Amerigo Vespucci, he was named in honor of Amerigo Vespucci, for his discovery of the mainland of the New World.
Which discovery? Amerigo rediscovered America, but that wasn't scientific.
Amerigo Vespucci
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), the archipelago
Amerigo Vespucci
amerigo vespucci worked for the countrie Italy
Would you believe Amerigo Vespucci.
Amerigo Vespucci was a cartographer (mapmaker,) not an explorer.
He realizing Columbus discovered a New World, not the Orient; therefore, he was honored by the naming of the "New Land" after him by a German mapmaker who named the "New Land," "America."
Amerigo Vespucci had developed malaria, causing death.
Amerigo Vespucci explored a trade route to Spain.
Amerigo Vespucci