Mostly to show you how fast (or how slow) these pages change, I have created a list of added/removed pages. Many pages were already added before this date, but these are the pages added or removed since 2000 (I've probably forgotten some changes, but this should give the right idea) - you can also find the changes in 1999, 1998 and 1997 and the second half of 1996.
24 February:
- Worked on my links: Removed or updated a large number of outdated links, added some new ones.
14 February 2002:
- Created a page on Biscoe
- Created a page on the pundits
- Created a page on Pytheas
- Created a page on Caillié
- Created a page on Medieval exploration
- Created a page on the exploration of the coast of Africa
- Created a page on the Portuguese Empire in south and east Asia
- Ray Howgego created a page on Weddell
- Moved large parts from the main page (which was much too large) to a number of separate pages on the various regions, and a separate page for internal links
- Added and removed several links
25 December 2001:
- Added a link on Herbert
- Added links on Hanno, Himilco, Nearchus, Alexander the Great and Necho
- Removed links on the Greeks
- Removed links on Cabeza de Vaca, exploration of Georgia and James Cook
- Added a link on James Cook
- Added a link on the Vikings
- Removed links on the Vikings
- Removed a link on Solander
- Updated a number of URLs
- Removed a link on Caesar
- Created pages on the Greeks, the Romans and the Irish and Vikings
- Removed links on Stanley, and added others
- Removed a link on Sturt, and added others
- Created a page on Dampier
- Created a page on Speke and Grant
- Put the items of 1999 on this page on a separate
page
- Added the S of the enhanced alphabetical list
2 December:
- Added a link on Shackleton.
- Added several links on ancient Egypt, Punt, Harkhuf, Hatshepsut and Sahure
- Added several links on Minoan Crete.
- Updated some URLs.
- Added a link on Ayllón.
- Changed origin information on Cabrillo.
- Removed a link on Cabral.
- Created pages on the first explorers and the Phoenicians.
19 September:
5 September:
- Added a biography of Raposo Tavares by Ray Howgego.
- Created a page on Cordoba and Grijalva.
29 August:
- Updated URLs on Balboa and De Brazza
8 August:
2 August:
- Added a link on Dease
- Added a link on Simpson
- Added a link on Alaska/Yukon explorers
- Added links on Antarctic History, Cook, Smith, Brensfield, De Gerlache, Borchgrevink, von Drygalski, Nordenskjöld, Bruce, Charcot, Shackleton, Amundsen, Scott, Filchner and Mawson
- Added links on Shirase
- Added a link on Henry the Navigator
- Added links on Jedediah Smith and removed another
- Added links on Frémont and Walker
- Added links on Bridger, Ogden, Frémont and Powell
- Added links on John Smith and removed others
- Added a link on Pring
- Removed a link on Rolfe
- Added the first half of the S for the improved alphabetical list.
31 July:
- Added links on Schiltberger
- Added links on Lewis and Clark
- Added links on Sacagawea
- Updated the URL for works by Herodotus and Plutarch
- Added a link on Emin Pasha
- Added primary resources from Schomburgk
- Added a link on Schouten and Le Maire
- Removed a link on Schwatka
- Added a link on Schweinfurth
- Removed links on Herodotus, Pytheas, Ptolemy, Gilbert, Smith, Pocahontas, Páez, Park, Laing, Livingstone, Rebmann, Thomson, Teleki, Tasman, Sturt, Brunel, van Linschoten, Marignolli, Houtman, Houtman, Iberville, Bienville, Duveyrier, Cameron, Abruzzi, Schouten, Bass, Flinders, Hudson, Scoresby, McClure, McClintock, Rae, Hayes, De Long, Frederick Cook, Rasmussen, Ellsworth, Scott, Byrd, ibn Battuta, Mansa Mussa, Amundsen, Franklin, Nansen, Oñate, Peary, Pizarro, Polo, Ribaut, Ricci, J.C. Ross plus a number of links on subsidiary pages
- Added links on Scoresby (Sr. and Jr.)
