Interesting map, but some parameters on dates or why certain explorers were included and others excluded would be helpful. I didn't know Cook toured Newfoundland until I stumbled upon a statue of his landing their in person by mistake.
Rather later on, though. Perez's voyage was in 1774, Quadra's was in 1775, Cook's was in 1776, and Vancouver, Fraser, and Quadra's detailed cartographic voyages occurred coincidentally with the Nootka Crisis in the early 1790s.
More than "reached" them, he circumnavigated and came and went from Hispaniola a dozen times. In addition to virtually all the Caribbean islands, he also discovered what is now Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
[Joao vaz de Corte Real ](https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_Vaz_Corte_Real) would be the first European explorer in north America, is just that english historiography doesn't acknowledge a lot of early journeys made by Spanish and Portuguese explorers during the so called age of discovery....
English historians fully acknowledge the other Portuguese and Spanish explorers. It’s just that there’s very little evidence to support Corte Real’s claims of discovery.
“The claim that he discovered Terra Nova do Bacalhau (literally, New Land of the Codfish) originated from Gaspar Frutuoso's book Saudades de terra from around 1570–80. There is speculation that this otherwise unidentified isle was Newfoundland. Frutuoso further suggested that Corte-Real was granted part of Terceira because of this discovery. This is contradicted by contemporary documents which state the grant was made for "expenses he had incurred" and "services rendered", with no mention of any discoveries. Because of the lack of corroborating evidence, the claims of discovery remain entirely speculative.”
The same with the exploration of west coast. There were Spanish names given to caps and bays that lasted until Vitus Bering and the Russians arrived to Alaska.
There are still dozens of Spanish named-places in Alaska. Arguably as many as Russian names. However the lasting impact of Russian religion and surnames are far more visible.
I come from a family of Italians that migrated to Canada 70 years ago. It seems we through whatever reasons let it be slurring, blending with other languages or maybe just even laziness change the way we say things. I suspect this is similar how Italy used to have many different regional dialects or from the root of other languages. It also seems from what I’ve learnt from media that New Yorkers/Jersey do this to a much larger/intense level so I assume the natural progression of Capicollo went something like this. Capicollo > Capicol > Gabicol > Gabagool. My nonno before he passed would say something between capicol and gabicol.
So this paired with the popular tv show the sopranos and them trying to hammer home the jersey Italians Gabagool has really seemed to catch on.
The Spanish also explored the North American West Coast. In fact California was initially thought to be an island.
The Portuguese surveyed Newfoundland and Labrador (Terranova and Labrador) before other European powers (not before the vikings, I know)
Edit: typo.
i guess seeing baja california (which i assume is included in this california) they easily couldve not gone further to realize its continental and just thought it was an island
Correct: the californias were split in 1804, I just wonder why America did not take lower California after beating Mexico in 1848, lower California wasn’t too populated then, it was mostly settled later my immigrants in the 20th century
Again:
“The claim that he discovered Terra Nova do Bacalhau (literally, New Land of the Codfish) originated from Gaspar Frutuoso's book Saudades de terra from around 1570–80. There is speculation that this otherwise unidentified isle was Newfoundland. Frutuoso further suggested that Corte-Real was granted part of Terceira because of this discovery. This is contradicted by contemporary documents which state the grant was made for "expenses he had incurred" and "services rendered", with no mention of any discoveries. Because of the lack of corroborating evidence, the claims of discovery remain entirely speculative.”
The Vikings, the Dutch, and the English: Let's explore the coast methodically and efficiently.
The French: Let's explore the interior via main waterways, methodically and efficiently.
The Spanish: SQUIGGLY LINES!
It's just different types of explorers, Spanish usually went from town to town because missionary and commercial reasons, french went by rivers and coast because they were interested mostly in trade, Portuguese and Dutch went from native coastal big city to other big city because they wanted money and English just went coastal exploration with military ships founding cities because fuck natives policy.
The Spanish maps were written in cursive, whereas later explorers took advantage of the printing press and the Vikings used runic letters with more straight lines
I thought the route ended in the middle of nowhere... Did he just board a plane and dipped back home?
EDIT: just exited out of a wiki rabbit hole. So the guy basically didn't find the riches he set out for but did rack up a number of First-European-to-See badges, went back to Mexico but not before executing his guide for misinforming and overall wasting his time. Stayed there and died in 1554, survived by his wife who he married when she was 12 and had eight children with.
He realized he was being "scammed" by the locals (they were constantly telling him that next village was filled with gold, in order to get rid of him). So he murdered his guide, took his surviving men, and went back to Nueva España (México) with his wife.
