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| 1832 |
| | | The paddle steamer Alburkah becomes the first ocean-going iron ship, completing the journey from England to the Niger | |
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| 1836 |
| | | HMS Beagle reaches Falmouth, in Cornwall, after a voyage of five years, and Charles Darwin brings with him a valuable collection of specimens | |
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| 1838 |
| | | US naval officer Charles Wilkes leads a four-year exploration of the Antarctic and Pacific, proving on the way that Antarctica is a continent | |
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| 1845 |
| | | English naval officer John Franklin sets off with two ships, Erebus and Terror, to search for the Northwest Passage | |
|  | Carmichael HMS Erebus and Terror in the Arctic (detail)
National Maritime Museum
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| 1853 |
| | | David Livingstone makes a heroic six-month journey from the Zambezi river to the west coast of Africa | |
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| 1855 |
| | | David Livingstone, moving down the Zambezi, comes upon the Victoria Falls | |
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| 1857 |
| | | Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke set off from Bagamoyo in their search for the source of the Nile | |
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| 1858 |
| | | Burton and Speke reach Lake Tanganyika at Ujiji, a place later famous for the meeting between Livingstone and Stanley | |
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| 1858 |
| | | Speke reaches Lake Victoria and guesses that it is probably the source of the Nile | |
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| 1859 |
| | | Frozen remains and a document are finally found to reveal the fate of the Franklin expedition of 1845 to the NorthWest Passage | |
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