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Exploration is the work of searching or traveling for the purpose of discovery, e.g. of unknown, including space (space exploration), or oil, gas, coal, ores, water (also referred to as prospecting), or information.

Exploration hwhen existed when hanker when man beings, however its peak is seen as existence when you took a Age of Exploration when European navigators travelled around the world.

Inside scientific research, exploration is one of three purposes of the food and drug administration (more ii existence description and explanation). Exploration is the attempt to acquire an initial, rough out understanding of a few phenomenon.

Exploration by area
Asian exploration Exploration of Asia Exploration of the Pacific African exploration Native American exploration American exploration Exploration of the Americas European exploration of Asia European exploration of Africa European exploration of Australia European exploration of North America Exploration of the High Alps Exploration of the moon Exploration of Mars

Voyage of Exploration: Discovering New Horizons
Leads visitors on a journey through the past centuries looking at the explorers, the dangers they faced, where they went, and their motivations for exploration. In English and Dutch.

Society for the History of Discoveries
Offers an annual prize for an essay on voyages, history of exploration, navigation, nautical travels, maritime history, and geographical discovery.

Antarctic Philately
History, biographies, and memorabilia of explorers of the "great white continent".

Meeting of Frontiers
"A bilingual, multimedia English-Russian digital library that tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest." From the US Library of Congress.

The Age of Discovery
Chapter-length article written in 1966 reviewing the literature on exploration. Includes references, by Wilcomb E. Washburn.

Ships of Discovery
Underwater archaeology and shipwrecks. "Sheds light on the ships that have made our planet one world."

Ancient Egypt: Voyages of Exploration
A summary of early Egyptian voyages along the eastern African coast and the attempted circumnavigation of Africa.

1492: An Ongoing Voyage
A US Library of Congress exhibit which examines indigenous peoples in five parts of the Americas and their sustained contact with European explorers, conquerors and settlers from 1492 to 1600.

Maps of Exploration and Discovery
Searchable collection of historical manuscripts and maps, from the US Library of Congress.

Age of Exploration
Curriculum guide to maritime exploration throughout history, including a time line list of major events, 3200 B.C. - 1779 A.D..


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