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-?
Object Details
| 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 |