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European exploration of Australia - The European exploration of Australia encompasses several waves of seafarers and land explorers. Although Australia is often said to have been discovered by Captain James Cook in 1770, he was merely one of a number of European explorers to have sighted the continent prior to English settlement.

European colonization of Arizona - Although the first European visitors to Arizona may have come in 1528, the most influential expeditions in early Spanish Arizona were those of Marcos de Niza and Francisco Vásquez de Coronado were the most influential. The accounts of the early Spanish explorers with large mythical cities such as Cíbola, and large mineral deposits of copper and silver, would attract settlers and miners to the region in later years.

List of maritime explorers - [era of European] [[sea explorations began in the late 15th century and lasted for a little more than three full centuries.

Island of California - The Island of California refers to a long-held European misconception, dating from the 16th century, that California was not part of mainland North America but rather a large island separated from the continent by the Mare Californica. One of the most famous cartographic errors in history, it predated European exploration of western North America and was propagated on many maps during that era, persisting for over two centuries despite contradictory evidence from later explorers.

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Taking on the World: European Explorers - Features short biographies of the best-known European explorers.

Proto-Indo-European Language Demonstration and Exploration Website - Basic overview of the Indo-European language family, with particular attention to its major members. From the College of Liberal and Fine Arts (COLFA) at the University of ...

Cabeza de Vaca in North America - The story of Cabeza de Vaca, the first European explorer of America's gulf coast states.

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