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)
“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)
“Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)