Giovanni da Verrazzano
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Giovanni da Verrazzano (1485 – 1528) was an Italian explorer of North America. He is known for being the first European since the Norse colonization of the Americas around 1000 to explore the East Coast of the United States between South and North Carolina and Newfoundland, including New York Harbor and Narragansett Bay in 1524.