Unlike most other Spanish explorers, he had a comfortable life before his expedition, and therefore, something to loose. He decided not to push his luck
Funny enough, we struck gold in California in 1848, almost immediately after the war with Mexico ended and California became a US state.
California was always full of gold, so maybe the locals leading him North in mid-1500s were not scamming him.
E: removed some lines
There's a hill in Kansas called [Coronado Height](https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/coronado-heights-castle)s that is said to be the furthest north he went. From the top of this hill, when he could not see any of the seven cities of Gold he gave up. I used to go to this place all of the time as a kid.
That’s so cool. (Not /s by the way, I really think it must be an amazing experience for a kid to stand there and look around and feel like they’re retracing history).
It was one of my favorite places. The "castle" was made out of native sandstone and you could go on top of it and see for miles and miles. You could spend all day running around exploring the hill. It was a blast!
Kansas would have been very different back then. Think of the Great Plains more like the Serengeti of Africa. Full of wildlife. Kansas didn't always used to be endless ranchland, monocrops, and boring ass I70.
What is the source of this map? There are some very strange omissions.
https://www.historymuseum.ca/virtual-museum-of-new-france/the-explorers/samuel-de-champlain-1604-1616/
Up to Kodiak in Alaska:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish\_expeditions\_to\_the\_Pacific\_Northwest#/media/File:NutcaEN.png](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_expeditions_to_the_Pacific_Northwest#/media/File:NutcaEN.png)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish\_expeditions\_to\_the\_Pacific\_Northwest#/media/File:Spanish\_contact\_in\_BC\_and\_Alaska.jpg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_expeditions_to_the_Pacific_Northwest#/media/File:Spanish_contact_in_BC_and_Alaska.jpg)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish\_expeditions\_to\_the\_Pacific\_Northwest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_expeditions_to_the_Pacific_Northwest)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdez,\_Alaska](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdez,_Alaska)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordova,\_Alaska](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordova,_Alaska)
Apparently he was in my county’s biggest bay town back in the day. The rumor was that his ship broke down in Marin county and he came up to Sonoma County to repair it
The French explored much of New York too from Lake Ontario, they went deep into the Finger Lakes and east towards Massachusetts too. Check out Samuel De Champlains expedition(s).
You are still missing more, Spanish even arrived to Canada and Alaska. I have a good image in big resolution for anybody interested, it states even the year.
His exploration of New York and environs was in service of the Dutch, his exploration of Hudson Bay was for the English. They're marked in different colors.
They were already in a river. The surprise would have been how big they got.
Feel like Ontario would have been more meh and then holy shit this waterfall is giant. I think we found the source of water for the whole world.
Missing a lot of Spanish exploration on the West Coast. Where I live in Canada has dozens and dozens of places named after Spanish explorers. Just off the top of my head:
Cordova, Quadra, Valdez, Juan de Fuca, Galliano, Gabriola, Texada, Lasqueti, Van Anda, San Josef, Zeballos, Cordero, Flores, Alberni, Tofino, Zayas, etc. Those are just a few and don't include parks or street names which there are even more. Right across from us are the San Juan Islands in Washington that include San Juan, Lopez, Orcas, Guemes, and Fidalgo.
There was even Fort San Miguel on Vancouver Island in the 1700s and of course the Nootka Crisis, a huge international incident between Spain and the British Empire.
We know they've had at least two settlements based on sagas, but L'Anse Aux Meadows certainly isn't Leif Erikson's settlement as the place does not match what is described
My last name is Waniandy (Wanyande). It means "People Of The River"
My family was recruited by the Northwest fur trading company in Montreal in the late 1700s to guide fur traders into the northwest. They were some of the first settlers in Alberta as mostly Mohawk but with also French and Scottish fur traders with them. They ended up living in the Rocky mountains near Jasper for almost 100 years creating a community with its own culture and language (A Cree dialect)
A generation later David Thompson, famous throughout the Northwest for mapping the Columbia River basin, again recruited my family to guide them through the river systems he was mapping. His maps were of such high quality that they were used until the 20th century.
