All Episodes

Parry's Polar Voyage

The Search for Timbuktu

Landers Discover the Mouth of the Niger

Ross Discovers the North Magnetic Pole

Flinders Names Australia

Sturt's Discoveries in Australia

Ross Makes Discoveries in the Antarctic Seas

Franklin Discovers the North-West Passage

David Livingstone

Burton and Speke in Central Africa

Livingston Traces Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa

Expedition to Victoria Nyanza

Baker Finds Albert Nyanza

Livingstone's Last Journey

Through the Dark Continent

Nordenskiold Finds North-East Passage

The Exploration of Tibet

Nansen Reaches Farthest North

Peary Reaches the North Pole

The Quest for the South Pole

Dates of Chief Events

Jacques Cartier Explores Canada

Search For a North-West Passage

Frobisher Searches for a North-West Passage

Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World

Davis Straight

Barents Sails to Spitzbergen

Hudson Finds His Bay

Baffin Finds His Bay

Sir Walter Raleigh Searches for El Dorado

Champlain Discovers Lake Ontario

Early Discoverers of Australia

Tasman Finds Tasmania

Dampier Discovers His Straight

Behring Finds His Straight

Cook Discovers New Zealand

Cook's Third Voyage and Death

Bruce's Travels in Abyssinia

Mungo Park and the Niger

Vancouver Discovers His Island

Mackenzie and His River

Parry Discovers Lancaster Sound

The Frozen North

Franklin's Land Voyage to the North

Marco Polo

The End of Mediaeval Exploration

Mediaeval Maps

Prince Henry of Portugal

Bartholomew Diaz Reaches the Stormy Cape

Christopher Columbus

A Great New World

Vasco da Gama Reaches India

Discovery of the Spice Islands

Balboa Sees the Pacific Ocean

Magellan Sails Round the World

Cortes Explores and Conquers Mexico

Explorers in South America

Cabot Sails to Newfoundland

Pilgrim Travellers

Irish Explorers

After Mohammed

The Vikings Sail the Northern Seas

Arab Wayfarers

Travellers to the East

The Roman Empire and Pliny

Ptolemy's Maps

Julius Caesar as Explorer

Strabo's Geography

Herodotus—the Traveller

Alexander the Great Explores India

Pytheas Finds the British Isles

A Little Old World

Early Mariners

Is the World Flat

Introduction