- Added links on Scott
- Added links on Serra, removed another
- Added links on Shackleton
27 July:
- Added a link on the colony of Popham
- Added a link on the place of Drake's New Albion
- Added two links on Bernier
- Added a number of links on Bligh
- Added a link on the discovery of Tasmania
- Changed a link on Linschoten (from the Swedish to the English version of the same page)
- Removed a link on the History of South Pole Exploration
- Added a link on the discovery of Newfoundland
- Added two links on Almásy and removed another
- Removed links on Cabot, Sebastian Cabot, Cook and Franklin
- Added links on Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen
- Removed a link on Speke
- Added a link to a primary source from Speke
- Added a link on Cartier
- Added a link on Bougainville
28 May:
- Removed a link on early history of Tasmania
20 April:
- Added various links on J.C. Ross
- Added a link on Stanley
- Added various links on John Ross
- Added a link on Rubruck
- Added the R for the improved alphabetical list.
1 March:
- Added various links on Ricci
- Changed a URL
- Added links on Fawcett, von Humboldt, La Condamine, Isabela Godin and Raleigh
- Added two links on Rondon
- Added several links on Roosevelt
28 February:
- Added two links on Ribault
27 February:
- Added a link on Waterton
- Added the Q for the improved alphabetical list.
- Removed a page on Racovita.
- Corrected a number of URLs
- Added a link on Raleigh
- Added several links on Rasmussen
- Added several links on Krapf
- Added a link on Rebmann
31 January:
- Added a link on Xuan Zang
- Removed a link on Carpini
- Added links on Marco Polo
- Added links on Mackenzie, Fraser, Clarke and Black
- Added various links on Pond
- Added links on Portolá
- Added a number of links on Powell
- Added a link on Ptolemy, removed the existing ones
- Added links on Chancellor, Munk
- Added a link on Pytheas and updated another one
- Added the P for the improved alphabetical list
24 January:
- Removed a link on Pinzón
- Added various links on Pizarro
- Added links on Balboa, de las Casas, Ojeda, Columbus, de Soto and Vespucci
- Added links on Cortes
- Added a link on Gonzalo Pizarro
15 January:
- Added a link on the Dutch in Japan
- Added a page on Vinland
9 January:
- Added a link to a primary source on Phillip
- Added links to writings by Pike
4 January 2001:
- Added a link on Las Casas
10 December 2000:
1 December:
- Removed a timeline of exploration
28 November:
- Added pages on the history of Nootka.
25 November:
- Added pages on Greely
- Added pages on Franklin, Kane and MacMillan, in the case of Kane removing the existing one.
- Added pages on Peary.
18 November:
- Updated some URLs
- Added a page on Phillip
16 November:
- Updated URLs for pages on Alexander the Great and Hanno
- Added pages on Burton, Herodotus and the Vinland Map, removing the
existing links for the latter
?? November:
- Added some primary pages on De Soto
5 November:
- Removed a page on Fei Xin
- Created a page on Ponce de Léon
20 October:
- Added primary sources from Baker, Wallace and Livingstone
- Added resources on early Australian exploration, Gordon, the Phoenicians and the Jesuits in Paraguay
- Added a complete version of the travels of Mandeville
- Added a page on Nansen
2 October:
- Removed pages on De Soto and the exploration of Florida
30 September:
- Added a page on Páez
- Added a page on European visitors to Ethiopia
- Added some pages on Palgrave
- Added several pages on Palliser
- Added a page on Palmer
- Added a page on the exploration of the Niger
- Added a page on Mungo Park
- Removed a page on St. Brendan the Navigator
22 September:
17 September:
- Added a page on Burton and Speke
- Added several pages on Nicollet and Jolliet & Marquette
- Added pages on La Salle
- Added a page on Von Humboldt
- Added a page on Niebuhr
- Added two pages on Nobile, removed the existing one
- Added two pages on Van Noort
- Removed a page on Nordenskiöld
- Added a page on Ogden
- Added a page on Ojeda
- Added pages on Olaus Magnus
- Added pages on Oñate, and removed another
- Added a page on Ohthere
- Added a page on Oxley
- Added the N and O for the improved alphabetical list.
- Added pages on Marco Polo, Dias, Covilham, Pizarro, Barentsz, John Smith, Tasman, Cook, Frémont and Peary
- Added a page on James Bruce
1 September:
- Updated some URLs
- Added pages on Grosseilliers, Radisson, Perrot, Duluth, Hennepin, La Hontan, Troyes and Cadillac
30 August:
- Added a page on Hatshepshut
28 August:
- Added various pages on Rohlfs.
