Jacques Cartier
The first European to have sailed past Fiji was by Abel Tasman, a Dutch Explorer in 1643. source: http://www.fijituwawa.com/history.shtml
Magellan was an explorer born in Portugal, but sailed for Spain. He was the first European explorer to circumnavigate the world. He named the Pacific Ocean Pacific. Balboa was a Spanish explorer who first sailed the Isthmus of Panama and claimed it for Spain. He was the first to see, not cross, the Pacific Ocean which at that time was called the Ocean Sea.
Bartholomew Dias was a Portuguese explorer who sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first European known to have done so.
Bartolomeu Dias sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, reaching the Indian Ocean from the Atlantic, the first European known to have done so.
He traveled by a ship called the Dauphine.
Bartolomeu Dias or Bartholomew Diaz was a Portuguese explorer who sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first European to have done so.
The first European explorer was Marco Polo.
Giovanni da Verrazano sailed the Atlantic coast of North America in 1524. He was the first European to explore the Atlantic coast of North America since the Norse.
Pedro Cabral
Hernando De Soto was the first known European Explorer in Mississippi. Sieur de La Salle a French explorer was the first to travel down the Mississippi River in 1682. La Salle claimed the Mississippi Valley for France on April 9, 1682.
Henry Hudson was there in 1609 but the 1497 John Cabot Expediton was probably the first European visitation.Henry Hudson was the first European to explore the Delaware region.
The first European explorer was Marco Polo.