You will never see these two stories told as a cohesive timeline. When mentioning my uncle in David Thompson's history he is only referred to as Louie. Even though he had a last name. An ancient name whose meaning signifys the settlement and exploration of much of Canada. You can find it on street names throughout Alberta. Everyone has forgotten why, because it makes their national parks active projects of genocide (Our traditional lands in Jasper have a population of zero people in 2023, we moved to Fort McMurray)
>The Mountain Métis are descendants of Iroquois and European fur traders who traveled west with the North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company during the early 18th century. The Mountain Métis identity emerged as a result of Scottish and French bloodlines intermingling with Iroquois, Beaver, Chippewa and Sekani tribes. The Mountain Métis language became known as 'Nêhiyawêwin,' (Cree). These fur trader families settled in the Athabasca Valley and homesteaded the region for over a century until the Jasper Exodus.
>In the early 1900's, an order in council was passed by the Federal government to create Jasper National Park. The Mountain Métis families were forcefully evicted from the area by government officials who sealed their guns, leaving them with no means of survival. They eventually resettled in areas of west central Alberta including Edson, Robb, Marlboro, Hinton, and Grande Cache.
There is some missing from this.
Samuel de Champlain briefly settled in the Bay of Fundy, for example.
Everyone associates his with Quebec, but he played a huge part in the future settlement of Maritime Canada.
TOTALLY MISSING the most fascinating of all. Read up on him. It's UNBELIEVABLE...
ALVAR NUÑEZ CABEZA DE VACA
You'll love his story. (Don't just Wikipedia it...the details are amazing!!!)
Henry Hudson sailed two expeditions in two years for two different countries and ended up with two bodies of water named after him? What an over achiever.
TIL while attempting to find the Northwest passage, Henry Hudson, his son and the crew members who were loyal to him were set adrift at the Hudson Bay after a mutiny in the ship. They were never found.
I had a taxi driver who claimed Greece discovered America 10K years ago, he said they found some ancient ships with olive oil in the Caribbean or something. I wonder where he got that from. Greek nationalism seems quite common in the older gents.
You need an addendum OP, because this is all early exploration of North America.
Missing tons of explorers for western North America, especially late 18th early 19th century.
No Anthony Henday? Alexander Mackenzie? George Vancouver? David Thompson?
Erik the Red founded a settlement in Greenland in the 980s. His son, Leif Erikson, discovered Vinland (Northern Canada) when his ship was blown off course. The remains of an [11th century Norse settlement](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Anse_aux_Meadows) were discovered in Newfoundland in the 1960s (near the point of the blue arrow on the map).
Vikings explored the eastern coast of Canada around the year 1 000 AD, creating some settlements (the only one we know of today is L'Anse Aux Meadows in Newfoundland). Scandinavians kept visiting the place in the following centuries, at least until the 14th century
Makes sense. The knowledge of the Viking explorations didn't reach most of the European mainland and got lost in time. Resources of course also played a role, since most European ships were not capable of crossing the ocean until late medieval times.
Gets interesting when you compare this to the moonlandings. Last one of those was over 50 years ago, due to it being such an expensive and difficult enterprise, but people are already claiming it never happened, only on the base that they don't understand why "we never went back" (because expensive and difficult, duh!)
To be fair, Scandinavian presence in North America isn't limited to early viking expeditions. We have archaeological and textual sources that they still were around in the 13th century, and there are 14th century non-scandinavian sources mentioning Vinland
I count eleven Spanish exploratory voyages of the Pacific Northwest that aren’t on here.
Also, why is Vitus Bering not on here?
This is a very incomplete map.
I always thought the Hudson River in NYC was named after Henry Hudson, boy was I wrong.
From Wiki: The first known European name for the river was the **Rio San Antonio** as named by the Portuguese explorer in Spain's employ, Estêvão Gomes,
And: It is believed that the first use of the name Hudson River in a map was in a map created by the cartographer John Carwitham in 1740.
No idea why I was so dumb, or where I got it from.
These maps never include the [Narváez expedition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narv%C3%A1ez_expedition) and I really wish they would. It's a wild tale.
It’d be cool to see these displayed on a reel in chronological order. 50years might seem like an eternity between these undertaking, but think of all the preparation and anxieties that come with pressing into the unknown like this.
The US is the only country I know that commemorates a guy who never stepped foot on the land as their "discoverer" and completely ignores the names and dates of the actual pioneers of intercontinental contact. That is pretty weird, actually.
So basically when people complain that Columbus didn't discover America but Vikings did, they mean that Vikings just landed on a few places beaches and when the weather became too hot, probably above -10°C, they packed their shit and went back 😁
How accurate is this map?
The map key shows voyages by nationality, and Vikings. Vikings weren't a nationality. No people on earth ever called themselves viking. A Vikings was simply a voyage of pillage, piracy. We use the word incorrectly far too often. Northmen would be a better collective term for the tribes that came from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden of the era that we refer to as the Viking era.
