The Story of Geographical Discovery: How the World Became Known Part 10

1796. Lacerda explores Mozambique.

1797. Ba.s.s discovers his strait.

1799-1804. Alexander von Humboldt explores South America.

1800-4. Lewis and Clarke explore the basin of the Missouri.

1801-4. Flinders coasts south coast of Australia.

1805-7. Pike explores the country between the sources of the Mississippi and the Red River.

1810-29. Malte-Brun publishes his _Geographic Universelle_.

1814. Evans discovers Lachlan and Macquarie rivers.

1816. Captain Smith discovers South Shetland Isles.

1817-20. Spix and Martius explore Brazil.

1817. First edition of Stieler's atlas.

1817-22. Captain King maps the coast-line of Australia.

1819-22. Franklin, Back, and Richardson attempt the North-West Pa.s.sage by land.

1819. Parry discovers Lancaster Strait and reaches 114 W.

1820-23. Wrangel discovers his land.

1821. Bellinghausen discovers Peter Island, the most southerly land then known.

1822. Denham and Clapperton discover Lake Tchad, and visit Sokoto.

1822-23. Scoresby explores the coast of East Greenland.

1823. Weddell reaches 74.15 S.

1826. Major Laing is murdered at Timbuctoo.

1827. Parry reaches 82.45 N.

1827. Rene Caillie visits Timbuctoo.

1828-31. Captain Sturt traces the Darling and the Murray.

1829-33. Ross attempts the North-West Pa.s.sage; discovers Boothia Felix.

1830. Royal Geographical Society founded, and next year united with the African a.s.sociation.

1831-35. Schomburgk explores Guiana.

1831. Captain Biscoe discovers Enderby Land.

1833. Back discovers Great Fish River.

1835-49. Junghuhn explores Java.

1837. T. Simpson coasts along the north mainland of North America 1277 miles.

1838-40. Wood explores the sources of the Oxus.

1838-40. Dumont d'Urvilie discovers Louis-Philippe Land and Adelie Land.

1839. Balleny discovers his island.

1839. Count Strzelecki discovers Gipps' Land.

1840. Captain Sturt travels in Central Australia.

1840-42. James Ross reaches 78.10 S.; discovers Victoria Land, and the volcanoes Erebus and Terror.

1841. Eyre traverses south of Western Australia.

1842-62. E. F. Jomard's _Monuments de la Geographie_ published.

1843-47. Count Castelnau traces the source of the Paraguay.

1844. Leichhardt explores Southern Australia.

1845. Huc explores Tibet.

1845. Petermann's _Mittheilungen_ first published.

1845-47. Franklin's last voyage.

1846. First edition of K. v. Spruner's _Historische Handatlas_.

1847. J. Rae connects Hudson's Bay with east coast of Boothia.

1848. Leichhardt attempts to traverse Australia, and disappears.

1849-56. Livingstone traces the Zambesi and crosses South Africa.

1850-54. M'Clure succeeds in the North-West Pa.s.sage.

1850-55. Barth explores the Soudan.

1853. Dr. Kane explores Smith's Sound.

1854. Rae hears news of the Franklin expedition from the Eskimo.

1854-65. Faidherbe explores Senegambia.

1856-57. The brothers Schlagintweit cross the Himalayas, Tibet, and Kuen Lun.

1856-59. Du Chaillu travels in Central Africa.

1857-59. M'Clintock discovers remains of the Franklin expedition, and explores King William Land.

1858. Burton and Speke discover Lake Tanganyika, and Speke sees Lake Victoria Nyanza.

1858-64. Livingstone traces Lake Nya.s.sa.

1859. Valikhanoft reaches Kashgar.

1860. Burke travels from Victoria to Carpentaria.

1860. Grant and Speke, returning from Lake Victoria Nyanza, meet Baker coming up the Nile.

1861-62. M'Douall Stuart traverses Australia from south to north.

1863. W. G. Palgrave explores Central and Eastern Arabia.

1864. Baker discovers Lake Albert Nyanza.

1868. Nordenskiold reaches his highest point in Greenland, 81.42.

1868-71. Ney Elias traverses Mid-China.

1868-74. John Forrest penetrates from Western to Central Australia.

1869-71. Schweinfurth explores the Southern Soudan.

1869-74. Nachtigall explores east of Tchad.

1870. Fedchenko discovers Transalai, north of Pamir.

1870. Douglas Forsyth reaches Yarkand.

1871-88. The four explorations of Western China by Prjevalsky.

1872-73. Payer and Weiprecht discover Franz Josef Land.

1872-76. H.M.S. _Challenger_ examines the bed of the ocean.

1872-76. Ernest Giles traverses North-West Australia.

1873. Colonel Warburton traverses Australia from east to west.

1873. Livingstone discovers Lake Moero.

1874-75. Lieut. Cameron crosses equatorial Africa.

1875-94. elisee Reclus publishes his _Geographie Universelle._ 1876. Albert Markham reaches 83.20 N. on the Nares expedition.

1876-77. Stanley traces the course of the Congo.

1878-82. The Pundit Krishna traces the course of the Yangtse, Pekong, and Brahmaputra.

1878-79. Nordenskiold solves the North-East Pa.s.sage along the north coast of Siberia.

1878-84. Joseph Thomson explores East-Central Africa.

1878-85. Serpa Pinto twice crosses Africa.

1879-82. The _Jeannette_ pa.s.ses through Behring Strait to the mouth of the Lena.

1880. Leigh Smith surveys south coast of Franz Josef Land.

1880-82. Bonvalot traverses the Pamirs.

1881-87. Wissmann twice crosses Africa, and discovers the left affluents of the Congo.

1883. Lockwood, on the Greely Mission, reaches 83.23 N., north cape of Greenland.

1886. Francis Garnier explores the course of the Mekong.

1887. Younghusband travels from Pekin to Kashmir.

1887-89. Stanley conducts the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition across Africa, and discovers the Pigmies, and the Mountains of the Moon.

1888. F. Nansen crosses Greenland from east to west.

1888-89. Captain Binger traces the bend of the Niger.

1889. The brothers Grjmailo explore Chinese Turkestan.

1889-90. Bonvalot and Prince Henri d'Orleans traverse Tibet.

1890. Selous and Jameson explore Mashonaland.

1890. Sir W. Macgregor crosses New Guinea.

1891-92. Monteil crosses from Senegal to Tripoli.

1892. Peary proves Greenland an island.

1893. Mr. and Mrs. Littledale travel across Central Asia.