Explorers and travelers
Strzelecki and Kapuscinski.Due to the countrys location in the Mediterranean, our sailors has not suffered significant success in times of great discoveries Geography. This does not mean, however, that we cannot boast of them. With the largest Polish discoverer is generally considered to traveling the world in the nineteenth century, Edmund Strzelecki - explorer of the Americas and Australia. On the latter continent is treated almost as a national hero, and his name was called, inter alia, the mountains, lake, town, river, wilderness, nature reserve, as well as in Canada and the Bay National Park and the peaks on Flinders Island. He also called the highest mountain top Kościuszki Australia - so is called the national park surrounding it. Out twentieth largest Polish travelers enjoyed a reputation of course, Ryszard Kapuscinski, whose books such as emperor or Heban - reports from exotic countries, describing the lives of their inhabitants and the state of everyday life, were international bestseller.