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Joan Blaeu and the rise of Dutch atlases (1596–1672)

1596 - 1673

Jamestown and the Virginia Company's Early Ventures (1607–1624)

1606 - 1624

Hanseatic Maritime Networks in the Baltic and North Sea (c.1400–1650)

1400 - 1669

Hans Egede and the Danish Reoccupation and Mission to Greenland (1721–1736)

1714 - 1744

Gaspar Corte-Real's voyages to Newfoundland (1500–1501)

1500 - 1503

García Jofre de Loaísa Expedition to the Moluccas (1525–1526)

1525 - 1526

Evolution of navigational instruments: nautical astrolabe, cross-staff, and backstaff (14th–17th centuries)

1342 - 1700

Elizabethan Privateering Voyages: Drake, Hawkins, and Cavendish (1570–1605)

1562 - 1604

Early Portuguese voyages and colonization of Brazil (1500–1530)

1494 - 1532

Early Portuguese exploration of the West African coast (1434–1482)

1434 - 1482

Dutch Brazil (New Holland) and the Pernambuco Sugar Colony (1624–1654)

1621 - 1661

Dutch Arctic Commercial Enterprises: Whaling and Northern Trade (1594–1650)

1594 - 1642

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