It was not an explorer that coined the term 'New World', it was actually the Spanish scholar Peter Martyr d'Anghiera who first coined the term 'New World' (novi orbis) in a letter dated November 1st, 1492 in which he referred to Columbus first voyage to America
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Danish explorer working for Russia was the last country to send an explorer to the new world. Vitus J. Bering reached American lands in 1741.
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England
yeah...like new England. hence the Hudson river/Hudson bay.
lief ericson or...christopher columbus?