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1000
Leif Erickson: Sponsored by the country of Scandinavia
Land on the northern coast of North America, which is in present day Canada. -
1497
John Cabot
Cabot laned on the coast of present-day Newfoundland and he was sent to look for a northern sea route to Asia in 1497. -
1524
Giovanni de Varrazano
Verrazano explored the coast of North America from present-day nova Scotia down to the Carolinas.