Question: Who accurately mapped the coasts of the continent of the first leg of Queen's mid 2000s tour with Live: The Loreley Tapes' performer and WINEP bundled countries of Northwest Africa?

portuguese discoveries (portuguese: descobrimentos portugueses) are the numerous territories and maritime routes discovered by the portuguese as a result of their intensive maritime exploration during the 15th and 16th centuries. portuguese sailors were at the vanguard of european overseas exploration, discovering and mapping the coasts of africa, canada, asia and brazil, in what became known as the age of discovery. methodical expeditions started in 1419 along west africa's coast under the sponsorship of prince henry the navigator, with bartolomeu dias reaching the cape of good hope and entering the indian ocean in 1488. ten years later, in 1498, vasco da gama led the first fleet around africa to india, arriving in calicut and starting a maritime route from portugal to india. portuguese explorations then proceeded to southeast asia, where they reached japan in 1542, forty - four years after their first arrival in india. in 1500, the portuguese nobleman pedro álvares cabral became the first european to discover brazil. <SEP> Between 2005 and 2006, Queen + Paul Rodgers embarked on a world tour, which was the first time Queen toured since their last tour with Freddie Mercury in 1986. The band's drummer Roger Taylor commented; "We never thought we would tour again, Paul [Rodgers] came along by chance and we seemed to have a chemistry. Paul is just such a great singer. He's not trying to be Freddie." Queen received the inaugural VH1 Rock Honors at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, on 25 May 2006. The first leg was in Europe, the second in Japan, and the third in the US in 2006. The Foo Fighters paid homage to the band in performing "Tie Your Mother Down" to open the ceremony before being joined on stage by May, Taylor, and Paul Rodgers, who played a selection of Queen hits. <SEP> The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) is a non-profit organization for research and advice on Middle Eastern policy. It regards its target countries as the Middle East but adopts the convention of calling them the Near East to be in conformance with the practices of the State Department. Its views are independent. The WINEP bundles the countries of Northwest Africa together under "North Africa." Details can be found in Policy Focus #65. <SEP> Approximately one third of the map survives; it shows the western coasts of Europe and North Africa and the coast of Brazil with reasonable accuracy. Various Atlantic islands, including the Azores and Canary Islands, are depicted, as is the mythical island of Antillia and possibly Japan. The Piri Reis map is a world map compiled in 1513 from military intelligence by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis (pronounced (piɾi ɾeis)). <SEP> shackleton ice shelf is an extensive ice shelf fronting the coast of east antarctica for about 384 km (95e to 105e), projecting seaward about 145 km in the western portion and 64 km in the east. it occupies an area of 33,820 km². it is part of mawson sea and separates the queen mary coast to the west from the knox coast of wilkes land to the east. the existence of this ice shelf was first made known by the usee under charles wilkes who mapped a portion of it from the "vincennes" in february 1840. it was explored by the australian antarctic expedition under douglas mawson (1911–14) who named it for sir ernest shackleton. the extent of the ice shelf was mapped in greater detail in 1955, using aerial photography obtained by us navy operation highjump, 1946-47. further mapping by the soviet expedition of 1956 showed the portion eastward of scott glacier to be a part of this ice shelf. <SEP> It was recorded at the Rockpalast Open Air Festival, at Loreley, Germany on 8 July 1995 and released in 1996. Live: The Loreley Tapes... is a live album by Paul Rodgers of Free and Bad Company fame.