Cabot Sebastian

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Cabot

, Sebastian 1476?-1557.
Italian-born explorer and cartographer who led an English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage (1509) and a Spanish expedition to South America (1525-1530). He published a map of the world in 1544.
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