Chapter 10 Test Flashcards
Explorer who named the Solomon Islands
Mendana
Navigator who accompanied Mendana
Quiros
Claimed Tahiti for France
Bougainville
First governor of Australia
Phillip
Found a passage through the Great Dividing Range
Blaxland
Missionary to Papua New Guinea
Chalmers
Discovered the Hawaiian Islands
Cook
Proved it was possible to travel from Peru to the Pacific Islands
Heyerdahl
The First Fleet that sailed to Australia held more __________ than freemen
prisoners
Europeans brought these to the Pacific Islands
diseases
The largest of the Oceanic Islands
New Guinea
Spanish explorers such as Mendana treated those they met with this
hostility
His belief that the Southern Hemisphere contained a large land affected exploration
Ptolemy
Why did Spanish exploration end?
Spain could no longer fund major explorations
He discovered the Hawaiian Islands
Cooks