Hacker News with Generative AI: Exploration

Portugal, the Mamluks, and the Age of Discovery (historytoday.com)
A small Portuguese fleet of three vessels captained by Vasco da Gama arrived in Kerala in May 1498 having sailed around the Cape of Good Hope.

History, Portugal, Exploration, India, Mamluks

22 points by Thevet 37 days ago | 0 comments

Humans still haven't seen 99.999% of the deep seafloor (npr.org)
Humans still haven’t seen 99.999% of the deep seafloor

Oceanography, Marine Biology, Science, Exploration

7 points by thunderbong 51 days ago | 0 comments

Subterranea Britannica (subbrit.org.uk)
We're fascinated by man-made and man-used underground places — from mines to railway tunnels, military defences to nuclear bunkers and everything in between. Join us and explore...

Underground, History, Exploration, Architecture, Britain

4 points by bookofjoe 72 days ago | 0 comments

Sacagawea (wikipedia.org)
Sacagawea (/ˌsækədʒəˈwiːə/ SAK-ə-jə-WEE-ə or /səˌkɒɡəˈweɪə/ sə-KOG-ə-WAY-ə;[1] also spelled Sakakawea or Sacajawea; May c. 1788 – December 20, 1812)[2][3][4] was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who, in her teens, helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition in achieving their chartered mission objectives by exploring the Louisiana Territory.

History, Exploration, Indigenous Peoples, Women

5 points by handfuloflight 103 days ago | 2 comments

Explorers discover wreckage of ship that sank in Lake Superior 130 years ago (phys.org)
Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail on the Great Lakes.

History, Maritime, Exploration, Shipwrecks

4 points by pseudolus 108 days ago | 1 comments

'Like going to the moon': Why this is the most terrifying ocean crossing (cnn.com)

Ocean Travel, Exploration, Adventure, Fear

6 points by mooreds 187 days ago | 0 comments

I went to an unknown island 2 hours from home and mapped it from scratch (reddit.com)
I went to an unknown (for me) island 2 hours from home and mapped it from scratch with a compass and a rangefinder!

Mapping, Exploration, Adventure, Travel

6 points by thunderbong 189 days ago | 0 comments

Tempest Anderson: Pioneer of Volcano Photography (2015) (publicdomainreview.org)
What could possess a respectable Victorian surgeon from York to spend much of his life travelling to remote and challenging parts of the world to study volcanoes and climb mountains?

Volcanoes, Photography, History, Travel, Exploration

21 points by ulrischa 208 days ago | 1 comments

Caving scientists exploring the darkest places on Earth (bbc.com)
"Caving is the last realm where true, pure exploration is possible," says Phil Short (Credit: Fran Gomez de Villaboa)

Exploration, Science, Geography, Caves

68 points by Thevet 215 days ago | 26 comments

Lady Baker and the Source of the Nile (harkness.substack.com)
Among the thousands and thousands of handwritten letters preserved in the British Library from the pen of the Victorian publisher Alexander Macmillan, one in particular piqued my interest: written to the heroic explorer of the sources of the Nile, Sir Samuel Baker, on 4 May 1866:

History, Exploration, British Library, Victorian Era, Letters

15 points by Caiero 243 days ago | 0 comments

The Lost Mariner (2002) (newyorker.com)
Columbus was one of the few men of his age willing to entertain the notion that the world was not spherical.

History, Columbus, Exploration

3 points by rbanffy 256 days ago | 0 comments

New images show state of preservation of Ernest Shackleton's ship (theguardian.com)
More than a century after it sank below the icy Weddell Sea in Antarctica, forcing its crew to embark on one of the most celebrated survival quests in history, new images have revealed the remarkable state of preservation of Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance.

History, Exploration, Antarctica, Shipwrecks, Photography

112 points by rmason 260 days ago | 44 comments

Researchers Find Cannibalized Victim of 19th-Century Arctic Voyage (nytimes.com)
A new study offers clues to a 179-year-old mystery that killed more than 100 explorers on the Franklin expedition in the Canadian Arctic.

History, Arctic, Exploration, Mystery, Science

46 points by Thevet 264 days ago | 15 comments

Botanists identify 33 global 'dark spots' with unknown plants (theguardian.com)
Botanists have identified 33 “dark spots” around the world where thousands of plant species are probably waiting to be discovered, according to new research.

Botany, Science, Biodiversity, Exploration, Discovery

6 points by mykowebhn 270 days ago | 0 comments

How a 16th Century Explorer's Sailing Ship Works (youtube.com)
A new video on YouTube shows a detailed 3D model of the sailing ship that 16th-century explorer Ferdinand Magellan used to circumnavigate the globe.

History, 3D Modeling, Exploration, YouTube

210 points by fallinditch 296 days ago | 62 comments

Michel Siffre Has Died (wikipedia.org)

Obituary, Science, Exploration, Spelunking, Human Interest

7 points by jmague 306 days ago | 0 comments

The unending allure of high mountains (noemamag.com)

Mountains, Exploration, Nature, Travel

61 points by Thevet 377 days ago | 16 comments

Ernest Shackleton's last ship, Quest, discovered off the coast of Canada (smithsonianmag.com)

History, Exploration, Archaeology, Maritime History

96 points by pseudolus 378 days ago | 33 comments

Andrée and the Aeronauts' Voyage to the Top of the World (2013) (damninteresting.com)