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Italian navigator, John Cabot is believed to have been the first European to reach the North American mainland, in the year 1497. He is believed to have landed on the island of Newfoundland. Cabot sailed under the sponsorship of England.

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Christopher Columbus never really found North America. He found an island in the Caribbean, and the whole time he thought he was in the Indies. Amerigo Vespucci is the first explorer who actually came up with the idea it was more than an island. That is why the Americas are named after him.

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The Viking explorer Leif Ericson is believed to have reached northern North America around 1000 AD. The first documented arrival of Europeans in the Americas was by Christopher Columbus (an Italian sailing for Spain) in 1492.

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The last explorer to claim land in North America was Marco Polo.

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the explorer who gave its first claim to north america


the answer is John Cabot '' for a+''

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in 10,00 B.C people from Siberia crossed the barring straight during the last ice age or they were Asians

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