GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERIES

GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERIES
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Christopher Columbus (Italian)................... America

Vasco da Gama (Portuguese) ...... Sea route to India

John Cabot (British) ....................... New foundland

Pedro Alvarez Cabral (Portuguese)................. Brazil

Tasman (Dutch) Island of Tasmania & New Zealand

Captian Cook (British) . Sandwich (Hawaiin) Islands

Robert Peary (USA)............................... North Pole

Amundsun (Norway) ............................. South Pole

Ferdinand de Lesseps (Designed) .......... Suez Canal

David Livingstone (British) ................ Victoria Falls

Bartholomew Diaz (Portuguese)....... Cape of Good Hope

Norseman Eric ........................................... Greenland

Leif Ericsson ....................................... North America

Mungo park ............................... Nigeria river in Africa

Richard Francis Burton ..................... Lake Tanganyika

Henry Hudson ....................................... Hudson Bay

Gobot Sebastian ................................ New Foundland

Marco Polo ..................................................... China

Kepler .......................................................... Planets
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