- Added various pages on Nachtigal.
- Added pages on Barth and Stanley.
- Added primary sources from Nachtigal and Rohlfs.
- Added a number of pages on Nansen.
- Added a page on Shackleton, and removed another.
27 August:
- Updated a number of URLs
- Added primary sources from Bering, Chirikov and Gvozdev
- Added a page on the exploration of northern Russia
- Removed a page on Gregg
- Added a page on Dorjiev
26 August:
- Added a number of documents under the 'other primary sources' category
- Added a page on David-Néel (also to the 'major sites' page)
- Added a few links in some biographies
- Added pages on Abreu, Serrão, Loaysa, Meneses, Saavedra, Villalobos, Legazpi, Urdaneta, van Noort, van Spilbergen, Le Maire & Schouten, Dampier, Roggeveen, Anson, Byron, Wallis, Carteret, Bougainville, Surville, Du Fresne, Gonzalez, Boénechea, Maurelle, Furneaux, Dillon and a few others
- Removed pages on Bligh and D'Urville
- Added a page on Colter
25 August:
- Two new pages by Ray Howgego: On Ferreira and on Galiano and Valdes.
28 July:
- Added various pages on El Dorado
- Created a page on Vancouver, added and removed links.
- With Ray Howgego, created a page on Brunel
- Removed two pages on Phillip
- Updated some URLs
26 July:
- Added pages on Arctic airborne exploration and the Peary/Cook controversy.
16 July:
- Added a reaction to Wood's claim that Marco Polo never was in China
- Added two pages on Marignolli
- Added a page on Martyr
- Added various pages on Malinche
- Removed Mier and McClellan
- Added two pages on McClintock, removing the existing one
- Added a page on McClure, removing another one
- Removed Moody
- Added the M for the improved alphabetical list.
22 June:
- Added a page on Hedin
- Added a page on the location of Vinland
- Updated the URL for the Lewis & Clark Internet Archive
- Added Ramusio as a primary source
18 June:
- Removed a page on the Dutch in Japan, added another one
- Added a page on European cartography of Korea
- Added a page on the Portuguese in China
- Created pages on Quast, Penn, Przhevalski and the Dutch on Formosa
(Taiwan)
30 April:
- Updated the URL of a page on Carpini
- Added a page on Hanno, removed another one
- Added a page on ancient exploration of the African coast
8 April:
- Added a page on MacMillan
- Added a page on Marcos de Niza
- Added a page on Federmann, removing the existing one
2 April:
- Added a page on Ibn Battuta
- Added a page on Wohlgemuth
27 March:
- Corrected the URL for 'Uncovering the real Columbus'
17 March:
- Added a page on de Luna
- Added the L for the improved alphabetical list.
16 March:
- Added two pages on La Condamine
- Added a page on Ojeda
- Added a number of pages on Las Casas
- Added a page on Leichhardt, removed another one
- Added a page on Lisa
- Removed a page on Livingstone
- Added a primary resource from Lobo
- Added pages on Long and Pike
- Added pages on the exploration of Texas, Álvarez de Pineda, Garay, Narváez, Cabeza de Vaca, Maldonado, Dorantes de Carranza, Estevanico, de Nizza, Coronado, de Luna, H.Alvarado, Moscoso, Rodríguez and Sánchez, Espejo, Oñate, Castaño de Sosa, de Carvajal y de la Cueva, Bonilla, Humaña, Gutiérrez, Zaldívar, de Salas, de Azcué, JD de Mendoza, Lopez, La Salle, de Tonti, Joutel, López de Gamarra, de Pez, Rivas, Iriarte, De Leon, Teran, Espinosa, Olivares, Aguirre, Diego and Domingo Ramó, Aguayo, St.Denis, Escandon, the Mallet brothers, Pike, de Mézières, Vial, Mares, Long, Freeman, Custis, Mier, Emory, Marcy, Abert, Neighbors and McClellan, in the cases of de Nizza, Espejo and Escandon removing an existing one.
