10 Interesting Fact About World exploration and discoveries
10 Interesting Fact About World exploration and discoveries
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Before exploration by Europeans, the Vikings had explored North America in the 10th century.
Christopher Columbus actually did not find America, but landed in Bahamas in 1492.
Marco Polo, Italian explorer, is known to have visited China for 17 years in the 13th century and brought back various interesting items and stories.
James Cook, British explorer, has made three trips to the southern Pacific and found Easter Island, Hawaii Island, and Cook Islands.
In the 16th century, the Portuguese had controlled the spice trade route, especially cloves and pepper, from Asia to Europe.
Dutch explorer, Willem Janszoon, was the first European to set foot in Australia in 1606.
Lewis and Clark are the famous American explorer duo for carrying out an expedition across the North American from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean in the early 19th century.
Charles Darwin, a British naturalist, traveled around the world on the HMS Beagle ship in 1831-1836 and produced the theory of evolution.
Ernest Shackleton, British explorer, led the space expedition in 1914 and managed to save all crews after his ship was trapped in ES for 2 years.
Neil Armstrong, an American Astronaut, became the first person to set foot in the moon in 1969 during the Apollo 11 mission.
