 |
 Explorers in a New
Land |
 Major
Explorations of the Americas |
 Leif
Ericson is believed to have led the
first "white" expedition to America,
from Iceland, about 1000. |
 Vasco Núñez de Balboa
became the first European to see the Pacific
Ocean from its eastern shore in 1513. |
 Gaspar Corte-Real
made two voyages to America on behalf of Portugal
in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. |
 Hernando de Soto
led the first European expedition to sight the
Mississippi River, in 1541. |
 Francisco Vásquez de
Coronado led an expedition through
the American Southwest and Midwest to search for
the fabled kingdoms of Cibola and Quivira; he was
sorely disappointed. |
 Amerigo Vespucci
is best known for establishing that the lands
discovered by Columbus were part of a whole new
continent, and for "lending" his name
to those lands -- "America." |
 John
Cabot made three voyages to America
on behalf of England in search of a Northwest
Passage. |
 Henry
Hudson discovered the Hudson River,
Hudson Bay, and Hudson Strait while attempting to
find the Northwest Passage. |
