The Age of Discovery was a time in which many navigators risked their lives setting out across vast oceans to explore the unknown world, in the process dramatically changing the way Europeans viewed the world around them. In this section of Earthrium, we have reproduced on a globe (for the first time ever!?) the routes followed by some of the most famous navigators of the Age of Discovery. We hope you will take a moment to look at the globe and reflect on the heroic voyages of these navigators as outlined below.
