Multiple choice general knowledge history

Who discovered Australia?

  1. Eric The Red

  2. Leif Ericsson

  3. Willliam Janszoom

  4. None of these
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Willem Janszoon (misspelled as Willliam Janszoom) was a Dutch navigator who became the first recorded European to sight and map parts of the Australian coast in 1606. Eric the Red and Leif Ericsson were Norse explorers associated with Greenland and North America, not Australia.

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