Description: A world map from 1912 showing the voyages and routes of exploration of Europeans, including dates of ‘discoveries.’ The map is color-coded to show the territories explored and claimed by the Spanish in orange, and by the Portuguese in green. The map shows the routes of Marco Polo to Cathay (1271-1295), Bartholomew Diaz to the Cape of Good Hope and Caffraria (1486-1487), Christopher Columbus (first voyage, 1492-1493, and fourth voyage, 1502-1504), Vasco de Gama to Calicut, India (1497-1499), John Cabot to Newfoundland (1497-1498), Ojeda and Amerigo Vespucci to Venezuela (1499-1500), Amerigo Vespucci to Bahia de Cananea, Brazil (1501-1502), Fernando Magellan's circumnavigation of the earth (1519-1522), Francisco Pizarro to Peru (1524 and 1532-1534), and Diego de Almagro to Chile (1535-1537). The map also notes the discoveries of Iceland (AD 867) and Greenland (AD 982) by the Norsemen, Zipangu (Japan, 1549) by the Portuguese, Hudson Bay (1610-1611) by Henry Hudson, and several other sites.
Place Names: A Complete Map of Globes and Multi-continent, Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South Americ
ISO Topic Categories: location,
transportation,
oceans
Keywords: Voyages and Discoveries, historical, military, political, transportation, water routes, country borders, water routes, other military, location,
transportation,
oceans, Unknown, 1912
Source: Victor Duruy, Edwin A. Grosvenor, & Louis E. Van Norman, Duruy's General History of the World (vol. II) (New York, New York: The Review of Reviews Company, 1912)
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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