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History of Firsts #3 - European Exploration

Name all these first European people to do the following..
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discover the Azores (1427)
Diogo de Silves
round the Cape of Good Hope (1488)
Bartolomeu Dias
Reach India via Africa (1498)
Vasco de Gama
discover the Caribbean (1492)
Christopher Columbus
Discover Papua New Guinea (1526)
Don Jorge de Meneses
reach the South Pole (1911)
Roald Amundsen
Circumnavigate the globe (1520)
Ferdinand Magellan
discover New Zealand (1642)
Abel Tasman
discover Australia (1606)
Willem Janzoon
discover Brazil (1500)
Pedro Alvares Cabral
discover Samoa (1722)
Jacob Roggeveen
discover Antartica (1820)
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen
walk the length of the Amazon (2010)
Edward Stafford
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Level 77
Dec 10, 2020
Great quiz. Nominated. Why do so few people know who discovered Australia and Antarctica whilst nearly everyone knows who discovered America?
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Level 30
Dec 10, 2020
Thanks! It's a common misconception that Cook discovered Australia and most primary educational facilities just run with it. I honestly don't know how that happened. As for the rest i can't say. American-centralism?