Major Geographical Discoveries

Discovery	Year	Discoverer
America	1492	Christopher Columbus
Brazil	1500	Pedro Alvarez Cabral
Greenland	-	Eric the Red
Island of Tasmania	1642	Abel Tasman
Newfoundland	1497	John Cabot
New Zealand	1642	Abel Tasman
North Pole	1909	Robert Peary
Pacific Ocean	1513	Vasco N. Balboa
Planetary Motion	1600	Johannes Kepler
Sandwich Island (Hawaii)	1770	Captain Cook
Sea Route to India	1498	Vasco da Gama
Cape of Good Hope	1488	Bartholomeu Diaz
Solar System	1540	Copernicus
South Pole	1911	Roald Amundsen
Victoria Falls	1855	David Livingstone
Australia	1606	Willem Janszoon
St. Lawrence River	1534	Jacques Cartier
Magellan Strait	1519	Ferdinand Magellan
Hawaii	1778	James Cook
Antarctic Mainland	1820	Edward Bransfield
Source of the Nile	1858	John H. Speke