As expeditions Travel and equipped to expeditions referred to the discovery, exploration and development of remote countries, land lines , mountains or islands serve.
Most of the voyages of discovery were planned and wanted. Sometimes, however, chance also played a role. There are written records of many voyages of discovery, so that it was possible to assign the geographical discoveries to a person. Some of them were named after their discoverer , for example the Cook Islands or the Barents Sea .
The following is a list of some of the top geographic discoveries (in chronological order):
Max Cary, Eric Herbert Warmington: The Discoveries of Antiquity. 3000 BC BC to AD 200. Kindler, Zurich 1966 ( Kindlers Kulturgeschichte , Volume 11)
Albrecht Dihle: Controversial dates. Investigations into the occurrence of the Greeks in the Red Sea. West German Publishing House, Cologne 1965.
Arnold Groh: Research Methods in Indigenous Contexts . Springer, New York 2018,
Richard Hennig : Terrae incognitae. A compilation and critical evaluation of the most important pre-Columbian voyages of discovery on the basis of the original reports on them. 4 volumes. 2nd Edition. Brill, Leiden 1944-1956.
Heinrich Pleticha, Hermann Schreiber (Hrsg.): Lexicon of discovery trips. 2 volumes, Weitbrecht, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-522-60000-2 .
Jürgen Sarnowsky : Exploring the world. The great voyages of discovery from Marco Polo to Humboldt. 2nd Edition. CH Beck, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-68150-9 .
