FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH EXPLORERS
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Alta California
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Another name for the Strait of Anian
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Baja California
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The Pacific Ocean
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Detailed explanation-1: -Northwest Passage, historical sea passage of the North American continent. It represents centuries of effort to find a route westward from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean through the Arctic Archipelago of what became Canada.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Northwest Passage – a water route through the islands of northern Canada connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans – a treasure that explorers had sought for centuries. The quest began as a search for a shorter shipping route between Europe and Asia.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Strait of Anián was a semi-mythical strait, documented from around 1560, that was believed by early modern cartographers to mark the boundary between North America and Asia and to permit access to a Northwest Passage from the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific.