Geographers
In 1271, Niccolo and Maffeo Polo again went to China and took with them their son Niccolo Marco, who was 17 years old....
TASMAN (Tasman) Abel Janszoon - (1603 1659) Dutch navigator, explorer of Oceania and Australia (1644). IN...
Vasco da Gama was born in 1469 in the city of Sines, into a noble family of a soldier who faithfully served the king...
Who is Robert Peary? The biography of this man is a fascinating read. A talented engineer and Arctic...
Local residents watched the travelers passing by from the windows of their adobe dwellings. And they walked silently...
Chernozem is an ideal soil...more expensive than any oil, all kinds of coal, more expensive than gold and iron ores V.V....
The year 1642 was marked for Holland by a number of discoveries that were reflected on world maps. At this time, the governor...
Painting by George Carter “The Death of Captain James Cook” Envy, cowardice, pride and careerism ate the captain of 14...
The first Russian circumnavigation of the world 1803-1806 by Ivan Kruzenshtern and Yuri Lisyansky The goal of the expedition is to complete...
Since the beginning of the eighteenth century, the British Empire diligently got rid of criminals, exiling them to the colonies...