It has included combinations of diversive and inspective exploration. Geographical exploration, sometimes considered the default meaning for the more general term exploration, is the practice of discovering remote lands and regions of the planet Earth.
Main articles: Geographical exploration, Underwater exploration, and Space exploration Ortelius's 1570 world map, the world's first modern atlas. Įxtrinsic exploration has the same meaning as appetitive behavior. Intrinsic exploration involves activity that is not directed towards a specific goal other than the activity itself. The same field of investigation or region may be explored at different times by different explorers with different motivations, who may make similar or different discoveries. The activities are not mutually exclusive, and often occur simultaneously to a variable extent. In all these definitions there is an implication of novelty, or unfamiliarity or the expectation of discovery in the exploration, whereas a survey implies directed examination, but not necessarily discovery of any previously unknown or unexpected information.