What nationality was the discoverer of the highest mountain in Australia?

Australian

British

Polish

German

Mount Kosciuszko was named by the Polish explorer Count Paul Edmund Strzelecki in 1840, in honour of the Polish national hero Tadeusz Kościuszko, because of its perceived resemblance to the Kościuszko Mound in Krakow.

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Greece

12%

82%

Poland

11%

80%

20055

Republic of Ireland

69%

11%

Italy

16%

68%

the Netherlands

30%

67%

Thailand

20%

65%

Australia

22%

59%

118

Russia

28%

50%

14%

Germany

31%

48%

11%

368

the United Kingdom

10%

29%

46%

11%

280

France

38%

45%

the United States

11%

37%

38%

10%

708

India

22%

32%

35%

122

Switzerland

44%

33%

13%

Spain

60%

32%

Austria

48%

30%

17%

New Zealand

38%

30%

15%

Unknown

57%

28%

Canada

13%

49%

18%

19%

Mexico

23%

53%

15%

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