Bering Dezhynov's report on the voyage was not noticed until after Danish captain Vitus Bering, after whom the Strait was then named, sailed through the Strait 80 years later, in 1728.
Leif Ericson, a Norse explorer regarded as the first European to land in North America before Christopher Columbus, established a settlement at Vinland, which has been tentatively identified as being where?
When the Dutch seafarer, explorer, and merchant Abel Tasman set sail in 1642 under instructions from the Dutch East India Company, what places (as they are now known) did he record as having visited and having been the first European to do so?
