Romance Travel
Hope this will soon come true. After 10 years, a special expedition to the four ships under the command of Vasco da Gama went to search for ways around Africa to India. On the eastern shores of Africa,
In 1466 Athanasius Nikitin merchants decided to go to trade in Shirvan. Shirvan Khanate was on the south-western shores of the Caspian Sea. Shells, two ships, Nikitin with his friends swam in Nizhny Novgorod, where, waiting for the ambassador traveled down the Volga. In Astrakhan, the property was plundered merchants Tartar. Then after swimming across [...]
In 1271 my father and uncle Polo decided to take a journey of his 17-year-old son Marco. Thus began the famous 24 year old journey of Marco Polo. The trip to China was long. The old Khan, Kublai took seven Polo very welcome. Senior Polo engaged in trade, and the youth served diplomatic missions Khan. [...]
April 17, 1610 Hudson came out of the port of London. From Iceland Hudson moved to the eastern coast of Greenland. There he began to descend to the south, vainly seeking passage to the Pacific Ocean, rounded the southern tip of Greenland, and then turned to the west. Not finding the strait on the north [...]
Semyon Ivanovich Dezhnev was born about 1605 in Pinezhsky area. In Siberia Dezhnev serving Cossack service. From Tobolsk, moved to Yeniseysk, thence to Yakutsk. In the years 1639-1640. Dezhnev participated in several expeditions to the Lena River basin. In winter 1640, he served in the detachment Dmitry Mikhailovich Staring, who then moved on Alaei, and [...]
In late autumn 1638 to “Sea-Ocean-inch shell game – 30 people. headed by Tomsk Cossack Ivan Yu Moskvitin. 8 days Moskvitin down the Aldyanu to the mouth Mai. In August 1639 Moskvitin first appeared in Lamskoe sea.
In 1733 the government set V. Bering headed the Second Kamchatka Expedition, appointing him to the comrades of Captain AI Chirikov.
January 29, 1644 a small fleet (111 pers.) Tasman came out of the battles in the eastern direction. From the drawing, illuminating the Dutch discovery of Australia, shows that the court Tasman had continuous shooting south coast of New Guinea over 750 km from 7 to 9 S, completing the opening of the Gulf of
Amsterdam Senate fitted out two ships, the commanders were appointed Jacob Gemskerk and Jan Reypen. Barents spared, but he agreed to go mate with Gemskerkom.
Part of the southern continent was regarded as New Guinea. The first attempts to open the Dutch Australia are just an attempt to open New Guinea.