Discovery of the Americas
- Discovery of the Americas
The discovery 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, who landed in North America (Newfoundland, Canada) around 1005.
* Christopher Columbus, whose famous first voyage in 1492 had dramatic consequences for both the New World and the Old.
* Other European explorers during the "Age of Discovery" (see European colonization of the Americas).
* Various unproven voyagers: see Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact.
ee also
* History of the Americas
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