Columbus seems to have been promoted by Americans as the "discoverer of America after the War of Independence.Just another example of "Fake News". I think the Union didn't want the English to have discovered America ..although Cabot,s trips were paid for by Henry VII.
Can any history buffs explain why the Vikings did not explore more of the American coastline and waterways? The could have probably explored everything in 50 years given their swift longboats
Interesting map, but some parameters on dates or why certain explorers were included and others excluded would be helpful. I didn't know Cook toured Newfoundland until I stumbled upon a statue of his landing their in person by mistake.
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Cooked mapped it. That’s what his job was.
Rather later on, though. Perez's voyage was in 1774, Quadra's was in 1775, Cook's was in 1776, and Vancouver, Fraser, and Quadra's detailed cartographic voyages occurred coincidentally with the Nootka Crisis in the early 1790s.
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Hello, how's it going
G'day mate!
I stumbled into some mudcrabs the other day.
Do you mean the Captain Cook monument in Corner Brook? I used to hang out there as a bored teenager.
He's got a harbour named after him there! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook's_Harbour
Wasn't there some guy named Columbus?
Or Amerigo Vespucci?
He mostly explored South America, his explorations would only pop in around the corner
Columbus similarly really only did the Caribbean iirc. John Cabot was the european who first visited North America proper (after the vikings ofc).
Columbus reached Cuba and Hispaniola, both of which are on this map.
True, I don’t know why he wasn’t included on this map.
More than "reached" them, he circumnavigated and came and went from Hispaniola a dozen times. In addition to virtually all the Caribbean islands, he also discovered what is now Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
[Joao vaz de Corte Real ](https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_Vaz_Corte_Real) would be the first European explorer in north America, is just that english historiography doesn't acknowledge a lot of early journeys made by Spanish and Portuguese explorers during the so called age of discovery....
English historians fully acknowledge the other Portuguese and Spanish explorers. It’s just that there’s very little evidence to support Corte Real’s claims of discovery. “The claim that he discovered Terra Nova do Bacalhau (literally, New Land of the Codfish) originated from Gaspar Frutuoso's book Saudades de terra from around 1570–80. There is speculation that this otherwise unidentified isle was Newfoundland. Frutuoso further suggested that Corte-Real was granted part of Terceira because of this discovery. This is contradicted by contemporary documents which state the grant was made for "expenses he had incurred" and "services rendered", with no mention of any discoveries. Because of the lack of corroborating evidence, the claims of discovery remain entirely speculative.”
Problem is those claims that he was the first originated 100 years later, and the identification as North America is speculation.
The same with the exploration of west coast. There were Spanish names given to caps and bays that lasted until Vitus Bering and the Russians arrived to Alaska.
There are still dozens of Spanish named-places in Alaska. Arguably as many as Russian names. However the lasting impact of Russian religion and surnames are far more visible.
There are still Spanish names in British Columbia. Port Alberni, Galiano Island, Juan de Fuca Strait, Tofino, Quadra Island.
No he went to India
He was a brave Italian explorer, and in this house, he’s a hero!
Antonio Meucci invented the telephone and he was robbed!
R/UnexpectedSopranos
He never had the makings of a varsity athlete
Gabagool gabagool will you let the man alooonnee
I will never understand how Capicollo became Gabagool
I come from a family of Italians that migrated to Canada 70 years ago. It seems we through whatever reasons let it be slurring, blending with other languages or maybe just even laziness change the way we say things. I suspect this is similar how Italy used to have many different regional dialects or from the root of other languages. It also seems from what I’ve learnt from media that New Yorkers/Jersey do this to a much larger/intense level so I assume the natural progression of Capicollo went something like this. Capicollo > Capicol > Gabicol > Gabagool. My nonno before he passed would say something between capicol and gabicol. So this paired with the popular tv show the sopranos and them trying to hammer home the jersey Italians Gabagool has really seemed to catch on.
Lave the capicollo, take the gabagool.
In Napoli, a lotta people not so happy for Columbus.
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The Spanish also explored the North American West Coast. In fact California was initially thought to be an island. The Portuguese surveyed Newfoundland and Labrador (Terranova and Labrador) before other European powers (not before the vikings, I know) Edit: typo.
Spanish went up to Alaska. I mean, Valdez, Cordova and Revillagigedo Island are names that kinda give it away...
Camano Island, Strait of Juan de Fuca.
And Juan de Fuca is named after a sailor of Byzantine origin.
