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Non-Americas Flashcards

Africa, Asia, Oceania, The World, Arctic, Antarctic,

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600 BC; Egypt; possibly circumnavigated Africa

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Pharaoh Necho

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1488; Portugal; reached Cape of Good Hope

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Bartolomeu Dias

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1497-98; Portugal; sailed around Cape of Good Hope to India

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Vasco da Gama

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1770-71; Scotland; source of Blue Nile

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James Bruce

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1849-73; Scotland; Zambezi R., Victoria Falls, Lake Nyasa, South Africa

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David Livingston

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1850-55; Germany; Timbuktu

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Heinrich Barth

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1853-58; England; Mecca, Somalia, Ethiopia, Lake Tanganyika

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Richard Francis Burton

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1857-62; England; Lake Victoria (source of Nile)

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John Hanning Speke

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1874-89; Wales; Congo R., Lake Edward, Lake Tanganyika

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Henry Morton Stanley

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1271-95; Venice; India, China, Central Asia, Malay

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Marco Polo

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1768-79; England; New Zealand, Hawaii

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James Cook

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1519-1521; Portugal; Magellan was killed in Philippines, some crew made it back

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Ferdinand Magellan

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1577-1580; England; sailed in Golden Hind

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Francis Drake

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1821; US; landed on Antarctica

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John Davis

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1831-43; England; [Namesake] Ice Shelf, [Namesake] Sea, Victoria Land

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James Clark Ross

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1901-16; Ireland; almost to South Pole

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Ernest Henry Shakleton

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1909; US; North Pole

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Robert Peary and Matthew Henson

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1911; Norway; South Pole (First to reach South Pole and NW Passage)

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Roald Amundsen

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1926/29; US; fly-over North/South Pole

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Richard Byrd

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