Exploring northeastern America

Prologue: who found it?

Leif Ericson: in the days of the Vikings (c. 1000)

John Cabot: changing the map of Canada (1496-98)

Giovanni da Verrazano: mapping the east coast (1524-28)

Martin Frobisher: looking for the passage west (1576-78)

Humphrey Gilbert and the almost colony (1578-83)

John Davis: a path through the Arctic (1585-87)

Henry Hudson and the four voyages (1607-11)

Epilogue: what did they find?

Important events in the exploration of northeastern America

Major dates in the search for the Northwest Passage.