Recorded discoveries
World Heritage Sites connected to 'Recorded discoveries':
Angkor Henry Mouhot (French) is credited with 'discovering' it in 1860 although many other Westerners had visited the site before him. He certainly popularised it in the West. Borobudur Temple Compounds H.C. Cornelius (Dutch) on a mission sponsored by Sir Thomas Raffles in 1814Canaima National Park Angel Falls Jimmy Angel (American) - 1933 (by air - first visited 1937)Gough and Inaccessible Islands Goncalo Alvarez (Portuguese) 1505/6Grand Canyon Garcia Lopez de Cardenas (Spanish) 1540Henderson Island Pedro Fernandes de Queiros (Portuguese) 1606Iguacu Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (Spanish) 1541Iguazu National Park Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (Spanish) 1541Kilimanjaro National Park 1848Machu Picchu Hiram J Bingham (American) 1911Macquarie Island F Hasselborough (Australian) 1810Moenjodaro Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay (Indian) 1922Mount Kenya J Krapf (German) 1849 (First climbed 1899) Petra Johann Ludwig Burkhardt (Swiss) 1812Rapa Nui Jacob Roggeveen (Dutch) on Easter Sunday 1722Troy Charles Maclaren (Scottish) 1822 established the area, Frank Calvert (English) 1850's-60's did early excavations , Charles Schliemann 1870's provided "proof"Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park In October 1872 the explorer Ernest Giles was the first non-indigenous person to sight Kata Tjuṯa.Victoria Falls David Livingstone (Scottish) 1855Wrangel Island 1st landing (US Ship) 1881Yellowstone John Colter (American - Lewis + Clarke Expedition) 1807
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