Christopher Columbus
sailed from Spain; Bahamas, Hispaniola; 1492-1502
Prince Henry
sailed from Portugal; West African coast, Madeira Islands; 1415
Bartholomeu Dias
sailed from Portugal; Cape of Good Hope on the southernmost tip of South Africa; 1488
Vasco Da Gama
sailed from Portugal; Calicut, India; 1498
Amerigo Vespucci
Italian that sailed from Spain; South America, Amazon River; 1499; America is derived from his name
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
conquistador; sailed from Spain; South Sea, Columbia, Isthmus of Panama; 1510-1513
Hernan Cortes
sailed from Spain; Cuba to the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, conquered Aztec Empire; 1519-1521
Bartolome De las Casas
sailed from Spain; priest that wrote journals about Columbus' journies to the Bahamas, Hispaniola, and Cuba; 1500's
Juan Pontes de Leon
sailed from Spain; governor of Puerto Rico; Florida; 1513
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
sailed from Spain; Florida, Texas, Mexico, City of Gold; 1527-1555
Hernan de Sota
sailed from Spain; claimed Mississippi; searched for the City of Gold in Florida; 1539-1542
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
sailed from Spain; claimed the Grand Canyon; New Mexico and southeastern US to Kansas; City of Gold; 1540-1542
Jean Ribault
sailed from France; Florida, Fort Carolina in South Carolina; St. John's River in Jacksonville Florida; 1562-1565
Don Pedro Menendez Aviles
sailed from Spain; St. Augustine, Florida; 1565
John Cabot
sailed from England; Northwest Passage, Newfoundland; 1497
Giovanni de Verrazano
sailed from France; Hudson River, Carolinas, Newfoundland, New York, Cape Cod; 1524
Walter Raleigh
sailed from England; Roanoke; City of Gold (El Dorado); 1570's
Pedro Cabral
sailed from Portugal; founded Brazil; reached Calicut, India; 1500
Jaque Cartier
sailed from France; St. Lawrence River; 1534-1542