Loads of Native Americas for the last ten thousand years...but you probably are after the European who did it in 1600s over and over again and who established several forts where there are now cities (like MOntreal, Canada). That guy was Samuel Champlaine, a Frenchman. There a big lake in New England that bears his name.
Jaques Cartier french explorator 1539
Jacques Cartier
Jacques Cartier sailed and discovered the St. Lawrence River.
Jacques Cartier sailed and discovered the St. Lawrence River.
St.Lawrence river connects and drains the Great Lakes . It is the busiest inland waterway of the world It allows large ocean-going vessels from the Atlantic to reach the interior of America . The Mississippi River is navigable up to St.Louis and is also connected by canals to the Great Lakes. Thus opening up the interior of the vast American continent and establishing important river ports.
Henry Hudson
It was polluted by people and then they cleand it up. First it was discovered by Henry Hudson.
yes, but Verrazano discovered it first
Henry Hudson was exploring the New World to locate among other things, a passage to the Far East. He traveled up a large river later known the Hudson River. The river was named after him. Upon sailing up this river he discovered that it was not a passage to the far east.
The Saukiogs (Black Earth) occupied the Hartford area before Europeans arrived. The Dutch were the first Europeans to settle in or near Hartford Connecticut. The area was discovered by Adriaen Block, a Dutch explorer when sailing up the Connecticut River.
A river system is made up of a river and its tributaries. It also has the river's mouths and deltas.
Hume and Hovell were the first white men to sight and name the "Hume River", though it was later renamed by Sturt as the Murray River. they were the first to sight the Australian Alps, and they also discovered a number of rivers, including the Kiewa River, Mitta Mitta River, Ovens River, King River, Broken River and Goulburn River. The two explorers also discovered an overland route from Sydney to Port Phillip Bay. Much later, when it was built as a highway, it was named in honour of Hume, being an Australian-born explorer.