Question

Which is called the Dark Continent?

• A. Africa
• B. Australia
• C. Greenland
• D. South America

Answer 1

The correct option is A Africa

• During the middle of the 19th century, Africa was referred to as the "Dark Continent," because little was known about the mysterious land itself.
  
• The term "Dark Continent" was most likely used for the first time by United States explorer and journalist Henry Stanley.
  
• The reason was that very little was known about Africa - other that its external borders until the Scramble for Africa. Livingstone and other explorers in the middle to late 19th Century "discovered" and mapped internal Africa.