Early European Explorers
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[[{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left" |+ |- ! Explorers !! Country Represented !! Year of Exploration !! Journey |- | Leif Ericson || Vikings (Norway) || about 1000 || Newfoundland |- | Bartolomeu Dias || Portugal || 1487-1488 || First European to round Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa |- | Christopher Columbus || Spain || 1492 || San Salvador and West Indies |- | John Cabot || England || 1497 || Greenland, Labrador, Newfoundland |- | Vasco da Gama || Portugal || 1497-1498 || First to reach India from Europe by sea |- | Amerigo Vespucci || Spain || 1497-1502 || South America and West Indies |- | Pedro Cabral || Portugal || 1500 || Sailed around Africa to India; discovered Brazil |- | Vasco de Balboa || Spain || 1513 || First to sight Pacific Ocean |- | Ferdinand Magellan || Spain || 1509-1522 || Led first expedition to sail around the globe, but died mid way |- | Juan Ponce de Leon || Spain || 1513 || Florida |- | Hernando Cortes || Spain || 1519-1521 || Aztec kingdom of Mexico |- | Giovanni da Verrazano || France || 1524 || Eastern coast of North America |- | Panfilo de Narvaez || Spain || 1528 || Florida and Mexico |- | Francisco Pizarro || Spain || 1531 || Inca empire of Peru |- | Jacques Cartier || France || 1535 || St. Lawrence River |- | Esteban and Father Marcos || Spain || 1539 || Canada and Quebec; Zuni pueblos of New Mexico |- | Hernando DeSoto || Spain || 1539-1542 || Mississippi River, American Southeast |- | Francisco de Coronado || Spain || 1540-1542 || American Southwest |- | Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo || Spain || 1542 || California |- | Sir Francis Drake || England || 1577-1580 || Around the world |- | Samuel de Champlain || France || 1603-1609 || The Great Lakes and Quebec |- | Henry Hudson || England || 1609 || Hudson River and Hudson Bay |} ]]
