| Norseman Eric |
discovered Greenland in |
AD 982 |
| Leif Ericsson |
discovered North America in |
AD 1000 |
| Bartholomew Diaz |
rounds Cape of Good Hope in |
AD 1488 |
| Christopher Columbus |
discovered the West Indies in |
AD 1492 |
| John Cabot |
discovered the Newfound land
in |
AD 1497 |
| Vascoda Gama |
reached Calicut (S. India) in |
AD 1498 |
| Bedro Cabral |
discovered Brazil in |
AD 1500 |
| James Cook |
discovered New South Wales in |
AD 1770 |
| Marco Polo |
visited Sumathra and Java |
|
| Mungo Park |
discovered Nigeria river in
Africa. |
|
| David Livingstone |
discovered Victoria falls. |
|
| Richard Francis Burton |
discovered Lake Tanganyika. |
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