Important geographical discoveries

(1). America – Christopher Columbus (Italian)
(2). Sea Route To India -Vasco Da Gama (Portuguese)
(3). China – Marco Polo
(4). New Foundland – John Cabot (British)
(5). Brazil – Pedro Alvarez Cabral (Portuguese)
(6). Island of Tasmania And New Zealand – Tasman (Dutch)
(7). Hawaiian Islands – Captain Cook (Britain)
(8). North Pole – Robert Peary (USA)
(9). South Pole – Amundsen (Norway)
(10). Suez Canal – Ferdinand De Lesseps
(11). Victoria Falls – David Livingston (British)
(12). Cape of Good Hope – Bartholomew Diaz (Portuguese)
(13). Greenland – Norseman Eric
(14). North America – Leif Erricsson
(15). Niger River – Mungo Park
(16). Lake Tanganyika – Richard Francis Burton
(17). Hudson Bay – Henry Hudson
(18). Mount Everest – Edmund Hillary