Discoverer of the Americas
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The role of discoverer of the Americas is variously attributed to the following people, depending on context and definition:
- Indigenous peoples of the Americas, the first people to live in the Americas (see Paleo-Indians, Clovis Culture, Models of migration to the New World, Solutrean hypothesis, Pre-Siberian American Aborigines);
- Vikings (see Norse colonization of the Americas, Vinland) such as:
- Gunnbjörn Ulfsson, who first sighted islands off Greenland, probably in the early 900s
- Bjarni Herjólfsson, who sighted mainland North America (Labrador, Canada) around 986
- Leif Eriksson, a Norsemen born in Iceland, said to have landed in North America (Newfoundland, Canada).
- Christopher Columbus, leader of the first verified Old World expedition since the Vikings;
- Various unproven voyagers including:
- Saint Brendan
- Zheng He
- Prince Madoc
- Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney
- Many others (see Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact)
- other European explorers during the "Age of Discovery" (see European colonization of the Americas).
[edit] See also
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