FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
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Pacific Ocean
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Caribbean Sea
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Atlantic Ocean
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Hudson River
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Detailed explanation-1: -On October 12, 1492, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus made landfall in what is now the Bahamas. Columbus and his ships landed on an island that the native Lucayan people called Guanahani.
Detailed explanation-2: -Christopher Columbus landed on the island in 1492 and named it La Isla Española (Hispaniola in its Anglicized form).
Detailed explanation-3: -Caribbean Sea, Arm of the Atlantic Ocean. It covers about 1, 063, 000 sq mi (2, 753, 000 sq km) and washes the northern coast of South America, eastern Central America, and eastern Mexico.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Caribbean is home to thirteen sovereign island nations: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago (on the continental shelf of South America).