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Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese: Fernão de Magalhães, (1480–1521) was a Portuguese-born maritime explorer who, at the service of Spain, attempted to find a westward route to the Spice Islands of Indonesia. This voyage became known as the first successful attempt at world circumnavigation. He did not complete his final, westward voyage; he was killed during the Battle of Mactan in the Philippines. As he died farther west than the Spice Islands, which he had visited on earlier voyages from the west, he became one of the first individuals to cross all the meridians of the globe. He was the first person to lead an expedition sailing westward from Europe to Asia and to cross the Pacific Ocean. Magellan should also be recognized as the first European explorer to enter the Pacific from the Strait of Magellan, which he discovered.
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Pytheas (Πυθέας, ca. 380 – ca. 310 BC) was a Greek merchant, geographer and explorer from the Greek colony Massilia (today Marseille, France). He made a voyage of exploration to northwestern Europe around 325 BC. He probably travelled around a considerable part of Great Britain, circumnavigating it between 330 and 320 BC. Pytheas is the first person on record to describe the Midnight Sun, the aurora and Polar ice, and the first to mention the name Britannia and Germanic tribes.He was one of the greatest navigators of his time.
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Scott of the Antarctic (1948): directed by Charles Frend and starring John Mills, Diana Churchill and Harold Warrender. Plot outline: The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole.
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Robert Bartlett (1875 - 1946) - Newfoundland captain. Led over 40 expeditions to the Arctic, more than anyone before or since.
Reinhold Messner (born September 17, 1944) - Italian mountaineer, first man to climb all the 14 peaks higher than 8,000 meters.
Colonel Noel Andrew Croft (1906 - 1998) - held the record for the longest self-sustaining journey across the Arctic in the 1930s for 60 years.
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In the early 18th century John Harrison designed and built the world's first successful marine chronometers , a highly accurate maritime time-keeping instrument which for the first time allowed a navigator to accurately assess his ship's position in longitude. The discovery of how to measure longitude accurately was among the important discoveries of all time.
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Dora the Explorer is an animated television series that is broadcast on Nickelodeon in the United States. A pilot episode for the series aired in 1999, and Dora the Explorer became a regular series in 2000. Dora the Explorer has been extremely successful commercially, generating over $3 billion in retail sales of associated licensed products since 2000, including $1 billion in 2004 alone. In every episode, Dora goes on a quest, usually to help someone in trouble or otherwise do a good deed for someone. Her quests often involve gathering key objects and/or surmounting obstacles, and are usually done in three stages. Dora always asks the viewers at home to help her do things or to tell her things she needs to know.
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Damper (bush bread, or seedcake), is the bread made by Australian Aborigines for many thousands of years. The bread is high in protein and carbohydrate, and helps form part of a balanced traditional diet. During the ill-fated expedition of Burke and Wills (1860-61), the Cooper Creek Aborigines, the Yandruwandha people, gave them a type of damper made from the ground seeds of the ngardu (nardoo) plant (Marsilea drummondii).
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Bartholomeu Dias is an (a word or phrase made by using the letters of another word or phrase in a different order) of Oh, made out Brasil?
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. (Mark Twain)
At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. (Henry David Thoreau)
It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone. . . . (Henry David Thoreau)
Explorers have to be ready to die lost. (Russell Hoban)
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The seeker is the finder. (Afghan)
The very fact that we are looking for something usually stands in the way of our finding it. (African)
A blind chicken will often find an ear of corn. (Austrian)
Look for a thing until you find it and you'll not lose your labour. (Chinese)
Take heed you do not find what you do not seek. (English)
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