List of Geographical Discoveries in the World

Discovery		Discoverer
» America	-	Christopher Columbus (Italian)	Christopher Columbus (Italian)
» Brazil	-	Pedro Alvarez Cabral (Portuguese)
» Cape of Good Hope	-	Bartholomew Diaz (Portuguese)
» China	-	Marco Polo	Marco Polo
» Greenland	-	Norseman Eric
» Hudson Bay	-	Henry Hudson
» Island of Tasmania & New Zealand	-	Tasman (Dutch)
» Lake Tanganyika	-	Richard Francis Burton
» New Foundland	-	John Cabot
» Nigeria river in Africa	-	Mungo park
» North America	-	Leif Ericsson	Robert Peary (USA)
» North Pole	-	Robert Peary (USA)
» Taoism	-	Lao Tse
» Planets	-	Kepler
» Sandwich (Hawaiin) Islands	-	Captian Cook (British)	Vasco da Gama (Portuguese)
» Sea route to India	-	Vasco da Gama (Portuguese)
» South Pole	-	Amundsun (Norway)
» Suez Canal	-	Ferdinand de Lesseps (Designed)
» Victoria Falls	-	David Livingstone (British)