DISCOVERY

DISCOVERER

COUNTRY

YEAR

Sea route to India

Vasco Da Gamma

Portugal

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America

Christopher Columbus

Italy

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Australia's fertile east coast

James Cook

England

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North Pole

Robert E. Peary & Mathew Henson

USA

1909

South Pole

Ronald Amundsen

Denmark

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Brazil

Pedro Alvares Cabral

Portugal

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