John Scolvus
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John Scolvus or John of Kolno may have been a navigator of the late 15th century. According to some sources he was among a group of early Europeans to reach the shores of the Americas prior to Columbu
John Scolvus as depicted by a statue from modern times in Szczecin, Poland with the name rendered in Polish as Jan z Kolna.
João Vaz Corte-Real
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João Vaz Corte-Real was a Portuguese sailor, claimed by some accounts to have been an explorer of a land called Terra Nova do Bacalhau, speculated to possibly have been a part of North America. These
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…evidence, the fleet was commanded by two Baltic sailors and pirate hunters, Didrik Pining and Hans Pothorst and possibly also included the Portuguese João Vaz Corte-Real on one of the journeys. It has been claimed that from the Western coast of Greenland they may have reached the North American mainland. The story cannot…
Statue of João Vaz Corte-Real on display at the Museu de Angra do Heroísmo, Azores