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| In 1497 Italian navigator John Cabot sailed from England to North America to find a Northwest Passage to Asia. Cabot explored the coasts of present-day Labrador and Newfoundland, becoming the first European to sight the land since the Vikings about 500 years earlier. Cabot’s voyage came on the heels of Christopher Columbus’s first two voyages to the Caribbean in 1492 and 1493. | ||||||
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| Exploration, Geographic; Polar Exploration; Cabot, John | ||||||
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