Important Discoveries (World)
Important Discoveries (World)
Important Discoveries (World)
Roald Amundsen (Norway): First person to reach South Pole (December 14, 1911).
Robert Peary (America) First person to reach Geographical North Pole (April 6, 1909).
Christopher Columbus (Italy): Found Western Islands (in 1492), South America (1498), a western route to Indies (Asia).
John Cabot (Italy): Discovered Newfoundland (1497) and Coast of North America.
Captain James Cook (England): Discovered Hawaii Islands (January 18, 1778).
Nicolaus Copernicus (Poland): Established that the planets orbited the sun rather than the Earth (1540).
Ferdinand de Lesseps (France): Developer of Suez Canal (1869).
Johannes Kepler (Germany) : Discovered the major three laws of Planetary motion (1600).
Charles Lindbergh (America): At age 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize: making a nonstop flight from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York to Paris, France. He covered the 33 1/2-hour, 3,600 statute miles (5,800 km) alone in a single-engine purpose-built Ryan monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis. This was the first solo transatlantic flight and the first non-stop flight between North America and mainland Europe.
Vasco da Gama (Portugal) : First European to reach India by sea (via Cape of Good Hope). He arrived at Calicut (now Kozhikode) in May 1498.
Bartolomeu Dias (Portugal) : The first European to reach ‘Cape of Good Hope’ (12 March, 1488) and hamed it “Cabo das Tormentas” (i.e., Cape of Storms).
Fridtjof Nansen (Norway) : Discovery of Greenland and Mountains of North Pole (1888).
Ferdinand Magellan (Portugal) : First person to travel around the world through sea discovered and named the Pacific Ocean (1520).
Abel Tasman (Dutch) : First European Traveller to discover New Zealand (1642) and Australia (1644).
Jacques Cartier (France) : First European to map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and discovered Canada (1534-1542).
Hernan Cortes (Spain) : Discovered Mexico (1519).
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