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The first known explorer to land in the Americas was Leif Erikson, a Norse explorer from Iceland. He is believed to have reached the shores of what is now Newfoundland, Canada, around the year 1000 AD, nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus's voyages. Erikson and his crew established a settlement called Vinland, which is thought to have been located near present-day L'Anse aux Meadows.
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Who was the first explorer to claim land in the Americas?
coroondo
What is the orgin of the word America?
America comes from the name Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer who was one of the first the believe the Americas were not India, but a new land entirely.
The land bridge that connected the Americas to Asia was known as?
beringia
How did people first come to live in the Americas?
they came across a ice-land bridge from Asia
The explorer who gave England its first claim to land in North America?
John Cabot
Who was the first explorer to claim land in the Americas?
coroondo
Who was the first explorer to claim land in the Americas for Spain?
coroondo
Who explored the land that connects the Americas and become the first Spanish explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean.?
Who explored the land that connects the Americas and become the first Spanish explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean.
Who explored the land that connects the Americas and become the first Spanish explorer to reach the pacific ocean?
Who explored the land that connects the Americas and become the first Spanish explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean.
What did the explorer Leif Ericsson accomplish?
He was the first European to land in the Americas.
Who explored the land that connects Americas and became the first explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean?
Vasco Nuñez de Balboa crossed Panama in 1513, becoming the first European known to have seen the Pacific from the Americas.
Who explored land that connects the Americas and became the first Spanish explorer to reach the pacific ocean.?
Vasco Nuñez de Balboa crossed Panama in 1513, becoming the first European known to have seen the Pacific from the Americas.
Who explored the land that connects the Americas and became the first Spanish explorer to reached the pacific ocean?
Vasco Nuñez de Balboa crossed Panama in 1513, becoming the first European known to have seen the Pacific from the Americas.
What Spanish explorer searched for wealth and land in the Americas?
vasco nunez de balboa was trying to look for gold in the americas.
Who is a person who tries to find new land?
an explorer. christopher Columbus for example, who was the first European to reach the Americas.
Who was the first explorer to reach new land?
A lot of people think it was Christopher Columbus but it was really Leif Ericson who was the first European to reach the New World. He was a Viking explorer and it is not known when he landed but he set out in 1003 and later returned back to Europe.
By what way were first known settlers to the Americas believed to have traveled?
Land bridge
