Giovanni da Verrazzano

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Giovanni da Verrazzano (c. 1485 – c. 1528) was an Italian explorer of North America, in the service of the French crown. He is renowned as the first European to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between South Carolina and Newfoundland, including New York Harbor and Narragansett Bay, in 1524.

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Discoverer, adventurer, voyager, Giovanni da Verrazzano, italian new world explorer, traveler

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Famous People: U-V, Famous People: Explorers

Source

Benson John Lossing, ed. Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (vol. 10) (New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1912)

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