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Who and when discovered the source of the Amazon River?

Samuel Fritz, 1700
Ignacy Domeyko, 1882
Edmund Bielawski, 1961
Jacek Palkiewicz, 1996
Jacek Pałkiewicz is a Polish journalist, traveler and explorer. He is best known for his 1996 expedition to the Andes, which indisputably established the source of the Amazon River to be the Kiwicha snowfield at the feet of Mismi in the Peruvian Andes.
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Samuel Fritz, 1700
Ignacy Domeyko, 1882
Edmund Bielawski, 1961
Jacek Palkiewicz, 1996
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Okavango river is famous for its biologically rich delta. What is the river's outlet?

Guinea Bay
Indian Ocean
Red Sea
It doesn't have an outlet to the sea

Where is the Kwai river?

in China
in Thailand
in Vietnam
in Cambodia

Where is the Scamander river? (known from the Iliad)

in Greece
in Bulgaria
in Cyprus
in Turkey

Which country was ruled by Rafael Trujillo?

Nicaragua
Panama
Dominican Republic
Venezuela