According to legend, St. Brendan and a group of monks sailed from Ireland to the Bahamas in the sixth century. The type of boat they used would have been a:
Norseman Erik the Red discovered rich fertile land in Greenland in the 980s, and persuaded settlers to come from Iceland. The colony flourished, partly because:
Before the Europeans, the Chinese explored the east African coast and perhaps even doubled the Cape of Good Hope, but then their time of exploration came to an abrupt end. Why?
In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl invented a new type of exploration when he sailed his raft Kon-Tiki to Polynesia. Heyerdahl was trying to prove that ancient peoples could have crossed the ocean to Polynesia from:
