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Marco polo
China and/or India.
Wisconsin was discovered by Jean Nicolet in 1634, while looking for the Northwest Passage to China.
Ferdinand Magellan
The European explorer who discovered the Philippines and claimed them for King Philip II of Spain was Ferdinand Magellan in 1521. Magellan's expedition marked the beginning of Spanish colonization in the Philippines.
He was the first European Explorer. But Marco Polo was from China and traveled to Italy must before Magellan.
Henry Hudson.
The Bering Strait is named after the Danish explorer Vitus Bering, who was the first European to explore the strait in 1728 on an expedition for the Russian Navy.
Abel Janszoon Tasman was the Dutch explorer who first discovered New Zealand but he did not set foot on land there.
Marco Polo was an explorer from,Venice Italy and was the first person to travel to Mongolia and China. (Cool huh? actually i discovered China)
It is not known who actually discovered the Great Sandy Desert, but the first European explorer to cross it was Colonel Peter Warburton, who did so in 1873.
Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese explorer sailing for Spain, is credited with discovering the Philippines in 1521 during his expedition to find a western route to the Spice Islands.