Statistics for Early Explorers

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Years (of Exploration)	Country From	Region Exploring	Explorer	% Correct
1492	Republic of Genoa (Italy)	New World	Christopher Columbus	96%
1519-1522	Portugal	Circumnavigation	Ferdinand Magellan	81%
1520-1621	Crown of Castille (Spain)	Aztec Empire	Hernán Cortés	81%
1768-1779	England	Australia and Oceania	James Cook	80%
1497-1499	Portugal	Around Africa to India	Vasco de Gama	70%
1609-1611	England	Hudson River and Bay	Henry Hudson	67%
1577-1580	England	Circumnavigation	Sir Francis Drake	67%
1804-1806	United States	Pacific Northwest	Meriwether Lewis	63%
1804-1806	United States	Pacific Northwest	William Clark	63%
1840-1873	Scotland	African Interior	David Livingstone	57%
1584 and 1587	England	North Carolina	Sir Walter Raleigh	52%
1513	Spain	Florida	Juan Ponce de León	41%
1874-1877	United Kingdom	African Interior	Henry Morton Stanley	37%
1513	Spain	Pacific Ocean	Vasco Nunez de Balboa	25%
1535	France	St. Lawrence River	Jacques Cartier	23%
1488	Portugal	Around Africa to India	Bartolomeu Dias	14%
1806-1807	United States	Great Plains and Rocky Mountains	Zebulon Pike	10%
1799-1804	Germany	Latin America	Alexander Von Humboldt	9%
1592	England	Falkland Islands	John Davis	3%