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Who is credited to have discovered the West Indies?
1. Captain Cook
2. John Chavot
3. Henry Hudson
4. Columbus

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Correct Answer - Option 4 : Columbus

The correct answer is Columbus.

  • Christopher Columbus became the first European to record his arrival at the West Indies islands in 1492.
  • The West Indies is a subregion of North America.
  • The West Indies surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean.
  • With garrisons established in Puerto Rico (1508), Jamaica (1509), and Cuba (1515), to add to their first secure base in Hispaniola, the Spanish control all the large islands of the Caribbean.
  • It includes 13 independent island countries and 18 dependencies and other territories in three major archipelagos are following:-
    • The Greater Antilles 
    • The Lesser Antilles
    • The Lucayan Archipelago

  • Christopher Columbus was an Italian navigator and explorer who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean.
  • Christopher Columbus opening the way for European exploration and colonization of the Americas. 
  • Columbus made three further voyages to the New World, exploring the Lesser Antilles in 1493, Trinidad and the northern coast of South America in 1498, and the eastern coast of Central America in 1502.

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