This map, created by Peter Atwood in 2022, shows the route taken by Joshua Slocum for the first solo circumnavigation of the...
Exploration Maps

Spanish exploration and conquest of North America (2022)
This map, published by Simeon Netchev for World History Encyclopedia, shows the expeditions and conquests of the Spanish Empire in North America from...

The North Pole Party (1909)
This map, published in 1909 by Arthur J. Saalfield, depicts the race to reach the North Pole. At the beginning of...

Hiram Bingham's expedition to Machu Picchu (1915)
This map was published in 1915 as a result of the expedition led by Hiram Bingham and Yale University...

The first expeditions to Antarctica (2008)
This map, created by Bourrichon for Wikimedia Commons in 2008, shows the first expeditions that sighted or approached...

Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806)
This map was published by Perrin Remonté in 2023 as part of the #30DayMapChallenge initiative. The map details the expedition carried out...

The voyages of Christopher Columbus (1492–1504)
This map, published by Simeon Netchev for World History Encyclopedia, shows Christopher Columbus's four voyages to America between the years...

New Discoveries in the North Pacific (1776)
This map was drawn by Francois Santini and published by the Venetian publisher M. Remondini in 1776. The map is...

The world in the time of John Cabot (1924)
This map was published by Leslie MacDonald Gill in 1924, as part of a book that accompanied Pageant of...

Map of New Zealand, by James Cook (1773)
This map, drawn by John Hawkesworth in 1773, depicts John Cook's readings on his first voyage of exploration...

Map of James Cook's voyages (1794)
This map, published by William Faden in 1794, depicts the world and includes the discoveries made by the explorer and...

Map of the unexplored world (1881)
This map appears in the first pages of the book «The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century», the English publication of...
