Columbus was the first European to set foot on the American continents,though they were named for geographer Amerigo Vespucci.

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While Columbus was among the first Europeans to reach the Americas, he was not the first. Norse explorers had reached North America centuries earlier. Additionally, the continents were not named for Vespucci; rather, it was the cartographer Martin Waldseemüller who suggested naming them after Vespucci, who had explored the coast of South America.

Columbus Was the First European to Set Foot on the American