Article: Finding America: tracing the Erikson and Columbus trail.

M2 PRESSWIRE-8 October 2009-SkyScanner: Finding America: tracing the Erikson and Columbus trail(C)1994-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS

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Put on your captain's cap and get ready to discover new lands, as travel site Skyscanner (www.Skyscanner.net) tracks the maiden voyages of Erikson and Columbus to the New World in celebration of Erikson and Columbus day.

Leif Erikson and Christopher Columbus were the first, or among the first, Europeans to set foot on North American land.

Erikson arrived in North America about half a millennium earlier than Columbus, but the news of his discovery did not spread throughout Europe as Columbus' ...

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