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The Americas are pretty remote, all things considered. Almost all sailing voyages at the time stayed near the coast in case things went wrong. The Vikings followed a series of islands from Britain to Iceland, Iceland to Greenland, and eventually reached Canada.
Whatever else you say about Columbus, his journey to the Caribbean was revolutionary, because it was straight across with no stops and no safety margin should anything go wrong.
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