Tenochtitlán
(Mexico City)
St. Augustine
Jamestown
Plymouth
Santa Fe
Veracruz Santo Domingo
ENGLAND
SPAIN
PORTUGAL
FRANCE
CUBA
HISPANIOLA
CANARY
ISLANDS
MADEIRA
ICELAND
GREENLAND
NORTH
AMERICA
SOUTH
AMERICA
AFRICA
EUROPE
Columbus 1492Verrazzano 1524
Cartier 1534–35
Cabot 1497
Hudson 1609
Hudson
(^1610)
Balboa
1510–13
Pizarro
1530–33
Ponce de León
1512–13
Cort
és^1519
Vespucci
1499
Colum
bus^1
502 –
Colu 03
mbus
1493
-^95
Ma
ge
lla
n^1
51
9
Ca
br
al
15
00
Cabrillo
1542–43
Coronado
1540–42
Cabeza de Vaca
1535–36
LaSa
lle^16
M 82
arq
uet
te^16
73
De Soto
1539–42
Smith^1
606 –^07 ,M
ayflower^1620
Colu
mbu
s (^14)
(^98)
Ma
ge
llan
'sC
rew
(^152)
2
Magellan (^1519)
ATLANTIC
OCEAN
PACIFIC
OCEAN
Gulf
of Mexico
Hudson
Bay
Caribbean Sea
120 ̊ W
40 ̊W 0 ̊
80 ̊W
40 ̊ N
40 ̊ S
0 ̊ Equator
Spanish
Explorers’ Routes
French
English
Portuguese
Dutch
0
0
1,000 Miles
2,000 Kilometers
European Exploration of the Americas, 1492–1682
GEOGRAPHY SKILLBUILDER: Interpreting Maps
1.MovementHow many different voyages did Columbus make to the Americas?
2.RegionWhich general region did the Spanish and Portuguese explore? Where did the
English, Dutch, and French explore?
The Atlantic World 555