Are there parts of the amazon unexplored

It is still only populated by , people, which is pretty sparse for such a large area. Via hbo. Despite being the largest island on the planet, it is still largely undiscovered. Of that, roughly 80 percent of it is covered in ice. The ice is incredibly thick — some as dense as meters. The ice sheets that cover most of the island are also very old — between , to , years old.

As of , only 56, people live on this massive amount of land. Unsurprisingly, such a sparsely populated region is filled with natural wonders — hot springs, Northern lights that you can actually see, rivers that flow with ice.

Via dailymotion. Another undiscovered trench lies off the eastern coast of Australia and about miles north of New Zealand. In fact, scientists did not explore the New Hebrides Trench until The trench is nearly four and a half miles deep. When scientists did explore, using underwater robots, they found eels and prawns — but not just any eels or prawns. These were different from other species found in other trenches in the deep sea.

The eels were as long as 1 meter, and the prawns bright red. Via clubpimble. Due to its vastness, a lot of it is unexplored. There is of course an eclectic biodiversity with rare species to be explored. The Amazon gets rain all year, earning its title of rainforest, but this constant rain leads to flooding — which makes it difficult to traverse the Amazon by river. It may be a good thing that the Amazon is largely untraversed — there are a whole host of deadly animals here, from poison dart frogs and piranhas to anacondas.

Via ferrebeekeeper. Deserts have historically been unexplored due to their remoteness and extreme climate. There are very few paved roads to get around. Virtually inaccessible except by helicopter, scientists discovered three completely new species of animals in the area in At more than 5. The first expedition set off to explore this underground world in before being stymied by a foot-tall wall of calcite inside. Much of the surrounding network of over caves near the Laos border remains unsurveyed.

Located in the middle of the Bay of Bengal off the southernmost tip of Myanmar, North Sentinel Island technically belongs to India, but few outsiders have made contact with the Sentinelese people. Volcanoes in Kamchatka, Russia. Dune 7 towers above all the others. Back in the office, they used their findings to predict where other sites might be located, creating a computer model that took everything from elevation to soil pH to precipitation into account. It showed that people would likely have built geoglyphs in higher-elevation areas with big variations in seasons and temperatures.

The computer model also predicted population densities that were much larger than expected. The team now thinks that between , and 1 million people once lived in just seven percent of the Amazon basin. That flies in the face of previous estimates that only about 2 million people lived in the entire Amazon basin.

The distribution of the potential sites suggests an interconnected, advanced series of fortified villages spanning over 1, miles that flourished between and A.

So what happened to the rain forest-dwelling people? De Souza says they died out after the European conquest of the region. Disease and genocide wiped out entire villages, and many others abandoned agriculture altogether. All rights reserved. Or did they? Share Tweet Email. Read This Next Wild parakeets have taken a liking to London. In the fields of science the Amazon River is still a vast virgin world in itself, awaiting exploration and exploitation in the light of modern advancements.

Its long arms of flowing waters, capable of moving ocean craft for more than 2, miles westward from the Atlantic Ocean, beckon to the engineers of navigation, inviting them to utilize its watery pathway to bring to manufacturing and commercial centers, natural wealth that is so profusely to be found in but few places on the face of the earth.

The "dreamers" of the lands through which these waters flow have perhaps not failed to appreciate the potentialities of the natural assets that lie there unused.

Three governments have, through the same medium, seen fit to invite attention to this watery Colossus of the Western Hemisphere. Used by all who read, they convey their silent messages to the far corners of the world. While it is true that none of the group of twenty-one stamps dedicated to the Amazon openly touches on the future development of this river, it is not at all improbable that this subject may have been in the minds of those who promoted their issuance.

In this era of experimentation many novel ideas have been tried. The direction and guidance of public thought is one development of political science that has received much attention. In the stimulation of national ideologies, postage stamps have played an important and surprisingly large part.

World's Fairs, religious observances, and national industrial opportunities have frequently been depicted on postage stamps. On innumerable occasions political philosophies have been epitomized in the portraits of such heroes as Bolivar, San Martin, Washington, Artigas, and Sucre. During the years , , and Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil dramatically invited attention to the mighty Amazon through postage stamps.

In all three cases the four hundredth anniversary of the discoveries of Gonzalo Pizarro and Francisco de Orellana have been used as justification for these postal issues. Their adventures constitute a series of the most dramatic incidents in all of the sensational history of the unfolding of the Western world. In a substantial Spanish population had already gathered in widely separated localities of South America.

The settlers, largely conquistadors and adventurers, had a fair conception of the general geographical characteristics of the land to which the lure of wealth had drawn them. Their ancient maps, black and yellow air mail stamp of Ecuador, illustrate their fairly accurate concept of the vast South American continent. Prior to that time, in the year , Vincente Pinzon, one of the Captains of the original Columbus expedition, skirted the eastern shore of this great "island," as he presumed it to be.

At a point close to the equator he fell upon a mystery more baffling than any he had previously encountered. The salty nature of the ocean had changed to fresh water. The aimless tossings of its billows assumed a slight current, directed toward no particular destination but emanating endlessly from between two points of land so widely separated that to his mind they could not have been the opposite shores of a river. As Pinzon sailed his ship westward between them he became more perplexed than ever, for nowhere in the experiences of Columbus, The Great Navigator, or the scientific discourses of Toscanelli, or the fantastic writings of Marco Polo, had the story ever been told of a body of fresh water lying within or adjoining the great salty ocean.

After sailing westward for several days against the increasing current, he christened the strange waters with the name "Mar Dulce" and contented himself with having it noted in his log, leaving the significance of the strange experience to others. So incomprehensible was the enigma Pinzon had presented that the "wise men" of the old world demonstrated their wisdom by remaining silent.

As a result four decades and longer passed before the world realized that Vincente Pinzon had, in fact, achieved one of the greatest discoveries of the New World. Pinzon and a whole generation of his fellow men died without ever having realized that he had discovered the giant of New World waterways, later named the Amazon. To this day, and perhaps for all future time, however, the discovery of the Amazon will continue to be accredited to another conquistador.

This capricious award of fame is no doubt attributable to the more sensational and melodramatic story of Francisco de Orellana and the manner in which he became associated with the Amazon.

In truth, it might be recorded that, while Vincente Pinzon discovered the existence of the river, it remained for Orellana to discover its greatness and, vaguely, its course. Strangely, they approached the river from opposite ends, Pinzon unknowingly having entered its mouth and Orellana having traced its course down the eastern slope of the Andes, beginning 3, miles from its mouth in the highlands of the Republic now known as Ecuador.

The early seat of Spanish authority and military power centered about the Vice- Royalty of Peru where Francisco Pizarro, the Viceroy, ruled with uncompromising authority. His fame and success was to no small extent due to the loyal prowess of his brother Gonzalo, and to his lieutenants, Francisco de Orellana and Diego de Almagro. The Viceroy Pizarro knew but one satisfactory course to pursue when his power was challenged.