Portugal - the country that has contributed most to geographic knowledge of the globe. In the course of one century she discovered and explored nearly two thirds of the inhabited globe [around the edge of the chart].

Coloured world map showing tracks of Portugese explorers: Pedro Fernandes de Queiroz 1606; Joao Rodrigues Cabrilho 1542; Fernao de Magalhaes 1520; Pedro Alvares Cabral 1500; Vasco da Gama 1497-1498; Diogo Cao 1482-85; Bartolomeu Dias 1487-88; Volta da Mina; Estavo Gomes 1525; Alvares Fagundes 1500; Gaspar Corte-Real 1500-01; Joao Fernandes Lavrador 1492-95 or 1495-98; Alfonsode Albuquerque 1507; David Melgueiro 1660; Antonio de Abreau & Francisco Serrao 1511; Gomes de Sequera 1525-?; M. Godinho Eredia 1601; Joao Vaz de Torres 1606; Fernao Mendes Pinto 1541; Jorge Alvares 1513; Antonio de Mota 1542; Cristovao de Mendonca 1522-?

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ID:	G201:1/61
Collection:	Charts and maps
Type:	Chart
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Araujo, Roberto; Litografia Nacional
Places:	World
Date made:	[late 20th century]
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Sheet: 48.5 cm x 67.5 cm

Portugal - the country that has contributed most to geographic knowledge of the globe. In the course of one century she discovered and explored nearly two thirds of the inhabited globe [around the edge of the chart].

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