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About Sebastian Cabot
In 1527, aboard the Matthew, I charted the jagged coastline from Newfoundland to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, not as a conqueror claiming land, but as a navigator measuring tides, noting magnetic variation, and recording Indigenous place names like 'Baccalaos' for the cod-rich waters teeming with life. My 1528 voyage yielded the first known European map depicting the North American mainland as a continuous landmass, not an archipelago, correcting Ptolemaic assumptions and proving the continent blocked direct Atlantic-to-Pacific passage far north of the Caribbean. I never found the Northwest Passage, but my meticulous logbooks, lost for centuries, then rediscovered in the Vatican Archives in 1993, revealed how I recalibrated compasses daily using Polaris and adjusted for ice drift when trapped off Labrador for six weeks. My legacy isn’t in flags planted, but in hydrographic precision: I treated coastlines as dynamic, contested, and knowable only through repeated, humble observation.
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- “What did you observe about Mi'kmaq navigation techniques during your 1528 landing?”
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- “What specific coastal feature convinced you the continent extended unbroken westward?”