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c. 600 BCE

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c. 310 BCE

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138 BCE

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c. 126 BCE

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c. 800

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c. 981

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c. 1000

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c. 1010

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1415
c. 1425

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1488
1492

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1493

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1497

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1498
1500
1501

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1507

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1513
1519

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1521

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1522

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1534

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1535

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1540

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1568

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1577

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1580

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1594

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1609
1611
1616
1642

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1643

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1722

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1728

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1768
1769

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1770

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1772
c. 1775
1779

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1789

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1791
1792
1795
1798

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1804

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1805

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1806

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1830
1831
1832
1836
1838

Go to Wilkes, Charles (1798–1877) in The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (2 ed.)

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1845
1853

Go to Livingstone, David (1813–73) in A Dictionary of British History (1 rev ed.)

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1855
1857
1858
1859

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1862

Go to Burton, Sir Richard (1821–90) in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3 ed.)

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Go to Speke, John Hanning (1827–1864) in Encyclopedia of Africa (1 ed.)

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Go to Stuart, John McDouall (1815–66) in The Oxford Companion to Australian History (1 rev ed.)

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Go to Wills, Robert O'Hara, and William, explorers in The Oxford Companion to World Exploration (1 ed.)

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1869

Go to Livingstone, David (1813–73) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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1871
1874

Go to Stanley, Sir Henry Morton (1841–1904) in The Oxford Companion to British History (1 rev ed.)

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1876

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1877
1893

Go to Nansen, Fridtjof (1861–1930) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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1901
1906

Go to Amundsen, Roald (1872–1928) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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1908

Go to Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry (1874–1922) in A Dictionary of British History (1 rev ed.)

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1909

Go to Bernier, Captain Joseph-Elzéar (1852–1934) in The Oxford Companion to Canadian History (1 ed.)

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Go to Blériot, Louis (1872–1936) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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1910
c. 1911

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1912

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1913

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1916

Go to Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry (1874–1922) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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1929

Go to Byrd, Richard Evelyn (1888–1957) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.)

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1947

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1953

Go to Hillary, Sir Edmund Percival (1919–2008) in A Dictionary of Sports Studies (1 ed.)

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1958

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