| Achievement | Explorer (Year) | Nationality |
|---|
| Possible the first European landfall in North America | Ericon, Leif(1003) | Norse |
| Travels in Central Asia and China | Polo, Marci (1271-1295) | Italian |
| Voyage around the Cape of Good Hope | Dias, Bartholomew (1487) | Portuguese |
| Exploration of the Caribbean | Columbs, Christopher (1492-1504) | Italian |
| Landfall in Canada, with his Brother Sebastian | Cabot, John (1497) | Italian |
| First to sail around Africa to India | DaGama Vasco (1497-98) | Portuguese |
| First sea journey around the world | Magellan | Portugusese |
| Conquest and Exploration of Mexico | Cortes, Fernando (1519-1521) | Spanish |
| Conquest and Exploration of Peru | Pozarro Francisco (1530-1538) | Spanish |
| Discovery of Tasmania and New Zealand | Abel Janszoon (1642) | Dutch |
| Exploration of the South Pacific | Cook, James (1768-1779) | English |
| Exploration of Southern and Central Africa | Livingstone, David | Scotish |
| First north-south crossing of Australia | Burke, Robert O'Hana (1860-1861) | Irish |
| Exploration of Central Africa | Stanley, Henry Morton (1874-1889) | Welsh |
| First man to reach the North Pole | Peary, Robert E (1909) | American |
| First man to reach the South Pole | Amudsen Ruald (1911) | Norwegian |
| First man to orbit the Earth | Gagarian, Yuri (April 1961) | Russian |
| First man to step onto the Moon | Armstrong, Neil (July 1969) | American |
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