Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov is published. In 2001, the novel would be one of two books by Nabokov to be on the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.
... to colonize Vinland
George Everest, (1790-1866)
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Matthew Flinders, (1774-1814), first to circumnavigate Australia and Tasmania, extensively charted the coastline ...