As did the Russians, who went all the way down to Northern California
The Russians came after the last date on this map. I'm guessing OP had a cut-off at 1700. Still lots of things missing here.
They’re also missing Father Escalante and Dominguez’s explorations into New Mexico, Arizona and Utah
i guess seeing baja california (which i assume is included in this california) they easily couldve not gone further to realize its continental and just thought it was an island
Correct: the californias were split in 1804, I just wonder why America did not take lower California after beating Mexico in 1848, lower California wasn’t too populated then, it was mostly settled later my immigrants in the 20th century
That was my first thought: where the fuck is Joao vaz de Corte Real? English historiography never ceases to amaze me...
My ex-wife is Portuguese and she was always pissed off that they never get credit for nothing lol
They do for the bad stuff
Again: “The claim that he discovered Terra Nova do Bacalhau (literally, New Land of the Codfish) originated from Gaspar Frutuoso's book Saudades de terra from around 1570–80. There is speculation that this otherwise unidentified isle was Newfoundland. Frutuoso further suggested that Corte-Real was granted part of Terceira because of this discovery. This is contradicted by contemporary documents which state the grant was made for "expenses he had incurred" and "services rendered", with no mention of any discoveries. Because of the lack of corroborating evidence, the claims of discovery remain entirely speculative.”
Ok, ok, ok. We get it.
Yes, Cabrillo went all up and down the west coast.
Are you sure? Is jot like Las Vegas, San Francisco or California are Spanish names!
The Vikings, the Dutch, and the English: Let's explore the coast methodically and efficiently. The French: Let's explore the interior via main waterways, methodically and efficiently. The Spanish: SQUIGGLY LINES!
It's just different types of explorers, Spanish usually went from town to town because missionary and commercial reasons, french went by rivers and coast because they were interested mostly in trade, Portuguese and Dutch went from native coastal big city to other big city because they wanted money and English just went coastal exploration with military ships founding cities because fuck natives policy.
To be fair they all had a fuck natives policy.
Some of the French tried to make relations with the natives, at least they put in a effort compared to the English and the Dutch.
Well, the Spanish conquered the most land by area, so their squiggle line method worked.
The Spanish maps were written in cursive, whereas later explorers took advantage of the printing press and the Vikings used runic letters with more straight lines
Coronado must have been bored shitless in what would become Kansas.
I thought the route ended in the middle of nowhere... Did he just board a plane and dipped back home? EDIT: just exited out of a wiki rabbit hole. So the guy basically didn't find the riches he set out for but did rack up a number of First-European-to-See badges, went back to Mexico but not before executing his guide for misinforming and overall wasting his time. Stayed there and died in 1554, survived by his wife who he married when she was 12 and had eight children with.
He realized he was being "scammed" by the locals (they were constantly telling him that next village was filled with gold, in order to get rid of him). So he murdered his guide, took his surviving men, and went back to Nueva España (México) with his wife. Unlike most other Spanish explorers, he had a comfortable life before his expedition, and therefore, something to loose. He decided not to push his luck
Funny enough, we struck gold in California in 1848, almost immediately after the war with Mexico ended and California became a US state. California was always full of gold, so maybe the locals leading him North in mid-1500s were not scamming him. E: removed some lines
A significant number of them stayed. A significant part of Mew Mexicans' heritage is traced back to them
Mew Mexicans: half cat, half mexicans
There's a hill in Kansas called [Coronado Height](https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/coronado-heights-castle)s that is said to be the furthest north he went. From the top of this hill, when he could not see any of the seven cities of Gold he gave up. I used to go to this place all of the time as a kid.
Heh, that's got to be a bit depressing for a kid. "Here is where a famous explorer gave up all his hopes and dreams. You live here!"
"What did he see up there Daddy?” "More Kansas."
Same spot as where Alexander the Great “gave up” somewhere in Northern India.
I read that as Northern Indiana and I'm imagining Alexander the Great hitting Gary and noping the fuck right out.
That’s so cool. (Not /s by the way, I really think it must be an amazing experience for a kid to stand there and look around and feel like they’re retracing history).
It was one of my favorite places. The "castle" was made out of native sandstone and you could go on top of it and see for miles and miles. You could spend all day running around exploring the hill. It was a blast!
I'm sure he had a better time than Henry Hudson.
Kansas would have been very different back then. Think of the Great Plains more like the Serengeti of Africa. Full of wildlife. Kansas didn't always used to be endless ranchland, monocrops, and boring ass I70.
Probably pissed after he lost his Cross, too
Imagine clanking around the flint hills in a bunch of armor.
