails to Northeast Greenland<d>980<c>Greenland
#v <mem>Erik Thorvaldsson
<c>Denmark Strait<dep>982<c>Julianehaab<c>Godthaab<arr>986
#v <mem>Bjarni Bardarsson
<c>Iceland<dep>986<c>Labrador<c>Greenland
// Eric the Red<b>950(5)<info>coloniser of Greenland
// Leif Ericson<b>990(25)<fa>Eric the Red<info>prob. discovered NA about 1000
// Explorers
#p <nat>English<o>explorer<n>Martin Frobisher<b>1539(5)<d>1594
#p <nat>Dutch<o>explorer<n>Abel Tasman<b>1603<d>1661(1)
#p <nat>English<o>explorer<n>James Cook<b>1728 Oct 27<d>1779 Feb 14 // died in Hawaii
#e <t>exploration<n>Vasco de Gama arrives in India<d>1498 May 20<c>Kozhikode
#p <nat>French<o>explorer<n>Jacques Cartier<b>1491 Sep(3)<d>1557 Sep 1
// Samuel de Champlain
#p <nat>French<o>explorer<n>Samuel de Champlain<sur>Champlain<b>1567<d>1635 Dec(2)
#e <t>founding<n>Port Royal established<d>1604<c>Annapolis Royal<au>Champlain
#e <t>founding<n>Quebec established<d>1608<c>Quebec City<au>Champlain
// arr Quebec again 1633 May 22
// John Cabot
#p <nat>Italian<o>explorer<n>John Cabot<b>1450<d>1498(1)
#e <t>exploration<n>Cabot discovers Cape Breton Island<d>1497 Jun 24
// born in Genoa; Cabot still in Genoa 1493?, in Bristol 1495
// Columbus
#p <nat>Italian<o>explorer<n>Christopher Columbus<b>1446(5)<d>1506 May 20
// born in Genoa
<c>Palos<dep>1492 Aug 3 // first voyage
<arr>1492 Aug 13<c>Canary Islands<dep>1492 Sep 6
<arr>1492 Oct 12<c>Watlings, Bahamas
<c>Rum Cay
<c>Lord Island
<c>Crooked Island
<c>Cuba
<c>Haiti
<c>La Navidad<dep>1493 Jan 4
<arr>1493 Feb 18<c>Santa Maria, Azores<dep>1493 Feb 24
<arr>1493 Mar 4<c>Lisbon<dep>1493 Sep 24 // second voyage
<c>La Navidad<dep>1494 Apr(1)
<c>San Lucar<dep>1498 May 30 // third voyage
<c>La Navidad
<c>mouth of Orinoco
<c>Cadiz<dep>1502 May 9 // fourth voyage
<c>Jamaica<dep>1504 Jun 28
<arr>1504 Nov 7<c>San Lucar
// Later
#p <nat>Norwegian<o>explorer<n>Roald Amundsen<b>1872 Jul 16<d>1928
#p <nat>French<o>explorer<n>Jacques Cousteau<b>1910 Jun 11<d>1997 Jun 25
#e <t>invent<au>Cousteau<n>aqualung<c>France<d>1943