Talk:List of maritime explorers

WikiAward for greatest sea explorer

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Table

I suggest that the list is placed in a table:

Nationality	Name,	First voyage of exploration	Last voyage of exploration	Arctic	North Atlantic	Indian	Pacific	South Atlantic	Southern
	de Abreu, Antonio
	de Albuquerque, Afonso
	Cook, James	1768–71	1776–79				3		1
	Drake,Francis	1577–81	1577–81			1	1	1

So that readers can sort on name or date or Ocean explored. (The numbers represent the number of voyages of discovery in that ocean). Other columns such as national flags could be added as eye candy etc. --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 13:02, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Good idea, but I'm not very good at building tables, and have not discovered a quick way of making large tables. Did you type this sample up, or is there a quick way? Wish there was a way to convert spreadsheets to tables in Wiki format.--mrg3105 (comms) If you're not taking any flak, you're not over the target. 13:10, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

From adding nationality to some of he columns it seems to me that we will need another column to indicate the nation or nations they sailed for.

Nationality	Sailed for	Name,	First voyage of exploration	Last voyage of exploration	Arctic	North Atlantic	Indian	Pacific	South Atlantic	Southern
Portuguese	Portugal	de Abreu, Antonio
Portuguese	Portugal	de Albuquerque, Afonso
Italian	England	Cabot, John
British	Britain	Cook, James	1768–71	1776–79				3		1
English	England	Drake,Francis	1577–81	1577–81			1	1	1

--Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 23:13, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Criteria

Removing (most of) this from the article:

Purpose of the list

The purpose of the list is to enable the reader to navigate between Wikipedia entries of diverse maritime explorers from a central encyclopedic point of reference.

Definition

A communication with other populations, commercial trade, and military missions such as establishment of colonies.

List scope

Necessarily the list can only relate to individuals and their missions which used watercraft for much of their duration. Maritime exploration has not diminished in importance with the emergence of the aircraft, and remains an important part of contemporary scientific research.

Although human maritime exploration is very ancient, only explorers known in recorded histories of their cultures are noted here. As such they represent three global maritime regions (in English alphabetic order): the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and their sub-regional seas as points of origin of the exploration missions.

Notability criteria

The list includes explorers which had contributed, and continue to contribute to human knowledge of the planet's geography, weather, biodiversity, human cultures, the expansion of trade, or established communication between diverse populations.

Although many maritime explorers also used force as part of their missions, these are not considered as a reason for exclusion from the list because it represents a subjective contemporary view of the use of force.

power~enwiki (π, ν) 23:24, 16 April 2018 (UTC)