The Great Explorations
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- Which explorer launched the first circumnavigation expedition, completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano?
- What was the main purpose of Christopher Columbus’s voyages?
- Which explorer claimed Brazil for Portugal in 1500?
- Which Scottish explorer devoted his last African expeditions to searching for the sources of the Nile without succeeding in identifying them?
- Which of these explorers was the first to reach the South Pole?
- Which French navigator explored the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and took possession of the territory in the name of François I in 1534?
- Which explorer discovered the sea route to India by rounding the Cape of Good Hope?
- Who is considered the first European to have seen the Great Plains of America?
- Which European explorer crossed the Isthmus of Panama and sighted the Pacific Ocean in 1513?
- Which navigator popularized the name “Australia” in the early 19th century?
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