Exploration & Discovery

Bite-sized historical stories about Exploration & Discovery — sorted chronologically on tildeer.

• Ötzi the Iceman
• Hannibal Crosses the Alps
• The Antikythera Mechanism
• Leif Erikson and Vinland
• Magellan's Circumnavigation
• Roanoke Colony
• John Harrison and the Longitude Problem
• Mutiny on the Bounty
• Balmis Expedition
• Lewis and Clark Expedition
• Ching Shih
• Lady Hester Stanhope
• Nuku Hiva Campaign
• Ignaz Semmelweis
• Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle
• The Åland Shipwreck Champagne
• Donner Party
• The Discovery of Neptune
• California Gold Rush
• Charles Francis Hall
• H. L. Hunley
• Nellie Bly
• Mary Celeste
• Ernest Shackleton
• Captain Joshua Slocum
• Klondike Gold Rush
• Flannan Isles Lighthouse Mystery
• Robert Falcon Scott
• Amundsen's South Pole Expedition
• 1913 U.S. Open (golf)