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He discovered the famed Northwest Passage
The New World is named after Amerigo Vespucci. Hence, North America and South America.
America was named after Amerigo Vespucci
Leif Erickson named America because he found it so he named it . He named it New found land .
The cartographer who named the New World was Martin Waldseemüller. He named it "America" in honor of Amerigo Vespucci, who was an early explorer of the region.
It was named after Jersey, England. When English immigrants came over to America, they named it New Jersey after their homeland.
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North and South America were named after him; he realized that they were not part of Asia.
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In 1507, named after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, the "New World" had been replaced with it's new name America.
The new lands were named after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer and cartographer who realized that Columbus had discovered a new continent and not Asia. This realization led to the naming of the continent "America" in his honor.