Geographical Discoveries

 

Place

Discoverer

Nationality

Year

America

Christopher Columbus

Italy

1492

Brazil

Petro Alvarez Cafrol

Portuguese

1500

Hawaii Islands

Captain James Cook

England

1778

Island of Tasmania and New Foundland

John Cabot

England

1497

New Zealand

Abel Janszoon Tasman

Holland

1642

North Pole

Robert Peary

U.S.A

1909

Planetary Motion

Kepler

German

1600

Sea Route to India

Vasco da Gama

Portuguese

1498

South Pole

R.Amundsen

Norway

1911

Solar System

Copernicus

Poland

1540

Suez Canal

Engineer Fardinand De Lesseps

French

1869