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Exploration timeline
c. 600 BC
Phoenicians sail round the Cape of Good Hope and bring back the surprising news that the sun was seen to the north of them
c. 310 BC
Pytheas, a Greek explorer, sails up the west coast of Britain and finds beyond it a more northerly land which he calls Thule
138 BC
Zhang Qian, a Chinese diplomat, begins a spell of twelve years as a captive of the nomadic horde, the Xiongnu
c. 126 BC
Zhang Qian reaches Bactria and is the first to bring news of western Asia back to China
c. 1010
Thorfinn Karlsefni leads an expedition to north America, traces of which may survive in a longhouse at L'Anse aux Meadows
1415
A Portuguese prince, Henry the Navigator, becomes fascinated by exploration down the coast of Africa and commissions successive voyages
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