Giovanni Da Verrazano
Giovanni Da Verrazano was a Florentine explorer and navigator. Although he was Italian, he was employed by the kind of France to find a passage to the Pacific Ocean. The exact date of his birth and death are not known, but historians believe that he was born in 1480, and he died in 1527. In 1524, he started on a voyage and discovered Cape Fear. He is believed to have been the first European to sight the New York Bay, but it was not explored until Henry Hudson’s voyage in 1609. Verrazano also explored the North Carolina coast and he visited the Chesapeake region and then northward to Nova Scotia. In fact, he explored more of the coast, sailing his10-ton
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Sebastian Munster, Pacific Ocean, Henry Hudson, Manhattan Giovanni, Dauphine French, Verrazano Florentine, North Carolina, Nova Scotia, Henry Hudsons, Cape Fear, north carolina, pacific ocean,
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