Discoverer |
Place |
Nationality |
Year |
| Columbus | America | Italian | 1492 |
| Vasco da Gama | Sea route to India | Portuguese | 1498 |
| Pedro Alvares Cabral | Brazil | Portuguese | 1500 |
| Abel Janszoon Tasman | New Zealand | Dutch | 1642 |
| James Cook | Hawaii Island | English | 1778 |
| Robert Peary | North Pole | U.S.A. | 1909. |
| R.Amundsen | South Pole | Norwegian | 1911 |