Christofor Columb - Spanish navigator Christopher Columbus Italian origin, in 1492, Europeans discovered America. Columbus is the first authentically famous travelers crossed the Atlantic in subtropical and tropical swath of the northern hemisphere and the first Europeans walked into the Caribbean Sea. He initiated the study of South and Central America. He opened all the Greater Antilles is the central part of the Bahamian Islands, Lesser Antilles (Dominica and Virgin Islands including), as well as a number of small islands in the Caribbean Sea and the island of Trinidad off the coast of South America. The discoverer of America Columbus can be called with reservations, as in middle ages in North America visited by Europeans in the face of Icelandic Vikings (see Vinland). Because outside Scandinavia information about these campaigns, the expedition made the first Columbus lands in the West, public domain and initiated the colonization of America by Europeans.
