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Sep 15, 2024 · Voyages of Discovery Series 1 Episode 1: Circumnavigation Explorer Paul Rose reveals the real story behind the first ever circumnavigation of the world, that began when Ferdinand Magellan set out 500 years ago to find the westward route to the riches of the Spice Islands.
Sep 11, 2024 · European exploration - Age of Discovery, Voyages, Expansion: In the 100 years from the mid-15th to the mid-16th century, a combination of circumstances stimulated men to seek new routes, and it was new routes rather than new lands that filled the minds of kings and commoners, scholars and seamen.
Sep 14, 2024 · Voyages of Discovery airs on BBC Four HD at 8:00 PM, Saturday 14 September. The rescue of the USS Squalus crew in 1939 Hanging by a Thread (Season 1 Episode 5 of 5): The rescue of the USS...
Sep 14, 2024 · Catch up on Voyages Of Discovery - Hanging by a Thread, broadcast by Saturday 14 September 2024. You can watch other episodes of Voyages Of Discovery... Paul Rose tells the story of the USS Squalus, stranded on the bottom of the Atlantic in 1937 and the first time anyone had been saved from a stricken submarine.
1 day ago · One of the most important voyages in the Age of Discovery—and in the history of exploration—its purpose was to cross the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to open a trade route with the Moluccas, or Spice Islands, in present-day Indonesia.
Sep 19, 2024 · During Vasco da Gama’s first voyage, he carried padrões (stone pillars) as marks of discovery. He erected one on an island near Mossel Bay , South Africa , two in Mozambique , and one in Calicut , India, to prove that his fleet—two three-masted sailing ships , a 50-ton caravel, and a 200-ton storeship—had been there.
Aug 31, 2024 · Voyages of Discovery airs on BBC Four at 8:00 PM, Saturday 31 August. Fridtjof Nansen's expedition to the North Pole in 1893 The Ice King (Season 1 Episode 3 of 5): Fridtjof Nansen's...