9 March:
7 March:
- Added a number of primary resources
26 February:
- Removed 'How I Discovered America'
- Added a page on Kennedy
- Added pages on Clarence King
- Added two pages on Kingsley
- Added two pages on Kino, removing one existing one
- Added pages on Wegener, Koldewey, Dallmann and Filchner
- Added another page on Koldewey
- Added the K for the improved alphabetical list.
23 February:
- Removed a page on Iberville
- Added three pages on Ibn Batuta, and removed all existing ones
- Added a page on Irala
- Added a page on Bienville
- Created a page on Jenkinson
- Added pages on Caesar
- Removed a page on Junker
- Added the I and J for the improved alphabetical list.
21 February:
- Removed pages on Champlain, Frémont, Marquette and Byrd
- Added Brittanica Online to the major sites and the awards page.
- Added (from brittanica.com) pages on Abruzzi, Herodotus, Ptolemy, Páez, Burton, Cameron, Speke, Thomson, Teleki, Park, Laing, Barth, Duveyrier, Clapperton, Pytheas, Chancellor, Brunel, van Linschoten, Houtman, Hudson, Gilbert, Franklin, Flinders, Bass, Magellan, Schouten, Tasman, Vancouver, Sturt, Scoresby, John Ross, Rae, McClure, Amundsen, Scott, Ellsworth, Nobile, Hayes, Kane, De Long, Nansen, F.A. Cook, Peary and Henson, and in a few cases removing old pages on these explorers
- Removed pages on Shackleton, Scott, Bellingshausen and Weddell
- Removed 'About Amazonia' from the major sites list
- Removed pages on Bering and Nordenskiöld
31 January:
- Ray Howgego created (or rather, made available) pages on Baranov, Cão, Chirikov, di Conti, Covilhão, Dezhnev, Eannes, Niebuhr, Odoric, Orellana, Vincente Pinzón, Quesada, Quiros and Torres. Thanks!
29 January:
- Added a page on Montecorvino
- Added a page on Pizarro
28 January:
- Added a page on Dias
- Added a page on Federmann
- Added a page on the discovery of Colombia
- Added pages on Dulhut, La Salle and De Tonti
- Added pages on the great Lakes, Dulhut, Perrot, the Huguenot colonies in Florida, Nicolet, La Salle, Iberville, Roberval, de Monts
22 January:
21 January:
- Removed two links on the page on Cabrillo
14 January:
- Changed the background color from blue to white
- Added a page on Ricci
- Added a page on Magellan
- Added a page on Ohthere
- Created a page on Willoughby and Chancellor
13 January:
- Added a page on Huc & Gabet
- Updated a few links on the page on the Astorians
- Removed the page on Hutchinson
- Completed the H for the extended alphabetical list
12 January:
- Added a page on Hawkins
- Added a page on Hearne
- Added a page on the Vikings in America
- Added pages on Hedin, Nordenskiöld and Stanley
- Removed pages on the Phoenicians, Herodotus, Xenophon, Carthage, Hannibal, Marco Polo, Dias, Cabral, Balboa, Cortes, de Soto, Champlain, Marquette, Jolliet, Raleigh, Pike, Frémont, Pizarro, Burton, Livingstone, Stanley, Magelhães, Drake, Hudson, Peary, Amundsen, Byrd, Balboa, Burke and Wills, Cartier, Coronado, Cook, Cabot, Columbus and the Vikings. Removed Compton's Encyclopedia from the major sites.
- Added a page on Hennepin
- Added a page on Park
- Added pages on Hartogh, F.Houtman, Thijssen, Pelsaert and De Vlamingh
11 January:
- Updated the URL for pages on Thompson and the history of the fur trade
- Added pages on La Vérendrye, Groseilliers and Radisson, Thompson, Fraser and Mackenzie, removed the existing link on Mackenzie
6 January:
- Removed a page on the discovery of America
5 January:
- Added pages on Verrazzano and Bougainville
- Added several pages on Amundsen
- Added pages on Cheng Ho and Xavier
- Added pages on Leif Eriksson, Magellan, Byrd, Mawson and Shackleton
3 January 2000:
- Added a page on Frobisher
- Removed a page on Hedin
- Moved the 1998 part of this page to a separate page
1999 and before: