- North America is completely located in the Northern and Western hemispheres, stretching almost 7 thousand km from north to south, has a heavily dissected coastline. Its closest neighboring continents are Eurasia and South America. The first of the Europeans reached the northern coasts of North America, the Normans in the 10th century, but information about their voyages was forgotten for a long time. The mastering and colonization of the continent by Europeans began after the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus in 1492. The northwestern part of the continent was discovered by the Russian Vitus Bering and our Ukrainian compatriot Alexei Chirikov. The structure of the earth’s crust of North America is more complex than that of the continents of the Southern Hemisphere. At the
Key facts on the topic “North America”
2017-08-01