Founded by Christopher Columbus during his second voyage in 1493, La Isabela was the first formal European settlement in the New World. This was after discovering that the fort of La Navidad, which he had constructed during his first trip, had been totally destroyed by the native Taino aborigines. Christopher Columbus (Genoa?, Italy, 1451? – Valladolid, Spain, May 20, 1506) was a navigator and maritime explorer credited as the discoverer of the Americas. ... La Navidad was the colony Columbus and his men and some help from Guacanagari built in 1492. ... The Taíno are the pre-Hispanic Amerindian inhabitants of the Greater Antilles, which includes Cuba, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Puerto Rico, Jamaica and the Bahamas. ...

Later discoveries proved that the Vikings had established a settlement in the province of Newfoundland, Canada, under the leadership of Leif Erikson in the 11th century. However, this settlement was abandoned shortly aterwards due most likely to fighting with the Beothuk tribe, Canada would not be settled again until John Cabot's landing in 1497, which was subsequently destroyed. The name Viking is a loan from the native Scandinavian term for the Norse seafaring warriors who raided the coasts of Scandinavia, Europe and the British Isles from the late 8th century to the 11th century, the period of European history referred to as the Viking Age. ... A statue of Leif Ericson in front of the Hallgrímskirkja in Reykjavik Leif Ericson (old Icelandic: Leifr Eiríksson) was an explorer, the son of Eric the Red (Eiríkr rauði), a Norwegian outlaw, who was the son of another Norwegian outlaw, Þorvaldr Ásvaldsson. ... Beothuk The Beothuks were the native inhabitants of the island of Newfoundland at the time of European contact in the 15th and 16th centuries. ... Giovanni Caboto (c. ...