Multiple choice general knowledge

Who discovered Australia?

  1. Eric the Red

  2. Leif Ericsson

  3. William Janszoom

  4. None of these
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C Correct answer
Explanation

William Janszoon (also spelled Janszoom) was a Dutch navigator who is credited with the first recorded European landing on Australian soil in 1606. Eric the Red and Leif Ericsson were associated with Greenland and North America, not Australia.

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