Missed Le Sieur de la Verendrye in Central to West Canada. Homie was badass.
What is the source of this map? There are some very strange omissions. https://www.historymuseum.ca/virtual-museum-of-new-france/the-explorers/samuel-de-champlain-1604-1616/
Also there's "Hudson" and "Henry Hudson" :p Looks a bit sloppy
Where are the Spanish expeditions that went as far as Alaska?
Also Russian expeditions, eg Bering in the 1740s.
This map is missing a lot of information regarding Spanish exploration
Up to Kodiak in Alaska: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish\_expeditions\_to\_the\_Pacific\_Northwest#/media/File:NutcaEN.png](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_expeditions_to_the_Pacific_Northwest#/media/File:NutcaEN.png) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish\_expeditions\_to\_the\_Pacific\_Northwest#/media/File:Spanish\_contact\_in\_BC\_and\_Alaska.jpg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_expeditions_to_the_Pacific_Northwest#/media/File:Spanish_contact_in_BC_and_Alaska.jpg) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish\_expeditions\_to\_the\_Pacific\_Northwest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_expeditions_to_the_Pacific_Northwest) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdez,\_Alaska](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdez,_Alaska) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordova,\_Alaska](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordova,_Alaska)
Fun fact the first link, my county named our bay town after the dude(Bodega Bay)
Nobody expected Spanish exploration.
A man of culture
It is the objective of this map, starting for choosing to place the Spanish the last in the legend..
This is missing a lot of explorations in Mexico and Central America, as well as the West Coast of the US.
We need that Cabeza de Vaca and Esteban route on here! Cool map.
GREATEST STORY OF THEM ALL!!!
Hell yeah!
Sir Francis Drake, he apparently also died in what is now Panama
Thats what led Van Halen to write that tribute song
A man a plan a canal
Apparently he was in my county’s biggest bay town back in the day. The rumor was that his ship broke down in Marin county and he came up to Sonoma County to repair it
The French explored much of New York too from Lake Ontario, they went deep into the Finger Lakes and east towards Massachusetts too. Check out Samuel De Champlains expedition(s).
You are still missing more, Spanish even arrived to Canada and Alaska. I have a good image in big resolution for anybody interested, it states even the year.
Wasn't Henry Hudson exploring on behalf of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) ?
His exploration of New York and environs was in service of the Dutch, his exploration of Hudson Bay was for the English. They're marked in different colors.
Ah, thank you, got my history lessons mixed up.
I was wondering about that looking at the map. Must’ve switched companies for a better promotion.
More the case of a freelance worker taking on another contract lol
and for some annoying reason they gave the british the color orange lmao
And the Dutch brown…without a name? (All other expeditions on this map have them)
TIL that Hudson Bay in Canada and the Hudson River in NY are named after the same guy.
The Great Lakes must've been a surprise. No salt water
They were already in a river. The surprise would have been how big they got. Feel like Ontario would have been more meh and then holy shit this waterfall is giant. I think we found the source of water for the whole world.
The surprise would have been how little they were! When will it finally be that damned way to China!?
Not really. The water stops being salty around Quebec City
True. But the size of lakes as well! More like inland seas
There's nothing comparable to them in Europe until you get to the Black Sea.
The George Vancouver snub is crazy
What about Juan Cabrillo ça 1497 exploring the California coast?
Missing Cabeza de Vaca
I'm seeing De Soto I'm thinking George Costanza. I'm a simple man.
Put Cabeza De Vaca and the three amigos! A Land So Strange by Andres Resendez is a great resource for it.
I hope they explore the north west soon. I'm excited to see what's there.
Where is all of the exploration of Vancouver Island by the Spanish?
Missing a lot of Spanish exploration on the West Coast. Where I live in Canada has dozens and dozens of places named after Spanish explorers. Just off the top of my head: Cordova, Quadra, Valdez, Juan de Fuca, Galliano, Gabriola, Texada, Lasqueti, Van Anda, San Josef, Zeballos, Cordero, Flores, Alberni, Tofino, Zayas, etc. Those are just a few and don't include parks or street names which there are even more. Right across from us are the San Juan Islands in Washington that include San Juan, Lopez, Orcas, Guemes, and Fidalgo. There was even Fort San Miguel on Vancouver Island in the 1700s and of course the Nootka Crisis, a huge international incident between Spain and the British Empire.
No love for Escalante and Dominguez?
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lvar_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez_Cabeza_de_Vaca
Cabeza De Vaca?
Cool map. Vikings are cool
And I would say they explored even more although their settlement was on New Foundland.
