Portuguese maritime explorations resulted in numerous territories and maritime routes recorded by the Portuguese on journeys during the 15th and 16th centuries. Portuguese sailors were at the vanguard
The Cantino planisphere, made by an anonymous cartographer in 1502, shows the world as it was understood by Europeans after their great explorations at the end of the fifteenth century.
Prince Henry the Navigator, generally credited as the driving force behind Portuguese maritime exploration.
The caravel was an existing ship type that was prominent in Portuguese exploration from about 1440
An illustration of the padrão Diogo Cão erected at Cape St. Mary, Angola.
Age of Discovery
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The Age of Discovery, also known as the Age of Exploration, was part of the early modern period and overlapped with the Age of Sail. It was a period from approximately the 15th to the 17th century, du
Portuguese maritime exploration
…chronicling and mapping the coasts of Africa and Asia, then known as the East Indies, Canada and Brazil (the West Indies), in what became known as the Age of Discovery. Methodical expeditions started in 1419 along the coast of West Africa under the sponsorship of prince Henry the Navigator, whence Bartolomeu Dias…
Mayflower II, a replica of the 17th-century English sailing ship Mayflower which transported a group of Pilgrim families from England to the New World in 1620
A replica of the French carrack La Grande Hermine, which was used by Jacques Cartier that participated in decisive events of France in the colonization of Canada in 1534
A replica of the Portuguese carrack Flor de la Mar, which participated in decisive events for Portugal in the Indian Ocean until her sinking in November 1511
A replica of the Spanish carrack Santa Maria which was used by Christopher Columbus in his first expedition across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, arriving to the New World