West Indies
England
The distance from New York City to Raleigh, North Carolina is 490 miles. It would take about eight hours to drive there by car.
They "found" it so it was new to them, but not to the Natives living there.
Spain was interested in claiming land in the New Wolrd because the New World had many tresures, lots of land, and mostly gold
to discover new flora and fauna
In 1876 he discovered Maryland new Hampshire and Delaware
Walter Raleigh
no
=He was an explorer. He found The New World or America.=
Sir Walter Raleigh
yes
Sir Walter Raleigh
maryland virginia and new hamshire
Ralegh never came to the New World (what is now known as the USA). He sponsored several colonization attempts but never came here himself.
The Virginia Colony
Sir Walter Raleigh sponsored the first English colony in America on Roanoke Island in 1585, but it ultimately failed and became known as the "Lost Colony" as all its inhabitants mysteriously disappeared. Raleigh never discovered what happened to the settlers.
He got there because he was cool