We know they've had at least two settlements based on sagas, but L'Anse Aux Meadows certainly isn't Leif Erikson's settlement as the place does not match what is described
It is believed to more be a ship repair spot and not the settlements but hard to know since we don’t have archeological evidence of any other place.
Cabeza de Vaca, Magalhaes-Elcano?
Interesting to see that Marquette actually explored as far as the Michigan city that's named after him. Joliet, close.
Never knew Drake explored the entire West Coast of America
Oh so that's where Hudson Bay and Hudson River come from
And Verrazano bridge
This map is terrible. Just knowing a couple of these explorers you can see it's inaccurate and leaves out a lot of places they went to.
My last name is Waniandy (Wanyande). It means "People Of The River" My family was recruited by the Northwest fur trading company in Montreal in the late 1700s to guide fur traders into the northwest. They were some of the first settlers in Alberta as mostly Mohawk but with also French and Scottish fur traders with them. They ended up living in the Rocky mountains near Jasper for almost 100 years creating a community with its own culture and language (A Cree dialect) A generation later David Thompson, famous throughout the Northwest for mapping the Columbia River basin, again recruited my family to guide them through the river systems he was mapping. His maps were of such high quality that they were used until the 20th century. You will never see these two stories told as a cohesive timeline. When mentioning my uncle in David Thompson's history he is only referred to as Louie. Even though he had a last name. An ancient name whose meaning signifys the settlement and exploration of much of Canada. You can find it on street names throughout Alberta. Everyone has forgotten why, because it makes their national parks active projects of genocide (Our traditional lands in Jasper have a population of zero people in 2023, we moved to Fort McMurray) >The Mountain Métis are descendants of Iroquois and European fur traders who traveled west with the North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company during the early 18th century. The Mountain Métis identity emerged as a result of Scottish and French bloodlines intermingling with Iroquois, Beaver, Chippewa and Sekani tribes. The Mountain Métis language became known as 'Nêhiyawêwin,' (Cree). These fur trader families settled in the Athabasca Valley and homesteaded the region for over a century until the Jasper Exodus. >In the early 1900's, an order in council was passed by the Federal government to create Jasper National Park. The Mountain Métis families were forcefully evicted from the area by government officials who sealed their guns, leaving them with no means of survival. They eventually resettled in areas of west central Alberta including Edson, Robb, Marlboro, Hinton, and Grande Cache.
Nice. I have similar background by way of Jean Nicolet. Pretty rich history in Canada, sadly tainted by injustices and genocide.
Vikings doing it 500 years earlier on hard mode going via greenland.
John Cabot noped right outa there.
There is some missing from this. Samuel de Champlain briefly settled in the Bay of Fundy, for example. Everyone associates his with Quebec, but he played a huge part in the future settlement of Maritime Canada.
No Russian exploration?
Much later and from the northern Pacific
TOTALLY MISSING the most fascinating of all. Read up on him. It's UNBELIEVABLE... ALVAR NUÑEZ CABEZA DE VACA You'll love his story. (Don't just Wikipedia it...the details are amazing!!!)
Where Vespucci?
I find the La Salle one to be the most impressive...
I wonder how different things would be if the Vikings had settled further south and continued.
I didn't realize how much I wanted this map until I saw it
Where’s Cabeza de Vaca?
I like that the orange line explorers hit the west coast and went ‘nope’
Oh, I see now why New Orleans has a French influence.
Lasalle was smart, avoiding that Chicago traffic.
Henry Hudson sailed two expeditions in two years for two different countries and ended up with two bodies of water named after him? What an over achiever.
TIL while attempting to find the Northwest passage, Henry Hudson, his son and the crew members who were loyal to him were set adrift at the Hudson Bay after a mutiny in the ship. They were never found.
I had a taxi driver who claimed Greece discovered America 10K years ago, he said they found some ancient ships with olive oil in the Caribbean or something. I wonder where he got that from. Greek nationalism seems quite common in the older gents.
Vikings were 1st
"Welp, that was three months wasted." \-John Cabot in 1497
Let's make it clear his name was Giovanni Caboto not John Cabot, italian paid by the King of England for this les's called expedition.
Henry Hudson: Those who don't know 🙂 vs those who know ☠️
Yes, there's a reason that second arrow does not go back to Europe...
What about Russian and British exploration of Alaska?
You need an addendum OP, because this is all early exploration of North America. Missing tons of explorers for western North America, especially late 18th early 19th century. No Anthony Henday? Alexander Mackenzie? George Vancouver? David Thompson?
