With the support of the king of Spain, he made four voyages (1492 ~ 1493, 1493 ~ 1496, 1498 ~ 1500,/kloc-). Opened a route across the Atlantic to the United States. Arrived in Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, Dominica, Trinidad and other islands.
2. james cook, known as Captain Cook, is an officer, navigator, explorer and cartographer of the British Royal Navy. Cook served in the British merchant fleet when he was young. 1755 After joining the Royal Navy, he participated in the Seven Years' War, and later helped to map most of the estuaries of the St. Lawrence River in the Battle of Quebec.
After the war, 1760 drew many detailed maps for Newfoundland. Cook's ability to draw maps won the favor of the Admiralty and the Royal Society, which made him appointed as the captain of Endeavour in 1766 and sailed to the Pacific Ocean for the first time. 1779 On February 4th, Cook and his crew were killed in a battle with islanders in Hawaii while exploring the Pacific Ocean for the third time.
3. Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer, navigator and colonist, explored for the Spanish government. Magellan crossed the Pacific Ocean for the first time, which produced a revolution in the history of geography and navigation.
It is proved that most of the earth's surface is not land, but oceans, and the oceans around the world are not isolated from each other, but a unified and complete water body. This has played a pioneering role in the navigation of later generations.
4. vasco da gama was born in Sinesh, Portugal. He was a Portuguese navigator and explorer, and a pioneer of the navigation route from Europe to India around the Cape of Good Hope.
Vasco da gama is a great geographical discoverer. He opened a route from Europe to India bypassing the Cape of Good Hope and promoted the development of Eurasian trade. 1869 before the opening of the Suez canal, Europe's trade with countries along the Indian Ocean and China mainly passed through this route. The navigation of this route is also the beginning of colonial activities in Asia by European countries such as Portugal.
5. The Portuguese navigator Barto romeu Miu Diaz (about1451-kloc-0/500) first explored Morsel Bay, the southernmost cape of Africa, in the spring of 1488, which laid the foundation for another Portuguese navigator, Da Gama, to open a new route to India.