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Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer. He sailed west from Spain trying to find India but ran into the Bahamas on the way. When he saw the natives there he called them Indians but little did he know he was in the Americas.
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John Cabot sailed the Eastern Shore near present day Worcester County.
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Juan Ponce De Leon explored the Florida coast.
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Ferdinand Magellan was the first explorer to circumnavigate the world.
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Giovanni da Verrazano explored the North Carolina coast to Nova Scotia, and enters New York Harbor.
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Francisco Vasquez de Coronado explored the Southwest.
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Hernando De Soto discovered the Mississippi River.
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Cabrillo explores and discovers the Californian coast.
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers San Diego Bay, California -
Tristan de Luna explores North America
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Sir Martin Frobisher explores Baffin Bay and the Hudson Strait.
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Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the world - December 13 1577 to September 26 1580
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Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe (both in the service of Sir Walter Raleigh) explore the coast of North Carolina.
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Sir Walter Raleigh established the Roanoke colony.
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Juan de Archuleta explored Colorado.
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Captain John Smith explored and founded of Jamestown.