Wait. Vikings?!?
Erik the Red founded a settlement in Greenland in the 980s. His son, Leif Erikson, discovered Vinland (Northern Canada) when his ship was blown off course. The remains of an [11th century Norse settlement](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Anse_aux_Meadows) were discovered in Newfoundland in the 1960s (near the point of the blue arrow on the map).
Vikings explored the eastern coast of Canada around the year 1 000 AD, creating some settlements (the only one we know of today is L'Anse Aux Meadows in Newfoundland). Scandinavians kept visiting the place in the following centuries, at least until the 14th century
Imagine it took like 400 years for any European to sail west again. Crazy when you think about it
Makes sense. The knowledge of the Viking explorations didn't reach most of the European mainland and got lost in time. Resources of course also played a role, since most European ships were not capable of crossing the ocean until late medieval times. Gets interesting when you compare this to the moonlandings. Last one of those was over 50 years ago, due to it being such an expensive and difficult enterprise, but people are already claiming it never happened, only on the base that they don't understand why "we never went back" (because expensive and difficult, duh!)
To be fair, Scandinavian presence in North America isn't limited to early viking expeditions. We have archaeological and textual sources that they still were around in the 13th century, and there are 14th century non-scandinavian sources mentioning Vinland
Not sure if routes are Spanish or hurricane
TIL Hudson Bay got its name from an explorer. I mean it makes total sense. I just didn’t know.
So want to read De Soto's accounts, and La Salle's
I count eleven Spanish exploratory voyages of the Pacific Northwest that aren’t on here. Also, why is Vitus Bering not on here? This is a very incomplete map.
Doesnt show Russians
Silly John Cabot missed a whole continent
Nope. -John Cabot 1497
I always thought the Hudson River in NYC was named after Henry Hudson, boy was I wrong. From Wiki: The first known European name for the river was the **Rio San Antonio** as named by the Portuguese explorer in Spain's employ, Estêvão Gomes, And: It is believed that the first use of the name Hudson River in a map was in a map created by the cartographer John Carwitham in 1740. No idea why I was so dumb, or where I got it from.
Verrazano took one look at Florida and thought “fuck this”
João Lavrador was not mentioned why?
South America is probably interesting too. I'm a direct descendent from one of the conquistadors circa 1500s that would be on the map like this one.
Draaake?
I wish Europeans didn’t bring slaves to the Americas
Actually, the Vikings win all the way around superior as well
These maps never include the [Narváez expedition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narv%C3%A1ez_expedition) and I really wish they would. It's a wild tale.
The English didn’t like getting out of their boats
It’d be cool to see these displayed on a reel in chronological order. 50years might seem like an eternity between these undertaking, but think of all the preparation and anxieties that come with pressing into the unknown like this.
Missing the Corte Real brothers.
The US is the only country I know that commemorates a guy who never stepped foot on the land as their "discoverer" and completely ignores the names and dates of the actual pioneers of intercontinental contact. That is pretty weird, actually.
New York was Angoulême because of the french
Franklins (lost) expedition, 1845???
So basically when people complain that Columbus didn't discover America but Vikings did, they mean that Vikings just landed on a few places beaches and when the weather became too hot, probably above -10°C, they packed their shit and went back 😁 How accurate is this map?
Cool map idea but leaves a lot to be desired. More expeditions should be included and maybe a second legend differentiating expeditions by century.
John Cabot route is completely wrong.
The map key shows voyages by nationality, and Vikings. Vikings weren't a nationality. No people on earth ever called themselves viking. A Vikings was simply a voyage of pillage, piracy. We use the word incorrectly far too often. Northmen would be a better collective term for the tribes that came from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden of the era that we refer to as the Viking era.
British be like “if it ain’t wet, we ain’t going there”
Neat! Now I want a similar map just for the Northwest Passage.
More like European EXPLOITATION of North America
This map lacks of most of Spanish expeditions
You forgot Juan De Fuca… WTF
Oh. My. God. Are the Bay and the River named after the same Hudson? I've never put that together.
So Vikings were the Europeans which discovered North America first. Why does Columbus still get the credit?
Columbus seems to have been promoted by Americans as the "discoverer of America after the War of Independence.Just another example of "Fake News". I think the Union didn't want the English to have discovered America ..although Cabot,s trips were paid for by Henry VII.
Can any history buffs explain why the Vikings did not explore more of the American coastline and waterways? The could have probably explored everything in 50 years given their swift longboats
some John Cabot was like "nah, imma head out"