Exploration
- Adriaen Block (fl. 1610–1624), the first European to enter Long Island Sound and the Connecticut River and determine that Manhattan and Long Island are islands
- Abel Janszoon Tasman, (1603–1659), the first European to discover New Zealand, Tasmania and Fiji
- Willem Barentsz, (ca. 1550 – 1597), explorer of the Arctic
- Cornelis de Houtman, (1565–1599), explorer of the East Indies
- Cornelis Nay, explorer of the Arctic
- Henry Hudson, (d. 1611), Englishman who sailed to the Arctic for the Dutch East India Company
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Famous quotes containing the word exploration:
“The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.”
—Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)
“For women who do not love us, as for the “disappeared”, knowing that we no longer have any hope does not prevent us form continuing to wait. We live on our guard, on watch; women whose son has gone asea on a dangerous exploration imagine at any minute, although it has long been certain that he has perished, that he will enter, miraculously saved, and healthy.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“I call her old. She has one family
Whose claim is good to being settled here
Before the era of colonization,
And before that of exploration even.
John Smith remarked them as he coasted by....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)