Christopher Columbus believed that he was traveling to India to trade with the Indians. People at that time had no idea that there was another continent in between Europe and Asia.
Europe
Europe.
On his Third Voyage in 1498 Columbus first explored any mailand, this time that of South America. On his fourth voyage, begun on May 11, 1502, he explored the mainland of Central America which is on the North American continent.
Columbus landed on the American continent in Honduras
Christopher Columbus
there was another continent out there.
Europe, Spain.
He didn't because he never got to the continent. He was only in the Bahamas.
Probably the continent of Heaven, seeing he died in 1506.
When Columbus visited the Americas, he thought he had reached Asia.
Amerigo (or Americo) Vespucci. He realised that Columbus had in fact landed on a new continent. America was named after Vespucci :)